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Valve has confirmed the rumours that were discussed here on SoylentNews earlier.
Today, Monday, August 21, Valve has released a new beta steam client for linux. It includes a modified distribution of Wine, called Proton, to provide compatibility with Windows game titles. This goes hand-in-hand with an ongoing testing effort of the entire Steam catalog, in order to identify games that currently work great in this compatibility environment, and find and address issues for the ones that don't. (includes a list of 27 initial games supported for beta)
We will be enabling more titles in the near future as testing results and development efforts progress; in the meantime, enthusiast users are also able to try playing non-whitelisted games using an override switch in the Steam client. Going forward, users can vote for their favorite games to be considered for Steam Play using platform wishlisting.
To make this happen, 2 years ago, Valve started funding/supporting development efforts of Proton and DXVK (the Direct3D 11 implementation based on Vulkan.) Modifications to Wine are submitted upstream if they're compatible with the goals and requirements of the larger Wine project; as a result, Wine users have been benefiting from parts of this work for over a year now.
Also reported on GamingOnLinux.
(Score: 4, Interesting) by jelizondo on Wednesday August 22 2018, @03:31PM (13 children)
Indeed, great news. I have a Windows machine largely because of the few games I play, but all of them are on Steam so I look forward to dumping Windows even for games.
Thanks a million Valve!
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Wednesday August 22 2018, @03:44PM (8 children)
Best thing since mono, ehh? We need moar Microsoft on our Linux machines! How long til we see Office365 for Linux?
(Score: 2, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 22 2018, @03:48PM (3 children)
Uhhh... doesn't Office365 run in a web browser? Which Linux has...
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Wednesday August 22 2018, @04:04PM (2 children)
Oh, God! It's over! MSOffice on Linux! We're subverted! We're doomed! It's the end of all life as we know it!
(Score: 2) by Freeman on Wednesday August 22 2018, @04:42PM (1 child)
Next thing you know, the sky will be falling.
Joshua 1:9 "Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee"
(Score: 2) by Gaaark on Wednesday August 22 2018, @11:12PM
What?
Oh.
Shit, don't scare me like that.
--- Please remind me if I haven't been civil to you: I'm channeling MDC. ---Gaaark 2.0 ---
(Score: 4, Informative) by crafoo on Wednesday August 22 2018, @04:48PM
You know, most of linux is Pottering-Positive at this point. Essentially un-audited code with a binary boot sequence that has grown to swallow up a ridiculous amount of key functions to the Linux desktop operating system.
Complaining about Microsoft given the state of modern desktop Linux is ridiculous.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 22 2018, @06:05PM
On MY computer? Another 200 years. By then I doubt I'll be in any condition to install it.
(Score: 1) by maggotbrain on Wednesday August 22 2018, @07:26PM (1 child)
The time is now. I just installed a VM instance of Manjaro 17 Xfce, this week, and was surprised to see that it included six JSON files for pieces of Office 365.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 24 2018, @04:50AM
Where?
Write a script to delete them.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 22 2018, @04:59PM
Valve? It's not like WINE did not exist before this.
(Score: 2) by mhajicek on Wednesday August 22 2018, @05:49PM (2 children)
Is there any chance that windows only CADCAM will be made more Linux compatible by this?
The spacelike surfaces of time foliations can have a cusp at the surface of discontinuity. - P. Hajicek
(Score: 1) by higuita on Wednesday August 22 2018, @06:19PM (1 child)
Mesa is adding compatibility profiles for opengl >4 (at least on AMD cards) , so yes... they could start working ... the major problem could be any DRM, as some of then use undocumented shit to try to impose the DRM... wine may or may not have already workaround for those, but you will need to test
(Score: 2) by mhajicek on Wednesday August 22 2018, @08:01PM
Hmm, I wonder why AMD cards. Running Mastercam and Solidworks basically mandates an Nvidia Quadro card.
Now I'm thinking back to when any serious CADCAM software came with a Unix box designed for it. Today most professional grade CAD and all professional grade CAM that I know of is Windows only, except for NX which is incredibly expensive.
The spacelike surfaces of time foliations can have a cusp at the surface of discontinuity. - P. Hajicek