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Quoting: amataiThat's like 4 millions monthly active users. That's too low to make Linux a primary target, but hopefully too high to be dismissed.

And as the Steam Deck sold around 4 millions units and is at 1 million monthly active users, we can extrapolate to 16 millions total Steam Linux user base, which is bigger than Wii U.

That number is massively out of date. We haven't been given a new overall monthly active for years, and since Steam has grown massively - the Linux number is probably more like 8-9 million total.

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THREE POINT TWO PERCENT?! What the heck!
- "We will be more than 1%"
- "We will hit 2%"
- "We are now more than 3%"!

Proton, Steam Deck, PC gaming handhelds showing Linux distros working better on them than Windows, the end of Windows 10, Recall, Co-Pilot, etc... all aspects to our benefits. Wow... more than 3 percent.

Okay, next goal: Windows drops below 90%

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I am not sure if it matters any more.
There are practically no Linux games out there.
A lot of franchises that had linux(bad ones at that) ports - became windows only with proton.
I suppose it only matters for proton, there is more initiative to make proton better as result.

As a point and click, CRPG and puzzle game player, I still got more native games to play than I would ever find time to do so.

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I am not sure if it matters any more.
There are practically no Linux games out there.
A lot of franchises that had linux(bad ones at that) ports - became windows only with proton.
I suppose it only matters for proton, there is more initiative to make proton better as result.

Of course it matters! I get to use Linux and play games. And there are thousands of native games out there. Not many big-budget ones, but I can live with that. I don't buy AAA anyway, unless it's old and cheap as chips.

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I am not sure if it matters any more.
There are practically no Linux games out there.
A lot of franchises that had linux(bad ones at that) ports - became windows only with proton.
I suppose it only matters for proton, there is more initiative to make proton better as result.

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Growth with Bazzite, Mint and Cachy shows that there are lots of new users joining i guess. Since those are distros i see recommended the most on the interwebs

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That's like 4 millions monthly active users. That's too low to make Linux a primary target, but hopefully too high to be dismissed.

And as the Steam Deck sold around 4 millions units and is at 1 million monthly active users, we can extrapolate to 16 millions total Steam Linux user base, which is bigger than Wii U.

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And yet we can't see if the Windows 10 End of Support has given any effect. I doubt it, but it would be interesting to see.

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Further links and resources can be found on the official website:
[https://icculus.org/~hamish/retro/part48.html](https://icculus.org/~hamish/retro/part48.html)

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Debian is back in town!

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While 3.2 is still a very small percentage, the clear upward trend should make people at Microsoft nervous. Awesome news!

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I love winning!

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That music is really thumpin. Reminds me of the MOD/S3M tracker days.
Now I'm suddenly looking for more

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I think I liked the previous ones that have so many low profile game better. That always lead me to discover some gems. Since last year, they put fewer but more recognized games like every other bundles. Tons of curated obscure games was the way to go.

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I love this distribution, it runs so nice even on my Legion 5 Pro (AMD/NVIDIA Hybrid). At best i would consider myself as an experienced user, not an expert. But i really can get things done on Endeavour, and i have a good chance to solve problems. I like how you get ushered a bit to use the terminal, so i slowly generate more experience. It is so solid that i will use it for a new PC build that i do for my eldest son, who was on Mint so far.
So i will have to donate to KDE and Endeavour once again. :)

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To play this game you also need
You must own ONE of the following games:

S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl - Standard Edition

OR
S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Prypiat - Enhanced Edition

I have every stalker game in steam...

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Btw, this version has improved videos handling. Now NightDive logo video in System Shock remake works properly.

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This is good for people who want a basically pre-setup arch but NOT a fully 'tweaked' version like CachyOS.

I used it before CachyOS. if your aware of all the additional stuff you may need to tweak, its pretty good base.

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Quoting: Lofty

Arch is catered towards people who like using the terminal, who are willing to read manpages, documentation, wiki pages, etc. to administer their systems

Lets not make out like Arch is for super technical linux experts. It's not, it's more geared towards the kind of person who want to think they are. I mean, why not use Gentoo and get really into the weeds.


we miss you Sabayon , come back !

Being able to use a terminal doesn't make you an expert. Being disinclined to use a terminal makes you indisposed to be an Arch Linux user.

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It's called “RISC OS”. Correct in the article, wrong in the title.

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As for the Steam Deck they said they don't have the ability to test it right now

idk ..Buy a steamdeck ?

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Arch is catered towards people who like using the terminal, who are willing to read manpages, documentation, wiki pages, etc. to administer their systems

Lets not make out like Arch is for super technical linux experts. It's not, it's more geared towards the kind of person who want to think they are. I mean, why not use Gentoo and get really into the weeds.


we miss you Sabayon , come back !

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Quoting: scaineIt's a problem, and one that's hand-waved away by dedicated Arch users who say "just use the terminal". I'm fine doing so, but it means that I wouldn't recommend an Arch distro to anyone, ever.

Why do you think it's a problem? There are plenty of distros out there that cater to click-ops users. Arch is catered towards people who like using the terminal, who are willing to read manpages, documentation, wiki pages, etc. to administer their systems. It isn't designed for people who want something they don't need to understand and can just click 'next next next, done' on some GUI. When a soname bump in a core library leaves their unsupported (AUR) packages broken, it shouldn't be a surprise, nor a chore, to have to rebuild those packages. When upstream overhauls their configuration file format or makes a change to the defaults, it shouldn't be a surprise, nor a chore, to be alerted to this by pacman and have to merge their .pacnew config files. When a packaging bug gets fixes it shouldn't be a surprise, nor a chore, to check the front page news to read up on why the problem occurred and how they can fix it.

Arch isn't for everyone, and that's fine.

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Quoting: Xpandernice.
though theres [gamma-launcher](https://github.com/Mord3rca/gamma-launcher) also that with few commands sets up everything easily

You can even use GUI to do that... [cough] [cough]

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Quoting: Anza

Quoting: F.UltraNote that this is not the old Microprose from Sid Meier fame. This is an Australian individual that bought the rights to the Microprose logo in 2018. The last original Micropose studios closed shop in 1999 and the brand/ip have travelled through Spectrum HoloByte, Hasbro Interactive, Infogrames, Atari Interactive, Cybergun Group, Tommo and then finally to David Lagettie from Australia who AFAIK only bought the name and not the IP.

Out of curiosity, I did some digging and there are few things to add. It's bit more than just the name, "Wild Bill" Stealey joined the company unofficially to help out. Which maybe makes more sense as I think he was more the military simulator guy and Sid Meier is probably busy doing something for Firaxis anyway.

Also David has been buying all the IP that he has been able to buy. I can't list all the Microprose military simulations by name from memory, but there seems to be quite a few of them.

There's an [article from several years ago](https://www.gamesindustry.biz/the-resurrection-of-microprose-and-return-of-wild-bill-stealey) that opens up the situation lot more.

Oh, I did not know that. Paints a far better picture and here's to hoping.

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Well, I expect prices will go down after the AI crash. Which really doesn't seem like it's gonna be all that long now. I mean, the guy from "The Big Short" who cleaned up on the 2008 financial crisis is shorting AI stocks, and the Dark Lord . . . uh, Peter Thiel . . . has sold his. Seems like the music is starting to grind to a halt.

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Dunno about a lot of the rest, but Tactical Breach Wizards is practically worth £35 on its own merit. Throw in CoreKeeper, Ixion and the Warhammer title and this is a steal!

I need to get back to Dungeons of Hinterberg too. Fantastic style to it, but I got distracted by something else and never went back to it!

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​This wine version works with mangohud 0.8.2 released today in my case, test new dx_api option appear in upper left




in other thing in my case with wine 10.19 some titles dont start (previously working on wine 10.18) case f1 race stars, sonic all stars racing transformed back to work and plus bullet witch dont run in my case in several wine versions but now back to work (curiously dx_api option in dx11 title in my case appear like DX?)




bullet witch is a special case because cinematics stay in wmv3 with audio in wmapro (very problematic video format for playback in wine) in my case encode some cinematics with h264 magic (encode in h264+ audio in mp3)






other issue of this game stay related to audio, in my case need some dlls as native using winecfg however on new wow64, 32bit app profile stay in:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Wow6432Node\Wine

and in my case appear like this:

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Wow6432Node\Wine\AppDef aults\witch.exe]

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Wow6432Node\Wine\AppDef aults\witch.exe\DirectSound]
"EAXEnabled"="N"

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Wow6432Node\Wine\AppDef aults\witch.exe\DllOverrides]
"d3d9"="native"
"xactengine3_7"="native"
"xaudio2_7"="native"

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Wow6432Node\Wine\AppDef aults\witch.exe\FileOpenAssociations]
"Enable"="Y"

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Wow6432Node\Wine\AppDef aults\witch.exe\X11 Driver]
"GrabFullscreen"="Y"

Also before cited situation occur in some titles in my case like:

Red Faction Guerilla Steam Edition (d3d9 - xactengine3_2 - xaudio2_2) - Sonic and Sega All Stars Racing Transformed

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