Hard to say. Thus far, Steam has not indicated that they will be offering a prepackaged total conversion like they did with Enderal. The additional check for Oblivion 2006 might complicate things.

GOG does not indicate Oblivion 2006 as a requirement for their Skyblivion package (just Skyrim SE) but I am willing to bet that it will check for an Oblivion installation on first start-up. The question is, will it accept installations from other platforms (digital or DVD)? If it does, that would be absolutely cool.

Unfortunately, I have the Steam edition of Skyrim SE and the GOG edition of Oblivion 2006. We'll see how that goes ...

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@SkullVonBones

They wanna be our friend, yet their drivers are still closed-source.....

That's a very good point. Making the source code open for public scrutiny would go a long way for building trust regarding these backdoors and other spying issues.

I see no justification for governments spying on their own citizens to that degree. It's reprehensible.

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@Pyrate

It's a long shot but I can see this becoming a reality, where the single build devs would support would in fact be a "Proton" build, that works on Windows of course, but also Linux, MacOS and even different computers archetictures like how we've been seeing Valve working on ARM translation stuff behind the scenes.

I could see this happening, whether or not it has M$'s support: Proton becoming a "universal" container/environment for software that allows developers to focus on one build that will run on multiple operating systems and/or hardware. If software developers want this as a standard, M$ might try to undermine it but the only impact would be that the games and other applications would not run in M$'s proprietary environment, leaving M$ out of the loop and looking bad.

Some developers might still choose to produce software native to the host environment (maybe for speed, security, or other reasons) but it leaves room for interesting possibilities that we didn't have before...

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Frankly, I think that recommending that users avoid Proton Experimental might be a good idea. The Steam client defaulted to it for me when I first set things up. Not knowing any better, I left it as it was. When Experimental shifted from the 9 base to the 10 base, nearly all my games stopped launching. When I reset their prefixes to the last stable Proton based on 9, they all started working again.

This is the same reason I stopped using the system Wine via the launchpad PPA. When it shifted to the next major version, it tended to break a number of my game prefixes. It's better to have a Wine/Proton version that does not change automatically.

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@Cley_Faye

You took the words right from my mouth. That was my experience with the original Sacred games too. So much potential but poorly realized ...

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@Tevur
Dude. Have you even been paying attention to what's going on here? The activist group claiming responsibility for this is Collective Shout, a group of feminist extremists from Australia. It's not the Americans this time.

It's "Fascism" by the way, not "Fashism". And believe it or not, the spectre of fascism is a bigger problem in the commonwealth nations than the USA right now. While you've been focusing on the antics in America, they've been sneaking their agendas into Australia, New Zealand, Canada and even the UK. Probably other countries as well ...

I'm not American.

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I've been dual booting from 1998 to 2014.

I went cold turkey in 2014 and ran Linux Mint exclusively for about 2 years after my HDD failed and the Windows backup wouldn't install (part of the backup was stored on the failed HDD -- brilliant idea, M$). I eventually had to reinstall Windows in a dual-boot after my preferred tax software stopped supporting WinXP on my old netbook. I maintain dual-boots on all my systems now but only use Windows for software that will not run on Linux.

Linux Mint 13 & LibreOffice showed me that Linux had become a serious contender against the M$ Windows behemoth. Linux has been my primary O/S ever since.

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@Mohandevir

I'm just wondering how many of these new Linux users are running old pcs that will be left unsupported by Win11, when Win10 will have been buried by Microsoft.

Ah, but M$ is just discontinuing free support, not burying Win10. Win10 will be continuing, but you will have to pay for the support instead.

I keep getting these notifications on the Win10Pro systems at work telling me this.

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@edo

Why is he not using flatpacks? that should solve the issue

Apparently, the dev does not like flatpak for a number of reasons. Cyril provided a detailed explanation behind a click to view long quote toggle at the bottom of the comment, six comments above yours.

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/08/developer-of-playstation-1-emulator-duckstation-threatens-removing-linux-support-entirely-but-not-yet/?comment_id=281690

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@Linas

Ha ha, I thought it said:
Windows 95 23% -0.44%

That was my first thought too. I had to reread the line to clarify. :grin:

@PixelDrop

I've still never been asked on my any Linux or macOS systems that I have steam installed on and use it on, only my windows systems.

Funny. My experience has been the opposite. I've been asked on all my installations except Windows. It seems to be quite random. I always say yes.

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