Yeah, if this is accepted it would set an interesting precedent
New drugs get a period of time where the company that developed it has exclusive manufacturing rights. The idea is that if anyone can start making the drug immediately, there's not a good reason for companies to spend money to develop new drugs. However if demand for a drug is greater than the ability of the creating company to produce the drug, other companies are allowed to temporarily step in and make up the difference.
Out of curiousity, do you have hardware acceleration enabled in your steam client? I used to have the same issue with the drop menus on linux, but now they work fine. I'm not sure when they started working correctly, but I know I had to disable hardware acceleration due to some other problems with steam.
Many game engines let you make Linux builds, but there are still bugs and optimizations that have to be done manually to get it working. The video claims it takes ~6 months to make a proper port, and even then it might not run as smoothly as the windows proton version does.
With any luck windows won't continue to allow kernel anti-cheat much longer either. I also assume that sooner or later there may be government action on kernel anti-cheat, since many of the popular games/anti-cheats are Chinese owned. If tiktok spying is enough of a concern to ban the app, it's a pretty short logical step to being thinking that Chinese companies shouldn't be allowed to install full access, unremovable backdoors on millions of PCs.
It's based on top of the new Unified Linux Wine Game Launcher (UMU) that recently had a first release, along with protonfixes to ensure everything works as well as possible.
Cool to see UMU starting to show up in the wild. And since it plans on using a compatibility list for games to automatically set up games correctly, the more UMU gets used the better it will become.
No, because apple's monopoly doesnt count because they're upfront about it being a monopoly.
Which is stupid, but that's how it works apparently
It's not like the current group of users is perfect either. There's a lot of circlejerk opinions going around, and I've seen being get majorly downvoted for posting factual info that went against the "hivemind" opinion.
Yeah, can't get market share without games, but it's hard to get games without marketshare. Proton made sure we have games, now we need marketshare. Once we have marketshare we'll get more high quality linux native ports (I hope).
Yeah, wine is incredible for preservation. Many older games don't work on either platform (old windows games on windows, old linux games on linux), but running old windows games through proton usually works great.
Yeah, it's unfortunately common to have games running better through proton than the native port. We've seen a lot of devs drop their linux port recently because the proton version ran better with fewer issues.
Obviously a well executed native linux port is preferable, but a lot of smaller devs have trouble justifying spending a lot of time working out kinks for a linux port if the game already runs great through proton.
It's similar, but it runs in game mode. It's user experience is a lot closer to having native support for Epic than the heroic launcher.