Right. So I compiled a fresh radv, plonked the vkd3d-proton libs in their respective places in my Proton 5.13 dir. I fired up Control, and that worked. Is this meant to perform better or am I mostly just testing for compatibility?

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Godot is great, but I am waiting for Vulkan support and also full C# integration. The built in scripting language is very good, but I'd rather use a more general language that's not specific to just the one engine.

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What addon is the one making the minimap square?

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Quoting: benjamimgois

Quoting: rustybroomhandle

Why We're Doing It

Tell me more! Tell me more!

Actually I suspect they just mean what they want to achieve with what they are doing. A piece of this puzzle that is missing for me is with the business side of it. Why is Valve doing this? I can guess, but am bored of that now and would settle for some hard facts.

That's exactly what intriguis me the most. What is Valve target ?

In an interview with CodeWeavers it was said that their mandate is "make every game on Steam run on Linux". This is of course a very difficult goal, but that's the guideline. I think Valve is worried that when PC gaming dies, Valve ceases to exist. It may not seem like a likely thing to happen, but Microsoft/Apple/Google are all pushing towards a model where people just run cloud apps, and that's why there's this mad chase for game streaming too. It's also why I refuse to use Stadia.

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Speaking of business. Mac gaming is on the cusp of imploding. Firstly most Steam games are non-notarized, and then there is the switch to ARM which also implies a shift to cloud based applications and lightweight hardware.

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Why We're Doing It

Tell me more! Tell me more!

Actually I suspect they just mean what they want to achieve with what they are doing. A piece of this puzzle that is missing for me is with the business side of it. Why is Valve doing this? I can guess, but am bored of that now and would settle for some hard facts.

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Steam can not survive indefinitely purely as a storefront. They're having the rug pulled out from under them all the time in small ways that add up. I suspect long term the idea might be to become a "platform holder" like Sony, Nintendo or MS/XBox. They cannot do this with Windows, so Linux it is, but they can also not just abandon the massive library of games on Steam, so they have to get existing stuff working before they can continue.

Will it work? Well, publishers are phenomenally stupid. They will happily develop for e.g. Stadia because it's a "new" platform pushed by a big company. But if you say "Linux" they hide under a table. My guess is that when Valve is ready to start rolling out Steam Machines v2, they will hardly even mention Linux in any marketing, but rather push it as some great new thing they invented between lattes.

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Quoting: ShabbyX

Quoting: Cheeseness

Quoting: ShabbyXI don't really want to have multiple store fronts / game launchers

The whole point here is that you do not need to have those

Added as a non-steam game works, but then you don't get updates. Selling steam keys per pay-what-you-want may work, probably with a special clause that steam keys require a minimum because steam charges you or something.

Steam does not charge developers for keys. I can request 10000 keys to use on another store/bundle/giveaway and Steam is 100% ok with that.

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Quoting: TheRiddickis this not just chrome?

It is basically, yes. Chromium, but with integrated Microsoft services instead of Google integrated services.

Part of a process by Microsoft to shift some of their stuff to be based on open source projects. A cost cutting measure that some suspect may eventually extend to their operating system, another source of money-bleed.

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1. Port Azure management tools run on Linux as well as WSL
2. Port core MS applications and services to Linux
3. Release MS Enterprise Linux focused on system administration
4. Keep porting MS applications to Linux
5. Launch MS Linux for regular users
6. Roll out above on dedicated small devices
7. Replace MS Windows with MS Linux entirely
8. Lay off loads of people
9. Profit

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