Quoting: Whitewolfe80I am sorry i disagree completely really how many linux gamers have bought Red dead 2 how many are going to by cyberpunk neither of which is ever coming to linux because the majority of linux gamers will buy them and play them on proton. Which means why the fuck would a small publisher waste the cash doing a linux port when they have seen their peers profit from no effort from linux gamers.

Do you think porting Hollow Knight to Linux is as costly as porting Cyberpunk? If on a scale of one to ten where one is no cost and ten is very costly, what would you guess Cyberpunk and Hollow Knight porting score would be?

I would guess Hollow Knight is a 3/10 and Cyberpunk is 9/10. So we have established the required work to port these games (an indie and a AAA) are different. So it's easier for an indie game, which are simple in nature, to be ported to Linux than a game that over 100 people are working on. Red Dead and Cyberpunk will never come to Linux even if gamers on the platform decide to not buy them either.

You are completely right though in thinking developers who provide quality native r.eleases should be rewarded. This would surely help indie devs and I am all for that.

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This is the upgrade they mentioned in article "2018 Year in Review" [External Link]:

Steam Trust: The technology behind Trusted Matchmaking on CS:GO is getting an upgrade and will become a full Steam feature that will be available to all games. This means you'll have more information that you can use to help determine how likely a player is a cheater or not.

If it is effective for CS:GO it will be good news for Linux. Developers will use it and games will run through Proton. Assuming Valve intends to help Linux with this anti cheat measure, and that they first want to test it for Windows.

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Quoting: Whitewolfe80Thing for me its too late yes our marketshare has increased but almost every single video/article that says nows the time to try linux has one draw back proton its all they talk about and lutris I use both so i am part of the problem. That problem is of course proton has become the clutch we all rely on for games on linux. We have collectively given up on native gaming with the exception of indie games and the one to three games we get from feral a year. We have already seen developers say use the proton version if you want a linux version that attitude has quickly become the norm.

Few if anyone has given up on native gaming. It's simply factual that many major games will never be ported to Linux. To play them, we use Proton. And by the time they do come to Linux people will have either moved on or the wait has been so long that you could buy the Windows version of the game far cheaper than the Linux native one.

No matter how much you ask devs for native ports they simply will not come. If they do come by any chance the possibility of it being poorly handled isn't low. To point that as OS is updated the game runs into issues running or it has poor performance.

Developers telling us to rely on Proton for their games proves little about current state of native games. For all you know these devs had in mind a hacky release of their game for Linux. So poorly developed for Linux that Proton preceeds it with ease in performance. What is the point of native games for Linux if these native releases are poorly handled or of poor quality?

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Couldn't Sweeney just bloody cooperate and remove one of the barriers of gaming on Linux instead of being a douche? Seriously what's wrong with his thinking? If he is concerned WINE support could become a issue, why not help out to ensure it does not...

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I recently tried Ubuntu with a LIVE USB to see if I should go back to vanilla Ubuntu. As I want to try challenge myself to use more than one environment. The memory usage of Ubuntu was above 1.2GB (I don't remember the exact number). With Plasma it's roughly 700MB. Not saying Plasma is perfect but Gnome doesn't appeal to me. Plasma is responsive too.

Another reason keeping me to Plasma is Valve:

As a freelancer I am contracted by Valve to work on certain gaming-related XServer projects and improve KWin in this regard and for general desktop usage.

SOURCE [External Link]
Anyone knows anything about those efforts that Valve is pushing for with Kwin?

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I am not interested in RDNA2 (mid range) if it's going to be priced as RX 5000 series. Those prices are lousy and are result of mining and Nvidia increasing the price after that ended and citing RTX as the selling point. AMD followed Nvidia's lead and priced 5000 series accordingly but slightly more competitive. Intel entering the market can't happen soon enough. They sell GPUs to Sony, Microsoft and Google at reasonable prices while we consumers have to wait longer to get our hands on new GPUs, and we have to pay more..

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It seems like they looked at Minecraft and Fortnite and decided to make a game that has both aspects.

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Quoting: PhiladelphusThis, uh, huh. :huh: Giving me some interesting ideas to consider… :S: I've got over a hundred games in my Steam library, I wonder how many I could splice into a coherent video? :)

The more videos displaying gaming on Linux the better. I would be happy to watch your video:)

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Quoting: bingusMaybe Geralt is protesting..?

Possibly, whenever we tab out and in he must be experiencing teleportation hell:sick:

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Quoting: TiixxelIt would be beautiful if this rise would stay and be consistent.

I think us users can contribute. Marketing costs. When anticheat support lands for WINE (EAC/BattleEye only) whole community should band together to spread the word. Where someone could edit a video displaying how many games can be played on Linux, like Marc Di Luzio did [External Link]. From there we can share that video across social medias. There is a Twitter feature that I vaguely know off where many users can sign up to a premade tweet, and when the date and time that's set is met all the users who have signed up to it will tweet out.

As an example if 10,000 people participated in tweeting this:

Linux Gaming In 2020 - You'll Be Amazed By What's Now Possible: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IsylLTGIr_s [External Link]
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/articles/14552

Then that many tweets would flood Twitter. The first link would be video displaying gaming on Linux, the second one is link to Liam's Steam Play guide.

I think that would surely help get the word out about Linux. And it could become a yearly thing.

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