Software patents shouldn't be a thing. It's been an ongoing argument for years (mostly outside of gaming) but things still suck.

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Picked it up for Dredge and Diplomacy Is Not An Option, maybe even the Alien game (it's platinum in ProtonDB even though it's unsupported on Deck).

Seems like a good month to me! Now to gripe about my backlog...

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Where does this money go?

I'm assuming he's referring to how it costs the company more to negotiate fairly. In my opinion, the point of the union is not to make workers more productive nor improve quality of work but rather to give the workers a boost in a very unfair relationship. It's amazing how the fat cats have managed to convince a subset of workers that having a collective voice to challenge the company is bad. Worker's rights have a lot to thank unions for.

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How do you guys feel about buying on GoG instead of Steam?

I recently thought I'd start buying there in order to download and archive the offline installers and using Heroic to download the games for actually playing them.

However, Valve is much more friendly to Linux (and probably the biggest reason that Linux gaming is as good as it is now), cloud saves works better than Heroic and, well, the Steam interface is just better in so many ways. In fact, I don't think we're going to see an official GoG client on Linux.

So, now I'm second-guessing my decision and might just go back to primarily buying everything on Steam.

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I'd imagine most devs/publishers do not actually support Deck/Linux. It's nice when they do, though.
This seems like more of a situation where they, I guess, tested on the Deck and found it doesn't run well enough to be considered playable. I see no problems here, though perhaps an argument could be made about optimization.

At least it sounds like they aren't breaking Deck/Linux support on purpose.

At this point, I'd be happy with a guarantee that the publisher won't break games with an anticheat or launcher in the future so I can at least look at ProtonDB before buying a game. If there's a guarantee in place, I'd be willing to take my chances that a random update might accidently break compatibility. (No official support for Deck/Linux)

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They really outta listen to Linus on not breaking userspace.

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Apparently, these performance improvements are already being realised (for the most part) by esync and fsync, which Proton has enabled. There are some differences, but people should curb their expectations as far as game performance improvements go.

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