I was then at a conference and I was talking with some people about potentially doing a D3D9 -> Vulkan layer and I was told that it “was a waste of time” and that I “couldn’t do it and should work on something else”.

That really annoyed me, and like, I know I was pretty young (17) at the time, but I felt like I was being treated like some dumb kid. So I started D9VK as a spite project that night in my hotel room.

That's not normal.

Pee in their mailboxes! Key their cars! Doing something productive like writing a graphics translation layer... That's just a horrible waste of spite!

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Quoting: scaineI mean, why does Debian get a pass for using apt, when RPM was available the year before? Sounds like NIH syndrome to me, right? Hell, they went with Gnome instead of XFCE, which had been around for three years by that time.

I know you're ranting here and probably shooting from the hip but...

XFCE actually used a proprietary toolkit at the time (XForms), KDE was in a similar predicament with Qt. Hence the popularity of GTK.

Also, rpm probably predates the apt tool, but dpkg and the .deb format is older.

...I shall now hastily make my exit from the thread hoping to not get hit by the crossfire.

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Quoting: EikeThey explicitly said they've got stuff not shown yet. I don't believe in "everything", but "most new" would be great already.

Maybe that's getting the anti-cheat vendors to start supporting Proton? Or hopefully a solution to CEG?

It doesn't really make sense to sit on stuff otherwise. Push it out and get as much testing done as soon as possible before release!

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That's interesting. I noticed one of the links to Steamworks [External Link] had this line "We're continuing to improve Proton compatibility, and our goal is to get as close to full coverage as possible." which sounds a bit more realistic.

Though I'm doubtful that there's any big breakthroughs coming. Wine and Proton development usually happens at a pretty sustained pace.

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Quoting: subI read that kind of news all over the place.

https://marketresearchtelecast.com/valve-ensures-that-the-steam-deck-is-compatible-with-the-entire-current-steam-catalog/111217/ [External Link]

If it is a misinterpretation by the media, Valve should make that clear, imho.

A really bad article doing an even worse interpretation of the PC Gamer article.

But yeah, Valve could do better job of communicating the limits of Proton.

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Quoting: subIsn't this basically backpedaling from the earlier claim, the Steam Deck will support the full catalog?

Have they ever made that claim?

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Quoting: GrifterIt's never seemed like a bad idea to me, that's where they belong =) All a mix of native, steam-native, and steam-proton, never had an issue except for these error messages from glorious eggroll, more like inglorious deflated egg to me :(

Seems quite odd to me. Anything in /usr should be read only for normal users. Applications that need to write data shouldn't do so to /usr. But I guess it's personal preference.

Anyhow, it's a complete no-go with containerized Proton (5.13 and up I think?).

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Quoting: GrifterI have my steam installed in /usr/local/games/Steam/ and maybe that's the reason, cause I am getting this errmsg from steam:

pressure-vessel-wrap[14224]: W: Using libGLX_mesa.so.0 from provider system for some but not all architectures! Will take /usr/share/drirc.d from provider.
pressure-vessel-wrap[14224]: W: Binding directories that are located under "/usr/" is not supported!
bwrap: Can't chdir to /usr/local/games/Steam/steamapps/common/X2 - The Threat: No such file or directory

Games installed in /usr too? That seems like a really bad idea:
https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steam-runtime/issues/288 [External Link]

FWIW, I tried X2 myself with Proton-6.10-GE-1 and it ran fine. Or, at least for the 10 minutes or so I played. With vanilla Proton (6.3-5 I think?) there was audio problems. No sound during intro videos or cut scenes. In-game seemed to be working fine though.

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Quoting: kuhpunktHow are ACTUAL FILES rumor and gossip?

Most likely files created with a promiscuous umask and chmod'ed 666. Can't believe anything you read there!

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Quoting: GuestBought it because it says Linux.

Bought it because I was hungry and thought it said Linux & Chili 🌶️

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