For everyone who's not aware, Benjamin, the owner of HeartBeast Studios, is an awesome person, brave one man army and an author of many many Pixel Art, Godot and GameMaker tutorials. His YouTube channel [External Link] is one of my favourites. I think this is his Steam debut but he's got several pretty complete games under his belt already, some of the early ones available on GameJolt [External Link], some on Itch [External Link].

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That ^

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First Alone in the Dark feeling. Crap, I think I like it. Depends whether it's casual enough. I'm not sure, though, if such low resolution will be playable on big 4k screen.

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Omg, I didn't mean to start a flame war, so sorry! :( I asked because I wanted to provide relevant data but it's unclear to me whether the survey is intended to inquire if I do anything "extra" to play my games or if I specifically use wine. Right now it seems to be asking if I specifically use wine and doesn't care if I use Steam Play so my answer stays as "no".

What I'd like to know personally, assuming I was to make a survey like this one, is whether Steam users on Linux (1) work with what they get, i.e. install the client and only play games (or run software) that run out of the box with one button install, etc., and don't care for Steam Play at all, (2) or if they make that one extra step to enable Steam Play for all games including ones out of the official whitelist if they happen to have any in their Library, (3) or if they do even more and install Steam via wine. Or maybe do two of those three. And that's only among Steam users and only those who don't dual boot to other OS and run Steam there. Above said, all those questions become irrelevant for people who only play native games available in their distribution repositories, or compile games and software from sources, or install and run from manually downloaded packages and binaries, or reach for external tools like wine, Lutris, PlayOnLinux, stand alone version of Proton, Cedega, DosBOX, vmware, VirtualBox, PCSX4, Nestopia, VBA, Anbox and whatever else comes to mind to emulate other OS and run their non-native games and software without Steam at all. But this survey doesn't make that distinction. Arguing about the wording of two questions in a generalized survey makes little sense when there should be many, many more questions branched and only asked for specific audiences. This survey was made for hardware info and doesn't even do this well as you can e.g. select Nvidia as your GPU manufacturer and any AMD or Intel GPU as the specific model. I don't think anyone should expect it to collect non-hardware data accurately without major changes.

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Okay, I'm not going to read all that, sorry.

Please, reward my ignorance and simply answer the question:

Do I update my answer from "no" to "yes" next to the question about wine if I play games through Steam Play (no wine, no Proton)?

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:O Was going to buy one this December! Sad, sad, sad...

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Quoting: liamdawe

Quoting: cprnDoes any of the "NVIDIA slows down old cards" shenanigans concern Linux users / drivers?

No benchmarking has ever shown that to be true. There have been regressions, which get fixed when found. That is an old bit of FUD right there though.

I know it's FUD info, that's why I put it in quotes and call "shenanigans", but whenever some bug happens to be consistent with that myth videos like this one come up - I meant this very instance of the issue as it's fairly fresh (and yeah, this one was true but not NVIDIA's fault, there was a bug in Windows meltdown/spectre update but it's probably fixed by now):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mFSLro_OXLQ [External Link]

I asked because I was curious if it was ever even present on Linux, but yeah, it wasn't.

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My top 5:
1. Kingdom Come: Deliverance
2. Kingdom Come: Deliverance
3. Kingdom Come: Deliverance
4. Kingdom Come: Deliverance
5. Kingdom Come: Deliverance

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Does any of the "NVIDIA slows down old cards" shenanigans concern Linux users / drivers?

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They should just buy Discord (open the source, obviously), build it into the client, make the overlay work in Linux as it should, give devs SDK to use voice chat features like positional audio, etc.

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