Expect them go Epic-first or exclusive for their next game...

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Quoting: Guest

Is there a particular bug you're hoping to be solved soon?

Slow scrolling, the client dying without killing windows that can't be closed, still being unable to drag & drop in chat, and general client instability like having to retry downloads and cloud syncing 1,000,000 times,... and oh, open-sourcing the client. I am hoping that OpenSteamClient [External Link] gains more attention.

At least they listen to feedback on the issue tracker, pretty happy the notification issue got solved.

I didn't know about OSC, I'm tired of the official Steam cliente since it's a resource hog. Do you know if the shader cache related things work? (state cache, fossilize) oh, I didn't notice the Shader management support part in the readme. :(

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Quoting: slaapliedjeCould be an interesting subject matter for an essay; as we know commercial competition drives innovation, but it seems to in the open source realm as well. It could be argued that instead of group A working on one product (like Heroic Game Launcher) would be drawing talent away from improving a different product (Lutris) that group B is working on. But I think in the case of these two, they seem to work just like the commercial environment where if you have no competition, you end up floundering around with little to no improvement (or you end up doing what Windows does and try to just slide in more ways to make money off of essentially the same crap).

I need to try out Heroic Game Launcher again.

They're two different products. They might seem identical, because they both help you play your Epic and GOG games. But Heroic replaces them with a single launcher, while Lutris doesn't replace anything, it just helps you install their launchers instead. Two totally different approaches.

I prefer the Heroic approach a LOT!! It's lightweight, just to play a game without fuss!! With Steam becoming bigger and more polished UI-wise, it uses even more resources, it can easily grab a couple gigs of RAM while Heroic can stay at a quarter of that. Ubisoft launcher is even worse, in my case using 2.5-3 gigs of memory.

I'd love if they add support for Steam, Ubisoft and EA games.

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyFunny, I realized that my expectations have flipped. For a long time I was always impressed that games were just running out of the box with Proton.
At this point it's kind of impressive that people are still managing to make games in such a way that they break on Proton.

As more games become DX12-only, things are becoming worse again.

Unless Valve makes some incentive to make devs to use Vulkan instead of CrapX12 this game of cat and mouse will continue.

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A Vulkan renderer should be a nice and dedicated Deck (and Desktop Linux) upgrade.

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Playing the catch-up game again... as more games become DX12-only this only will get worse, translation layers such as VKD3D or DXVK are nice to have, but I hope Valve eventually makes native Vulkan mandatory for games to become Deck-verified.

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Awesome update! Now with the AppImage it just works! I had compiled it from source before, but I wasn't able to get an audio output (it was greyed out), some builds refused to run at all (illegal instruction)...

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Quoting: BeamboomI thought this game didn't run well on desktop Linux? Has that changed?

Define desktop Linux.

If it is an Nvidia gpu; it has a big perf hit.

If it is AMD gpu with RADV driver; it is fine.

It does have perf loss on GTX 10 series (as any DX12 game...) should be nice if more companies start to offer Vulkan renderer in addition to DX11/12, heck! even Valve could also push this by lowering the sales cut. They recommend going Vulkan for the deck, but they could give some incentives to push its adoption.

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Nice update, but for some reason it uninstalled kwin-x11 and left me with no window controls and almost every app crashed, thankfully I still had access to the app launcher, opened Konsole and installed kwin-x11, restarted and it was fixed.

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And this is why I don't like Epic, they not only hinder Steam versions, but Linux (and recently, even Mac) versions of games.

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