I only did so because I had installed proton-ge. You know, “when all you have is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail” -type of thing. :D

Running Galaxy with proton-ge. Sure, it doesn’t install linux versions of games or anything, but it works.

Basically what I did was:

• run arch btw, obviously and loaded with sarcasm, as always
• install https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/proton-ge-custom-bin
• aquired galaxy installer (GOG’s site hides download links on linux… why???)
• proton gog-galaxy-installer.exe to install. It installs to ~/.local/share/proton-pfx/0/pfx/drive_c/Program Files/GOG Galaxy (or somesuch)
• I made a shortcut to launch the galaxy.exe with proton from the directory & using the directory as working directory
• profit.

Seems to work fine, some older version of proton-ge and/or nvidia driver under wayland made the client bit sluggish, but that has fixed itself. Games like Cyberpunk work fine. The galaxy overlay doesn’t, though.

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/05/microsofts-new-recall-ai-will-take-screenshots-of-everything-you-do-freaky/

https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/windows/copilot-plus-pcs#faq2

list of surprised people:

https://steamcommunity.com/stats/1363080/achievements huh? the numbers show differently (for me, at least) on the page.

ah, right. that’s a thing.

Goes to show how little I have needed it (or how little shame I have) :P

wonder if it’s going to rat someone out by saying something along the lines of

A member of your Steam Family already owns Horny Hentai Ladies: Stupidly huge dongs GOTY

I don’t play TF2, but I thought basically all hl2 -family games were updated to 64bit ages ago… apparently this wasn’t the case :o

Any of the other games running the same engine still in 32bit land?

amd cpu, but nvidia gpu, so as far as I’d understand, not using ACO then?

yep, I’m aware. I just haven’t observed* any compilation stutters - so in that sense I’d rather keep it off and save the few minutes (give or take) on launch

*Now, I’m sure the stutters are there and/or the games I’ve recently played on linux haven’t been susceptible to them, but the tradeoff is worth it for me either way.

well, I do have this one game I’ve tried to play, Enshrouded, it does do the shader compilation on it’s own, in-game. The compiled shaders seem to persist between launches, reboots, etc, but not driver/game updates. So it stands to reason they are cached somewhere. As for where, not a clue.

And since if it’s the game doing the compilation, I would assume non-steam games can do it too. Why wouldn’t they?

But, ultimately, I don’t know - just saying these are my observations and assumptions based on those. :P

turning it off will wipe the cached shaders. That cleaned up like ~40 GB (IIRC) for me, without any noticeable difference in performance, stability or smoothness. Though my set of games at the time wasn’t all that big: path of exile, subnautica: below zero, portal 2 and some random smaller games.

Overall I’m still getting used to the Steam “processing vulkan shaders” pretty much every time a game updates, but it’s worth it for the extra performance.

That can be turned off, though. Haven’t noticed much of a difference after doing so (though, I am a filthy nvidia-user). Also saving quite a bit of disk space while too.

doesn’t seem like there’s any assets in there (textures, music, sounds, videos…), just the code, so the footprint of it is fairly small just because of this.

Exactly that. Awesome and thanks.

Now, aggressive waiting for the updates begins

am I correct to assume this is the thing that’ll fix eg. Steam going full seizure mode under wayland + nvidia?

It’s not even limited to nvidia, I also get it on intel igpu (i5-2320, ancient, I know).

come on! Lindsay 'em up!

yea I do also use the favorites (and two other manual lists), but thats about it. Mostly I just use the “last played” view of the library and hide games which aren’t installed locally.

I just use dynamic collections, eg. group games by their store-tags, eg. arpg, fps, puzzle, walking-sim, online-coop… etc, whatever I consider handy when going through all of it.

Sure, the categories have a lot of overlap, but I don’t mind, the games list is a disaster anyway (>1300 games on account… yea.).

I used to maintain my own categories, but at some point the number of games started to be too much to do it by hand.

edit: One of the better features is to group games with online-coop with friends who have it too. Makes it a lot easier to find the next adventure to start after few beers.