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woelkchen, 8 days ago

Evey modern car can and does. Lawmakers currently sit on their hands regarding that.

woelkchen, 8 days ago

The host OS needs to do very little to maintain Steam compatibility. Most is done by Steam itself.

woelkchen, 8 days ago (edited 8 days ago)

States can establish religions. Federal government can’t.

Edit: Forgot that federal government can indoctrinate religion just fine: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_God_We_Trust

woelkchen, 8 days ago

Let’s see if the don’t kill command deters school shootings.

woelkchen, 8 days ago

does Haas have good tire deg yet?

Much better than last year, yes. This was the main development focus for this season.

woelkchen, 9 days ago

Yet another proof that Proton is a great stop-gap solution but Valve should be pushing game publishers to make native Linux ports.

woelkchen, 9 days ago

Valve isn’t promoting native ports in the first place and suits only know “Works with Windows games, we don’t need to care about details”.

woelkchen, 9 days ago

They already tried that in the Steam Machines era. It clearly wasn’t working.

Steam Deck is way more successful than 3rd party Steam Machines. The comparison makes zero sense because it ignores all developments since then.

woelkchen, 9 days ago

The cost to maintain “native” ports is too high to make sense for most developers.

If that was the case, no console ports would exist, except maybe Xbox because Xbox uses modified Windows internally.

Proton also makes it easier to preserve games since an “native” port would become incompatible overtime without work to adapt the software to changes in the system it’s running.

Inform yourself what Steam Linux Runtime is before making such comments. You are 100% wrong.

woelkchen, 9 days ago

It would be just as (un)popular as the Steam Machines if it wasn’t for Proton, that’s my whole point.

Which part of “Proton is a great stop-gap solution” makes you think I’m opposed to Proton?

woelkchen, 9 days ago

So, enlighten me, where am I wrong?

So you’re too lazy to read up on Steam Linux Runtimes and expect me to explain it to you? SLR 1.0 Scout keeps full binary compatibility to Ubuntu 12.04, so 12 years already. SLR APIs don’t change. That’s the point. Get a clue.

woelkchen, 9 days ago

Ports aren’t individual products on Steam.

woelkchen, 9 days ago

As a hardcore Linux fan, the only way I see game devs publishing native Linux ports is when when it has a >30% market share.

For Valve Linux isn’t just another OS. It’s their Steam Deck platform which they could promote towards publishers the same way as console makers promote their platforms. This story once again shows that chasing Windows compatibility without using Windows is a stepping stone but not the final answer.

woelkchen, 9 days ago (edited 9 days ago)

But to think it is free is just incorrect.

Did anybody say that making Linux ports is free? I certainly didn’t. I said that native Linux ports lead to a better consumer experience which cannot be denied as seen with the submitted story about the Rally game.

Also Arthur made his obliviousness regarding Steam Linux Runtimes very clear by claiming that they were affected by changing Linux APIs all the time. That claim is just factually wrong.

woelkchen, 9 days ago

auto reported crashes

publisher disables crash reporter

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woelkchen, 9 days ago (edited 9 days ago)

Instead, he bitches about Linux instead of the problem root.

1. Game company funds through Kickstarter.
2. Game company reaches goal from taking money from Linux users.
3. Game company releases a shoddy port that crashes
4. Sales data shows that customers don’t wanna buy a separate SKU of a game that crashes all the time
5. LInUx bAd!!!

Also this is a Steam Deck community. It should be obvious that all discussion around native games centers around stable Steam Deck hardware specs, SteamOS, and the Steam Linux Runtime container solution for games released on Steam, not some buggy (and mediocre) game from a literal decade ago released as tar.gz file into the wild.

woelkchen, 9 days ago

I think it’s hilarious with the market for Linux handhelds this hot that these companies are still like “ew no thanks”

I don’t think the technical details reach the people making the decisions. They may have heard “Steam Deck works with PC games” (because there is no distinction between PC and Windows for them) and then don’t allocate resources for a proper port to Steam Deck.

woelkchen, 9 days ago

Really spoiled the online stages

And now this change spoils single player.

woelkchen, 9 days ago

They probably analysed it and thought it wasn’t worth the effort. Companies like to make money after all.

If all the economic news from the games industry from the last year or so should have taught you anything: No. Shortsighted whims of shareholders are not proper financial analysis. The same people who also concluded years ago that leaving Steam and going exclusively to Origin was a good idea are definitively not the sharpest tools in the shed.

woelkchen, 9 days ago

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It’s great. Order it virgin for just milk.

woelkchen, 9 days ago

I’ve played the Sims on Linux before and haven’t had such severe issues with origin…

Out of curiosity I’ve looked it up on ProtonDB and there it says that EA Launcher regularly breaks on updates.

woelkchen, 9 days ago (edited 9 days ago)

You have weird Ciabattas if you think that Ciabatta is a kind of bun and not a bigger loaf. Croissants are pastry. And yes, burgers made with Kaiser rolls are totally burgers:

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