Considering all the issues with Unity lately from joining with ironSource, their CEO calling some game developers "fucking idiots" and when that made the news that same CEO said on Twitter it was "Clickbait" only to then later apologise [External Link], this might be a good time for Epic Games to push their way through to pull in even more developers into their ecosystem.

The apology [External Link] is worth reading.

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Quoting: KimyrielleNow all we need is autonomous driving that doesn't get you killed! :D

To what I've heard, it's better than those "humans", though.

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I got 50% of my Steam library tested now, so they seem to do a good job of getting the more important games tested first.

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Quoting: soulsource

Quoting: GuestWe've done it. We've actually reached a point in the debate where not only is using Proton better than native titles, it's all actually been native the whole time.

Who said it's better? The "native" discussion is actually answered quite well on the WINE FAQ [External Link].

You might want to read 5.8.

Ah, 6.6.3 of eben better:
Another option is to use a shell script to call a native application. Save it as run_linux_program...

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Quoting: soulsource

When writing my posting, I wondered if I should mention that I am programming for 38 years and that I'm professional software developer for over two decades. It seems I should have.

I know all you've written. But you left out that every single call into the Windows(!) API has to be translated, during runtime. It is not native, it is translated into native. Like a human language interpreter doesn't make English native German - they translate.

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Quoting: EagleDelta

Quoting: elmapulbecause they dont want to fix it if anything breaks on wine.
plus we have an history of harrassing developers who call their wrapper (wine/virtual programing) version an native build.

This drives me nuts as a programmer. As WINE/Proton is not emulation, but an implementation of Windows/DX/other APIs in Linux/UNIX-based systems, as such things running in WINE are running natively as all WINE does is map APIs to native APIs/calls (well, for the most part).

That's why it's not native. It has to map to native, during runtime. You're running EXEs and DLLs on Linux. Don't know about you, but that wasn't my goal when switching to Linux.

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Quoting: BlackBloodRumDecided to grab this also. For my "kids" of course[1] :huh: :whistle:, it can go with their lego technic Fast & Furious dom's charger lego kit I keep meaning to build :whistle: :tongue:

[1] Thankfully, I don't actually have children and never will - that's one blessing of my life! :grin:

All the games and toys and nobody disturbs you: 'Hey, it's meant for me!" ;-) [1]

[1] Thankfully, I can (and have to :-D ) play with my two lovely little ones.

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Quoting: Avehicle7887Happy Birthday GOL:heart:

I remember switching to full time Linux in 2014. This site was amazing even at that time.

Same here! :-)

https://ein-eike.de/2014/04/08/i-deleted-my-copy-of-windows-today/ [External Link]

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Quoting: TherinSchange away from the federal government and returns it to the people to vote in thier state

You still sound like one would be a government and the other "the people". Both are governments, both are elected by the people.

I understand that people would like some stuff to be decided more locally. But I think both sides should be able to agree that abortion is not something for local decisions. (Imagine federal law would forbid most abortions, what would you think then?) It's a very general, even a global question, and there's no objective reason to have a different rule in another state.

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Quoting: TherinSuntil 1973 was left to individual states (the voting citizens) to decide for themselves how they wish to address the subject matter and that right has now been restored.

How other way than to return the power to the people could Democracy be defined?

The funny thing about your comments is how you define the one thing (US) as the evil government which contrast the people's will, while the other (state) is the will of the people represented by a government.

Both is a government representing a majority of people. It's more people in the one case and less in the other, but either way you're at most a percent of a percent of a percent of those voting. On any case, the others are the majority. It might be the case (and I'd bet it is) that you feel better represented by the state's government but the federal one, but that's probably just due to our being the other party at the moment by chance. Both is a democracy. (Unfortunately, US politics seems not to be good and decreasingly so at representing also the minority...)

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