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Paradox announce Cities: Skylines 2, plus a The Sims-like game and more
7 March 2023 at 11:41 am UTC

"Life By You" is a remarkably inane title.
Since I enjoyed the previous ones, "Knights Of Pen And Paper 3" is likely a good bet. If you haven't played them, go for it!

10 years ago Steam released for Linux
14 February 2023 at 7:08 pm UTC Likes: 23

Steam ended pirating games for me, that was a big thing.

Lutris 0.5.13 Beta adds Proton support, itch.io integration, Battle.net integration
13 February 2023 at 9:22 pm UTC Likes: 1

Proton was always built against the Steam Runtime and Proton was never meant to be used outside it. Still, it could work with system versions of the required libraries, but it was unsupported and discouraged. Valve and even the Arch wiki were clearly stating don't do it.

Lutris 0.5.13 Beta adds Proton support, itch.io integration, Battle.net integration
13 February 2023 at 8:42 pm UTC

Quoting: slaapliedjePretty sure Proton can run just fine outside of Steam. I don't recall heroic launcer launching Steam to run Proton. It is after all just a fork of Wine.
In GloriousEggrolls own words.

QuoteWine-GE-Proton

How is this different from just using proton?
IMPORTANT: As I've explained many times, Proton is built using a specific runtime within a container, and without those runtime libraries, it can easily break or malfunction. There are two key differences that separate Wine-GE from proton:

(1) I have de-protonified the wine build. This means all the steam client specific patches have been removed, and the user is not forced to 'steamuser' among other things. This allows Wine-GE to retain the functionality of proton, but to be used for non-steam games.

(2) It is built using Lutris's libraries and buildbot/environment. This is much easier in terms of portability across distros.

Again, the entire reason Wine-GE was created is because I kept getting people that tried to use Proton outside of steam -- which is a NONO.
This is the build Lutris downloads.

Lutris 0.5.13 Beta adds Proton support, itch.io integration, Battle.net integration
12 February 2023 at 1:24 pm UTC Likes: 2

Hmm. What does "Proton support" mean in this context? Surely not Valves Proton as it must run inside the Steam Runtime to work properly. Custom versions like GE Proton (built to run outside the Steam Runtime) were already downloadable in Lutris earlier versions.

Ubisoft just broke their games on Linux desktop and Steam Deck
1 February 2023 at 4:04 pm UTC Likes: 32

Ubisoft itself is the unrecoverable error.

The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past gets a reverse-engineered clone
1 February 2023 at 2:30 pm UTC Likes: 7

Magnificent project! Compiled without issues on Siduction.
Grabbed Libretros GLSL shaders git for that sweet SABR shader, then Puzzledudes ALttP MSU1 Deluxe music pack and the thing works perfectly with my Logitech F710 gamepad. Enabled some QoL stuff in the zelda3.ini file and boom.

One of the best Zelda games just got upgraded to Godlike.

The new Dead Space is sadly a great big mess on Steam Deck
28 January 2023 at 1:24 pm UTC Likes: 4

Quoting: Liam DaweHow can a main menu perform so bad? 🫠
Not mentioning any names... but there was that unspecified Amazon MMO crap game not so long ago which popped RTX 3090's like an overzealous teenager working his first shift in the local cinema popcorn booth. This also in the main menu of the game which basically meant if you started the game, RIP your GPU. So it could be worse.

Remember to support the projects you use and appreciate
13 January 2023 at 12:21 pm UTC Likes: 4

Quoting: Xpanderjust to add more.. glxosd was a thing also and on wine you could use WINEDEBUG=+fps and then bring that output to overlay like thing with osd_cat.
Yes but I didn't want to sound like an ancient fart...

Steam & Steam Deck Beta improves controller configurator plus Linux fixes (updated)
12 January 2023 at 8:35 pm UTC

Quoting: mr-victoryDoes this also affect Wayland?
Yes. Switching to X11 does nothing to alleviate the issue. Use Stable client or wait for a fix.