With Proton and Steam Play, many Windows games now work on Linux

Post by throwaway98432 » Tue, Dec 08, 2020, 1:50 PM UTC

dTal wrote: post #484

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You can set up QT to use GTK themes (seems like this is the default in KDE Plasma): https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Uniform_look_for_Qt_and... I currently just don't have any QT based apps on my Arch system though I don't think.

I came at it the other way - make GTK apps look like Qt ones. Everything on my system uses Breeze Dark. The only way I can tell GTK programs from Qt ones is the "About" dialog, or the file picker. (Oh, how I wish I could use the Qt file picker in GTK programs) (edit: QT -> Qt. Seasons greetings to the flagkilled throwaway who informed me of my mistake.)

Post by Dirlewanger » Tue, Dec 08, 2020, 1:55 PM UTC

viraptor wrote: post #185

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I was seriously considering adding Linux support for my game, that already has turn-based multiplayer, and this thread was the last thing I needed to convince myself it could work. Performance may be an issue. I wonder if people would be ok with electron games sold on steam running on linux...

Not sure if you've seen crosscode, but they released on steam and other platforms with impactjs and they're doing very well. (Not quite electron, but still html tech) If it runs well, who cares about the tech :-) People seem to complain about electron in tools and background apps. If it's the main/fullscreen app, it shouldn't be a problem.

Post by brnt » Tue, Dec 08, 2020, 2:05 PM UTC

ekianjo wrote: post #314

Note that Codeweavers (the developers behind WINE and a good chunk of Proton) have 13 full time developers working on Proton right now: https://boilingsteam.com/podcast-with-james-ramey-full-trans...

Post by bserge » Tue, Dec 08, 2020, 2:06 PM UTC

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Perhaps he was trying to install Windows 10 using a USB stick. The various software for that builds the image for either legacy BIOS or UEFI, and they're not interchangeable. Rufus, for example, lets you specify the mode. Alternatively, if you can't install it in UEFI mode, you can switch to legacy BIOS/CSM mode in your machine's BIOS (or vice versa). It gets worse - some Win10 ISOs themselves are made for either UEF…

> Perhaps he was trying to install Windows 10 using a USB stick I was, yes, but even switching to legacy didn't help at all. I spent weeks trying to get it working, I looked at everything I could and tried every combination of settings (I had a grid).

Post by Unklejoe » Tue, Dec 08, 2020, 2:24 PM UTC

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how would you stop someone sticking in a dodgy PCI card (disguised as an innocent one) that can read the entire machine's memory using DMA?

I’m not going to go into specifics but there are several software methods to both detect and prevent these sorts of attacks, since DMA requires cooperation from the host CPU. There are several anticheats in production today that employ these techniques with great success.