Quoting: Liam DaweTo clear it up we have the info on the Steam Tracker:

When buying games from Steam, how is the desktop platform counted? From what Valve told us (February 2020), they first take the desktop Steam client platform used to buy it, then whatever has the most playtime in two weeks. However, Android and Web Browser purchases default to Windows and then what has the most playtime in two weeks. If you want to ensure developers see a Linux sale: play it only on Linux in the first two weeks, don't buy it and leave it.

Oh no, Web Browsers default to Windows? I didn't know that and now my pile of shame mostly consists of Web Browser purchases. Damn...

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Quoting: rustybroomhandleHmmm, with or without ray tracing support?

They have just confirmed ray tracing support in the twitter replies! :smile:

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Quoting: slaapliedjeVim wasn't installed, Nano wasn't installed... tried kate, but it wouldn't let me open it with sudo... talk about annoying.

For some reason Garuda comes with Micro preinstalled... I was stumbling across this, too. But other than that, I'm very happy with Garuda Dragonized. For me, after some tweaks, it is solid as a rock and looks amazing.

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Quoting: PhlebiacSeems like gamemode support is something they should add into Proton - unless there are some Windows games where it has undesirable side effects? I'm not saying gamemode should be required, but rather it should be automatically used when present, like Feral's games.

For me, gamemode did not run well with The Division... I couldn't find out why. And other games won't even launch in BPM mode with gamemode on.

Right now, I'm only using CPU performance governor as optimization.

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Quoting: NociferSo, especially after DXVK entered the scene, this has often lead to players preferring the native Windows version for a better experience.

Can confirm this. I find myself more and more switching from native Version to Proton due to better performance, compatability, etc., be it Borderlands 2, Dying Light or Trine.

And I'm amazed how the performace gets better with (almost) every Proton version.

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Quoting: CyrilAlso I'll buy it on GOG, but I hope the sale will be there too.

As far as I understand, on GOG you are limited to 2-Player online coop, whereas Steam has 4-Player online coop through Steam Remote Play. You might want to take that into consideration...

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Quoting: LinuxwarperI rather wait to buy the game through Steam instead of giving cash to Google. At least Valve is doing things for Linux. And please don't bring up all contributions Google has done for Linux, as of yet there has been very little contributions from them for gaming. If they somehow have made things better on Linux it would seem like a side effect of tech they have used, like how they use Vulkan.

Totally agree with this, but I still want Stadia to succeed anyway. Because if it does, it could convince more companies to choose Vulkan over DX12 in the first place, as they would have near to no trouble porting their stuff to Stadia. Linux users would benefit from Vulkan, even if there would be no Linux version at all. And I don't like the idea of MS dominating the graphics api market again...

I really hope CDPR already regrets being tied to DX12, especially now against the background of their crunch time.

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Not even to mention that Proton often outperforms native Linux ports, like with Dying Light or Borderlands 2 (at least for me).

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Quoting: EhvisETS2 and ATS are the only games I know that use the predefined effects of the force feedback system (spring, damper, inertia, friction and periodic effects). All other games calculate everything themselves and only use constant force effects. The logitech wheels (except G920) support spring and damper in hardware, but this is not implemented in the official Linux driver. The G920 supports all effects in hardware and all are available in the driver. There are no other (currently sold) wheels with a force feedback driver although it appears that Feral managed to make support for others on their own. Technically there is no reason why that stuff can't be implemented in user space.

Thank you for this information. I always thought the G29 and the G920 are basically the same wheel (except for some extra buttons and functions on the G29).

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Quoting: M@GOidI heard that the belt mechanism used in more high end wheels from Thrustmaster, Fanatech and others are quieter and smoother, but unfortunately I didn't have the chance to test one to see it for myself.

I have heard about that, too. Before I bought the G920, I was in contact with the thrustmaster support, but they don't have any plans to support linux anytime soon. As far as I know, the wheels will work in some games as a standard controller, but no force feedback. So I bought the G920.

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