Man, can we just appreciate how great the Linux and open source community is as a whole. I often forget a lot of the stuff that I use is fully or partly developed by people in their spare time, simply because they see a need and then share their work for free. It really is something we need to appreciate a lot more.

I think GamingOnLinux should probably have a section regarding much of the useful stuff and applications that are available for us for free and are open source. Often we hear about it hear on this amazing website, but only when we need the tools or tweaks do we actually care. At that point it is hard to track down that old article where it was mentioned.

It may also be useful for new gamers on Linux.

I can think of a couple of applications that could be in this section:

• Lutris


• sc-controller


• Bottles (this)

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Quoting: sub

Quoting: ThatOneGuy

Quoting: subI see the first screenshot and have to think "That game is almost 20 years old???".
Aged so well, imho.

I'd take an HL2:E3 anytime full price, developed with the plain old engine.
So much fun I had with that game. Still have in the many reruns.

Couldn't agree more with this, Valve should just do that already.
It would make for an amazing extra surprise for the release of the steam deck.
I too would buy it in a heartbeat, old engine or no.

Won't happen.

It looks like their single-player games/franchises became only valuable to Valve,
when the try to introduce a major new feature (sw/hw).
Unthinkable (to me) they'd release "just" a new awesome single-player game.
That's just not how they leverage their franchises - unfortunately.

But maybe they will if the Steam Deck takes off. Since there is no cellular version of it, most people on the go will probably play single player games. To some degree, the limitations of the Source engine actually complements gaming on the go, as levels cannot be too big before it has to load next level.
And maybe they have to leverage it, so that the Steam Deck becomes valuable to Valve, but this is just me wishing it ends up like this ;)

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Quoting: WorMzyOh dear, I hope that it not working on Linux isn't a sign that they're planning a proton-by-default policy for the Deck, even if there's a native Linux version available. It'll hardly encourage devs to release native versions of games 'for more control' if that's the case. :unsure:

I also would say why go the lengths to add DXVK-native for HL2 (presumably intended for the Steam Deck) and then not have the gamepad UI working on that with DXVK-native and instead use Proton.

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Quoting: Guest

Quoting: Anza

Quoting: Liam Dawe

Quoting: F.UltraWhich could be either Feral not selling enough of HITMAN to make it interesting to also port 2 or that IO refused to sell the Linux rights to Feral (or they demanded a too high price for the license).

Probably a mix of things. I saw a developer at IO tweet directly about HITMAN 2 running in Proton so they probably didn't see a need to partner with Feral on it.

That's something that must have happened with several developers and publishers when Proton came out.

Terrible, really. Feral ports were great quality.

I have sometimes thought that Valve should buy Feral and use them as an in-house porting division. Then they could offer partnership with different publishers/developers to port the games to the Steam Deck / Linux.

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Quoting: MigwellThey seem to have finally pushed controller support to the full version of the game. It was in beta for ages, but it's now appearing on the Steam sidebar so I'm happy!

Maybe they are making sure it works on the Steam Deck.

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I wonder if the so called remake that TakeTwo / Rockstar are making is actually based on the reverse-engineered code from this repository.

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Never thought I'd say it, but
1. No Man's Sky
2. Astroneer
3. Planet Zoo

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I have been waiting so much for this! It looks like a very fun couch game for my steam machine and a couple of friends.

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Quoting: Liam Dawe

Quoting: trawz[Woops! I don't see it though? I remember it being there before now that you've said it but it doesn't seem to appear on mobile.

Not sure how people miss it, the text is in bold before you get to the comments section...and yes on mobile too in exactly the same place.

If you are not logged in, this box doesn't show up. This could mean that if you see something like this, you will just focus on logging in and notify everyone, because you didn't see the box before loggin in.

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Well for me the game is working well. Playing at "Fantastic" (highest) setting at 4k around 40-50 fps with occasional dips to low 30s fps. However, I am also using Vega 64 and padoka stable drivers
For what I have played, I think the game is neat and actually lives up to my hopes. Only thing I miss are real voices. That would probably add a bit more depth to the characters.

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