Quoting: ziabiceA thing that can help in being more productive is to imagine (yes, role playing) a very near and unmissable deadline that will cost your job if failed.

Oh my, that sounds awfully stressful. :O

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(Un)fortunately I can work from home. But man am I not productive with all the distractions around. Any productivity tips? :whistle:

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Quoting: LinasYou don't need Steam at all for this. You could try Lutris which has an installer for Dead Space 3 [External Link].

I just don't want to have to install yet another thing like Lutris, would much prefer to have it all done by Steam. I've got enough tinkering going on by being a full time dev at work :)

I can relate. But still Steam is not the right tool here. Steam manages Proton configurations for the games that it knows. To add a third party non-native application, you would have to create your own Proton prefix manually, just like with regular Wine. You would also do all the tweaking manually, which is not fun. Lutris is exactly the installer you are looking for if you want to avoid messing around with all of that.

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I, for one, welcome our productivity-focused minimalist overlords.

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Quoting: F.UltraAny one having any idea how to go about installing Origin in steam? Are one to install it as an external 3d party game and then just launch it and proton will then run on all games installed via Origin or must the game be one of the steam games that comes with Origin?

You don't need Steam at all for this. You could try Lutris which has an installer for Dead Space 3 [External Link].

Although to be honest, with all of the games to choose from, I wouldn't bother spending my money on Origin on a game that may or may not work.

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Quoting: Liam DaweProtonDB changed their rating system, and it's a lot more confusing for people to look at - I'm not a fan, too messy now.

Agree. They now include all sorts of tweaks, like using Lutris, installing third-party tools, etc. While there is nothing wrong with that, often all I care about is if I can just click and play the game or not.

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Quoting: CybolicIs SGX actually used in any way on a standard Linux desktop though?

No. There exist a Linux SGX [External Link] implementation from Intel themselves, but I am not aware of any application actually using it for anything. Definitely not on your regular desktop at least.

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyI immediately thought "Wait, couldn't you use that to make malware that was basically unfindable and undeletable?" ... I don't really know anything about computers, at a technical level. If I could figure that out in three seconds, why couldn't the engineers at Intel?

Not an expert on the issue, but my bet would be DRM and enterprise environments where they want to lock down and control everything. Many of those "security" and "management" applications are not that dissimilar from spyware in the first place. At least that was probably the original intent. In practice I am yet to see this used for anything other than an attack vector.

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A lot of Sakura indeed. :O

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All of the bundle sites are going downhill. Groupees is garbage, Indie Gala - mostly garbage, Fanatical - some good bundles padded with garbage.

And now Humble Bundle has steadily been decreasing in quality and increasing in price. They are still the best, but there's only so far you can go selling AAA games for a $1.

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