Quoting: Saulsecsiramirez Guess you can say this is picking up steam. ?

Oh my sides!

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Quoting: TheSHEEEPI always die a little inside when someone says "PC" to distinguish it from linux and/or mac.
It's just so... wrong. PC describes the hardware, not the software.

EXACTLY. PC means Personal Computer, not WINDOWS computer. The term applies to any general computing device regardless of OS. Linux, Apple, Windows, etc all fall under the umbrella term PC.

The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world that PC was a synonym for Windows.

Even Apple promoted the term "PC" to mean "Windows computer" in old advertising.

"Think different"!

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Quoting: Alm888They preaching about DRM-free while at the same time forcing Galaxy towards everyone's throats.

I fail to see what your point here is.

They're not, and it's not required for their games at all - it also functions as a handy download manager for your DRM free library.

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This is why Proton is so important..

Honestly, this sounds like great news to me. I would have switched to Linux years ago if game support was more robust. If Valve can finally make that happen, I'll say goodbye to Windows without a second thought.

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Quoting: ben914I see a lot of people worrying that this could hurt native ports, which I don't want to dismiss the possibility, but I can also see how this could potentially be a really good thing. With Valve helping Wine/DXVK/VKD3D/etc. efforts to improve these tools to run Windows games on Linux it could bring more people to the Linux platform, and if enough people switch to Linux it could be a good intensive to get developers to optimise their games to run better on Linux through native ports and/or switching to Vulkan/OpenGL API's. Only time will tell, but the optimistic side of me hopes this is the case. :)

I'm going to throw my hat in the ring and say the use of DX9-12 to Vulkan might actually encourage switching to Vulkan completely for further better compatibility and speed. And hopefully then lead to more devs saying "Bugger it, just do a native port".

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Quoting: Luke_NukemProton builds on MacOS (and uses MoltenVK)... I haven't finished the build myself though since I'm running Mojave and need to compile a lot of deps from scratch. The git for Proton shows a bit of Mac interest also, so hopefully proper support will come soon.

Speaking of Wine on MacOS. Do you know why WineHQ builds have not enabled Vulkan in the official packages? Some users on inXile forum [External Link] needed help with that for The Bard's Tale I remaster. Since I'm not using MacOS, I was able to give only general guidelines on Wine usage.

No idea re: wineHQ builds - official macOS builds seem to be absolute basics. I think Homebrew and macports builds enable it all? Even PlayOnMac has only basic wine builds for macOS. Rather hoping Proton will turn the macOS wine situation on its head - full support for macOS + Linux can only improve things for each vice/versa.

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Quoting: ElectricPrismI wonder if this will be on Mac too via MoltenVK, if so IIRC that's like 7% of Steam may have access to new games never before available -- that could make a lot of money for publishers and money for valve.

Edit: Again in other words I wanted to reiterate that just because a game runs on Linux doesn't mean it has my or everyone's favor. I will compromise some (suchas buying the whole Final Fantasy series), but there are still many situations I am unwilling to run into bugs, so I will put my dollars to Linux FIRST publishers and content first.) I am certain I am not the only one who matches my alignment.

However for noobs, converts, and everyone else, it's a dream come true.

Proton builds on MacOS (and uses MoltenVK)... I haven't finished the build myself though since I'm running Mojave and need to compile a lot of deps from scratch. The git for Proton shows a bit of Mac interest also, so hopefully proper support will come soon.

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Quoting: GuestRemember when Gabe Newell convinced id Software and Bill Gates to port DOOM to Windows 95 and then all the game developers would only make games for DOS after that?

Yeah, me neither! :P

PS - It's that time of year apparently. ;)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_95 [External Link]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valve_Corporation [External Link]

I thought it was Alex St. John who pulled that off (he is also a complete fuckwit of a person)

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Quoting: GuestSo I guess this is how gaming on Linux will die.

No... It won't.

This means that all those people who said "But muh Windoz gamezs!!!" no longer have that excuse to not try Linux. This plus the use of Proton counting as a Linux sale means GOOD THINGS!

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Fully makes me think of Dark Messiah of Might & Magic. That game was under-rated.

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