arthur

Yes Linux users generate great reports because they care and usually are more knowledgeable.

But treat the reports cost time and work, and usually this problems will not happen for the majority of their use base.

So, as the company, you can have 0.1% of your sales generating 20% of extra work that will not benefit 99.9% of the users. It is easier and cheaper to cut that group (us Linux users) instead of support.

Inform yourself what Steam Linux Runtime is before making such comments. You are 100% wrong.

If a game depends on an API and this API gets discontinued, without adaptation it will have problems. That's true for any software and any system. As a compatibility layer, Proton can keep old games compatible despite the system changes when it translates the API calls that the games depend on to what the base system has to offer. (I'm not talking necessarily of a game running on Steam in this case)

So, enlighten me, where am I wrong?

If that was the case, no console ports would exist, except maybe Xbox because Xbox uses modified Windows internally.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18845205

Very interesting, and very early stage rn.

The cost to maintain "native" ports is too high to make sense for most developers.

PS: Proton also makes it easier to preserve games since an "native" port would become incompatible overtime without work to adapt the software to changes in the system it's running.

I would use an Enum if available in the language:

• More meaningful
• Extendable
• Lower chance of misuse
• No naming problem

Magicka was an amazing game, but man, what a trash software. Even in a state of the art PC it could not run smoothly at the time.

Man, you will have some pain as any change will cause. But I think you will like it. Have a second USB to be safe.

Someone racist and someone else antiracist?

My problems with this text:

• it equates state and business, they are not the same and business should not be treated as a viable substitute for a state.
• it make it look like all places have the same set of problems when it's more like same places have same of the problems and probably nowhere have all of them.

In an ideal world...

We don't live in an ideal world.

I think there's a ~~fighter~~ further* problem, it may be true and we just don't know the easy way to do it.