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Valve continue building up their new game Deadlock with a big update with six new heroes
23 Aug 2025 at 4:35 pm UTC
few days ago I tried to play blasphemous. 2019 game. the linux build crashes immediately on arch. switched to proton, everything works now.
the reason for it? libraries have their versions changed, maybe drivers and kernel have changed too much. old API/ABI is broken. Linux doesn't really consider backwards compatibility, because most of its history the software that was used on linux was mostly open source that always could be fixed and compiled against new dependencies.
most of games are abandonware binaries. they need old dependencies. as far as i know, flatpak solved this issue. it can store different versions of dependencies side by side.
the only exception are games with open source code, like quake 1, but supporting them on linux is still continuous effort, even if relatively small.
23 Aug 2025 at 4:35 pm UTC
To show how great GNU/Linux is and that it's possible to develop games directly for and on it. Doing so gives credibility.there are quite few native linux games on steam. older ones might not even run on modern linux distros.
few days ago I tried to play blasphemous. 2019 game. the linux build crashes immediately on arch. switched to proton, everything works now.
the reason for it? libraries have their versions changed, maybe drivers and kernel have changed too much. old API/ABI is broken. Linux doesn't really consider backwards compatibility, because most of its history the software that was used on linux was mostly open source that always could be fixed and compiled against new dependencies.
most of games are abandonware binaries. they need old dependencies. as far as i know, flatpak solved this issue. it can store different versions of dependencies side by side.
the only exception are games with open source code, like quake 1, but supporting them on linux is still continuous effort, even if relatively small.