I do not see how a transitional period has a deadline. Every process of a technology to come to maturity and become widely used takes a long time, especially when you have to compete with something that is already established. It is even more true for FOSS that everyone involved is there for the long run and not interested in immediate profit. These things work in continuum, as long as a technology moves forward it always feels like a transitional period.
The only reason proprietary technologies feel non-transitional is that short economic incentive favors slower progress and cause many of them were accepted even if half-working cause there was no alternative.
You may feel that way cause you are not interested for the type of games that this progress has provided. But just because you do not happen to like the games it does not mean that the progess is not there.
I’m not disagreeing with you. Clearly Valve’s making this card game to test the waters with more micro transactions and long term profitability. This is their first Android game. I would love to see Valve develop another proper game, Left 4 Dead 3, Portal 3, Half-Life 3… just count to 3, Valve. They do also have some VR projects in the works, and claim to be working on some other games.
But at the same time, this is still a Valve game, and it is being targeted for multi-platform release. Which is why I said “not entirely true”.
That new chat client in Steam pisses me off too. It does feel like it takes up more space, but at the same time also more constrictive than their previous chat app.
Got a question for all the linux gamers here. Is it possible to install games/programs onto a different partition in GNU/linux?
In windows I have one 128GB SDD for operating ssystem only. Then 2TB HDD that is split into 3 partitions. And all my programs and games are installed on 2TB HDD.
I do this in order to save space on my SSD and in case I need to re-install OS I don’t lose the rest of my data.
It depends. Normal programs installed through your package manager can be installed on a different partition, though this setup might be tricky for newer users, and so I wouldn’t recommend trying it. With steam games and manually downloaded programs (like DRM-free games from GOG or Humble Bundle), it is very easy. By default, steam games are downloaded to your home folder. Wine programs are also installed in your home folder. Many users have their drives set up so they have a smaller SSD for root, and a larger drive for /home, and this is easy to do and supported by the installers of common distributions.
Could i not just permanently mount the home folder to a large HDD partition and then mount the folder where program files are installed onto second large partition.
On Linux, programs installed through a package manager don’t reside in one folder, like they do on Windows (C:\Program Files). Instead, there are different files placed throughout the file system (/usr/bin, /usr/share/, /usr/lib, etc…), with different directories having different purposes. You could mount a partition at /usr to catch most of these, but I would highly recommend against it, and this would be a generally unsupported configuration. I’ve never needed more that 60GB or so for my root disk, and then I have /home mounted on a much larger disk with games and the like.
If you want a partition for your games yeah of course you can do it. But the partition must be a linux partition (ext4). If you are using steam you have to set the steam folder to that partition. If you are using lutris you have to make the default working directory on that partition and you will be fine. That is basically how i also do things. Also a good idea is to have the partition automount at start-up.
The system stuff and applications (like steam and lutris) themselves is a bad idea to have on a different partition than the root but game data , which are the largest ones, you can do no problem.
How many GB does linux take up after installing. Windows takes 40GB and then misteriously keeps growing even if you don’t store any files in your User folder.
Most Linux distributions require fewer than 10GB. Lighter distributions can take only a fraction of that. Some extreme cases, like alpine, can have a fully installed base system in only a few megabytes.
Why the DXVK guy doesn’t accept donations; he’s been working for Valve since February:
In addition to that, we’ve been supporting the development of DXVK[github.com], the Direct3D 11 implementation based on Vulkan; the nature of this support includes:
Employing the DXVK developer in our open-source graphics group since February 2018
Providing direct support from our open-source graphics group to fix Mesa driver issues affecting DXVK, and provide prototype implementations of brand new Vulkan features to improve DXVK functionality
Working with our partners over at Khronos, NVIDIA, Intel and AMD to coordinate Vulkan feature and driver support
Hey Liam, the normal algorithm is in effect, so if at the end of the two weeks you have more playtime on Linux, it’ll be a Linux sale. Proton counts as Linux
No way Valve is doing this by chance. This might really increase usage statistic which many of the management ppl will see. This might even increase incentive of native ports.
Is it possible for me to join this wagon? My GPU is one of those custom Saphire Nitro R9 390. I’ve heard they are use a somewhat transitional implementation of Vulcan and vkinfo does complain about some features not being present.
Tested DOOM with steam play. Works flawlessly. Although it does not say much as it already worked like that in wine outside steam. But still having this with one click instead of taking the 5 minutes to configure on lutris is important for new users.
Lutris still has it’s place for Uplay, Origin, GoG Galaxy, Epic Games Launcher, and BattleNet. Remember, companies are always trying to skip Steam and make their own launcher ALL THE TIME.