Quoting: jensBut in the end Proton may help to substantially increase Linux market share and visibility to reach a point where Linux will be considered earlier in the gaming development process. This may lead to more native games in the end.

Wine contributes to making people less dependent on windows licenses; that can only help Linux adoption in the long run.

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Quoting: BrisseBut yeah, there could come a time when consoles are just thin clients and the games are streamed from Linux servers, and at that point pretty much every gamer will be a Linux gamer even if they might not even be aware of it.

At that stage we're just hijacking the definition of 'linux gamer', though -- I mean, we don't call PS4 gamers 'FreeBSD gamers', though that's what runs underneath those systems. 'Linux gamer' pretty unambiguously means 'fellow who sets up or purchases a piece of hardware with Linux -- not a weird abstraction layer like Android, but something that makes it possible to get root access, install packages, etc. (so SteamOS qualifies) -- as its OS, and uses it to run games'. If streaming *ever* becomes *the* default channel for playing games, then 'Linux gamer' won't have much of a meaning anymore.

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Quoting: GuestSure, we may get more games for Linux, but we'll be basically turning Linux into Windows, and market share may even decrease.

I don't see how that follows. Why would Linux 'market share' decrease, when people have less of a reason to purchase windoze licenses?

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I wonder how the Deus Ex Mankind Divided (DX11 mode) behaves under DXVK. The protondb page for it doesn't contain much in the way of a clue (I mean, it says 'borked', but the person could have tried to run it in DX12 mode, maybe?)

While grateful for the official OpenGL Linux port, I have to say that performance-wise it lags far behind the native windoze version.... (Oh, and it's a great game.)

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I was too lazy to crop the image before running a reverse image search, so this is the result I got:



Still, it's a pretty solid clue. I say, it's the new mobile Diablo. (I mean it says 'mobile phone case', so...)

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TOTAL WAR: Cryptic Obscurity

(I mean, what else?)

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The same trick had been available for Downwell too; though from the comments in the steam forums, it seems like an update to the game broke that 'functionality', since the time it worked fine for me. In my case, I had taken the 'runner' from the demo version of Fran Bow; but people now say that more recent downloads of Downwell don't work with that runner anymore.

(by the way, Downwell works flawlessly under Proton now, and I wholeheartedly recommend it. Such a well made little game. I believe the lead dev has been hired by Nintendo now.)

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Quoting: Stupendous ManOh, and Lego - you can never go wrong with Lego!

You do if you step on one.

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It does look quite a bit better compared to the last time I played it (it's been a while).

(I like the idea of playing as Beastie to save the Gnu in this game, haha.)

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Quoting: PatolaHave they finally added stream output to this driver? NVIDIA is quite clear that the series 400 is optimized for GTX 20 series, I facepalmed when I saw distros like Arch standardizing on this driver series for all nvidia cards when they would fare better using, say, the 396 series (stream output came first on 396.54.09). Bigger version numbers are not always better.

negativo17's repo for Fedora does the same.

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