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Looks like Valve sent out quite a lot of Steam Deck developer kits
27 Sep 2021 at 12:26 pm UTC Likes: 1
Epic Games announce full Easy Anti-Cheat support for Linux including Wine & Proton
23 Sep 2021 at 9:07 pm UTC
Quoting: Zelox
Quoting: rustybroomhandleWe're about to find out how little some of these publishers/developers actually care about Linux. "just a few clicks", can they be bothered?
Trust me when I say this, its not really just a click on a button. Iv say this from experience as a software developer.
No devs dont care about linux, they care about making money. This is just a step for epic to futureproof themselves. Valve dont really care about linux at all eather. But linux is something that works great for valves ideology, invent tools that passionate people will do all the work with. The only thing valve care about is selling games, hardware and make there client futureproof. Windows is a threat for any game client, and valve is very aware of this. Windows store will probably be even harder to not use in windows 11.

Sry for sounding so negative, but Im really tired of hearing, its just a click on a button.
And this is great news :).
Well it sounds like the "few clicks" is to activate it through their admin portal, so yeah it is just a few clicks on a web site.
Epic Games announce full Easy Anti-Cheat support for Linux including Wine & Proton
23 Sep 2021 at 6:57 pm UTC Likes: 24
We're about to find out how little some of these publishers/developers actually care about Linux. "just a few clicks", can they be bothered?
Proton Experimental gets DEATHLOOP working on Linux with AMD GPUs (update: NVIDIA too)
17 Sep 2021 at 9:47 am UTC
Quoting: SpykerWe will probably have to wait for a driver update with Nvidia I guess...
Also, as mentioned this currently only works with radv, so there's quite a bit of work yet.
Steam has turned 18 years old and PC gaming has never been the same since
13 Sep 2021 at 11:22 am UTC Likes: 1
Quoting: ArehandoroMy first purchase was The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition, on 2009.
Mine is the exact same. But I'm pretty sure the Orange box stuff would have been before that. Maybe records only go back so far.
Steam has turned 18 years old and PC gaming has never been the same since
13 Sep 2021 at 10:01 am UTC Likes: 1
Clearing up what games will and won't run on the Steam Deck
9 Sep 2021 at 11:12 am UTC Likes: 6
I made a throwaway comment earlier about Windows not even guaranteeing 100% compatibility. In the PC Gamer comments some users have pointed out the same thing and named 4 games that do not work in Windows any more. The irony is that all 4 of these seem to work in Proton.
Clearing up what games will and won't run on the Steam Deck
8 Sep 2021 at 10:56 am UTC Likes: 15
Technically not even running Windows on it will give you 100% compatibility. Some older Windows games are also borked.
Take-Two filed a lawsuit against the reverse-engineered GTA III and Vice City developers
5 Sep 2021 at 6:58 am UTC Likes: 8
Amusing comment from Nightdive studios on the topic:

https://twitter.com/pripyatbeast/status/1433925671995068418 [External Link]

You do this to a game @NightdiveStudio is working on and you get offered a job.
ARK: Survival Evolved releases on Stadia with a bunch more free games for Stadia Pro
2 Sep 2021 at 1:17 pm UTC
Quoting: scaine
Quoting: rustybroomhandle
Quoting: scaine
Quoting: The_Aquabatit's better to run ARK on proton.. it's that bad seriously
Yep, the graphical fidelity under Linux is appalling. They must be running this under Proton on the Stadia farms.
Nobody is running Proton on Stadia. dxvk/vkd3d native sure, but not wine / proton.
That was my understanding. So has anyone tried it on Stadia? Because if it's feature-complete graphically with the Windows version, then either we're wrong and they're using Proton somehow, or they've written a new renderer and just not bothered applying it to their atrocious Linux desktop build on Steam.
My guess is they just did what others have done and just outsourced the port to another company like QLOC or similar.