I guess a GUI feature to actually enable this will be available through a dedicated Steam Client update.

There are worse things than copyrights not mattering anymore.

Good idea, but not worth the risks

Reminder that much new code in all major operating systems is vibe coded these days. Linus Torvalds explicitly permitted LLM code in the kernel several months ago.

the owner couldn’t be assed to either write the code

If you’re so happy making demand to others: Why can’t you “be assed” make a better alternative?

If anything is super toxic attitude among open source consumers like you is demanding work of unpaid volunteers as if you were a paying customer.

I’m not defending LLM generated code but your attitude is the worst.

if you think the US or its corporate overlords are better

Trump is scum but even a deeply flawed democracy is better than genocidal Chinese dictatorship.

You’re paying for AI by your own admission. You’re part of the problem.

Obligatory “wine is not an emulator”. So…

Obligatory *whoosh* because you missed the game developers referring to Proton as emulation.

I’ve had games with native Linux versions on Steam break more times than games I play through Proton

How many of these games target a proper Steam Linux Runtime? My guess is none and your experience is based on ancient Linux versions from a time SLR did not exist.

When native Linux games break it has been permanently, because the developers stop maintaining it.

Of course. “Valve refuses to promote it towards developers” I literally wrote that already.

Proton is a hacky workaround, targeting and properly maintaining Steam Linux Runtime is the proper solution but Valve does not promote this, so nearly nobody knows about it, and Lepton could be a properly promoted, directly based on AOSP instead of reverse engineering option, should Valve bring it to x86. That’s literally what I wrote already.

Plasma runs absolutely fine on every PC that can run Xfce.

I’m really thinking I should just give my money to DeepSeek or Kimi

Sure, fund Chinese gulags for Uigurs then. 100% improvement in morality…

Actual announcement instead of blog spam: https://lists.x.org/archives/xorg/2026-August/062280.html

I’m up to date enough that I know that Nvidia drivers didn’t support a game mode feature until a few weeks ago. Also, those who don’t learn from history are bound to repeat past mistakes.

AMD GPUs have completely different drivers under Linux than Windows. What’s a card bug anyway?

There’s a reason you are talking in past tense.

Yes, the reason being that I no longer use Nvidia hardware under Linux myself, so I’m not actively looking for the very latest news. Nvidia and SteamOS game mode is a very recent development, literally within the last two weeks.

So? Valve didn’t remove Mesa drivers from SteamOS. Intel is supported by Mesa.

For a long time, easily a decade now, Radeon drivers work better under Linux than Windows: https://dolphin-emu.org/blog/2013/09/26/dolphin-emulator-and-opengl-drivers-hall-fameshame/

Nvidia fans kept insisting that “Nvidia works perfectly for me” even when Wayland was entirely unsupported and using highly insecure X11 was really not a bad thing at all.

More recently game mode didn’t work on Nvidia because their drivers again lacked features.

Just because you don’t use a feature not supported by your drivers, doesn’t mean that it’s not true. By the very nature how Nvidia develop their drivers, they will lag behind Mesa “standards”.

Nvidia GPUs will never fully catch up until Nvidia themselves switch their entire driver model to be open source and upstream developed within Mesa.

3rd party batteries exists for reasonable prices.

Hard to blame AI data enter demands for this…

Brave is the money generator of a far right hate group. Fuck Brendan Eich, fuck their ad replacement scam, fuck everything Brave.