It began when they named their shitty island Great Britain.

Not all of them.

Scottish football fans are usually very fun in Germany, united in hate for the English.

I recently though about the fact that ever since Trump is being paid off by sharia law countries, all fear mongering regarding sharia law stopped. I’m sure he’s be told to get in line, should anyone make the connection of sharia support to Trump.

And former eastern block =/= communism.

I obviously used the mainstream meaning of that word.

Fact is, Trump opposes free market capitalism because he’s a terrible business man.

That’s funny because Trump isn’t a capitalist. In an open market, his businesses fail. He needs government interferencey China style.

Great. Even less incentive to get into the Microsoft ecosystem.

Also while Linux is not the same as UNIX, interacting with them is much more similar than, say, interacting with Windows.

If you use only GUI, the underlying system philosophy is practically irrelevant.

If you use CLI, you can literally use the same distribution within WSL as you use on a Linux computer. I like using openSUSE’s zypper in WSL more than I like brew on macOS.

After wasting an obscene amount of money on Activision Blizzard, their approach is now:

Fire most developers and have the remaining ones use AI tools to compensate.

Release all games for PlayStation and Switch (2) as well.

End Xbox hardware development and license the brand to 3rd parties who need to make money on the hardware because it’s not subsidized by Microsoft.

Make the competition, Steam Deck and even Switch 2 of all things, look like a steal by comparison.

I’m confident 80% of the people here would make better business decisions.

If there is enough CPU and memory headroom, it’ll be fine

Steam Deck is a handheld platform. Anything that wastes CPU power results in shorter lasting battery. Proper native ports are always superior.

HL: Alyx had a native port, its Proton only now.

https://steamdb.info/app/546560/ says otherwise. Also, Alyx A) predates Steam Deck by several years and B) Steam Deck is not a VR platform. Citing a game that predates Steam Deck as proof that “Valve doesn’t release native ports anymore” is a stretch.

Is CS2 or Deadlock native or Proton?

I already stated that CS2 is native and Deadlock 1.0 may be as well, should they follow the example set by CS2. You literally replied to a comment stating that.

I’m not aware of any new Valve HL1 remasters

Well, that’s on you. https://www.half-life.com/halflife/25th exists nonetheless: “Now Verified on the Steam Deck (and our native Linux runtime has been set as the default)”

Steam deck is a closed ecosystem so it is likely tied to the file system and bundled libraries.

It would likely take a little work to get it working on other distros, but the underlying binary is now going to be elf and use the correct system calls

Steam Linux Runtimes (currently at version 3.0) are shipped with all Linux versions of Steam. SLR 3.0 is leveraging Bubblewrap, also used by Flatpak, for a containerized approach to libraries. Games are not supposed to talk to SteamOS libraries directly. SteamOS itself is not a stable development target by design.

Even Valve doesn’t release native ports anymore

That’s just not true. Deadlock’s development only happens on Windows but other new releases like the HL1 remaster have been ported to Linux (while at the same time dropping Mac support).

If CS2 is any indication, Deadlock will launch on Linux with its 1.0 release.

So, it runs on Steam Deck natively and yet doesnt support Linux? How does that work?

Probably that they officially support Steam Deck and not other hardware. For example don’t expect them to fix bugs that only occur on NVidia drivers.

Loads hella fast now.

Of course. Running games on Proton means that all required Windows DLLs and their reimplementations need to be loaded into memory first.

it certainly beats not being able to play most new-ish games. Which was the situation on Linux prior to Proton.

That’s not the point of my comment. My comment is about clueless people claiming that Proton is superior to proper ports running natively on Steam Linux Runtime 3.0. Larian are now stating the opposite and as you can see from downvotes and Thaurin’s commet that people still think that.

Not perfect, but close to it.

“Running the game natively on the Steam Deck requires less CPU usage and memory consumption overall!”

Larian says the opposite and they know much better than randos on some internet forum. Proton is fine to bridge the gap especially for unmaintained games but proper native version are the clear superior option.

Maybe because everyone keeps repeating the lie that Proton is the perfect Linux game platform.

Just don’t buy shitty games.

AMD announced they were released earlier than planned.

I understand but that’s still not a leak.

I don’t think “we released source code with fill MIT license headers” constitutes a leak.