Linux gaming thread

You should try KDE.

Feature rich GUI you say?

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GUI development is something that makes people want to kill themselves. It is also incredibly hard to turn a powerful cli application into a GUI one without cutting features.
You'll just end up with a mess like this
martin-achern.de/wgetgui/
This is the reason why git guis tend to be really simple and kind of useless for example.

new vegas works fine with proton, but I couldn't get any mod manager to work

tgstation has almost 3 million lines of codes, with a huge portion of that being undocumented spaghetti code people are afraid to touch for fear of breaking everything. Absolutely no one is enough of a lunatic to port that.

>new vegas works fine with proton
Last time I tried it still had the VATS blackscreen issue and the game crashed all the fucking time. The crashing might be the same on Windows, dunno, but is the blackscreen fixed?

Do you have an example of something that is missing a GUI in your opinion?

D9VK in the latest Proton releases could help. Never had that issue myself though.

never had the vats blackscreen issue, and it didn't crash often

I tried it for 3 months with an RX580, yep Linux is still garbage for gaming. Emulators works fine though.

Based KDE Khads.

welp

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Mod managers would most likely have to be native linux applications since each game in proton runs in a separate environment where they can't see each other. (look up wineprefixes if you are interested)
I did do some experiments with a bash script that would create an overlayfs in the same sense that MO does and merges the Data directory from multiple sources into one. It had absolutely no automation in anyway so you would have to manually extract mods in a certain way to a predefined location in order to use it. I kinda want to make it at least somewhat automated and maybe even try to make a simple GUI for it once I have enough free time to work on hobby projects again.

Noice. Try putting
PROTON_USE_D9VK=1 %command%
to the game's launch parameters in steam.

based

D9VK didn't do shit for that issue. Gamebryo games are truly a mystery.

protondb.com/app/22380
Apparently AA and/or HDR is causing it for some people.

Oh and take every fix from there with a grain of salt. A lot of people just parrot shit that worked for someone with outdated and unsupported drivers or some shit. It's not rare to see people recommending wined3d for absolutely no reason.

It's kind of a pain in the ass to build modern shit in a clone of an operating system designed to output to paper teletypes

It's not really that imo. You can make GUIs with Qt Creator like you could in old visual basic or something.
I think it's just the fact that unix-like environments have incredibly powerful and easily scriptable commandline tools and since it has historically been mostly used by developers and sysadmins who are comfortable with using a terminal there has not been a big push for GUI stuff outside of the desktop environments like KDE for example.

I'd also say that most Windows users have an unnecessary pathological fear of rich commandline tools. Possibly because the normal cmd.exe is really limited and kind of useless and powershell is incredibly verbose object oriented mess.

I just hope that valve would find a fix for the patenting issues wit wma and wmv.
A lot of games would just werk after that and being able to say that skyrim works out of the box could be big for them.