Quoting: GuestIt’s great that it runs with proton, but I’m not buying it full price unless it’s released for linux.

I'm not used to that kind of price either as I mostly buy indies.

It would be nice if there's at least semi official stance if Techland is willing to support Proton or not.

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Quoting: Guest....also don't worry, there's been plenty of desktop innovation that Microsoft never could match. Like virtual desktops. So much so that projects such as LiteStep were created to bring desktop flexibility to Windows.

Never is not true anymore for virtual desktops, they have been available for Windows for a while without any extensions. I haven't just found real use for them with my work computer as far as I know there's no way to save the layouts. There's keyboard shortcuts (has been since Windows 7) to first ten applications, so mostly virtual desktops are not needed. I just would need direct access to more applications, ten is not enough.

Flexibility might still be something that Microsoft doesn't want to implement fully. Linux is much better suited for experimentation, but if some experiment gets too popular, nothing is stopping Microsoft from implementing it. It just might take roughly decade like with virtual desktops.

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Quoting: AnzaIf they work with ScummVM, then Roberta [External Link] could work too. That way they more or less look like native games and can be launched from Steam. I don't know if there's packaged version of Roberta somewhere, which would make the installation easier.

Maybe not as such, but that "Proton-Up QT" thing Liam mentions in the article apparently also acts as an installer for Roberta; also Luxtorpeda and Boxtron.

Oh, thanks. I didn't remember that. It's actually mentioned in the linked ProtonUp-Qt article.

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If they work with ScummVM, then Roberta [External Link] could work too. That way they more or less look like native games and can be launched from Steam. I don't know if there's packaged version of Roberta somewhere, which would make the installation easier.

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Quoting: lectrodeOut of curiosity, regarding the Desktop "Window Manager Only":

• 1) what software does that cover?


• 2) Why would those be put into a single bucket vs having an option for each one like the rest?


• 3) With that now being in 3rd place, does it make sense to split it up into the individual options?

It's been so long I don't remember the reasoning exactly. I believe some people don't use an actual "desktop environment" like Xfce, KDE, GNOME Shell etc but use some sort of special window manager directly like i3 or something else. We probably need to do something better with that to be clearer. Open to suggestions.

I'm thinking that if possible, add new choice if Window Manager Only is chosen. That would list maybe few most popular window managers (would have to figure what those are, I haven't looked at any statistics). For the statistics they could be displayed separately as they could take lot of space if all possibilities are listed.

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Quoting: LanzIt's ridiculous that small indie dev teams with 1-2 developers can publish Linux native but bigger studios have to rely on Proton.

AAA studios have money to buy third party libraries, which in turn don't support Linux. It's also rare that they keep Linux in mind from the beginning, so native Linux build will need just enough work that it will cost more than Linux sales would yield. Something like Stadia might momentarily give enough financial incentive so something might happen.

Indies on the other hand use whatever is free. Godot, Unity, even Unreal are few more can make native builds. Even some former AAA developers might move back to indies and give one of the more indie engines a try.

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Quoting: Eike

Quoting: Anza

Quoting: whizse

Quoting: EhvisNice. Last night I went through my library to remove a bunch of "windows" tags from games. Looks like I need to do it again. Not complaining though. :grin:

Remove the windows tag from more games! Let's try to invert this whole cause-and-effect thingamabob!

I'm bit curious what the Windows tag is used for? I have been so far been just using the filter that hides Windows games.

I have a private tag for my library meaning "Windows only game". I guess that's it?

That's alright, there doesn't have to be deeper meaning. I do have my own set of tags too, like one for broken games.

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Quoting: whizse

Quoting: EhvisNice. Last night I went through my library to remove a bunch of "windows" tags from games. Looks like I need to do it again. Not complaining though. :grin:

Remove the windows tag from more games! Let's try to invert this whole cause-and-effect thingamabob!

I'm bit curious what the Windows tag is used for? I have been so far been just using the filter that hides Windows games.

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Quoting: lectrodeOut of curiosity, regarding the Desktop "Window Manager Only":

• 1) what software does that cover?


• 2) Why would those be put into a single bucket vs having an option for each one like the rest?


• 3) With that now being in 3rd place, does it make sense to split it up into the individual options?

Could be bit of a can of worms. There's only handful DE:s, but as far as window managers go, there's much more. Might need separate graph at least. I would like to know how many twm users there are :tongue:

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Quoting: pete910Think you need to use the prop vulkan driver for full support but dont quote me on that

I'll quote you anyway.

Looks like Radv and Mesa has worked at some point: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/-/issues/5911 [External Link]

Based on that, getting older version of Quake 2 RTX should fix the issue.

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