Quoting: poiuz

Quoting: rustybroomhandleThe wine used in Proton is not "full of hacks", it just has hooks into Steam's platform. […]

Valve is paying Codeweavers to work on wine, who will not be doing anything to wine that will not be available to everyone.

hacks @https://github.com/ValveSoftware/wine/ [External Link]
hacks @https://github.com/wine-mirror/wine/ [External Link]

Yeah, they flag compatibility kludges as "hacks"- this is good. It means they are conscious of what is clean and what not.

Quoting: poiuz

Quoting: rustybroomhandleAnd the decision to not use vkd3d-proton in wine is not because Valve is grubby about it, it's entirely the wine maintainers' choice.

Please explain in more detail with an emphasis on 'the right way' of the contribution?

vkd3d-proton is LGPL-2.1. Wine project chooses not to use it. And that's fine. They do not have to.

You seem to imply that Proton development is not benefitting wine.

EDIT: Ignore everything I said, I think we have a communication gap here. Can you explain why what Valve is doing is the wrong way? Because from where I sit it's just open source functioning as intended.

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Quoting: poiuzValve uses a forked Wine full of hacks, uses & maintains a D3D implementation outside of Wine with no chance of upstreaming it. What makes this right & better than Apple & Microsoft?

As I was saying: Nothing special, nobody but Linux kids are thinking anything about it.

The wine used in Proton is not "full of hacks", it just has hooks into Steam's platform. And the decision to not use vkd3d-proton in wine is not because Valve is grubby about it, it's entirely the wine maintainers' choice.

Valve is paying Codeweavers to work on wine, who will not be doing anything to wine that will not be available to everyone.

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Quoting: LanzOf course, it might not be so useful to open these CAD files in Blender as screenshotted, since Blender is a mesh modelling system, not a precision CAD modelling system. However, there are some addons that can make simple CAD possible in Blender, such as CAD Transform and tinyCAD.

This comment is completely irrelevant and unnecessary. Opening in a 3D app is great for looking at it and making renders. And that's what most people will likely do, not frickin' CAD. Plus it's not inaccurate in Blender. Every vertex will be in the exact same place, no matter what you open it in, unless the application you open it in is broken. I think people who want to use it for manufacturing etc. will not be using Blender anyway, but actual CAD software.

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Should hit 300 by EOD

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I see a valuable knock-on effect of the Steam Deck. A lot of games will be fixed for a more console-like experience. Click and play, less reliance on launchers, gamepad support, UI etc. The advantage here is that if/when Valve ever decide to do a big-person SteamOS console, a lot of the work is done already.

They do need to make a success of this thing though, and particularly SteamOS. Microsoft likely do not see the Deck as a threat because they are not competing with it, but if Valve ever decide to do another run of Steam Machines that runs almost everything on Steam without Windows, then Microsoft might get a bit uneasy and who knows how they will respond.

Anyway, these types of corporate moves are often not about market dominance, but more about making sure you have a big enough gun pointed at the competition at all times, in case they ever become a threat. Valve says it's a "hedging strategy". I call it a Mexican standoff.

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Quoting: DribbleondoSurprised Hitman 2 isn't on that list; hell Hitman 3, considering both run under Proton pretty well.

If "runs on proton" was the only criteria, a lot of games would be on the list. But games get evaluated for the form factor and input too. If you fonts are too small, you need to manually pull up the on screen keyboard for something, your controller icon glyphs are wrong, etc you don't get a verified tick.

I think most Deck users will fall into the habit of at least checking games in the "Playable" category to see if they are ok with the stated reasons.

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Quoting: EhvisIf it works and money can be made, it would grow quickly among cheaters. Do any of us really want to see Linux gaming grow "that" way?

No, I am just saying that his logic is contradicting itself.

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With regard to anti-cheat on the Linux platform supporting custom kernels and the threat model to a game of Fortnite's size, YES THAT'S EXACTLY RIGHT!

but the market for non-Steam-hosted games on limited availability Steam Deck hardware is how big exactly?

Oh dear, that paradox again. He's worried about a big influx of cheaters from a negligibly small market?

Lots of cheating or tiny market. You can't use both excuses at the same time.

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Quoting: StalePopcornCan't Lutris be installed if you really want to run Fortnite? It's Arch.

You can install Lutris, and you can even install Fortnite, but it will kick you out immediately because EAC is not enabled for Proton on that game. EAC requires a .so file to be added to the game directory, and must be enabled for Linux on the server.

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I would love to know how much cheating from Linux users there are on something like Overwatch who have their own cheat prevention.

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