Quoting: drenThe amount of corporate bootlicking happening here is crazy. We are talking about a company that effectively has a monopoly on game sales, that promotes a skin gambling ecosystem that is available to minors ("loot boxes"), that for years resisted giving refunds, whos subscriber agreement attempts to prevent class action lawsuits, and who tried to monetize community made mods. Let's also not forget how shitty it was to force users onto a game, CS2, and mothball the better version, CSGO, who can't count to three (ignoring rumors), etc. As a linux gamer, I appreciate that they have made gaming on linux better, but lets not pretend that they aren't interested in getting people onto their own OS, SteamOS, so they can again increase their own margins via hardware and licensing. I think it is best to keep these corporations at an arms length at best. I love GOG because I can actually buy and own games, but they are still a corporation and corporate track records are pretty shitty these days.

You're right to keep corporations at arm's length, but it’s worth noting that Valve’s approach is uniquely beneficial to the Linux community compared to other giants. Most of the tech they develop Proton/Wine contributions, Vulkan improvements is open source. Even if Steam disappeared tomorrow, the work they’ve done on the Linux kernel and graphics drivers stays in the ecosystem. They aren't just building a "walled garden" they’re building a garden that everyone else including GOG or Heroic users gets to benefit from. That’s a massive shift from how Microsoft or Sony operates. :)

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For anyone owning the original Splinter Cell on Steam, I have verified that the new EnhancedSC v1.4a patch works perfectly using Luxtorpeda.

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AI isn’t some abstract future threat it’s automation, just like the machines and robots that have already replaced countless factory, retail, and logistics jobs. Now AI can automate not just cognitive work but, eventually physical labor too, meaning even jobs people thought were safe could be at risk. Automation removes work quickly, while job creation and retraining lag far behind, leaving millions behind in the process.

The bigger question is this if automation and AI keep replacing work faster than new opportunities appear, what will people do for a living? And if people can’t earn income who will buy the products and services these automated companies produce? This isn’t fear-mongering it’s basic math. Productivity may rise, but without people participating in the economy, the system cannot function.

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Quoting: scaine

Quoting: Xpanderflatpak :sick:

no appimage?
i guess someone can extract the client from it and build an actual package

nice to see linux support though

I love how ridiculously divisive we all are as Linux users. :grin:

Dare I ask... why the hate for flatpak (a puke emoji, no less!)? If I can't install something directly, I want a flatpak. I'll use an AppImage and resent it, because it (often) doesn't create a menu item, it requires me to find a place for it to live (I usually bung them in ~/Misc/Apps or something), and doesn't update with the rest of my system. I won't use snap, as I'm not interested in YAI (yet another installer) when I already have flatpak.

I love AppImage because I can treat my applications like data. I can organize them in my own custom structure, back them up, copy them between any of my Linux machines including my kids Steam Decks and they just work most of the time.

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I want the "do not update" option.

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I play this on my Steam Deck, and it runs perfectly.

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If this goes big, we will see more subscription models happen. Ubisoft would love that, they think the future of gaming is to stream content.

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This will hurt everyone.

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Quoting: PJ@orochi_kyo : how did you add media foundation libs? That's one of the things that prevents me from playing Darksiders.

I just use Proton-4.15-GE-4 and Darksiders work. Make sure winetricks is install too.

https://github.com/GloriousEggroll/proton-ge-custom/releases [External Link]

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Quoting: TuxeeNo luck with the Vulkan benchmarks.

It says

$./geekbench5 --compute-list
Geekbench 5.0.0 : https://www.geekbench.com/

CUDA
0 0 GeForce GTX 1060 6GB
OpenCL
0 0 GeForce GTX 1060 6GB

Just to be sure:

$ vulkaninfo 
==========
VULKANINFO
==========

Vulkan Instance Version: 1.1.101

Any idea what to do about that?

I ran this command for Vulkan "./geekbench_x86_64 --compute vulkan"

My CPU results High Performance setting.
https://browser.geekbench.com/v5/cpu/116394 [External Link]

My CPU results Balanced setting.
https://browser.geekbench.com/v5/cpu/116520 [External Link]

My CPU results Battery Saver setting.
https://browser.geekbench.com/v5/cpu/116663 [External Link]

My Vulkan results.
https://browser.geekbench.com/v5/compute/54188 [External Link]

My CUDA results.
https://browser.geekbench.com/v5/compute/54281 [External Link]

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