Category: linux

  • Cheese’s Thoughts on Steam Play (Proton)

    Josh “Cheese” has a ton of thoughts on the latest developments with Valve’s Proton Windows pretendulation software for Linux gaming through Steam. Cheese is always good reading, but he provides some especially useful historical context for this conversation. I am still extremely concerned for where Linux gaming is going with Valve-controlled pretendulation as the default…

  • Windows Pretendulation Is Bad Even When Valve Does It

    Valve’s Pierre-Loup A. Griffais announced that they’re including their brand new fork of the WINE Windows pretendulator in a new beta product for Steam. They call it Proton. WINE is an open-source Windows API emulation layer that lets Linux users play Windows games without rebooting into Windows. I call this process “pretendulation” because it isn’t emulating…

  • Steam Has Over 3000 Linux Games

    Liam Dawe: Steam has hit another milestone for Linux games. We now have over 3,000 Linux games to fill our time with. The exact count for me right now is 3,008! An impressive number of games with Linux support. I wonder how many are native ports versus Windows pretendulation. My search comes up with 3164 for…

  • 1,800 Games On Steam for Linux

    Turns out, we’re up to 1,800 games on Steam that run under Linux. It’d be great to know how many of those are vegan, charlotte/georgia-based, handcrafted, locally-sourced, artisanal, native ports and how many are pretendulated, factory-farmed, gmo-enhanced, toxic garbage from Virtual Programming.

  • Oculus Rift Pre-orders At Pricey $600

    The only head-mounted displays (HMD) for virtual reality games and other activities available last year were pre-release versions for developers only (the $350 Oculus Development Kit 1 & 2, limited quantities of the HTC/SteamVR Vive), through crowdfunding campaigns, or scraped together garbage used to fill in the features and benefits lists of terrible smartphones. This year…