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EVERSPACE 2 developer gets a 1.65 million Euro grant from the German federal parliament
8 Dec 2022 at 2:51 pm UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: pbFrom the list, I only ever heard of a few and only because they are sequels. Also what the hell is "codename mashed potato" at #5?
I'm still working on improving my German, but from what I gather from the bottom text this list contains working titles and project codenames too.

Proton 7.0-5 out now for Steam Deck & Linux desktop, 14 newly playable games
7 Dec 2022 at 5:06 pm UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: wolfyrionMost of the games are playable now thanks to Valve but today I wanted to play catherine classic on Steamdeck but I was not able to - freezing and loading screen when starting a lvl :(

https://store.steampowered.com/app/893180/Catherine_Classic/ [External Link]

I have tried it on the PC as well and the same thing...

Now I have to find a way to make it work ....

Any ideas???
Video issues. It seems to be broken both on Proton [External Link] and with vanilla Wine [External Link].

There's a workaround described here [External Link]. Falling back to an older Proton release and (I assume) using mf-install [External Link] to add the needed mfplat dlls.

Proton 7.0-5 out now for Steam Deck & Linux desktop, 14 newly playable games
7 Dec 2022 at 3:56 pm UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: MinuxBy the way, now that they released this version... I've read a bit about it, but what would be exactly the difference between Proton Experimental and Proton 7.0-5? Could someone elaborate a bit about it? What pros and cons for each version? Which one would you recommend?
If you follow the link to the changelog [External Link] in the article, there's an overview of the differences between Experimental and 7.0-5.

The biggest changes are probably that Experimental ships with much newer releases of dxvk and vkd3d-proton but have higher driver requirements.

Guitar Hero inspired free game Clone Hero version 1.0 is out now
7 Dec 2022 at 2:18 pm UTC Likes: 1

I played a lot of Frets on Fire back in the day, but I never once tried the original games...

MineClone2 version 0.81.0 (free Minecraft-like) for Minetest out now
6 Dec 2022 at 3:33 pm UTC Likes: 7

Quoting: LeflOr rather, why should I play this when the real Minecraft exists?
No Microsoft account needed?

Amnesia: The Bunker from Frictional Games announced
5 Dec 2022 at 12:57 pm UTC Likes: 6

Oh, hell yes!

(But a bunker seem to be an odd setting for an open-world game?)

Google are now processing Stadia Hardware refunds
2 Dec 2022 at 11:47 pm UTC Likes: 3

Makes you wonder what will happen to all the unsold controllers? I guess they will end up in the same landfill as the ET cartridges...

November's Steam Survey shows another uptick for Linux thanks to Steam Deck
2 Dec 2022 at 8:26 pm UTC Likes: 3

Quoting: utxWhat is the current Linux marketshare? 2.5 i think?
That seems about right. Here's an overview from November 2022:

  • Statcounter: Linux occupies 2.6% of the market share compared to 15.74% for macOS and 75.93% for Windows.
  • W3Schools: As of October 2022, Linux has a grip on 4% of the market share, compared to 9.8% of macOS and 70.4% of Windows.
  • Steam Survey: In terms of desktop gaming, Linux has a market share of 1.28% (Ubuntu, Arch, Manjaro as the top-three) when compared to 2.23% for macOS and 96.50% for Windows.
  • Statista (last updated on June 2022): The Linux desktop market share was 2.42% when compared to 14.64% for macOS, and 76.33% for Windows.
  • Stack Overflow Survey: Among the developers who participate in the Stack Overflow survey, 40.23% of users use the Linux-based operating system for personal use, and 39.89% of those use it for professional use.

Stolen from itsfoss.com [External Link]

The best Linux distribution for gaming in 2023
1 Dec 2022 at 10:43 pm UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: rojimbooLet the distro wars commence! (or in this case, continue).