It's fantastic. Over the years I never had luck getting wine to work, so haven't tried for the past 5 years or so.
The steam beta did everything without me having to do anything.
It's a great bridge for some older games that will never be ported to steamOS.
As an aside, lately I only buy games that have native steamOS support (X3 and Stellaris are the latest).
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Proton is outside of the beta now too and a part of Steam Play. But yeah, definitely very cool stuff. I'm actually currently in the process of going through my library of games on Steam and seeing what all extra from it I can get to run "natively" from the Steam client. 
I haven't tried it myself, but I hear you can also install Proton without going through the Steam client as well, for those that might be interested.
Cheers.
I haven't tried it myself, but I hear you can also install Proton without going through the Steam client as well, for those that might be interested.
Cheers.
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Well I'm confused now.
My library consisted of games that could run on linux, the windows ones didn't appear.
With steam beta, I enabled steam play, and my library automatically updated and added games that would work with steam play.
So for me, my games all (linux native, and steam play) run through the steam client.
My library consisted of games that could run on linux, the windows ones didn't appear.
With steam beta, I enabled steam play, and my library automatically updated and added games that would work with steam play.
So for me, my games all (linux native, and steam play) run through the steam client.
Just make sure your Steam client is updated and go down to Steam Play and check the middle checkbox.
I haven't tried installing and using Proton outside of Steam. I just heard that there was a repository for it somewhere, maybe Ubuntu, and that you could get it to work from there.
[video=youtube_share;IWJUphbYnpg]https://youtu.be/IWJUphbYnpg[/video]
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Edit: OK, it looks like they were talking about compiling it yourself.
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This is the one I stumbled across. A bit out of date, but talks about non-steam+linux games.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wb9RupIkhQ8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wb9RupIkhQ8
Yeah, it's cool how fast Valve is steamrolling this out. It seems like they're positioning this to knock the market out of its comfort zone.
Awesome sauce.
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Oh, for drivers, some may want to check this out. https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/blob/proton_3.7/PREREQS.md
Awesome sauce.
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Oh, for drivers, some may want to check this out. https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/blob/proton_3.7/PREREQS.md
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I hope there's at least a bug report about this somewhere, like in a ticket with Valve or Proton or whomever would be responsible for installing native dll libraries. That (or a discussion like it) would be the one to track to know when (probably not if) that bit of itch gets scratched and makes its way into Proton proper and then E: D just magically works one day..
If it was anything like my experience with No Man's Sky so far, It'll be a day to watch for, that's for sure.
Hey,
I'd like to start YET ANOTHER thread asking.. Who here has already pledged for Elite: Dangerous, and would consider upping their pledge on the chances there'll be a Linux version? (I fall into this category.)
Who here would actually *considering* pleding if there was a chance of someday being a Linux version of Elite: Dangerous?
So far, That Other Space Sim(tm) (aka Star Citizen) has at least 20% of their communiting voting for a Linux version as their "stretch goal"
(http://www.robertsspaceindustries.com/poll-additional-stretch-goals/)
TL;DR? 20% want Linux, 8% Want a mac version.
I realize that Windows would be the lion's share of the sales of Frontier
If you look at the Humble Indie Bundle's sales numbers, you can see that the Linux gamer market is worth at LEAST as much as the Mac gamer market, if not more so.
(http://cheesetalks.twolofbees.com/humble/) -- humblebundle sales statistics by OS.
It's for certain Linux gamers would appreciate Elite: Dangerous more than Mac gamers would. Anyone gaming under Linux is most likely a giant science fiction fan to begin with, and would appreciate the deep technical nature of Elite
Anyway, I didn't see a thread asking specifically about the odds. I thought I'd make one.
Linux isn't written by a company. If we, the players, don't ask about it, we'll never ever see it.
There's a Linux thread in every game forum these days, this isn't the only Linux thread on frontier.co.uk.
^_^
Cheers,
-m
Y'all have been at this forever.. OP is from 2012.
Can't fault you for your tenacity, only your choice in gaming OS's.
Linux is a great OS for routers, spam filters, mail servers, web servers, kiosks, and a base layer for Mac OS, like Windows use to do with DOS decades ago.
Linux is not good for gaming. It's just not. Sure, it's cheap or free in most cases. I just wouldn't waste my efforts trying to game on it. Spend the money, buy a Windows license, run a Windows VM and game like everyone else.
Misses point of thread, spreads verbal manure full of assumptions instead.
Elon Musk wants OG Elite on Teslas. Bunch of FD people noticed and chimed in on that thread. And Teslas run arm-linux on their touchscreens. It's a first step, isn't it?
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1045004446076301312
That self-driving mode they have had better be better than our Docking Computer.
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1045004446076301312
That self-driving mode they have had better be better than our Docking Computer.
An enormous amount of hardware, i feel like saying 95% is in no way overestimating it, runs on linux, a ton of car's run linux, heck most routers run a form of linux, because linux really doesn't need much more then its kernal and a few other things, and people can make their own distro's if they want that are very specialised and secure, i believe the tiniest current modern linux distro would be something like tinycore, which is somewhere below 20mb last I checked, I believe some missile guidance systems are based around linux or at least that has existed, while windows is definitely dominating the private user computers, business computers/servers and hardware are for large parts running some kind of linux, and macos is mostly computers themselves.
So fairly safe to say the world is already running on linux.
Edit: a slight correction, since I've talked with someone who is a bit better informed and while he doesn't know the numbers a shocking number of low end devices, think shop displays, shop registers and whatnot, actually run windows xp/me/ce, which is frightening.
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THIS is fantastic. Thank you.
People have been saying this for over a decade and Linux still has a very very small group of people that play games on Linux. It's just not user friendly enough for the average user to ever want to use Linux. So until there are millions of gamer's using Linux and wanting to play games on the OS its never going to happen... not enough money to invest development hours into.
User friendliness has gone up by leaps and bounds of late, and there are many distro's that work very well for the 'normal' users, add that steam play is developing its proton interface between windows games and linux, which basically is a fork of wine with improvements, with steam behind this, it is a significant threat to windows.
Threats are all well and good for innovation and consumer choice, but for me I just prefer better solutions and more control than what Windows has to offer in general, though for the time being I still think Windows 7 is good enough to bother using.
What other people feel about Linux vs. Windows vs. Mac OS, etc., isn't all that relevant to me.
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Today I've managed to get the launcher/combat demo working in steam with the latest Proton 3.7.7 beta (which required an older wine to install dotnet40 into Elite's pfx), still CRC on the main game though.
Also this is a run through of the demo from the other week, we should expect good performance if we can ever get it to work:
[video=youtube;MHWZkAAZgOo]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHWZkAAZgOo[/video]
Also this is a run through of the demo from the other week, we should expect good performance if we can ever get it to work:
[video=youtube;MHWZkAAZgOo]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHWZkAAZgOo[/video]
Cool that you got CRC at least. Wine under Fedora doesn't allow me to install .NET. Can't seem to enable Proton too, but I will play around.
If it this easy to get dlls on Proton prefix - good news, from setup stand point.