QuoteConsidering all the free games Epic have been handing out over the last year, I've no doubt plenty of you have been logging into EGS just to claim them so this will hopefully help some of our readers get the most of of gaming on their Linux box.

Nah. The best thing about Proton and Steam is that they made Wine fun again. Tinkering with DLL overrides, and dealing with quirks of Windows software on Linux has never been appealing to me. Not even if the games are for free.

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Apple has been alienating game developers for a while now. You can use Vulkan on Windows, Linux, Android, but have to use Metal on Apple devices. Then you also have to get expensive dedicated hardware, sign developer agreements, and jump through other hoops for the privilege of being allowed on their platform.

You either go all-in with Apple, or you really have to carefully consider if it is worth it? Even though Apple still has a cult following in the developer community, I think they are hugely overestimating just how far are people willing to follow them.

In the end, if Apple doesn't care about gaming, why should game devs care about Apple?

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My wishlist for 2021:

• Native Wayland support in Wine/Proton
• Gamescope maturing and being integrated into Steam
• Mainstream adoption of Pipewire
• Steam Controller 2

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Quoting: fubenalvoThe game mostly made in free time, after work. Two of us working on it. Sadly we have no budget for a bigger testing team, so we are using our players for that.

Hi there. That's perfectly understandable, and you reaching out is appreciated. Let me get back to you with a bit more information after the smoke from all the fireworks has settled down.

Happy New Year!

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It's a REALLY early version from what I have seen. Controller support is partial at best, menus are clunky, and my ship would just randomly fall into the abyss right at the start without any explanation of what is happening or what I should be doing.

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I wonder what the motivation of Sony is? Their consoles do not run Linux, and they only have a few games published on Steam. Has Sony done anything out of kindness of their heart ever?

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Quoting: DorritI wonder what percentage of buyers really save money on these sales?
I ask because I have the feeling many will buy much more than they normally would, and filling up their library with unplayed games

That's exactly the idea behind sales. Let's say I have games A and B that cost $20 each in my wishlist. That's $40 I don't really want to spend considering I have a bunch of other games I haven't played yet. Now they go in sale for $7.50 each. For me it means I can save $25! Woohoo! But for the publisher it means I just gave them $15 that I wouldn't have spent at all.

Even though I consciously know this, it still is so tempting to buy the game on sale that I maybe will play some day. When the truth is that I still have more than a bunch of games that I haven't played from 5+ years ago.

Will I buy more games this time around? Yeah, I most likely will.

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Quoting: LinasNot seeing VK_KHR_ray_tracing_pipeline extension on my Vega 56. And unsurprisingly it doesn't start.

Don't know why you would think it would, since the Vega 56 doesn't support Ray Tracing.

Because I remembered reading something like this: https://www.notebookcheck.net/Not-just-RTX-even-the-Vega-56-can-do-ray-tracing-at-1080p-30-fps.420357.0.html

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Nice. Looking forward to it.

I tried switching to Wayland on my gaming machine recently, and the experience was pretty nice overall. Firefox VAAPI and WebRender acceleration seems to work much better (when configured correctly) than on X11. Some games even felt a tiny bit smoother, although I have no data to backup the claim.

I switched back to X11, because some Proton games behaved a bit weird. For example the mouse pointer was invisible in The Witcher 1. This new driver may be exactly what is needed.

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Not seeing VK_KHR_ray_tracing_pipeline extension on my Vega 56. And unsurprisingly it doesn't start.

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