Quoting: GuestSeems to me like it is exceedingly difficult for any PC game store to be profitable unless they sell Steam keys (or they are a big publisher profitable in other areas), such is the nature of Valve's stranglehold on PC gaming. I know so many linux users don't like a bad word said about Valve but their market power should concern everyone

I am not in that camp i just realised that valve was walking away with this thing years ago so many people i know refuse to buy anything if it not on steam the reason its where the bulk of there games library is i have epic games account purely for the free shit every friday i have 40 games and never spent a penny there granted cant play most of them at the moment. I probably could if i could be arsed to run some lutris scripts. But the big thing is when it comes to valve and linux its hard to argue what would be linux gaming if not for them.
They fund and continue to find codeweavers they exclusively fund the dxvk team they have a team of linux programmers that work on getting big titles to almost parity with windows day and date for some titles like Rage 2 when it dropped they gave massive funding to Mesa team to develop driver support for graphics drivers in linux. Now all of this is of course self serving they want a platform that microsoft cant interfear with should relations sour and they have it now. They also have taken a culmination of all the work on proton and dxvk and poured into a handheld and amd apu that is going to sell out the moment it is avilable.

Heres the main question though what do you do and where do you go if you want to game but dont want steam what are your options gog do about what a 10th of the linux versions they used to, Feral are moving on to switch on mobile because of proton the demand for native has pretty much slowed to a trickle, Itch io bless them they try hard and there are some great games on there. That said there is also a lot well and dont want to insult anyones dream project here so i ll say games that i zero interest in.Epic dont want to support linux though randomly are trying to sell unreal engine and easy cheat to linux users and at the same time taking the weasel approach and making it optional.

So when it comes to gaming other that the real indie darlings like shovel knight type level game and most ofthe paradox games if you wanna game on linux it leaves you with wine (which is still partially valve) or steam of if you are one of those people that say triple a is dead and you love quirky sprite games i guess itch io is your go to but for most gaming on linux begins and ends with valve.

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Quoting: benjamimgoisI think that's big ! Until now, we only saw indies and small games making steam deck videos on twitter. A official video from a AAA studio may get the attencion of others.

Well we've seen Witcher 3 posted by CDPR also. And from Valve, Control, Doom Eternal, Jedi Fallen Order.

Well yeah but all accounts they were part way through porting before there feeling were hurt on twitter and cancelled it and Capcom promised DMC 5 and Street Fighter 5 at E3 a long while back so good they finally are sort of on linux but not so good they were not native as promised i wanna say E3 2017 but i might be wrong.

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Don't know what you are all on about onlive is where it's at..... Oh wait it died just like all the gaming streaming sites will or it fragment just like streaming TV Netflix used to have everything now there are exclusives and you need multiple subscriptions to see everything

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or you know you could of just supported the existing tech thereby making something that is universal for all gamers to use no matter the platform just a thought

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Quoting: GroganThere's a name I haven't heard in a long time, I'm glad he's still working on Linux gaming. Back in the good old days, he was the guy for porting Linux games. I played a lot of them.

Some of his work still runs perfectly to this day, even if the Loki installers don't. For example, Unreal Tournament 2004... in one of his patches he included a 64 bit build. I still run that SAME game (with the directory copied to new computers over the years) on a pure 64 bit system simply by dropping some older 64 bit libraries in the program directory. (e.g. libstdc++.so.5)

He still does porting work he did the turok ports to linux for nightdrive

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Quoting: Comandante ÑoñardoThey can blame the IC shortage, but PROTON is not ready and a lot of big games won't run.

That only matters if your target audience doesnt understand that and the fact that most of the big tech channels have already promised videos on how to install windows on it when it launches i dont think thats much of a concern to the mainstream market.

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Honestly I ve used pop and it was a pleasant experience but I moved on as I hate gnome with a passion. With regard to Linus I would of put him on Zorin so he literally couldn't brick anything that thing is bullet proof for noobs

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Quoting: KorsI'm counting on Steam Deck to skyrocket Linux usage, or at least to bring more games to linux based OS

maybe if it a big seller then developers such as microsoft sony & ubisoft may start making their games support proton but they wont target linux they will hopefully target the middleware that proton handles well.

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And I recently heard that even with EAC enabled there are still people successfully cheating in Fall Guys?
[/quote]Almost as if people being paid to create trainers and cheat mods have a vested interest in being better than anti cheat software or something

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Quoting: constWill it be a written course? Else I'm out. I hate learning to program anything with video lessons. It just doesn't make sense.

Well you could go over to the crowd funding page and find out

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