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version_unsorted, in Steam not launching games - no idea what to do [Solved]

Usually I start debugging this type of thing by killing all instances of steam and then launching it from command line. Steam logs a bunch of good stuff and putting it in context of your interactions helps. That said, based on what you’ve described, I would try older versions of proton, targeting releases back when games were launching. Proton/wine versions don’t always work for all games and sometimes you’ll need to launch particular titles with specific versions. Proton has been absolutely revolutionary, but these issues still pop up. ProtonDB might have reports on specific versions for specific games/titles.

version_unsorted,

It looks like dayz is gold, rather than platinum, meaning it will take a little tinkering. www.protondb.com/app/221100

Critical_Insight,

Yeah I followed the instructions there and it worked without an issue for several weeks and then just stopped working.

lemmyvore,

You can also try starting a Linux game, if you have any, just to figure out if Proton is the issue.

Critical_Insight,

But what’s strange is that it worked with proton experimental untill this point and that I had this exact same issue earlier on Windows 7 aswell on this same PC. I however did try using proton 8 but that made no difference. I need to try those other versions too

Dremor,
@Dremor@lemmy.world avatar

Proton experimental moves quite a lot. Maybe they moved to a new version of something that broke your install for a reason or another.

grue, in I'm so frustrated rn.

do you people think Ubuntu will work for me?

Yes.

mvirts,

Seconded. Just don’t run it on incompatible hardware, okay? 😹

muhyb, in Easy way to try out a bunch of different DEs?

Gentoo used to have a live CD with almost every DE / WM in it. Not sure if it’s still around though.

nyan,

The last one is from 2017, alas. The current Gentoo GUI ISO only includes KDE and fluxbox ( full package list, just in case someone’s really bored and wants a look).

Melina, in TIL that operating system Linux is an example of anarcho-communism
@Melina@hexbear.net avatar

It’s actually an example of something that doesn’t work so anarcho communism

seas_surround,
@seas_surround@hexbear.net avatar

melina you can’t Post on other instances you’re too powerful

IsThisLoss,
Drewfro66,
@Drewfro66@lemmygrad.ml avatar

Lmao amazing

Urist, (edited )
@Urist@lemmy.ml avatar

Pretty much all of the internet and most appliances run Linux. If you are actually taking the comparison seriously it would say that it does work.

EDIT: Or BSD, but the same holds true for it as well.

xor,

not to mention Android and iOS are essentially gnu/linux…
(different kernels but, still)

Kanedias, in Linux in the corporate space
@Kanedias@lemmy.ml avatar

We spent 1 year negotiating implementation of secure Linux workstation, and now after endless meetings and agreements I can proudly say we have 5 people with fully GNU/Linux laptops! Dell XPS, to be precise.

AVengefulAxolotl,

Nice! We are looking into it with my boss and one other colleague. Im really hoping it goes through and I can finally use Linux at work!

youngyoshieboy, in Just found about the BORE scheduler from solus. Anyone know if it actually improves responsiveness for desktop use? If so why is it not used more?

Same question here, anyone having benchmark or something?

mactan,

there was some interest in my lug with the different schedulers but attempts at benchmarking all fell within margin of error from our lay attempts at measuring

therealjcdenton, (edited ) in TIL that operating system Linux is an example of anarcho-communism

There are still laws and it has stability so no it’s not

Unmapped,

Anarchy means no rulers. No hierarchy. There would still be rules/laws.

Cowbee,

Anarchy isn’t a rejection of structure, but a complex web of horizontal structures.

chobeat,

Commenting with no clue what people are talking about

sighofannoyance, in Linux 6.8 Network Optimizations Can Boost TCP Performance For Many Concurrent Connections By ~40%
@sighofannoyance@lemmy.world avatar

This proves once and for all that Linux is the superior platform!

when was the last time you heard any such news for PC or MAC?

Aganim,

when was the last time you heard any such news for PC

A few seconds ago, when I read that the new Linux kernel contains TCP related performance improvements!

Lulzagna,

This has to be some sort of Dunning-Kruger effect right here…

sighofannoyance,
@sighofannoyance@lemmy.world avatar

Dunning-Kruger

This is more a case of tongue-in-cheek

Jknaraa, in TIL that operating system Linux is an example of anarcho-communism

It’s actually a really good analogy, because it can only run on fully-capitalist hardware.

atomkarinca,

which was made possible thanks to public funding.

kebabslob,

This not the dunk you think

Cowbee,

What is “fully-capitalist hardware?”

Reil,

Now witness the firepower of this fully armed and capitalist hardware.

Fire at will, commander.

Cowbee,

No, not the Bootlicker Beam!

huf,

it sanctions other CPUs and strong arms them into giving up their cycles

Jknaraa,

Same sort of deal as “anarcho-communist” operating systems. @@

Cowbee,

That answers absolutely nothing. Do you think Capitalists designed hardware, or Engineers?

Jknaraa,

Do you think Capitalists designed hardware, or Engineers?

I’m just gonna leave this quote as is, so you can think about it.

Cowbee,

I have. Engineers, ie workers, designed the hardware. It was not the Capitalists that owned the companies doing the design.

axont,

Are you saying capitalists and engineers are one in the same? Maybe sometimes, but it’s not capital that makes things, it’s labor.

mindbleach,

How the hell did you pick lemmy.ml?

Jknaraa,

Because people aren’t one dimensional objects.

mindbleach,

And that excuses a total lack of awareness.

Jknaraa,

I don’t need to excuse your imagination.

mindbleach,

Case in point. You think quoting an argument and sneering is a counterargument. Obviously, because you don’t know the first thing about labor theory of value.

Someone asked if you think capitalists or engineers did the engineering, and you revealed you don’t understand the question.

Jknaraa, (edited )

You are once again building a flawed model of the dynamic at play here in an attempt to ease the discomfort you feel from encountering something that doesn’t make sense to you (why did I choose to join this community?). I’m not even attempting to build any counterarguments because the responses I’ve gotten don’t even attempt to understand what I’ve said in the beginning. To be utterly frank I just lack respect for people who think of themselves as any flavour of anarchist while still dreaming of a system as thoroughly rigid as the artificially created Internet. You pretend to hate the system while desperately trying to invent excuses for continuing to make yourself at home within it.

mindbleach,

No dude, you demonstrably said ‘I’m going to repeat your argument so you can think about it.’ Projecting some emotional state onto me is not gonna change how you fucked this up.

This is mockery. I am calling you ignorant.

I am trying to highlight how you joined an explicitly leftist server, whilst remaining aggressively unaware of… genuinely the first things people learn about leftism. So when you try smugly posturing your way out of a pointed question, you’re just revealing you know less than nothing.

To be utterly frank I just lack respect for people who think of themselves as any flavour of anarchist while still dreaming of a system as thoroughly rigid as the artificially created Internet.

Anarchists being naked hippies, of course, not organized laborers. The internet was mostly designed and operated by academics. It runs on half a century of “does this sound right?” collaborative standards. Whatever browser you’re reading this in has its origins in anti-monopolist diehards building better software out of spite.

None of which is even addressing the initial failure. Capital didn’t design your computer. Intel’s founders definitely did, but only because they were workers dissatisfied under Fairchild, who were in turn workers dissatisfied under Shockley. The early history of silicon valley is halfway to semiconductor co-ops.

At no point did shareholders build hardware.

bear,

It really seems like you didn’t have an actual argument, you just wanted to whine and duck away from any pushback.

drndramrndra,

Well you solved that conundrum rightly. Now let’s go linch those dirty Apple and John Deere engineers. Since they’ve designed those machines, they must be the only responsible parties for designing them with their extreme anti-consumer and anti-repair policies. They must get commissions on every licensed repair or something, it’s definitely got nothing to do with capitalists putting restrictions on the design team in order to increase profits, nope…

Cowbee,

You’re completely off on what I’m getting at. The idea of “Capitalist” hardware, as though the Capitalist did the labor, is wrong. Engineers are paid for their labor power, they don’t typically get royalties or anything of the sort, just like any other laborer.

Someone saying that FOSS software relies on Capitalist hardware is putting the Capitalist over the Engineer, as though the Capitalist created the hardware, and not the labor of the miners, assemblers, designers, engineers, and so forth, regardless of who owns the Capital the labor is done by the Workers. FOSS is agnostic to whoever owned the Means of Proruction of the hardware using or producing it.

axont,

What in the hell is capitalist hardware? Does my computer own a factory?

BlueMagaChud,
@BlueMagaChud@hexbear.net avatar

how many yards of linen for my dust filters?

0xb, (edited )
@0xb@lemmy.world avatar

Amazing how every single part of your comment is so wrong.

It’s actually a really good analogy,

Not an analogy, an example. Those two are different things.

because it can only run on

No, it can run on many things, including open source collaborative hardware that exists.

fully-capitalist hardware.

What the hell even is that? Fun fact: until very recently most of the computer hardware was made in communist China. I know, scary. And now that a lot of effort is being made to get that production out of there, those efforts are being sponsored by public money to an incredible degree. Billions of dollars of taxes (you know, community resources) are being poured into that because big corporations are the biggest lovers of government handouts.

voidMainVoid,

Fun fact: until very recently most of the computer hardware was made in communist China. I know, scary.

China hasn’t been communist in a long time.

Jknaraa,

No, it can run on many things, including open source collaborative hardware that exists

Please explain to me where this “open source collaborative” Internet hardware is on which you run your bitcoin network.

aniki,

It’s behind by decades of capitalists making the industry a festering shithole.

Deebster, in What's your current favorite distro that isn't Arch, Debian or Fedora?
@Deebster@programming.dev avatar

Can it still be a favourite if I haven’t touched it in a decade? I still love Gentoo but I have enough shiny things to burn up my time.

atzanteol, (edited )

Same! I’m on Ubuntu and Pop these days but I fondly remember my old distcc build cluster…

Portage is still far and away my favorite package manager.

Unforeseen,

Hahaha same on the distcc cluster. It was a rare proud moment for me many years ago. I rememeber when I got the cross compiling working it felt like magic. Good times.

SteleTrovilo, in What's your current favorite distro that isn't Arch, Debian or Fedora?

QubesOS. When you need security and don’t need to play games, this is objectively the best distro.

sibloure,

I thought you meant using any distro other than Qubes was “playing games.” Then I remembered actual computer games exist.

Ghostalmedia, in Some of y'all need to see this and drop the superiority complex...
@Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world avatar

ChromeOS hit version 119 in December. That one is obviously the best.

This community has such a bias against web apps.

thecrotch,

I’d say this community has a much larger bias against Google, but that one is pretty justifiable.

Grangle1, in Some of y'all need to see this and drop the superiority complex...

Lowest version number, lowest need for radical change to keep up to date. Golf rules. Linux wins. Somebody get Tux a green jacket.

yardy_sardley,

I mean, technically Linux is still at 2.6, they’ve just been making up version numbers for the last 20 years or so.

Spoonbit,

:(

thecrotch,

All version numbers are made up

heliumlake, in Fedora Asahi Remix Officially Released for Apple Silicon Macs
@heliumlake@lemmy.world avatar

Been daily driving Asahi (first ALARM then Fedora when they transitioned) and it’s been exciting to experience in real time how far the project has come. When I first installed, audio didn’t work, the graphics driver was incomplete, and battery life left a lot to be desired. Skip to today and it’s evident how committed marcan and other contributors are to not just porting, but making everything feel right. Highly suggest following him or Lina on Mastodon.

mfat,

How is battery life compared to Mac os?

velitedi,

Bad, but marcan has mentioned elsewhere that there’s a lot of room for improvement in this space, both active and idle

krash,

This is awesome. What hardware are you running (m1 or m2)? Also, is there anything that isn’t working?

I’ve been eyeing to buy a m* silicon based mac, but I’m not into tinkering into fixing things.

heliumlake,
@heliumlake@lemmy.world avatar

Sorry a bit let to reply, but I’m running on M1 Air and Mini. Off the top of my head, built-in microphone doesn’t work and external displays don’t work through USB/Thunderbolt. Was also having trouble getting my audio interface to work even in class compliant mode. Otherwise it’s a very polished and easy experience.

1984, (edited ) in I'm so frustrated rn.
@1984@lemmy.today avatar

Why would you use Debian, it has the oldest packages and kernel of all distros. I would maybe run that on a server, but probably just use Ubuntu LTS instead.

For desktop you should try Pop OS. Really good distro from System 76.

Stay away from Ubuntu, it’s very buggy for desktop. I tried it six months ago, fresh install, and the console app wouldn’t even open on a fresh install. No error message, just didn’t open. Great impression…

UnfortunateShort, (edited )

Care to explain how you come to your harsh judgment of Debian? I’m not a fan of using it as a desktop OS either, but every other day you hear people talking about Debian having newer packages than Arch on occasion. If anything, Debian, Arch, Fedora and derivatives should give you the most recent packages.

1984, (edited )
@1984@lemmy.today avatar

I don’t know which people you are listening to, but Debian does not have newer packages than arch. It has older packages than almost all other distros. You can see this on distrowatch for yourself also.

The idea of Debian is that old = stable, which I don’t agree with personally. As an example, users of Debian are reporting tons of KDE Plasma bugs that was already fixed, but because they are running an ancient version, they still have the bugs.

But it depends. It’s correct that new versions of plasma had new bugs, that was fixed in the coming weeks or months.

I guess a better way of describing Debian is that it has old bugs instead of new ones, since it stays on older versions.

stevecrox, (edited )

Debian isn't old == stable, its tested == stable.

Debian has an effective Rolling distribution through testing than can get ahead of Arch.

At some point they freeze the software versions in testing and look for Release Critical and Major bugs. Once they have shaken everything and submitted fixes where possible. It then becomes stable.

The idea is people have tested a set baseline of software and there are no known major bugs.

For the 4-5 releases Debian has released every 2 years (Similar to Ubuntu LTS). Debian tends to align its release with LTS Kernel and Mesa releases so there have been times the latest stable is running newer versions than Ubuntu and the newest software crown switches between Ubuntu LTS and Debian each year.

For some the priority to run software that won't have major bugs, that is what Debian, Ubuntu LTS and RHEL offer.

Atemu,
@Atemu@lemmy.ml avatar

Debian has an effective Rolling distribution through testing than can get ahead of Arch.

I wouldn’t call a distro “branch” where maintainers say “don’t use this, it’s not officially supported and may even be insecure” an “effective” distribution. I’d consider it a test bed.

Debian tends to align its release with LTS Kernel and Mesa releases so there have been times the latest stable is running newer versions than Ubuntu

  • Ubuntu LTS.

Ubuntu’s regular channel releases every 6 months, similar to Fedora or NixOS. That in itself is already a “stable” distro, just not long-time stable (LTS).
So Debian can for a short span of time after release be about as fresh as stable distros which is …kinda obvious? I would not consider a month or so every 2 years to be significant to even mention though, especially if you consider that Debian users aren’t the kind to jump onto a new release early on.

For some the priority to run software that won’t have major bugs, that is what Debian, Ubuntu LTS and RHEL offer.

That’s not the point of those distros at all. The point is to have the same features aswell as bugs for longer periods of time. This is because some functionality the user wants could depend on such bugs/unintended behaviour to be present.

The fact that huge regressions have to be weeded out more carefully before release in LTS is obvious if you know that it’d be expected for those “bugs” to remain present throughout the release’s support window.

Atemu,
@Atemu@lemmy.ml avatar

As an example, users of Debian are reporting tons of KDE Plasma bugs that was already fixed, but because they are running an ancient version, they still have the bugs.

The idea is that those bug fixes would be backported as patches; old feature version + new security/bug fixes.

In practice, that’s really expensive to do, so often times bug fixes simply aren’t backported and I don’t even want to know the story of security fixes though I’d hope they do better there.

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