Quoting: TheRiddickFeral basically used a translation layer anyway didn't they?

Yeah, they had their own version of it. From what they've said in public for the likes of the latest Tomb Raider they rewrote some rendering to get it to perform well. Can't find the link but it was mentioned in public.

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Quoting: dubigrasuOver the years they amassed so much knowledge about Linux porting, and with their latest ports being excellent, to basically throw all this talent away?

Weeeeelll, they had a lot of people leave, so quite a lot of that talent went elsewhere.

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Quoting: barottoNative ports disappearing means less Linux professionals working on low level stuff related to audio and graphics libraries for example, or even the kernel. Linux as a gaming platform will suffer in the long run as the know how will dry up.

Not quite. The vast majority of the advances we've seen have been due to Proton and Valve has been funding large parts of it. Even drivers get fixed up faster nowadays to keep support up.

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As people cannot behave, we're closing the comments on this one and we've removed them. If you want to comment about "woke" (which is a ridiculous overused term) and be bigots - go elsewhere. We're not having it here. We will start removing people in future who act like it.

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Quoting: BlackBloodRumI really wish IGN would fact check and research before they write!

We tried to correct them on it, no reply. We did the same for The Verge, who did actually corrected [External Link] their article. The Verge initially said all Linux titles worked thanks to Proton *sigh*.

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Apologies for this going live and vanishing earlier, our host had a migration issue to a new data centre. All sorted.

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Please keep comments respectful and nice. Some comments have been removed that were clearly going to cause arguments.

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Quoting: CatKillerWhen it's actually out, and especially if the segment takes off, having "handheld" as an option along with "desktop," "laptop," and "sofa/console PC" would make sense, along with renaming that last option; a PC plugged into the TV isn't the same as a PC that's in your hands.

Added Handheld as an option.

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Quoting: EikeWhere's the "Did you preorder Steam Deck?" question?!? ;)

We don't really want to have a question like that up, because it would eventually be null. We need to think a bit more on how to word it and what options to give.

Open to suggestions.

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Thanks for some of the kind words, glad people liked the article. Plenty more to come.

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