https://www.protondb.com/app/217200 [External Link]

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I once played Missile command on my Atari 2600 for 8 hours strait. I had blisters on my hands. It was a Saturday, I started in the morning. I had a friend with me and he stuck with me the whole time. Weird ... I think it was too easy, I was probably 10.

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Quoting: Comandante ÑoñardoIt seems that 440.26 is not a beta anymore...At least, according to this [External Link] Ubuntu PPA

Well according to https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/drivers/unix/ [External Link] its still Beta as its not listed yet. I'm wondering if 440 is going to be a Long Lived or Short Lived Branch. I'm assuming Long Lived based on the logic listed on https://askubuntu.com/a/1174230/274003 [External Link] but its hard to be certain as their naming methodology is undefined.

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Well after writing the post above I have discovered how useful it is to log in to protondb with my steam account. Pretty much gives me all the proton filters I was wanting. Its not quite as good as having it in the steam client but its pretty good!

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I would like a way to filter games that are not linux native and also by protondb "score" without having to do manual tagging. Is this possible? As far as I can tell its not.

I would like to see more platform related filters so that I can have dynamic collections like these:

+ Proton Whitelisted
+ No Linux Version
+ Protondb Platinum
+ Protondb Gold
+ Protondb Silver
+ Protondb Bronze
+ Protondb Borked
+ AAA Titles
+ Feral Port
+ Kid Friendly

I don't want to have to manually curate these collections and keep them up to date.

Probably the closest I can get is to rely on store tags with a dynamic collection. This assumes people actually tagged games with Protondb "scores" witch I don't think they do.

The problem I see with trying to use tags for these is that all the proton* ones (and even the linux support one) can change over time so over time its likely that out of date tags will make collections based on them useless.

It would be cool if filters could integrate with third party APIs, that way the `Protondb Gold` filter could be updated by hitting the protondb API. It would also make it possible to use other useful resources like steamdb to create collections like:

+ Most Played Games
+ Trending Games

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Should I be upgrading from 415.27 (short lived) => 430.40 (long lived)?

I'm sure the answer is yes [edit: and I just upgraded] but its hard to get a definitive answer about how nvidia release branches work (see this [External Link] and this [External Link].

AFAICT 430 is newer than 415 and therefore is newer latest code so I should upgrade, in addition to that 430 is going to be a longer lived release than 415 was. The next branch (say 435) will probably be a short term release so some people may choose to stay on 430 until the next long term release comes out.

This is analogous to Ubuntu releases where short lived is like an interim release while long lived is like an LTS release. Some people want the latest and greatest so they upgrade to an interim release every 6 months while others are happy to stay with LTS and upgrade every 2 years.

What I wonder is with new cards coming out and vulkan/proton related changes coming thick and fast is it practical to stick with long lived releases as a Nvidia owning Linux gamer? (I suspect not)

Also how do numbering, naming and release frequency work?

Is there a convention like Long Lived releases end in a zero? (eg 4x0 = LL while 4x5 = SL) (I suspect LL = even and SL = odd and thats it)

Do long lived and short lived releases alternate or can there be a number of short lived releases between long lived releases?

What will the next short lived and long lived releases be called? (perhaps SL = 445 LL = 460)

Where is the nvidia driver equivalent of this page [External Link]?

418 is totally confusing as its supposedly a long term beta branch, wat?

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For me the best thing about this megawad (so far) has been the discovery of buckethead. If you love the quake 2 soundtrack you will probably love buckethead. With over 300 albums you won't get bored either. I described him to a friend as "like Savant with an electric guitar". Its also super cool to have a soundtrack where you are listening to the music that the level designer was listening to while designing the level while you play the level. That is true for all the levels (described here [External Link], that's pretty unique.

Check him out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4bply6Ibqw [External Link]

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Quoting: NodCan you clarify what you mean by this? Is TTimo contracting to valve to maintain SteamOS? What do you mean by "looks like", github commits, tweets, something else?

Answering my own question, this probably: https://steamcommunity.com/groups/steamuniverse/discussions/search/?author=10334202 [External Link]

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Looks like Timothee "TTimo" Besset (formely id Software, helped to port Rocket League to Linux - see my previous interview) is currently keeping it going.

Can you clarify what you mean by this? Is TTimo contracting to valve to maintain SteamOS? What do you mean by "looks like", github commits, tweets, something else?

Thanks.

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Works well for me; played Crayon Physics Deluxe one of the few non Linux titles in my library (thanks Humble Bundles). I get constant 60 fps but the max resolution is 1024x768 while my system resolution is 1920x1080. Anyone know how to get better / 16:9 resolution?

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