Last month or so Liam did an article on the top 100 most popular Steam games working status on Linux and some games did not work because DRM was not supported on Proton.

Does this news about CEG DRM mean all DRMs used for those games are now working with Proton? Or are there more DRMs still?

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I just watched the video and it was quite entertaining! Having read the comments on this thead beforehand I was expecting much worse :grin:.

I think it's pretty positive exposure for Linux overall, a popular YT channel with two presenters newly using Linux for a month. Indeed Linus had some problems with Pop!_OS as discussed above and then sound in Manjaro not working, but his co-presenter Luke had very smooth sailing with Linux Mint.
This is only the first episode of a series and in it both presenters ultimately got their chosen OS installed, Nvidea drivers, Steam installed and native linux games working (albeit one OS without sound). Also Linus did show his Windows start menu bugging out when he went to shutdown at the start of the video as a reminder Windows isn't flawless either.
I expect/hope Linus will fix his sound next episode and then hopefully the rest of the series these teething problems will be forgotten and most viewers will see the OSes hold their own against Windows plus it's fairly straightforward to game on Linux. As either there is Native or Wine/Proton works for most games these days, but I guess it depends what games they try.

It is unfortunate for Pop!_OS specifically that they had this Steam package issue at the wrong moment (not that there is a right moment). Linus did ignore a warning message but also I think that would be normal behaviour for many new users who aren't familiar with Linux and just want to do 'whatever' to get Steam installed and running. I don't think he was unfair and did also say at the end of the video he had missed/ignored the warning, and has a pinned comment that it is now fixed.

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I wonder if it will now ship on Two's-day (Tuesday 22/2/2022) :grin:

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I picked up the Big Brain Bundle (5 item version) when I saw it has the game 7 Billion Humans, the sequel to Human Resource Machine I didn't know existed until yesterday. It's great & Linux native!

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I don't really understand this. Hasn't Artifact 2 been in closed beta? How would they expect to get the player count up before they released it or made it an open beta?
I had the Artifact Beta 2 steam page on my wishlist and never saw anything about it becoming available.

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I like evolution games like this, this reminds me of some web browser based game from several years ago although I forget it's name. Anyway here is my shocking creation... made in GIMP :)

The Sea Cucumcloud is a type of sea organism which grows on the sea bed near corals. The five plant heads are of the same organism and generate a cloud of poisonous spores which kills fish which swim into it. Once a fish has been sensed and immobilised one of the heads will move into the cloud and stick to the fish with a sticky substance secreted by each head. The fish will then decompose with the Sea Cucumcloud absorbing the nutrients.

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Quoting: jensDoes somebody knows what "Use this tool instead of game-specific selection from Steam" exactly means? The compatibility tool drop-down to choose a Proton version is always enabled, regarding the state of the checkbox?

I am wondering this. I am guessing that for whitelisted games Steam have set a Proton version that works best (will be more applicable as more proton versions are released) and non-whitelisted games will use the version specified as default on the dropdown. If the box is checked then I guess that would over-ride the whitelist proton versions and all games will use the default proton version chosen in the dropdown.

It would be good if they allow us to set a proton version on a per game basis as I just tried v3.7-4 beta with Stronghold Crusaders 2 and it seemed to run a bit choppier than v3.7-3 which runs absolutely perfectly.

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I'm using a GTX 760 and updated to 375.20 via the PPA from 370.28. However I've reverted back to 370.28 after a couple of days, as I've been playing a lot of Rocket League recently and the new drivers introduced some stuttering as the camera pans about and some mild graphical glitch in shadowing near the half-way line on some occasions. I'm pretty happy with 370.28 as I haven't got Deus Ex, though I hope they will fix the new driver; it's never nice to see regressions.

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