Quoting: RaymondTerrific Unpopular opinion: I beg of you stop saying “formally twitter”, it’s so cringe.

He didn't, he said "formerly Twitter". I don't think he was accusing Twitter of being formal, since clearly it's quite informal.

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Quoting: nlborlclIf only Apple wasn't so broke they could support OpenGL 4.6.

Oh dear, how are you going to get your tongue out of your cheek? Looks like it's wedged in very hard, there. :grin:

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Quoting: Pengling

Quoting: whizseFamous last words I hope. Before they put the blindfold on and gave him his final cigarette? :whistle:

Sony/BMG then unironically went on to infringe on the copyrights of various GPL'ed projects [External Link] and then used pirated software within the company [External Link], with as much as 47% of what they were using at the time believed to have been pirated.

Never forget!

Well, that's the key, isn't it? GPL'ed projects. For big corporations, if a copyright, or property of any kind, isn't in the hands of somebody very rich and being used to enrich them further, it's not really property and they should be able to grab it.

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Quoting: BlackBloodRumWell, this is the core of the problem. A lot of these anti-cheats are not limited to the online aspects (as one might hope) but rather apply to the title as a whole, so it's highly likely that this anti-cheat will stop the game working lock, stock, and barrel.

Ah, yes, those little bastards. They kidnapped Santa Claus, I can see them getting involved with DRM and anti-cheat.

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Quoting: Calinou

Quoting: Purple Library GuyMy only real complaint about existing DOSBox is that when I use it to play, say, Master of Orion 2, I can't alt-tab out of it. Could I with this?

OG DOSBox runs on SDL 1.2 which doesn't support alt-tabbing in fullscreen on Linux, while SDL 2 and later (used by DOSBox forks) do.

Sweeet! Thanks.

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Quoting: KimyrielleAs for the engines, the commercially/freely available ones all have Linux support, not only Godot. That's not even the problem.

Welllll, I know they have support . . . but there's "support" and "support". It seems to me I'm seeing a lot of bitching about the quality of Unity's support lately, even a couple of cases where some developers abandoned their Linux support because they were moving to a new version of Unity and couldn't get past its problems/bugs with Linux. Not sure about Unreal . . . but given who makes it I'd be hesitant to rely on their Linux support. With Godot you can depend on their Linux support being just as good as their support for any other platform, maybe better. I do think that could make a difference, although I do take your point about the nature of the projects on Godot currently skewing towards Linux.

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Quoting: KimyrielleI would think the original statement was more aimed at the number of native AAA titles being down. Since the exit of Feral and Aspyr from the market, I can not name you a large studio still releasing native ports, with the sole exception of Paradox (which also has limited native Linux support to their core games). You'd be correct about Indie games, though. I can't see a change there, either.

Well, true enough. Although I don't think that's connected to Proton because AAA ports were already pretty much dead by the time Proton became a noticeable thing. Still, I guess I tend not to think "AAA" when I think "games" because I'm not sure I've ever played an AAA game, so if someone says something like "native builds on Linux are over" it doesn't occur to me that they might mean "native builds on AAA games because the rest don't matter". Not that I have anything against AAA games, they just tend not to be the kind of genre I play.

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I must say I've been surprised when it comes to Proton. First, by how well it has worked. But mostly, once I started to realize Proton was working well and clearly improving far faster than Microsoft would be able to make changes to cause problems, I had a sort of long range strategic hope in mind. It went like this:

Phase 1: Proton makes most Windows games easily playable on Linux. As a side effect, developers stop targeting native Linux and so Linux gets hardly any native games.
Phase 2: Because a major roadblock to Linux adoption is gone, Linux increases its desktop share, and maybe Valve releases something like a new Steam Machine (I wasn't expecting it to be something like the Deck) and racks up some numbers with that.
Phase 3: Eventually as Linux share rises, native Linux gets targeted as a platform again because it's big and important now.

I was shocked to find that here we are just at the beginning of phase 2, but native builds have not gone away--certainly not any more than they were anyway before Proton came out.

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Quoting: finaldestI think it clear at this point that native builds on Linux are over.

Well, except the percentages of native games are fairly steady. And may start to rise if Godot continues to take off, as Linux is very much a first class citizen in Godot. Note this article from a day ago, where a commenter notes that more than half of the Godot demo reel of games is native Linux.

Every time a game comes out where it mentions not running Linux natively, someone says this. The plural of anecdote is data, but it usually has to be a really big plural. Remembering the last couple of times you saw an article about a game with no native Linux does not qualify.

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Gotta say, "Silence of the Siren" is an appropriate name for an outfit called "Oxymoron Games".

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