I only just heard about ULWGL from a nice Threadiverser a couple of days ago, and now TIL!
Where the art 'zines at?
I only just heard about ULWGL from a nice Threadiverser a couple of days ago, and now TIL!
Tl;Dr: Proton GE has extra game specific performance and compatibility patches that Proton doesn’t target for whatever reason.
Too long but I typed it out so might as well post it anyway: This is how I understand it goes like—
Now, we know Proton: a Valve-maintained fork of the venerable Wine project with many many gaming and game specific patches, made for Steam.
Proton can be used outside of Steam, of course, but it isn’t really designed to be, there be quirks. Plus, Valve maintains what goes into Proton, so if anyone really wants to play a certain Windows game that doesn’t quite run well enough on Proton and put in the work needed to make the necessary changes, it’s probably not getting added to Proton just yet (I frankly don’t know how or whether Valve accepts PRs at all). And Wine does not really want game specific patches in the runtime. Wine wants to be as generally compatible as possible.
That’s why most Proton variants exist. A certain Glorious Eggroll maintains this one, which has quite a few patches for games that aren’t targeted by Proton either at all or well enough, as well as making sure it can run outside of Steam (there are other variants of the patches for vanilla Wine or for use in Lutris as well, I think?)
“Build making” roguelites like Hades etc. These days I’ve been playing far too much Magicraft while trying to keep sane.
Great! Bazzite.gg will point to it soon then? It still redirected to the GitHub for me.
Edit: cached result! The new site loaded on my phone! Very swish :)
I’m sure it’ll get a Bazzite port within weeks.
I want this to be a thing so much…
But I cannot overlook the fact that this “website” is composed entirely of images and none of the text is properly aligned.
I’ve been using a Steam Deck as my only PC for almost a year now, for work (graphics design, web dev, illustration, some Blender) as well as play ofc. Aside from my suboptimal dock options (Valve doesn’t sell any hardware in my market) It’s been a very smooth experience, and I’ve not even had to disable immutability at any point.
I would like to support the point that Game Mode is one of the most important features the Deck has, and losing out on it by installing Ubuntu feels like a loss.
But I would also like to note that Steam OS now has Distrobox built in: for most use-cases you can just set up all the software you need inside an Ubuntu container without much hassle.
Ultimately though, the form factor is the main difference. If I only needed to keep it docked all the time a Deck would not make much sense. But I love shifting to my bed after a workday and playing anything and everything I would have needed to sit at a desk to do before!
It’s the ol’ “Valve can’t count to three” meme
camelCase or Pascal…
I’ve been using it as my main (and only) machine for the whole year. Work included (dev, illustration, graphic design, cgi)
Still isn’t sold anywhere near India. Thankfully, a friend graciously volunteered to buy me one, Valve has SO MUCH meeting to do smh
The fix I wanted the most from the 3.5 changelog: charge LED staying off when done charging 🙌
Will this let us modify both A/B partition for small system level configuration changes without shenanigans?
Valve does a relatively good job with regional pricing. But after last year’s readjustments price in India is at the very least 50% more expensive than it used to be.
No, our economy didn’t improve to warrant this change, it’s in fact tabled heavily, and disposable income has also shrunk but a lot. It’ll get a lot worse too, as our policies become worse and worse.
There are other countries in similar situations where the prices were adjusted to be cheaper, but not in India, sadly.
So while Valve usually does a good job, they didn’t this time. We can’t expect individual developers to manually keep track of global economies and set their own prices, so it’s very understandable for then to just say they trust Valve for this. I just hope more of them realize that Valve is not perfect in how they go about it.
Divinity: Original Sin 2? I suppose it looks a little bit gorey too, but nowhere near that high definition. Definitely no squirmers…