Definitely worthy and needed but still a hilarious example of redundancy.

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Oh cool, does that work in FPS games too? I've been playing Deus Ex 2 today, and haven't had a single mouse issue, so maybe it's been fixed this release?

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Quoting: anarchist_tomatoMy chief concern is fixing that mouse problem that's been in Wine since forever and is still in Proton, where you're in an FPS and can suddenly only turn about 270 degrees. I usually fix it by exiting into the game menu and going into the controls menu and then back into the game. That *should* be gone from Wine/Proton though now, it's been decades!

I fix it by just holding the Right Mouse Button then start moving the mouse cursor while in-game.

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I'll be interested to test against the font changes and the AMD/Nvidia workaround. Mirror's Edge may improve with the latter?

My chief concern is fixing that mouse problem that's been in Wine since forever and is still in Proton, where you're in an FPS and can suddenly only turn about 270 degrees. I usually fix it by exiting into the game menu and going into the controls menu and then back into the game. That *should* be gone from Wine/Proton though now, it's been decades!

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Quoting: GuestLinux is going to conquer the whole world. It is a matter of when, not if. So Microsoft is making the right moves... I expect them to turn Windows into a Linux distro + proprietary libraries/API/DE at some point. It will be cheaper for them to maintain, will be able to enter most markets Windows can't enter/dominate now, like mobiles/servers, and will still allow them to be top dog, assuming they create a good and polished Linux based desktop OS and make linux-compatible versions of their stuff like Office...

People may laugh at this idea now, but it is an inevitability. Trust me. It may not happen in 5 or even 10 years, but it will eventually... The traditional "pay for a Windows licence" model is dead.

Well I'll call myself a sceptic, but saying you're right, do you think in that scenario MS would eventually start investing in and coding within Wine? If Valve are bring Wine up to scratch, perhaps MS would finish up the job?

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I was about to say "no" with an expressionless face, but what are the 60,000 patents?

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But wait... Microsoft loves Linux. Remember?

Lolz.

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Oooh, if they've fixed that mouse thing in general (not just for Deus Ex), that would be awesome. It's a weird bug Wine has always had. I'm in the middle of Mirror's Edge, and whenever I play it, there's a minute or two when I have to hit escape and use some random menus and go back into the game, otherwise I can't turn around properly. I think that's happened in most first person games, in fact.

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I don't think this will ultimately harm the number of native Linux ports - people making that argument are missing some key arguments, especially the amount of traffic that will increase towards Linux, which in turn will create a desire amongst certain developers to make native ports. I think the number of native ports will stay the same.

BUT, why are people so hung up on whether or not there is a native version? When a game has been working well under Wine, it's never bothered me that it isn't native. Why should it? The game runs and I can't tell the difference. So long as the games are running well, then whether or not it's "native" is just an intellectual point that's no longer practical. Though running well is obviously a key point there - if it runs like junk, then have at it.

The way I see it, eventually developers will just see Steam Play as kind of like another variant of Windows to test for, and won't really care whether it's Windows or Linux, so long as it runs.

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I had Tomb Raider: Last Revelation running for the first time, and Tomb Raider 2 was working, but kept randomly pausing for a second or two mid-gameplay. Here's hoping that was the problem!

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