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Latest Comments by BielFPs
Steam Play Proton is correctly tracking Linux sales, a statement from Valve
20 Feb 2020 at 11:47 am UTC

I wish our profiles in Steam had an option like "preferred platform" where we could select which OS do we prefer (Windows / Mac / Linux Distros).

Not to impact the sales statistics, but for developers in general measure if it's may worth to target some specific platform based on users choice.

Skul: The Hero Slayer has you swap your skull to gain new powers - now in Early Access
19 Feb 2020 at 1:04 pm UTC Likes: 1

Looks good, I might buy if they offer coop in the future.

Godot Engine enters new territory with Vulkan API support merged in for the upcoming 4.0 release
11 Feb 2020 at 6:03 pm UTC Likes: 1

I hope once Godot Vulkan becomes stable, someone will put a Killer game made with Godot to encourage more devs to use it.

A note on using Steam Play Proton and counting the sales for Linux (updated)
11 Feb 2020 at 5:59 pm UTC

Quoting: MohandevirWhat I don't know is if it gets overwritten by your preset, when you activate Proton for all titles...
Once the game is whitelisted with an specific Proton version, it'll default to this specific version unless you change manually thought the options.

Quoting: m-svoNo, it does not. Good point! There are quite a few titles that actually run worse with newer Proton releases, Torchlight from the top of my head.
There's also the other way around, where the newer version runs better than the whitelisted default.

For example I did a request [External Link] for an update to a whitelisted game, where once was because the new release fixed some audio glitches, but now you must change due to a recent update with the game.

So a game being whitelisted doesn't necessary mean that it'll run better/for ever except the game and your system remains the same.

Collabora's FOSDEM videos are up, including one on putting Linux games in Containers on Steam
6 Feb 2020 at 12:55 am UTC

I wonder if in the future, this project could help to solve the anticheaters/launchers problem

Proton GE has a fresh new build out with lots of updates and special fixes
3 Feb 2020 at 1:44 pm UTC

And for some reason Proton GE just worked with this new version

Well, good for me then :)

Linux Mint and the Cinnamon desktop progressing well, all-time high donations
3 Feb 2020 at 1:40 pm UTC

I love Linux Mint and Cinnamon is my main DE in Manjaro.

My only complaint about Cinnamon is the lack of Wayland support, which I assume it's because their Mint Boxes with shipped Nvidia Cards.

Proton GE has a fresh new build out with lots of updates and special fixes
31 Jan 2020 at 12:32 pm UTC

Quoting: Liam DaweAs I said to another in Discord, are you sure you've not previously downloaded the pre-release builds by mistake? They're not fully built and need you to do so, the release builds (like this) are fully functional and only need you to drop the folder in the right place.
I always get from cloning the git directly and put in ~/.steam/root/compatibilitytools.d/. I also have Boxtron but no problems with that.

I'll try @somebody1121 suggestion later.

Proton GE has a fresh new build out with lots of updates and special fixes
31 Jan 2020 at 11:25 am UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: somebody1121sudo pacman -S steam-native
Ok I'll try tonight, thank you!

Proton GE has a fresh new build out with lots of updates and special fixes
31 Jan 2020 at 11:20 am UTC

Quoting: somebody1121I also had problems with Proton GE. In order to fix it i had to install steam-native, maybe it can fix your problem as well.
What steam native? direct from the site? I've installed through Manjaro repositories (and Ubuntu when I was using Mint) but no luck with both.