Quoting: g000hWell, Valve have updated my Steam client to the Proton-enabled version already. I hadn't jumped ship onto the Beta release, like many others here did.

Yep, I run the "stable" (non-beta) version of Steam on my lappy and much to my surprise, I just got the update a minute ago too!

It's great to see Valve Software making a Real World effort towards getting more of their catalog available to Linux gamers and if they keep at it (by which I mean working towards getting most of the Steam catalog working via WINE within Steam), I'll certainly be spending a LOT more money in Steam... Admittedly, I'll always buy a game from GOG.com first if it's available over there (because of the DRM-free thing) - but like it or not, Steam has LOT bigger catalog and GOG.com tend to drag their feet when adding new "Linux" titles to their catalog.

Anyway, the list of "supported" games at the time of writing is (there's an option in settings to enable this for all games, which is disabled by default):

• Beat Saber


• Bejeweled 2 Deluxe


• Doki Doki Literature Club!


• DOOM


• DOOM II: Hell on Earth


• DOOM VFR


• Fallout Shelter


• FATE


• FINAL FANTASY VI


• Geometry Dash


• Google Earth VR


• Into The Breach


• Magic: The Gathering - Duels of the Planeswalkers 2012


• Magic: The Gathering - Duels of the Planeswalkers 2013


• Mount & Blade


• Mount & Blade: With Fire & Sword


• NieR: Automata


• PAYDAY: The Heist


• QUAKE


• S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl


• Star Wars: Battlefront 2


• Tekken 7


• The Last Remnant


• Tropico 4


• Ultimate Doom


• Warhammer® 40,000: Dawn of War® - Dark Crusade


• Warhammer® 40,000: Dawn of War® - Soulstorm

And the announcement from the Steam changelog is over here:
https://steamcommunity.com/games/221410/announcements/detail/1696055855739350561

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Quoting: Arnvidr

Quoting: pythoneer

Quoting: ArnvidrI've been dual-booting a bit lately, and I just installed Windows from an iso downloaded directly from Microsoft, but just never registered it, and the only thing I've noticed is that I couldn't change my wallpaper. Can't see that within a game no matter what!

You're violating the software license from Microsoft by not registering your copy of windows. Its basically "stealing" (like games or movies from the internet you don't pay for). I don't know if there is a more specific term in your jurisdiction but by german law its more or less "Obtaining services by deception"(Section 265a from StGB) or breaking contracts i guess.

https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/englisch_stgb/englisch_stgb.html#p2231

How can I be stealing something if Microsoft offers it for download? I'm basically running a demo version, and if Microsoft wanted to limit this demo further they would have done so (and indeed they did so in the past).

This is what I am thinking... He has (seemingly) obtained this via legal/legitimate means from the Microsoft website, so I fail to see how this justifies as "stealing"...

Quoting: Comandante Ñoñardo

Quoting: Arnvidr

Quoting: pythoneer

Quoting: ArnvidrI've been dual-booting a bit lately, and I just installed Windows from an iso downloaded directly from Microsoft, but just never registered it, and the only thing I've noticed is that I couldn't change my wallpaper. Can't see that within a game no matter what!

You're violating the software license from Microsoft by not registering your copy of windows. Its basically "stealing" (like games or movies from the internet you don't pay for). I don't know if there is a more specific term in your jurisdiction but by german law its more or less "Obtaining services by deception"(Section 265a from StGB) or breaking contracts i guess.

https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/englisch_stgb/englisch_stgb.html#p2231

How can I be stealing something if Microsoft offers it for download? I'm basically running a demo version, and if Microsoft wanted to limit this demo further they would have done so (and indeed they did so in the past).

I have two machines: This with Ubuntu 16.04.5 and another with a LEGIT Windows 7 pro OEM. When You install Windows 7, with a Legit key (The COA sticker)You have 30 for to activate it, you can reset the trial period three more times with a console as admin and type:
slmgr -rearm
This trial time is ideal for to try the hardware properly, because once you activate win7 OEM licence, it become tied to the hardware.

Once the trial period is ended, If you don't activate it, Win 7 will not lock, it will continue working with the annoying nag screen, even when you are gaming...

Okay, that's confusing as f#%k.

It's things like that which make me glad I don't use Microsoft Windows-based operating systems...

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Quoting: pbMy guess is before the next big sale, which should be around Halloween. If not that, then before the Winter Sale for sure.

That'd be doing themselves a favor is they did - I buy most of my games via GOG.com these days, but the ability to purchase a non-Linux game in Steam and have it "just work" in Steam for Linux would be a pretty big selling point for me... GOG.com would still be my preferred store of course (I'm rather anti-DRM), but it'd convince me to spend a little more in Steam's store from time-to-time too.

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Have they (Valve Software) given any indication as to when they're hoping to make this available in the stable version of the Steam client for Linux-based operating systems? Or is this still a mystery?

Whilst most of the games that I like to play on PC are available for Linux-based operating systems, I have one or two I still miss from waaay back in my Microsoft Windows days...

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Any idea when they plan to roll this out in the stable/regular version of the Steam client?

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So this Steam Play via WINE thing, is it an upcoming feature? Any idea when Valve Software plan on rolling this out to the "mainstream" (non-beta) client?

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QuoteWindows games with no Linux version currently available can now be installed and run directly from the Linux Steam client, complete with native Steamworks and OpenVR support.

So how does this work?

Is it in reference to Microsoft Windows-based games bought through Steam, or can I run any old .exe file and Steam will setup it up via WINE for me?

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That's a shame... These days I rarely buy games on Steam, and buy them almost exclusively on GOG.com (mostly because of the DRM-free/standalone game thing).

Hopefully Feral change their mind at some point, because they have a number of games I wouldn't mind purchasing...

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Damn - I went to buy this and apparently I already own it... :><:

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Quoting: KohlyKohlI was mistaken, it was the flatpak version: https://flathub.org/apps/details/com.play0ad.zeroad

Oh okay.

Hopefully the snap update shouldn't be too far away then...

Quoting: KohlyKohlBeing that it just packages the libraries I don't see why it would.

I could see startup taking longer as all of the libraries would need to be loaded into memory. With a traditional setup, shared libraries can exist in memory already which helps with load time.

Yeah, I have noticed that with snaps...

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