CodeWeavers' Meredith Johnson notes how "we envisage CrossOver as a viable solution for migrating enterprise Windows workloads to Linux for improved security and reduced bloat".

Steam on Arm machines also seems like a tastier prospect now this work's been done.

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It's currently rated Steam Deck Verified by Valve

It's the native build that's Verified on the Deck, so dropping that is a pain for everyone.

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Steam must make use of extensive compression because downloading and installing Steam games drives my CPU fan to be audible.

It's not compression, it's delta-patching. The updates are the diffs between the old files and the new. After you've downloaded the diffs your computer uses that data to create the new files from the parts.

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Proton Hotfix is the extra special version of Proton that gets very sporadic updates, specifically when a game needs them so you shouldn't really touch it unless you need to.

It's the gaffer tape and chewing gum build of Proton.

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Interesting that MacOS usage went up as well, been a while since that's happened.

It's been trending back up since around the start of the year.

It's a smidge behind non-Deck Linux.

A bigger non-Windows share (above 5% for the first time since 2013) is a good thing for encouraging multi-platform development and support, although Apple makes it harder than it needs to be with their refusal of Vulkan, and harder than it used to be when OpenGL would work on Windows, Linux and Mac.

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Hopefully sensible defaults for this

Added UI scaling option

will fix this

it's rated Steam Deck Playable.

since it's small text that stops it getting the green tick.

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But what kind of support? Do they add new features or are they only fixing bugs?

Everything. The current branch (580) has Maxwell support. They've said that they'll drop pre-Turing from the next branch, though, whenever that happens, after which 580 will be a legacy branch.

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Nvidia still fully supports Turing in their Windows/Linux drivers and that's from 2018

Nvidia currently supports Maxwell, from 2014.

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That's all of CD Projekt, not GOG.

That's exactly what I said. And if GOG are having cashflow problems that's entirely the choice of their parent company, which, I'll say again, is the largest video game company in Europe. They don't need your charity.

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I do also have an instinctive "So, this company wants to make more money by just having people . . . give it to them for free?" If I give money it's gonna be to a charity. GOG may like trying to blur the line to pretend to be sort of partly a charity . . . but they aren't.

"By September 2017, it was the largest publicly traded video game company in Poland, worth about US$2.3 billion, and by May 2020, had reached a valuation of US$8.1 billion, making it the largest video game company in Europe."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CD_Projekt [External Link]

I expect Ubisoft, for example, would also quite like people to just give them money on their Patreon.

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