Quoting: Guest...many in the desktop Linux kernel using crowd are more than happy to pay for a Windows release of the game.

If it works, yes. But you rare relying on community reports (ProtonDB) to know if it does. And the experience is often that it only mostly works. Some games don't work at all. Even titles whitelisted by Valve (like Doom) have no indication of that on their Steam pages.

There is no such thing as zero-effort support. Because if you support something, you have to make sure that it works, regardless of how you achieve it. Otherwise it's like people buying gym subscriptions and end up never using them. Sure, there's a few that do that, but you don't plan your budget based on that.

I love the "do it yourself" mentality of the Linux world, but that alone won't get us very far. We still need the devs (or rather their managers) onboard too.

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Quoting: ajgp...with mainstream linux distros there are innumeral variations of hardware and software and the companies may not want that extra support overhead for a minimal playerbase.

Yet some games manage it just fine, whereas others are completely broken. It really depends on if the Linux version was slapped together as an afterthought, or made properly.

With Steam Linux Runtime you really don't need to care about all the variations of Linux out there. Sure there are different graphics drivers, but I bet it's no more different than AMD and NVIDIA drivers on Windows.

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Do we have any details on how they make these Windows-only DirectX 12 games work on Stadia? I mean, is it actually running on Linux? [Conspiracy theory intensifies]

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Wasn't Iron Danger supposed to get a Linux version? What happened to that?

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This is very useful. On my laptop screen I often have 2 windows side-by-side, which is already built into GNOME. But on a larger screen at work, I often end up having 3 or 4 "tiles" at the same time, and always wished for better support in the DE for that. But didn't really want to ditch GNOME completely in favor of a true tiling VM. I am the exact target audience for this.

Last time I checked they were not making this into a standalone extension, because what they are doing requires more invasive changes than it is possible via the extension API. Don't know the current status though.

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When they have native OpenGL, OpenGL ES, and Vulkan backends, what's the point of translating to DirectX?

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Quoting: dpanterDaym, that's impressively crazy... everything and the kitchen sink. :shock:

And the kitchen sink has parameters as well. :grin:

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Quoting: 14There is a time limit to complete the objective. The objective requires an enormous amount of food stored. One of the failures, we didn't even know how much food we needed. Another, we ran out of time.

That does sound tedious. Not something I enjoy in a game. :neutral:

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Quoting: 14Too bad my friend and I can't even get past the first campaign mission :cry:

Why not?

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Quoting: rcritAnd yet still an empty desktop.

I don't know about you but the only time I ever see my desktop is when I first boot. That's a weird complaint to have.

I think that getting rid of desktop icons was one of the biggest innovations of GNOME 3. Finding stuff on the desktop is slower than any other method, be it start menus, search, or simply a file manager. To find stuff on the desktop you have to literally move whatever you are doing out of the way, and break your flow. It is only realistically useful for the first few seconds after you have logged in, and before you launched your first application that obscures the view of the desktop.

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