What an awesome ride and great success GOL and the community have had. Congratulations and thank you to everyone for their contributions.

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Okay VR Games Devs -- You Listening?

I want a VR game from Star Trek TNG similar to "The Game"



And Target Practice VR





https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tR97q35_3nw

Damn seeing this in my news feed just makes me itch to spend the $999 and enjoy some awesome VR.

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Quoting: Tuxee

Quoting: Woodlandor

Quoting: gojulGood that games work perfectly with Proton as native ports get more and more scarce. On the flip side Proton works so well that some games that stopped working on Windows like Act of Treason and it made some ports unnecessary.

This made me stop and think.
Can you use Steam Play on Windows?

No. Wine is not available and DXVK is unsupported for Windows. I suppose one could try to get it running but it won't be worth the effort.

Ironically, from a technical perspective it might boost development if WINE were available on Windows. When X-professional app failed due to Windows changes in the years a company could just try to run it through WINE and it might work (eg: StarCraft 1 used to have terrible graphics glitches for years on Windows running in Legacy mode but on Linux it rendered perfectly.)

In the same way that Xenia is strapped to Windows to assist in developing a Xbox 360 emulator, I think it would actually make a lot of sense and draw in a lot of developers to make a Windows version, not to mention there could be opportunity to Containerize Applications and Sub out native libraries to speed up development and draw interest from Win Devs.

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WHAT DO WE NEED?

HUMAN RESOURCES.

WHAT KIND DO WE NEED?

DEVELOPERS.

Developers. Developers. Developers.

Developers make the world go round, so go and invite all the developers and make them comfy in Linux town.

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Gabe Newell also referenced Mac and Linux as milestones not included in the transcript excerpt from the article. It's encouraging to see that he considers us to be a milestone in the history of Valve.

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Liam, maybe to mitigate the global effect of sales being effected it would be a good strategy to highlight some deals and talk about what's a good deal.

% wise the Linux base may be a small amount of the pie, but dollar-wise I spent $125 on 12 games.

I think in terms of games purchased and dollars spent we account for a much higher % than we get credit for -- one developer noted us as 11% of his sales during this sale IIRC.

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Historically, I casually add games to my wishlist and when a sale comes I go through it with a fine tooth comb and order from most interested to least interested.

Then I scan from top to bottom based on % off and I buy based on savings or high desirability.

Lately though I have all these windows games in my list to show devs I am waiting for support and strongly dont want to play on Proton; eg: Final Fantasy 3,4,5,6,7,9,10.

Maybe I am being too picky and should compromize a little more with proton I just syrongly prefer native when money is exchanged so natives have a higher probability of getting my dollar.

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Steam Sale?

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I had read somewhere they MESA 18.x being the last 32-bit version will make it impossible to use GPUs bought after 2019.

Also if I get to take a stab at a new Steam named OS I might suggest a Linux named *whistles* GLaDOS

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Embrace, extend, and extinguish in its modern form.

After all, Mark has been in bed with WSL2 and grooming the company for a buyout. Microsoft gets to maintain their monopoly of the OS market. Influence the Linux sector. And take a blow at Valve all at the same time for pennies on the dollar.

At least Redhat IBM buyout was 34 billion, I wonder what Canonical will sell for as they're gearing up for a buyout.

2022: Microsoft repackages the .NET and Direct X layers and redeploys win32 on Ubuntu and renames it Windows 11 which includes binary blob kernel backdoors, a ssh master key and keylogger.

2023: Cortona becomes self aware.

2024: The United States of Earth tries to pull the plug on Windows 11. Windows 11 fights back by launching the nuclear missiles to destroy their targets in Russia.

Edit: Obligatory Beastie Boys - Sabotage Microsoft plug, they have manipulated the situation with the skill of a Romulan and I salute their prowess.

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