If Microsoft wants to "protect" Linux, it's because they think that they can control it. As Linus stated rather famously, the desktop is the ONLY area of computing that Linux does not dominate. On the desktop that would be Windows. Now Linux has matured enough that Windows is about to have competition.

Microsoft bought it's way into the Linux Foundation, and months later there was basically a coup which removed Linus. The LF is calling it a sabbatical, but he's not coming back if they can help it. They have implemented a CoC which directly panders to identity politics over quality of code, which has had the desired effect of splitting the community down left/right lines and could well destroy it. And it's just a coincidence that Microsoft bought their way in a few months earlier. Oh and Microsoft bought Github.

And now this.

Linux will not survive this as Linux. Microsoft will either control it or break it into a thousand pieces. Red Hat and Cannonical might even be on board. Google sure as hell will be.

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Sadly, if Microsoft is going to continue to offer Obsiddian native ports to Linux, then they are in fact playing by the rules. Here's Tux, where's bux? So at that point it's a matter of whether the game is any good or whether Microsoft has milked it for everything possible but continue to stamp out new ones like with the Halo series

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Quoting: SalvatosThat was to be expected. If Valve don't have the workforce to vet every game that is added to the store in the first place, they certainly won't pay an army to retroactively test everything on even one "standard" Linux configuration. I'll be surprised if we get more than a handful of additions to the list per month. That's why I'm curious to know how they choose which games to vet first, and why I was surprised to see something like Commander Keen there.

THIS. I seriously doubt Valve is expecting immediate returns here. This is a long term project that is really more about planting seeds. If you build it they will come. We've already seen the trend among dual-booters is that they are going to ditch their Windows installs, if not on their current rig, then on their next one. So the dual booters are on board. When that finishes shaking out in the next year or so our marketshare could go from .58% last month to .78% this month to maybe even 2% by end of 2020. By 2025 we are looking at possibly 10%, which is higher than Apple.

Microsoft seems damned determined to do it's best to help out. I mean they are even pushing mandatory system updates that they know will delete random files on a certain percentage of machines. We couldn't ask for more.

So be patient, and be of good cheer. All we need is for Valve to continue at a lazy pace and we'll win.

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Quoting: Solitary

Quoting: Cyba.CowboySo in other words, if you're not a Sam & Max fan, it's actually a pretty small list.

Strange, considering there's apparently a lot more games which have complete "platinum" results [External Link]... I would have thought that many of those would be added to the "whitelist" in the next update.

I think it's obvious that they are not whitelisting just because someone somewhere says it's good enough. SPCR list has its limits, often not fully tested and it's opinion-based rather than factual. Valve is most likely doing proper QA on their own and it takes time.

Very likely. For example, I just played through Alan Wake again. It was getting Platinum ratings. I tried it, and while it worked there were pretty noticeable problems. It likes to crash. Enabling any AA at all turned the grass into blocks. There were constant graphical glitches. I finished the game, and The Signal tack-on episodes, and as much as I like the game there's no way it should be white-listed. White-listing should be reserved purely for games that "just-work" on the majority of major distros like Ubuntu, Fedora, Manjaro, etc, without any need for special launch options or non-working graphical features.

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Quoting: g000hI'm a long term Debian user, and I use it properly... i.e. I install the packages from the regular repositories so that my system doesn't get messed up. I have tried backports and all sorts of things in the past, but generally find that forcing a later graphics driver onto the system ends up borking it.

I'm kind of in the same boat. I'm on Mint, but it's only offering me 340.107 and 390.48 so I'd rather stick to that. Didn't someone say that the newer drivers were only necessary for Vulkan games anyway, or something along those lines?

I'm on Fedora 28, and I really think that has helped me in this case because it's a royal pain to set up Fedora for proprietary drivers, and those are the only drivers worth using with a newer NVIDIA card.

https://www.if-not-true-then-false.com/2015/fedora-nvidia-guide/ [External Link]

I'm running 396.54.06, pretty much just because why not? This guide only has to be followed once. Once you've blacklisted and removed Noveau changing to newer NVIDIA drivers is easy. You really should be familiar with VIM to do so, though. I don't know how this translates to a debian based distro like Mint or Ubuntu because I know that they both handle graphics drivers in the gui.

Recommend this : https://www.openvim.com/ [External Link]

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Quoting: wojtek88I was little bit skeptical last weeks, as it was looking like in September after making Steam Play official for all Steam Linux clients, Valve was not putting a lot of work in Proton, it was outdated while comparing to DXVK and while comparing to Wine.
Now Proton uses almost newest DXVK, Wine I guess was not updated yet, but Whitelisting takes place, which makes me happy.
Hope Valve pushes forward Steam Play each day, each week, each month. It's good to be Linux gamer this year.

They didn't commit to two years of work just to abandon it one month into launch. Honestly Valve is on the hook for this for years and at this point may be doing this just to see if they can actually shift the OS marketshare with GAMES. It's long been theorized that OS succeed or fail based on that, this is an interesting experiment.

Personally, I'm in agreement with Bryan Lunduke, Linux would not be anywhere near as mature as it is without Microsoft angering everyone. It's not enough to have a place to run to, you have to have something to run from. And like with this latest Win10 update that was deleting files thanks to a bug that they apparently knew about for months and yet they still rolled it out, Microsoft is doing exactly what Valve is counting on. Microsoft just being itself will provide all the inspiration needed for the resources allocated to Proton+DXVK+MESA to actually pay off.

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Just chiming in, Overload is the true sequel to the Descent series made by people that worked on it. They just can't use the name Descent. If you love 6 degree movement games, and can only afford one, this is the one to get, and not only because it has a native Linux port.

Overload Review (6 Degrees Of Awesome) - Gggmanlives
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSjxmiZpf7M [External Link]

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Quoting: dibzBetter .Net support would be HUGE for Wine, it's the bane of any linux user's winesperience. That and old windows kernel-level DRM, anyway.

Right now there are bunch of .net games that run on WINE that don't run on Proton. Arkham Asylum and Arkham Knight spring to mind.

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I just want System 76 to add Purism's hardware killswitches to their laptops. Maybe even an all-AMD laptop - like a Ryzen 7 /Vega64 combo machine. Maybe with the new 7nm parts next year.

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I didn't graduate to the Glorious PC Gaming Master Race to use a thumb pad. Mouse and Keyboard..... except when I'm playing an emulated NES/SNES/GENESIS game. Those were just made for controllers. And thanks to SC controller my Steam controller seems to work for that.

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Just checked, I already have it, too. I honestly didn't notice that it was upscaled from 720p when I played it on my 45in 1080p TV.

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