Yay, many more games I'll never play, awesome :D

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Do we have a rough idea of how many were sold ?

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I know market share is a meaningful information but has anyone been keeping tab on absolute linux user number estimates ?

Because Steam userbase is constantly growing so a market share growth within a absolute numbers growth is kinda cool actually.
But I do keep in mind "being this or that OS user" does not necessarily mean "there have been sales for this or that OS" or "people equally play that amount of time regardless of their system".
I mean there are tons of statistical biases which prevents us to ultimately declare whether Linux is doing well or not but with some hindsight it's looking good.

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You guys should go check the code parade youtube channel where it shows how it works and was prototyped iirc ?
Also go check Marc Ten Bosch and his Miegakure project, I used to get the 2 people confused.
But so fun diving into non euclidean spaces.

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On the radv side, the release should include the ICD Loader interface version 5 [External Link].
This will smooth out Godot 4 experience for people who have an AMD GPU, I've had errors and seen a few issues on github about it. :grin:

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At last, the time has come, I am so happy!
Thanks Respawn, thanks Valve, thanks community, thanks GOL!

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Castlevania collection working nicely on Deck ?
Ok, I'm sold, shut up Valve and take my money!

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Quoting: GuestThe game just received an update to EasyAntiCheat. Works out of the box now, at least with Proton Experimental [bleeding-edge] (haven't tried other versions). No need for tinkering anymore.

Yay! :)

It's been running flawlessly and online for me yesterday with bleeding edge proton experimental but since this morning's patch, it freezes at launch. It was said on GOL discord a few people have drivers issue (amd) and to use proton GE, and it does work offline by disabling EAC.

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The Ubuntu thing is an internal standard since they started porting to Linux because it was the trending distro by then. Though they work on Fedora (and test on Ubuntu).
They've always been avoiding officially supporting any other distro because it's a mess to trouble shoot, what OS with which kernel on which desktop environment with which libraries, is it LTS or bleeding edge unstable repos, and so forth and so on.

So basically adapting their whole toolchain to switch to SteamOS 3.0 which is not released yet (though they could have asked for access), doing all the fine tuned adjustments for each and every game despite their philosophy to leave the original as much untouched they can, to finally dedicate most of their QA effort on Steam Deck units they would probably have not received in time.
All this for games they mostly already sold anyway within the lowest market share platform, for no further benefit working for Deck support.
Tbh I can't blame them.

Not to mention the Deck requirements are actually not trivial, fonts (which is a freaking nightmare, took them a couple years on Rome remastered to get it right), suspend and resume/cloud cross play, 720p, controls, battery life optimisations.
ONLY game devs actually understand how much effort is required for any single point of above.

Finally not even gonna talk about them kinda not planning more Linux projects, there is a "before" and an "after" Proton, it was great but I left for a reason.

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