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Death Stranding absolutely sold me and you should play it
22 Dec 2021 at 1:16 pm UTC Likes: 1
Yep yep. Definitely one of my favourite games of the past year. I am on my third playthrough now. My second playthrough I actually did a "no vehicles" run. So no bikes and trucks. Still used the floating carriers though. Playing it that way was way more zen for me. Third play I have been using vehicles, but am thinking of again skipping em.
Proton Experimental sees new fixes for DEATHLOOP, Forza Horizon 5
21 Dec 2021 at 5:02 pm UTC Likes: 3
Just note that if you are on Nvidia, don't go rushing out to buy Forza Horizon 5. You'd be in for a very frustrating time. Crashes frequently, and I'm not talking about the cars.
VAXEE offer up some really great mice, thoughts on the VAXEE Outset AX
19 Dec 2021 at 2:24 pm UTC Likes: 4
No, no, no, a "vaxee" is someone who is fully vaccinated.
Seems no hope for Insurgency: Sandstorm on Steam Deck / Linux
17 Dec 2021 at 12:16 pm UTC Likes: 14
I don't think "we need to support it properly" is really valid. We've been playing Proton games for years now without any developer being required to "support" anything. If a game breaks under Proton, the troubleshooting/fixing/supporting happens on the Valve Github forums.

Feels more like developers just going "ew, Linux will give us cooties, avoid, avoid".
SteamOS for the Steam Deck gets slimmed down to 10GB
16 Dec 2021 at 12:41 pm UTC Likes: 11
I suspect the 10GB is not just the OS but also some pre-allocated space for OS images.
Amazon hiring for Proton / Wine and Linux developers for streaming service Luna
15 Dec 2021 at 2:57 pm UTC Likes: 3
We live in weird times.
Use Wine for gaming on Linux? Try out Bottles
14 Dec 2021 at 2:57 pm UTC
Quoting: EhvisI may have to look into this. But its success is largely dependent on having a bunch of useful pre-built wine versions available for easy install. This is what is most appealing about Lutris, with the added benefit of having the community install scripts available.
This is mentioned in the article, but you can install an assortment of its own "vaniglia" builds, Glorious Eggroll, tkg, lutris, lutris-ge.
Use Wine for gaming on Linux? Try out Bottles
14 Dec 2021 at 1:03 pm UTC Likes: 2
Bottles is great.

Lutris has better community support and installers that do special things like install GoG games with mods already applied, but the UI is like it was made by an army of drunk squirrels. It serves a different purpose than Bottles though, as the article says.

Anyway, +1 for managing wine with Bottles.
Get Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun free during the GOG Winter Sale
13 Dec 2021 at 8:23 pm UTC Likes: 3
Quoting: ElectricPrismI bought a bunch of GOG games a while, and then upon trying to install them in WINE I just wished that they had Steam counter-parts.
Do you install via Lutris? The community install scripts tend to work well for a lot of GoG stuff and you can link it directly to your GoG account.
Valve broke Counter-Strike: Global Offensive on Linux, Vulkan may come soon
13 Dec 2021 at 12:31 pm UTC Likes: 6
Whaddya mean, I think plastic wibble man looks awesome.