Quoting: Liam DaweChanging your own achievements, does not directly affect anyone else. It's that simple. Apart from the already mentioned global stats issue. Frankly, I don't get why people care so much. It's a thing, has been for years, on Windows long before Linux had it and Valve never stopped it.

Global stats are actually pretty much the only part I care about with regards to achievements. It’s interesting sometimes to see how many people have beaten the game, how many of those did a certain side quest, which NPC they chose to help, how rare a certain thing I did by chance is, etc. If people can just push a button to tick those boxes, the stats become untrustworthy and that’s a shame.

Even with the broken achievement use case, that means people who don’t know about those cheating tools will look at the global stats and wonder why only, say, 2% of people have unlocked that last achievement and why they can’t get it to work.

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Quoting: CatKillerIt might still be a restricted selection, depending on which ones they get running on Linux and whether it's optional for the publisher for the game to be included in the service.

I could see the Proton whitelist become the streaming lineup. It never made sense to me that Valve would try to keep track of every game that works well through Proton and offer any kind of guarantee for them. But a limited list of stable, high-profile games that are worth maintaining for a streaming service sounds like something more manageable and useful for them.

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Quoting: tuubiI only have a couple of games in my library that aren't Linux native, so no problems here. The only one I picked that didn't launch properly was a free adventure game from 2014 I've been planning to play but never quite got around to. Namely Heroine's Quest: The Herald of Ragnarok. It does launch with the Steam Linux Runtime enabled, but there's no audio. It's an older AGS game though and those tend to be a bit problematic. I'm sure it'll run just fine with Proton.

I think you can find solutions in the Linux release thread:
https://steamcommunity.com/app/283880/discussions/0/343787283753197906/?ctp=1 [External Link]

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Sweet! I’m very picky with racing games, so it will be great to get a feel for it ahead of release.

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The demo was such a soothing experience, and the animation has all the charm you can expect from the best French animation schools. Really looking forward to this one although it’s peripheral to my usual game genres :)

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Listening to the soundtrack on Bandcamp as we speak: https://masterbootrecord.bandcamp.com/album/virtuaverse-ost [External Link]

As a reminder, Bandcamp waives their share of proceeds every first Friday of the month to support artists during the pandemic :)

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Quoting: seamoose

Quoting: SalvatosIf anyone ends up with extra keys for XCOM 2, I wouldn’t mind taking one off your hands after trying it out during the past week :) I have a number of other keys I could trade if interested!

I recommend barter.vg [External Link] for trading, though be careful of lowball offers when you first sign up.

Here's my profile [External Link] if you want to trade and see anything you like on my tradeable games. XCOM 2 is on my wishlist but I have more than half of the games that I want in this month's HB bundle so I'll be pausing.

Thanks for the suggestion, but I’m seeing a region lock warning on XCOM2 and I don’t have a good match in North America.

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That could be it, I have a few installed.

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If anyone ends up with extra keys for XCOM 2, I wouldn’t mind taking one off your hands after trying it out during the past week :) I have a number of other keys I could trade if interested!

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Out of curiosity, does anyone else still have to restart Cinnamon from time to time because it keeps using more and more RAM? I haven’t seen people complain about that since the last major release but I still have to keep an eye on it from time to time. Still my favorite DE, though :)

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