I've had this problem across several environments, even recently. I've always used Caffeine to work around it (it has an option to inhibit sleep any time there's a fullscreen window on a monitor), but I've always wanted this to be built into the DE itself. Here's hoping GNOME and COSMIC follow suit.

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I really hope we get Bethesda game support soon.

Check out LIMO. I'm not exactly sure why Nexus disabled Bethesda support, because I used this tool to mod Skyrim SE around two years ago, but LIMO also works.

Nice, but I won't install it on my system until they make a Flatpak version

Gross, why? Do you just enjoy making things more difficult for yourself while simultaneously losing control over the things that are installed on your system? Like, there's a reason why people shout from the rooftops to go native as much as possible, especially when it comes to gaming. Also, this utility is already released as an AppImage. If you don't like that, unpack it, and plop it in /opt or something.

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Hey yo, one of those flags is a Liberia flag. XD

I think they're doing the "accidentally Liberia" meme. A lot of "patriotic" Americans incorrectly use the flag when they get on a soapbox about the US, and then double down on their ignorance when they get called out for not knowing it's the Liberian flag. There's a whole Subreddit for this. :p

Steam must make use of extensive compression because downloading and installing Steam games drives my CPU fan to be audible.

Are your games on your OS drive? Steam stopped hammering my CPU once I moved them to their own NVMe.

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Saw this project last week. Been thinking of setting it up for old Adobe CS6 apps, because those are notoriously broken under Wine, and have been for a very long time. It's also not mentioned here, but I don't think USB passthrough has been implemented yet, so you won't be able to use controller firmware updaters and the like. It is planned, though, so there is that.

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unfortunately, linux native packaging requires constant maintaining of apps that rely on external dependencies.
unless it is flatpak or appimage, proton version is better than outdated and borked linux build.

You do know that games installed through Steam don't install external dependencies through the respective package manager, right? They're provided through Steam with the game. It's up to the developer to bundle them, and it'd be no different if they went with Flatpak or AppImage.

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I remember when Valve first showcased native builds for Source Engine games, and how L4D ran with double the performance of the Windows build. Since then, I never imagined we'd be where we are now, but I'm so happy that Gabe has held faith toward the potential of Linux. I've been using the OS since I was in middle school some 15 or so years ago, and it's been a wild ride watching it blossom into what it is now.

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Did not find my Controller idether so I turned it off.

You might be able to circumvent that with the global Steam Input profile. I had to do this for NFS Heat. Just go to Steam's settings (not the game's), then to the controller settings. You should see a "desktop" profile at the bottom. Click the button to edit it, and you'll be presented with the typical Steam Input window with a blank profile. If you click the area for the profile, you should have an option for a gamepad profile. Just load that, edit it for your needs, and that should be it. This workaround also works for games running through gamescope that don't detect the controller.

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Interesting. Doubt I'll use this over RMG, but it's always nice to see new N64 emulators. It's not a console many like to touch, and I can't blame them. It's a notoriously difficult nut to crack.

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This is neat and all, but with it being impossible to use alongside gamescope makes it a pass for me. At least until xwayland devs can make up their mind, as I have a dual-monitor setup, and I require gamescope to work around a quirk caused by that. In short, xwayland forces a lot of games to inherit the specs of the monitor they aren't running on, and attempting to fix this through in-game settings typically results in a crash. Editing local INI files also usually doesn't help, because games overwrite them, and making them read-only causes many games to not even launch. So, I'm stuck with gamescope.

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Glad to see Enshrouded got a fix. That crash happens just by viewing the server list, and then trying to go back to the main menu. It will also crash when trying to join a password protected P2P session. Been a pretty big annoyance for a couple of months now.

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