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CoreCtrl, a new FOSS Linux tool to help you control your PC with application profiles
15 Jul 2019 at 7:34 pm UTC Likes: 3

Special thanks to `der_fenix` for doing a AUR PKGBUILD today:
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/corectrl/ [External Link]

Ion Maiden has become Ion Fury, release date announced for August 15th
11 Jul 2019 at 5:39 pm UTC Likes: 11

Ridiculous. Iron Maiden is not a fucking brand, it's a fucking torture instrument from mid-evil times.

Absolutely ludicrous. Still I think they made the easier choice so they can focus on game development and not pointless legal circles designed to extract as much cash from IP owners and so on. The legal system is a racket. The lawyers always win and the defendants even if they technically win always loose. It's political deadlock.

Maybe they should have renamed it some snarky alternative like Metal Maiden or some other cheesy but effective name.

10 years ago GamingOnLinux was created, what a ride it's been
6 Jul 2019 at 7:37 pm UTC

What an awesome ride and great success GOL and the community have had. Congratulations and thank you to everyone for their contributions.

VR rhythm game "Groove Gunner" looks insane and it's coming to Linux
5 Jul 2019 at 6:42 pm UTC Likes: 1

Okay VR Games Devs -- You Listening?

I want a VR game from Star Trek TNG similar to "The Game"



And Target Practice VR





https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tR97q35_3nw [External Link]

Damn seeing this in my news feed just makes me itch to spend the $999 and enjoy some awesome VR.

A look over the ProtonDB reports for June 2019, over 5.5K games reported to work with Steam Play
1 Jul 2019 at 11:22 pm UTC

Quoting: Tuxee
Quoting: Woodlandor
Quoting: gojulGood that games work perfectly with Proton as native ports get more and more scarce. On the flip side Proton works so well that some games that stopped working on Windows like Act of Treason and it made some ports unnecessary.
This made me stop and think.
Can you use Steam Play on Windows?
No. Wine is not available and DXVK is unsupported for Windows. I suppose one could try to get it running but it won't be worth the effort.
Ironically, from a technical perspective it might boost development if WINE were available on Windows. When X-professional app failed due to Windows changes in the years a company could just try to run it through WINE and it might work (eg: StarCraft 1 used to have terrible graphics glitches for years on Windows running in Legacy mode but on Linux it rendered perfectly.)

In the same way that Xenia is strapped to Windows to assist in developing a Xbox 360 emulator, I think it would actually make a lot of sense and draw in a lot of developers to make a Windows version, not to mention there could be opportunity to Containerize Applications and Sub out native libraries to speed up development and draw interest from Win Devs.

Paradox Interactive on Linux support, it's being done on a "case by case basis"
30 Jun 2019 at 10:28 pm UTC Likes: 7

WHAT DO WE NEED?

HUMAN RESOURCES.

WHAT KIND DO WE NEED?

DEVELOPERS.

Developers. Developers. Developers.

Developers make the world go round, so go and invite all the developers and make them comfy in Linux town.

With the Valve Index about to launch and be delivered, Valve held a little private launch party with speeches
28 Jun 2019 at 8:05 pm UTC

Gabe Newell also referenced Mac and Linux as milestones not included in the transcript excerpt from the article. It's encouraging to see that he considers us to be a milestone in the history of Valve.

It’s a tough time to be an indie developer, with Steam’s new sale event causing wishlist deletions
27 Jun 2019 at 8:27 pm UTC

Liam, maybe to mitigate the global effect of sales being effected it would be a good strategy to highlight some deals and talk about what's a good deal.

% wise the Linux base may be a small amount of the pie, but dollar-wise I spent $125 on 12 games.

I think in terms of games purchased and dollars spent we account for a much higher % than we get credit for -- one developer noted us as 11% of his sales during this sale IIRC.

It’s a tough time to be an indie developer, with Steam’s new sale event causing wishlist deletions
27 Jun 2019 at 4:37 pm UTC Likes: 1

Historically, I casually add games to my wishlist and when a sale comes I go through it with a fine tooth comb and order from most interested to least interested.

Then I scan from top to bottom based on % off and I buy based on savings or high desirability.

Lately though I have all these windows games in my list to show devs I am waiting for support and strongly dont want to play on Proton; eg: Final Fantasy 3,4,5,6,7,9,10.

Maybe I am being too picky and should compromize a little more with proton I just syrongly prefer native when money is exchanged so natives have a higher probability of getting my dollar.