Quoting: HmeGrabbed a copy of DOOM (2016) for 7€, thinking I would test this whole proton thing not expecting much...
IT RUNS SO SMOOTH!

It's amazing. Doom is the most demanding game I own and it runs pretty much flawlessly with Proton (and with regular Wine, as well). My only gripe is I can't get it to work with my Steam Link, which it does in Windows.

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Dug deep in the Humble summer sale last night and came away with Dust, Valdis Story (been on a Metroidvania kick lately), and Dungeon Rushers.

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I love that this is happening.

A small gripe... it is (so far) not configurable. So when Dark Souls doesn't play the movies, I can't apply the fix I know from experience.

But my guess is with all the resources they've put into making DX11 and DX12 work, they're much more concerned with newer games going forward, which is a good thing.

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Quoting: areamanplaysgameIt's almost like they don't know how much of the Internet securely runs on Linux machines.

Imagine thinking someone is going to modify the source code and compile their own damned operating system expressly to cheat in your HALO fan game. Just imagine.

What an ignoramus.

People are conditioned (indoctrinated, even) into associating the corporate/proprietary/locked-down/DRM-ed with the 'legit' and the 'secure'; so it's really just a symptom of a much wider problem. When someone calls this faith in the propriety into question, the response is that they're doing this out of *their* own ideological convictions; but it's so easy to produce concrete examples that proprietary software *hides* security vulnerabilities, 'fixes' them incompetently and whenever convenient, etc. etc. etc.

Some people may sincerely believe in proprietary software and in security through obscurity. Overall it is not a much worse approach than the alternative. But I honestly don't think it is possible to have an ideological conviction in favor of DRM. Anyone who has done enough research or critical thinking about DRM to have a strong opinion about it cannot conclude that it serves the purpose for which it is allegedly intended (preventing piracy), and must admit that what it actually achieves is making it harder for paying customers to use digital goods how they want. It is a purely anti-consumer concept; anyone with a strong conviction in favor of it is an asshole.

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Quoting: wvstolzing> What with Linux being open sourced, it's extremely difficult to write an anti-cheat for that platform because anybody can make any changes they want to the OS.

I've been seeing variants of this notion elsewhere --- that being open source is a security liability, because 'the bad guys can also see how everything works, etc. etc.' ---- in the news, non-technical opinion articles, etc. It's worrying to see BS of this sort gaining traction.

It's almost like they don't know how much of the Internet securely runs on Linux machines.

Imagine thinking someone is going to modify the source code and compile their own damned operating system expressly to cheat in your HALO fan game. Just imagine.

What an ignoramus.

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