Requires building from source on Debian derivatives, T150 support depends on a driver that I didn't manage to get to work properly (the wheel is not recognised in Farming Simulator at all, the steering axis not recognised in ETS2/ATS).

I'll pass for now.

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It depends so much on what genres you're interested in. I'm doing just fine gaming under Linux, but of all the games my son plays, only Minecraft works under Linux. What does he play? Whatever his classmates play online these days. Fortnite was the king for a few years, but he started playing Valorant yesterday. So, for him Linux is useless for gaming.

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Quoting: rustigsmedso getting between 80-135 fps ultra 1440p. proton experimental (5950x 6900xt).
there are frame drops at times but generally in changing cut scenes rather than in the action. definitely playable - looks great.

I got strutters during cut scenes on PS5, too. Probably the game loads some stuff in the background.

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Honestly, I found it quite unlikely that it was just a few clicks away. Nothing is just a few clicks away in software development, or, perhaps, if something is, then it is just for very specific, standard cases.

Still a pity though.

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Between the Steam Deck and high-profile Windows youtubers doing a Linux gaming challenge, the wave that started with dxvk and Proton is rising even higher. Good times.

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Quoting: rustybroomhandleStill not complete though. They don't say which kernel to test against and which branch of Proton Experimental.

We're four months from the release. I'm pretty sure, they might update the kernel and Proton will definitely progress a lot.

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Do we like software patents now, because Valve submits them and they serve Linux gaming community? :whistle:

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Sounds like a great Steam Deck candidate :)

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Quoting: skinnyrafBetween the work that AMD does with Valve for the Steam Deck and these Nvidia announcements, it's becoming clear that Proton/Wine/dxvk/VKD3D gain mainstream attention. I wonder if it will lead to "thinning" of the translation layer, in a way similar to what Vulkan already did: less bugs and better performance of new games run via Proton out of the box, without tweaking or game-specific changes to Proton.

Possible, but not very likely. DXVK and D9VK took out the limitations of OGL. Wine does not really have this issue, limitations wine faces are in the platform/kernel and not a single library as bottleneck (where there is work on in some parts to improve).

I didn't mean how Vulkan helped dxvk or vkd3d/d9vk. I meant how games using Vulkan on Windows work much better in Wine/Proton.

What I wanted to say though was, that Proton (or, broader, wine+utilities) can become almost like a runtime. That someone could write guidance to game developers: if you follow these steps and use these tools, your game will 100% work under Proton with no game-specific changes needed and with performance close to Windows or even exceeding. Almost like winelib, but without the need for building software for Linux.

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Between the work that AMD does with Valve for the Steam Deck and these Nvidia announcements, it's becoming clear that Proton/Wine/dxvk/VKD3D gain mainstream attention. I wonder if it will lead to "thinning" of the translation layer, in a way similar to what Vulkan already did: less bugs and better performance of new games run via Proton out of the box, without tweaking or game-specific changes to Proton.

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