There are edge cases. Older ports, notably Total War and Civilization plus a few other edge cases I’ve found, will either crash when trying to talk to each other or refuse to do it. You can likely sidestep all of these issues by just running the Windows version via Proton instead. I believe the problems those ports had were something to do with underlying libraries and how they keep time, but I admit I don’t know for sure.

Because the game barely runs single player on Steam Deck, and they’d rather not handle a bunch of support tickets for people wondering why the game chugs when trying to make a low end system handle a lot more processing load.

The Steam Deck also means they can assume AMD hardware, so even if you don’t see the benefits, they might be there for someone else.

What you played on your Steam Deck before was a Windows build run through Proton. It’s not really luck that it ran before, but with a native build, you can start tweaking the way things work in Linux to optimize for what the Linux version is using. They must have seen the performance gains to be worth the time investment.

You have to dig a few layers deep, but it appears that they uploaded a Linux build that only downloads for Steam Decks, and they don’t seem to fully support non-Steam Deck. I haven’t verified a way to get around this, but often, where there’s a will, there’s a way. You might be able to force the game to download the Linux version from the Compatibility settings in Steam. At least at this point in time, Larian only seems interested in the Linux build for Steam Deck in particular, which I’ve never seen before.

I suppose I hardly noticed how long it took for DX12 to work because games had DX11 modes basically the entire time that Proton struggled with it. So again, not trying to sway you on anything, but optimistically, there’s going to be little to no games pushing any kind of envelope when a new technology like that comes along. It’s already prohibitively expensive for games to do so today, such that there are very few good games in a given year that make use of the latest tech.

There was a very clear dividing line between Wine before Proton and Wine after Proton. Maybe Indiana Jones and the Great Circle doesn’t work great on Proton on day 1, but it catches up so much more quickly than it used to, because there’s an incentive to. Anyway, I don’t mean to try to change your mind, and at least I get the perspective.

I guess, but it also simultaneously ports thousands of games that were never going to get updated with Linux builds even if Linux became 100% of the market tomorrow; several games I have now with native Linux ports are worse than the same game run through Proton. And when run through Proton, it’s no longer hitting Microsoft code. Anyway, this outcome in this post is the kind of thing that Valve expected to happen but has happened very little thus far, hopefully a sign of things to come.

I know native ports are important to some folks, and I know you’re one of them, but would you mind explaining why? Maybe you’ve done so in the past and I didn’t internalize it.

Larian’s own reasoning here appears to be squeezing it for more performance, and with English-language Linux users now accounting for about 6% of players, I suspect more companies will find this to be worth the effort as that percentage rises and Windows becomes more of a pain in the ass.

It’s hot enough off the presses that the Steam store page doesn’t even know about it yet, so it’s possible it propagates to GOG, too.

To be fair, what you tried to do is a pretty strange use case.

Isn’t it though? If my choice is to pay 200% of the value of the property annually or to not have insurance, why would I opt to have insurance? The best they could do is pay out less than I paid them.

If you don’t cap prices one something the insurer is expecting to be destroyed, wouldn’t they just set the price of the policy to be the price of the thing it insures, effectively making it worthless?

You’d pay about $12 on mass transit ($2.90 PATH and $2.90 MTA in each direction), and the reasons for the government to incentivize one versus the other are numerous, not the least of which are safety, noise, air quality, and efficiency.

I’ll take the L on this one. It’s a combination of the article only using the screenshot of the first view as evidence and me late night posting on Lemmy while falling asleep via NyQuil.

It’s because SteamOS identifies itself as Arch. Omitting this information is either dishonest or uninformed.

Anecdotally, more of my techy friends are at least entertaining the thought of switching to Linux when they never did before. Great job, Microsoft!

It only takes one asshole in a crowded subway car to ruin it for everyone. I like to read on the subway, but they’re basically telling me that if I want to drown out their tiktok videos, I need to bring something with me with my own audio to listen to over headphones, just to not hear them.

It’s quite useful in the one part of the country where the service is good: the Northeast Corridor. It makes traveling by plane downright stupid in a lot of cases. If only more of country’s rail were even that good, which isn’t even a high bar to clear.

He’s asked all sorts of people to do all sorts of terrible things, and though some stood in his way, usually tendering their resignation in doing so, I think that’s reason enough to take it very seriously. There are supporters of his who absolutely seriously suggest instating him as president permanently, and with control of every branch of government, there’s opportunity to do so.