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1. Fla (fla@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 22-Aug-2018 04:13:16 EDT Fla

   Massive upgrade to Linux Steam client: Windows games can now be played with Linux

   https://steamcommunity.com/games/221410/announcements/detail/1696055855739350561

   This is THE huge news of Linux for 2018. Valve announced that they are now embedding Proton, their improved wine, inside the Linux native steam client, allowing it to launch every windows game of the steam marketplace with similar performance.

   1. Fla (fla@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 22-Aug-2018 04:13:24 EDT Fla

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      I know a lot of gamers who have a dual boot only for gaming and are going to remove it to keep only Linux thanks to that improvement. This is big. This is very big. Added to the fact that AMD drivers are now open source and always performing better, this is definitely the year of linux on desktop for gaming.

      Only downside I see: most companies will not bother port their games to Linux anymore. But few were doing it anyway.

      https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Valve-Steam-Play-Proton-Linux

      1. Fla (fla@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 22-Aug-2018 04:14:21 EDT Fla

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         And this is going to profit everyone even not gamers / not steam users, as they are upstreaming most of their work to Wine.

         See from the official announcement:
         https://www.phoronix.com/forums/forum/phoronix/latest-phoronix-articles/1042366-valve-rolls-out-wine-based-proton-for-running-windows-games-on-linux?p=1042417#post1042417

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