Wow,Marek you're the man!

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I'm trying to convert many persons to Linux.Which i'm just a single person but so many others like me is out there.

Even we have a forum site to help Linux new-comers to solve their problems and so many gaming sections of course.

Which is deditaced to Steam,GOG.COM and other possibilities like PlayOnLinux,Wine,OpenMW etc.

The only suffering is some people with good hardware just keeps asking AAA games on Linux to us,mostly BattleField 1,Gta5,sadly League of Legends(Dota2 is way better than that) and Witcher3.

Besides of that,so many are happy with Cs:Go,Rocket League,Mount&Blade Warband(with vanilla version,expansion packs are keeps crashing),Darkest Dungeon,CiV5,Cities:Skylines.

We need AAA titles badly at this point.

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Quoting: wolfyrion

Quoting: LeopardSteam on Linux works normal if system language is set to English.

However,at other languages it has issues

For example:

https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/issues/4792 [External Link]

https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/issues/4790 [External Link]

Well to me it seems that this is like 99% NOT a steam issue.
This problem exists in most of the programs in Linux and it happens if you are not able to set up your locale correctly to your distro.
I am using Greek Locale in everything I do and all are working fine.
In my noobish Linux era I had problems as well running programs because I had Greek Locale.
by changing only the Language/locale in your distro you are using is not enough, you have to generate your locale.

This is how you do it...
First choose what locale you are using by removing the #

sudo gedit /etc/locale.gen

Example:
#dv_MV UTF-8
#dz_BT UTF-8
el_GR.UTF-8 UTF-8
el_GR ISO-8859-7
el_CY.UTF-8 UTF-8
el_CY ISO-8859-7
#en_AG UTF-8
#en_AU.UTF-8 UTF-8

Then regenerate your locale - reboot and you should be fine

sudo locale-gen

Thanks for the explanation.It's worth giving a try.

But this issue needs to be solved by Valve somehow.

Why are we using Steam?

First of all,just for experiencing out-of-box work.Users must not be forced to try some solutions.It must give everybody same experience.Then why English users don't have these problems,if it's general?

We're running a forum site about Linux and we have a gaming section there.We say "look,there are some good games on Linux with Steam".Because most of the newcomers are thinking there is no gaming on Linux at all.

Issues like this are just chopping user experience.They come for Linux,system works fine.When they install Steam,boom.First minute,first goal.

Windows client works normally on every language.We just need that,that's all.

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Steam on Linux works normal if system language is set to English.

However,at other languages it has issues

For example:

https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/issues/4792 [External Link]

https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/issues/4790 [External Link]

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It doesn't even start for me.

I choose Linux- at the beta section.

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Quoting: wojtek88Wait a minute. Vulkan on Mac? Did I miss something? Do they support Vulkan at all?

You just missunderstood that tweet.

Vulkan for Linux

Metal for Mac

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Quoting: CreakMe too! But since my RX 480 doesn't perform at its best with the open source drivers, I'd rather wait for the performances to be good before I buy the game.

Why don't you use latest official Amd driver for your card?

http://support.amd.com/en-us/download/linux [External Link]

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Quoting: 0aTT

Quoting: LeopardThe issue at here is not the Linux itself.

But Linux gaming is desperately needs Vulkan to be adopted by developers.And here is one the chances.

It will provide benefit to Linux gaming eventually.Not just so fast,but eventually will.

Doom 2016 uses Vulkan too but will maybe never come to Linux. Does this still help Linux? I don't know.

Also Vulkan do not have only benefits. Direct HW access means that programming errors can result in hard crashes where the game can stuck easily forever in a kernel function. Most of us use Nvidia cards with the proprietary driver. Vulkan and a proprietary driver will result in system stability problems depending on the game code. We could already observe this with Dota2, where people had to do a hard system reset in some situations.

Even though I have some performance issues with OpenGL my system has never crashed. The games crashes sometimes but my host system stays rock solid meanwhile. With Vulkan and direct HW access this could change. Linux could then feel like Windows.

Ohh,Vulkan is entirely out of need then.

If you think like this(seems so)and saying Linux will become Windows like.Then you don't have to cry for lack of gaming on Linux.

I think some people at here,just don't want to improve Linux gaming at all.

By the Doom thing,we know Bethesda.Where is the money and here they are.Just look at Skyrim Remastered.They just resold it to Ps and Xbox users.And they gave it free to pc Legendary Edition owners.

Why?That's because pc owners already achieved greater visual with tons of mods.In this case,try to resell it to pc owners is gonna be hilarious.

What they do instead?Consoles lacks of mods,so they need enhanced visuals.Then sell it again.

Bethesda is a hungry beast for money,they don't care about gaming a bit

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The issue at here is not the Linux itself.

But Linux gaming is desperately needs Vulkan to be adopted by developers.And here is one the chances.

It will provide benefit to Linux gaming eventually.Not just so fast,but eventually will.

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