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Latest Comments by Leprotto
CD PROJEKT and GOG co-founder Michał Kiciński acquires GOG from CD PROJEKT
1 Jan 2026 at 6:15 pm UTC

But the most important question is: will he bring back the native Linux support?

D7VK brings Direct3D 7 to Linux using Vulkan based on DXVK
10 Nov 2025 at 4:31 pm UTC

A pointless, amateur, project.
Besides, if your rig cannot handle anything 7 or less in software rendering mode, then it will unlikely run dxvk.

GeForce NOW's Blackwell RTX upgrade arrives September 10 and more games arrive soon
5 Sep 2025 at 9:49 am UTC

 Sadly though, Desktop Linux PCs are still limited with lower resolutions and bitrates.
Even on the official Steam Deck app?

GeForce Infinity is a new app for GeForce NOW on Linux
22 Jul 2025 at 12:19 pm UTC

In what it differs from the official NVidia app?

ROG Xbox Ally Handhelds announced, the first real Steam Deck competition
9 Jun 2025 at 4:20 pm UTC Likes: 1

So let's teach the readers a bit of logic and statistic.

Windows Media Center: epic fail
Windows Phone: epic fail
Xbox: epic fail
Xbox Portable: ?

GeForce NOW app for Steam Deck has arrived
30 May 2025 at 10:23 am UTC Likes: 2

To install it on Linux desktop you need to run X11, the installer does not expect Wayland. Anyway, after installing and launching it cannot get past the login screen.

Anti-cheat stops Mecha BREAK running on Desktop Linux but works on Steam Deck
26 Feb 2025 at 10:24 am UTC

This is not a longstanding solution. Since cheaters could still make use of a Linux system, spoofed as a Steam Deck, to inject the cheat, as devs at Respawn already stated.
There does not exists a reliable alternative to kernel AC.

War Thunder gets BattlEye anti-cheat enabled for Linux
26 Jan 2025 at 4:18 pm UTC

Onhestly, the whole anticheat situation will change if and only if Valve would make the Steam Deck 2 into a trusted device with unique IDs. That won't do for Linux desktops of course, but it would be a start.

Wine 9.18 brings a new Media Foundation backend using FFMpeg
25 Sep 2024 at 6:36 am UTC

Quoting: ShmerlNew ffmpeg backend doesn't seem to help videos in Blood West yet.
Obviously this won't fix all MF issues by kind of magic. But the advantage of using FFMPEG as a backend is that it's native, so if something broke is your implementation.