Some interesting industry news for you here. Epic Games have announced a change to the revenue model of the Epic Games Store, as they try to pull in more developers and more gamers to actually purchase things.
Dude, I absolutely have. I was on Manjaro and had some mishaps with the runtime vs native versions of Steam accidentally being installed at once and with trying to use NTFS as a shared drive (since it was a dual boot) that did permanent damage. To this day Proton Experimental shows up on my Windows install of Steam and won’t uninstall, and I had to wipe all variants of Steam manually twice and start over to get it to sort of work. It was a mess.
Heroic was supposed to struggle with Gamescope, but on my KDE Plasma/Wayland install it picked everything up first time.
I by no means say that’s the norm, but “it works on my computer” is never a valid answer, particularly with Linux. Steam has a LOT of remaining quirks despite official support.
And no, you can’t do the same with DRM-free Steam games. You can copy the installation folder, you don’t get a per-policy DRM-free install package you can preserve and install stand-alone for every game.
Dude, I absolutely have. I was on Manjaro and had some mishaps with the runtime vs native versions of Steam accidentally being installed at once and with trying to use NTFS as a shared drive (since it was a dual boot) that did permanent damage. To this day Proton Experimental shows up on my Windows install of Steam and won’t uninstall, and I had to wipe all variants of Steam manually twice and start over to get it to sort of work. It was a mess.
Heroic was supposed to struggle with Gamescope, but on my KDE Plasma/Wayland install it picked everything up first time.
I by no means say that’s the norm, but “it works on my computer” is never a valid answer, particularly with Linux. Steam has a LOT of remaining quirks despite official support.
And no, you can’t do the same with DRM-free Steam games. You can copy the installation folder, you don’t get a per-policy DRM-free install package you can preserve and install stand-alone for every game.