The Nvidia driver requirement doesn't seem all that strict. The decade old laptop I have hooked up to my TV ran this beta just fine despite running on version 340.106

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I have a pet rat named Tux (I named him that since he has the same color scheme as a penguin), I'll be playing with him this weekend. I give him an hour of play everyday, but I'm gonna do a little extra today and tomorrow since he's been seeming a little down lately. All the local pet stores don't sell rats anymore so I haven't been able to get him a friend.

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Had some pretty bad stuttering with my entire library before, this release really seems to have helped with that quite a bit.
I've went and replaced the wine binary links in /usr/bin/ to point toward the wine binaries included in steam's proton. It just seems to have better game compatibility and better fullscreen support than vanilla wine at the moment, at least for my system.

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In the long term I think this'll probably mean more native ports, or at the least games specifically designed to work well in proton.

There could be a point in the future where Linux is popular enough that developers will have to ask themselves why they are still even developing games only for Windows when a large portion of their users are playing the game inside a glitchy Windows wrapper and having an inferior experience as a result.

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Crap, you can enable the compatibility tools on your entire library. I don't expect everything to work, but it's neat to see the games in my linux library triple.

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Gonna finish Serious Sam: The Second Encounter. Already binged The First Encounter, just so happy that I finally figured out how to get the source code for the game to compile.

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Oh no, it has 32 bit dependencies which have dependencies that refuse to install alongside their 64 bit equivalents. Guess I'm sticking to playing this game over wine as I don't want to open that can of worms and break my Debian environment again.

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We now have an ARM-based tablet that in theory can run every Doom game ever released.

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I don't understand Life is Strange, or rather I don't understand why its so praised. I went to an Oregon university, I don't understand why anyone would want to experience that virtually with all the worst aspects of it magnified.

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Never really liked this game, 10 hours in it became too predictable, I'd see a room with a single weapon in the middle and suspicious looking wall nearby and would think "oh, this shit, again." Also, they spawned imps behind you like clockwork, the camera shook erratically after being hit which never failed to make me ill, and a lot of sound effects were just dreadful.
No idea why I own both physical and digital copies, nor do I know why I just set it up to play on my linux machine.

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