Quoting: BrazilianGamer

Total War games must sell reasonably well on Linux for Feral to port so many of them.

That's my opinion too. They announce a new game and right after it, they announce it will be ported to Linux. Linux sells very well otherwise there wouldn't be any reason for a many ports. May they come more and more

And they are allowed early ports for near simultaneous release. I think they had Three Kingdoms up only hours after the Windows release. Which keeps it nicely visible in short period of high attention.

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Quoting: stud68Looks good but crashes when I open SteamVr.

I had that too, but it turns out that was SteamVR beta 1.8.2 (and later), not the beta client.

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I think people are making far more fuss about this than what is really going on. It appears to me that the ruling is about the passages in the licence agreement that forbid users from reselling their games. I suspect that all that is needed for Valve (and other stores) is to remove those passages and inform the users that this is in fact legal. However, nowhere does it really say that Valve needs to implement a system for people to resell individual games to other users. Which means that all that the net effect maybe that you will be allowed to resell your entire account. How many users will that benefit?

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Absolutely gorgeous, but the trailer is almost AAA in its ability to not give a clue about the actual gameplay.

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A bits are broken for me though. The manage DLC does nothing when I click it. It also says I have no screenshots for games that definitely have them.

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Quoting: Liam Dawe

Quoting: massatt212why Easy Anti-Cheat Doesn't work with Wine Prefix ?

Easy Anti-Cheat was never designed to work with Wine and Wine will likely need to implement a bunch of things to allow a Windows version of EAC to work.

I'd say it is even worse. EAC (and BattlEye) work based on the idea that they can keep taps on everything that's going on in your system. Working inside a Wine container would contradict that idea and basically be a means to defeat it. So unless there is some big issue in EAC, it is unlikely that the current EAC will ever work in Wine. The only real hope would be that EAC would make some changes to the client that allows it to communicate with a native version of EAC from inside Wine. Which is not unthinkable as proton games do the same with Steam (and SteamVR). But I'm guessing that the funding would need to be generous.

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Quoting: scaine3. Discord collects and sends... everything? How do you know? It definitely looks for "known apps" and that list includes games and OBS. Bit of a stretch to suggest that this is sending all my process info out. Unless there's evidence to suggest otherwise.

It at least has to check everything in order to decide what it is. I don't know what exactly it will store and send. But since 1. didn't fill me with confidence, I decided that my time was better spent preventing collection than attempting to figure out what happens to it.

Quoting: scaineI've requested my data via a freedom request. When it appears, I'll share a summary of the results here.

Do they have an EU presence? If not, I don't think they have any obligation to provide anything.

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Quoting: scaineBut to address your arguments in turn:

1. How do you know the data is collected even after I turn the option off? What are you seeing that you base this comment on?

2. It's not baffling, unless you don't understand how they work, maybe. Flatpacks and Snaps run their payload in a sandbox. So if you run Discord in a sandbox, it can't expose your privacy (beyond the login credentials, I suppose). It can't, for example, quiz the process list to see what games I'm playing, even if the logger is allowed to run AND the option to turn it off is ignored. As an aside, it's not a strawman - I wasn't attacking you (the definition of a strawman argument), I was referencing that every single argument against Discord appears to be because it's proprietary. To elaborate, I think that if you put aside the issues you have with the company behind it, you could trust Discord if it was open source, because then you'd have hard evidence that turning off the process logger has no effect. Correct me if I'm wrong. But this way, you could see the source. You could code out unwanted behaviours and compile it yourself to ensure integrity. Hence, all the issues people have with Discord is that they don't trust Discord to do what they ask it to do (e.g. don't record my game activity).

3. My steam profile is public. Hence, my game activity, recorded by discord, has no value to discord. At least in the context of "should I run discord, since it collects my game data"? Is your public address valuable? Not if it's freely available in a phone book it's not. It's only valuable when it's collated against other data sets. In summary, it's certainly of no importance to me. I don't consider "what I play" to be an interesting piece of information that I need to protect. Again, for the avoidance of doubt, if you do, that's cool, and perhaps admirable, and you shouldn't use Steam, or Discord.

1. Part of the collected data is visible in the interface and keeps being updated after you turn off the feature. Too much work to check whether it sends stuff back home, but it was enough for me to restrict discord to a very limited access user account.

2. If that was correct, then snaps couldn't be used to work with your files. Since they can, it must be a bit more complicated. Don't know much about snaps and the likes though.

3. Steam only lists the games you play in steam. Discord records *everything* that runs on your system.

It's perfectly fine for everyone that wants to accept that. I didn't and took measures to prevent it.

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I assume this is tied in to their store, so it's not really surprising. It won't really be missed by me either.

And indeed, the Steam broadcasting is also one of those fun features. Even more so because you can broadcast just fine if it is to your own Steam Link of equivalent apps.

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Unfortunately with the changes to the VR display window, they seem to have broken the ability to turn off reprojection, which is turn is the cause of quite a few issues for me.

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