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Kiwifarmsname said:
I tried to run tf2 and it wouldn't download all the way it just kept saying "corrupt update files" then I tried CS2 and it did something similar. And finally I tried Ready or Not which just didn't launch.
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If something's not launching at all, make sure Proton is actually getting set to be used. Right click the game, go into properties, then compatibility tab and make sure force use of compatibility tools is checked and select what version of Proton you want to use from the drop-down (usually the most recent version or Experimental is good).

Not sure about the "corrupt update files" thing. Sounds like an issue with Steam downloading the game files. Try using the option to check game file integrity?
 
Dead Lion said:
Granted for Linux RHEL exists for this exact reason and what our wonderful community fucking despises them for it.
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Given how the Linux community deeply despises corporations but it's thanks to corporations Linux is a serious kernel and not some GNU Hurd tier tinker toy, it's not too surprising. The biggest cancer on proliferation of Linux due to how disassociated with reality and constantly confused the average Linux community member is. Of course, the Linux community will be at a denial to this fact forever, even if all the facts in front of them make this truth abundantly clear: without corporate interest Linux would die.

Every advancement in the code that pushed Linux further to widespread viability was a result of corporate backed interest. Anything that wasn't remained dead in the water. It took a corporation like Valve to take Wine and work on it themselves to create Proton to make Linux gaming viable. The Linux community would never accomplish this in a hundred years and would instead forever bicker about how you can't play games on Linux. The day the Linux community collectively accepts that fact is the day Linux can finally succeed as a desktop OS.
 
Kiwifarmsname said:
Should I just jump ship from Mint?
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Nigga I don't care. But troubleshooting stuff is just the Linux experience.

Retarded Weeb said:
If something's not launching at all, make sure Proton is actually getting set to be used. Right click the game, go into properties, then compatibility tab and make sure force use of compatibility tools is checked and select what version of Proton you want to use from the drop-down (usually the most recent version or Experimental is good).

Not sure about the "corrupt update files" thing. Sounds like an issue with Steam downloading the game files. Try using the option to check game file integrity?
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I suspect this is your problem though. Unless you have proton set as default in your Steam settings, then it won't use it unless you go to game properties and set it manually for each individual game.
 
Susanna said:
(ReFS for example could have made Windows a competitor in the NAS field, but Microsoft seem uninterested in that).
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This thread is spared a massive rant by virtue of the fact I'm hungry and want to make my dinner. Suffice to say that I would be putting the Reeeeee into ReFS otherwise. Their idiocy on handling that filesystem makes me seethe like you wouldn't believe.

BTW, I saw an interesting current day parallel to your OSM scenario in that skip forward to today and what have Microsoft done? Put Linux compatibility into Windows with their WSL. Bar a few very low-level scenarios with network drivers and GPU access, it's handled everything on it just fine. I compiled the Ladybird browser for Linux in WSL earlier in the year and had it running on my Windows desktop just fine. Would be an interesting historical repetition for Microsoft to make the same mistake that they exploited to get one over on IBM (though for the record, I'm not convinced WSL is such a mistake).
 
Overly Serious said:
This thread is spared a massive rant by virtue of the fact I'm hungry and want to make my dinner. Suffice to say that I would be putting the Reeeeee into ReFS otherwise. Their idiocy on handling that filesystem makes me seethe like you wouldn't believe.
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ext4/NTFS dichotomy forever and ever
btrfs/ReFS in perpetual beta forever and ever
 
Susanna said:
ZFS victor.
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I used to have a different file system I really liked, but it stopped being maintained...

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I don't game, and I think gamers should be lined up against the wall if you wanna know the truth about it.:diddler:

But my suggestion is search online for linux "whatever game you want to work". I think I remember there is something that tells you what version of proton or whatever is best for a game. But even if I'm wrong about that, doing a search is probably better than fiddling with it until it works.
 
"Gaming on Linux just works! Just ditch Windows already and move to Linux!"
While in reality it takes more fucking around with Proton juggling under Linux than it does with dropping wrapper DLL's under Windows. :story:

Just goes to show Valve will only save gamers if they buy their hardware, with their software, and only use Steam to play Steam games. The moment you step anywhere outside of this perfectly tailored sandbox you're off to the same tinkering hell as usual.
 
Slav Power said:
"Gaming on Linux just works! Just ditch Windows already and move to Linux!"
While in reality it takes more fucking around with Proton juggling under Linux than it does with dropping wrapper DLL's under Windows. :story:

Just goes to show Valve will only save gamers if they buy their hardware, with their software, and only use Steam to play Steam games. The moment you step anywhere outside of this perfectly tailored sandbox you're off to the same tinkering hell as usual.
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You don't need Steam to use Proton, retard.
 
Slav Power said:
Fantastic point Sugriva, doesn't refute my point that it still takes tinkering to get games under Linux working despite what everybody claims.
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In fact, it refutes a point I didn't make to begin with. But that's still a win in your book, right?
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I refuse to be baited into a conversation that's been had a million times here before.
 
prollyanotherlurker said:

Speaking of gamerz™
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I'm not going to suffer through his video, but just looking at the summary... what exactly did they do to change Linux forever? IIRC, they didn't announce anything new about/for SteamOS, and they've listed Machine and Frame as running SteamOS 3, which is what Deck is currently running.
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