Quoting: benjamimgoisThanks man, actually my work is the easy one. The true heroes are the developers of Mangohud, vkbasalt and replaysorcery. I just try to make things less command line and text files oriented.

"easy" yet necessary, people using Linux has the bad habit of underestimate the value of a simple GUI over command lines. As I like to say It's good when you can configure something, it's bad when you need to.

Again congratulations for your effort in complement the work of other "heroes" :)

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I would ask Joshua if he thinks D9VK could perform better using Python or some other interpreted language, since he does theater

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This is simple yet impressive, some people are so used to the "Linux way" of having to write those things that they underestimate the value of a control panel like this where you can easily see the parameters and even discover others you didn't know.

Congratulations to the developers and I hope they improve it in a way this feature make Linux more attractive to new users.

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I'm glad they're using gamescope, I was afraid they would use bare metal x11 but now I am curious about the new interface.

I also wonder in what phase Collabora is with their wine version.

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"Carry on my wayward son [External Link]"
What a ride

I remember the announce of Steam Machines back them, it was at the same time where I started to like Linux because of my work. While everyone else was excited about the machines and native games, I was excited about Steam OS and how it could benefits the support for other distros too, I was even following the SteamOs forum daily in hope to see some good news, but I stopped after realizing that was leaving the system aside.

Luckily a french guy really wanted to play a game with girls in black kicking ass on Linux, and DXVK was born (I also discovered GOL and I've been following the site ever since :) )

Speaking of games, I still hate Bethesda for being the first ones of jumping through "paid mods" ship and the first ones of jumping off the native Linux ones.

Therefore amazing article Liam. I would suggest you also including the rise of Vulkan from the ashes of Mantle, I know it's not directly related, but it's one of the main pillars of gaming on Linux.

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Now that Valve is finally counting to 3 the possibilities are many

I think they would be a bit silly to do Left 4 Dead 3 right now, considering how Back 4 Blood is releasing in October with it being widely reported as a spiritual successor and Turtle Rock Studios are the original developer of Left 4 Dead.

While I really would like to Back for Blood to be successful (I even question them about Linux support years ago, without answer) I have a feel that it will Evolve into another failure from Turtle Rock, judging by the way they are managing the game lately.

Sometimes I also think that we don't have anything new of Left 4 Dead franchise due to some conflicts between Valve and Turtle Rock, like how people responsible for the last stand update doesn't have any access to the main game code, or how Valve wants you to forget that the first game exist (this one may be due to technical reasons)

Back on topic, I think they'll first update their existing relevant games to be more friendly to Steam Deck, then pushing some new one aiming to it.

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And for those saying Valve doesn't care about Linux: You're right.

I never saw Gabe Newell or any official announcement from Valve saying they are aiming on increase Linux adoption like some people seems to pretend that the case, after all most of their revenue come from windows players, Linux for them is only so they can have more independence and to make sure Microsoft won't interfere in Valve's business. And this is perfectly ok!

Valve has no obligation to us Linux users, we just have a seller/consumer relation like anyone else (they're not the "saviors" of Linux desktop) but fortunately their business models generates some benefits for us despite not being their main goal.

At lets be honest, a lot of us don't care about something like steam deck either. In my case for example I can't buy one even if I want, so my interest in this project it's the possible benefits of this project helping games to run better on my pc/notebook with [INSERT PREFERRED DISTRO], and I suspect this is the case with more people than they'll admit :wink:.

And this is perfectly ok too!

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I knew this topic would appear here when I saw on Reddit

First I understand Ethan's point, he's probably feeling "betrayed" because Valve's decision affects directly his revenue, but I think stop programming for good it's a little over reacting in this case (unless of course he was already thinking about that before and wants to do something else)

But I think Valve has a point in this case, they can't afford another failing like Steam Machines, which was a scenario where they depended entirely on third part developers porting to linux, and in the end we all saw what happened. Failing again and Valve may considerably reduce its investment on Linux gaming, and we don't have any other company to back it up in this case.

The best plausible scenario I can think is: People start to play using proton and developers can give some "support" to make sure it's working, then average users start to take more interest on "this linux thing" since they can play their games as they do on other platforms. After some time, some developers (now backed by some real mainstream base of linux players) start to think "hey, my game could perform better if I don't use this wine thing" and take interest in making native ports, after all, they'll have a public to justify it and the competitors may be already thinking on this too.

May this hypothetical scenario partially come true, and Top developers like Ethan may start to receive some requests from big companies too.

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Are they using Wayland or x11?

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Fortunately we don't have this problem here where I live, because besides the fact that they are not even selling here the official one is already too expensive for us to be able to buy

Take that first worlders :tongue:

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