Quoting: ShabbyXI have this idea of making a game about fighting computer viruses

Sounds like XBill to me!

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Quoting: SeegrasYeahyeah, it also says you need Microsoft Windows to play this; nobody needs Microsoft Windows to play games anymore in 2026. 😆

Windows is the minimum; Linux with Proton is the upgrade. 😄

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Quoting: LoudTechieApple finally started nearly caring for gaming(Game porting toolkit). Also Valve has been sponsoring Apple gaming, since around the same moment they started sponsoring Linux gaming(MoltenVK), modifying open source is just easier.

Good points, I had forgotten about GPTK and MoltenVK. Both lackluster compared to what we get on Linux, but certainly positive steps. Seems like MoltenVK is on the way to being deprecated in favor of KosmicKrisp that is part of Mesa.

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Quoting: CatKillerIn case you'd like a graph

Thanks for making that, it illustrates two perhaps surprising points:

1) Steam Deck usage has stayed relatively flat - or more accurately, has scaled at the same rate as total Steam usage.

2) macOS usage declined for years, but in recent times it has scaled at nearly the same rate as desktop Linux. I wonder what factors are involved with that; I don't think Valve has done anything major on that front, and to my knowledge Apple hasn't done anything to improve things for gaming (they are actively hostile to it in some ways).

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Quoting: M@GOidthey fired a couple developers from the Linux team last year.

I'm not sure if "fired" is the right word, but they have definitely been bleeding talent:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Linux-News-2025 [External Link]

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I guess following the actual curator for Denuvo Watch is done from here:
https://store.steampowered.com/curator/26095454/ [External Link]

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Westwood was one my favorite victims of EA. 😭

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Quoting: Johnologue

Quoting: zerodoggthe "denuvo watch" curator

Sounds useful, I'm looking for that now!

https://steamcommunity.com/groups/DenuvoWatch [External Link]

Quoting: zerodoggI switched to the SteamDB extension instead of Augmented Steam when this was first pushed out.

I like/use both. This particular use of "AI" doesn't bother me much, although I agree with many of the arguments against it in general. In a similar vein, I hate that so much bot traffic makes the web worse for us humans, but I like being able to use bots that pull ProtonDB info or show where the cheapest price is into the Steam page for me.

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Don't they just keep coming back if you feed them?

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Quoting: ShmerlA better question is how old hardware has to be (x86) to be 32-bit only. AMD stopped making 32-bit processors by early 2000s and Intel shortly after.

Intel dragged things out a bit with Celeron, and then Atom. Killing off IA64 in favor of AMD64 was probably a tough pill to swallow for some over there. 😆

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