Quoting: GrishnakhA number of years ago one of the chief Vortex devs, when asked whether they'd support Linux, said no way, no how -- Vortex was built using Windows tooling. Better to make a clean-sheet manager, which there were no plans to do.

A year later, a cross-platform, clean-sheet mod manager is announced. New devs hired to work on it, community built around it, active engagement with user base helped shape the product. Despite being clean, good, actively developed, no technical debt, and actively desired by the market segment, it's canceled.

To appease the peasants Nexus asserts they are "supporting" Linux by suckering remora-like onto Valve's compatibility work. The Vortex update will only be supported on Steam hardware; the rest of you Linux losers are on your own.

Did I get the timeline right? Sure wouldn't want to, I dunno, look like an _idiot_ or something....

I agree it's a shame that they canned the NMA but you are acting very pretentious considering they are giving support to begin with. If it works on SteamOS then it will likely work on other distros as well, and won't require much work otherwise.

While NMA getting canned is bad news, this is good news, stop acting out proving to developers they just shouldn't even bother because people will be upset either way.

and this

Quoting: GrishnakhThe Vortex update will only be supported on Steam hardware; the rest of you Linux losers are on your own.

seems just disingenuous either way, no one can actually believe that right?

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Quoting: LoftyI can't believe nobody suggested GOLverlay 😝

lol

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Quoting: benjamimgoisThanks for the post Liam ! GamingonLinux recognition makes a lot of difference.

Goverlay started as a GUI for overlay (mangohud), but the scope got broader. I'm thinking about rebrand the project. Maybe some community feedback / suggestions would be cool.

Rebranding could throw people off for a time, though here are some crappy names I came up with:
FrameUtils
PerforSuite
GUISuite
GaminGUI (yes i know)
GamersNexus (LOL, cause it's a collection of tools, :P)
UtiGUI (utility gui)
SynerGUI

Familiar but probably also terrible ??:
GUItils
GoUtils
Go-Overlay

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I like raytraced reflections, the rest I don't really care about personally. Most of the time it's not implemented correctly and it has lots of noise so I don't use it, but for example Cyberpunk is good enough that I would, even though it has light bleed.

This performance boost is great (:

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Yay! Now we can move faster towards a hardware-less future!

/mega S

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Don't agree with me? Am I so wrong that you just have to do something about it? Leave a comment below.

EndeavourOS KDE (or maybe Garuda? I love their browser.) with BTRFS snapshots, on the edge with almost no risk; without being on the edge you won't be getting the quick raytracing/performance improvements until potentially 6 months later. :P

That's enough said, clearly, I win.

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"Windows 94.95%"
Poor Microsoft, they lost some of their data sales from when I last checked.. :c

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Quoting: no_information_hereb) Vivaldi has made a public no-AI statement. I prefer FF, but a good alternative is sitting there waiting.

I would be careful about Vivaldi as the CEO has made some weird political statements in the past - though I'm no longer able to find any of them at all potentially due to search being scrubbed, as for Proton (this being relevant because Vivaldi ships free Proton VPN) I'm not sure of it sometimes but personally I don't use their services except email.

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They have been freed from their corporate bonds C:

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No. They should fix the native port. Maybe add a Vulkan renderer if possible. Proton (Wine + DXVK) is a great thing for running Windows games on Linux (SteamOS), but it should not be a replacement solution for actual native ports.

If there already is a native port, it is always better to fix that port (if possible/feasible) instead of just nuking it and relying on the Windows version running using Proton.

Everything you said is true, yet I still disagree because this is not an ideal world; If they can more easily support linux through proton and are willing I think that's the better path. At the end of the day linux versions are nice, but often times when the dev teams are small I'd rather them focus on adding stuff to the game rather than focusing on making a linux version for a game that already works without one, honestly from my point of view there's no reason to make a linux version unless the performance is bad with proton or there are severe bugs or just does not work.

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