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Can't say I blame Steam for switching to wpa-supplicant. But man what a worse experience, really opaque annoying config files and pitiful tooling. https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-IWD-Development-Halts Really love this bump from KDE 6.4 to 6.7. Now we're talking!! We got to modernity (about a year old KDE) and fast follow to", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "SteamOS 3.9.0 Preview"}, {"id": 768641008, "item_id": 48040063, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48040063", "by": "foresto", "date": "2026-05-06", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I installed LIMBO from GOG with GE-Proton and it worked great even with vibration.", "excerpt": "> It only works with Steam, it can't work on a desktop OS without it, despite standard layout. This review says otherwise: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/05/the-new-steam-controller-from-valve-is-out-now-some-early-thoughts/ > Using The Steam Controller Completely Outside Of Steam > [...] However, at least on the newly released Fedora KDE 44, the system does appear to detect it as a basic gamepad out of the box. ", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Valve releases Steam Controller CAD files under Creative Commons license"}, {"id": 732705859, "item_id": 45794116, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45794116", "by": "Jach", "date": "2025-11-02", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "the GloriousEggroll proton fork, which are easy to install", "excerpt": "What games do you play? I really wonder about experiences like these since they differ so much to my own. The only time I mess with linux-specific things like proton versions is if a newly purchased game doesn't launch with the default proton for some reason. It's annoying, sure, but pretty rare nowadays and I usually anticipate it by checking protondb before buying a game rather than after, and it's not like it's mu", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Linux gamers on Steam cross over the 3% mark"}]}], "caveats": [], "who": [], "tags": [], "use_cases": [], "compared": [{"slug": "proton", "name": "Proton", "co": 2, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 0}], "makers": [], "threads": [{"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49489968", "title": "SteamOS 3.9.0 Preview", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48037555", "title": "Valve releases Steam Controller CAD files under Creative Commons license", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46457770", "title": "Linux is good now; to feel like you actually own your PC, put Linux on it", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45792503", "title": "Linux gamers on Steam cross over the 3% mark", "mentions": 1}], "sentiment_by_month": {"2025-11": {"recommend": 1}, "2025-12": {}, "2026-01": {"neutral": 1}, "2026-02": {}, "2026-03": {}, "2026-04": {}, "2026-05": {"recommend": 1}, "2026-06": {}, "2026-07": {}, "2026-08": {"recommend": 1}, "2026-09": {}, "2026-10": {}}, "versions": [], "version_unnamed": 0, "family_ref": null, "runs_on": null, "lines": [], "quotes": [{"id": 791889939, "item_id": 49493121, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49493121", "by": "jauntywundrkind", "date": "2026-08-29", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "GE-Proton 11-6 just had a great release", "excerpt": "Quite sad to see what happened to iwd after Intel left (it basically stopped development). Can't say I blame Steam for switching to wpa-supplicant. But man what a worse experience, really opaque annoying config files and pitiful tooling. https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-IWD-Development-Halts Really love this bump from KDE 6.4 to 6.7. Now we're talking!! We got to modernity (about a year old KDE) and fast follow to", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "SteamOS 3.9.0 Preview"}, {"id": 768641008, "item_id": 48040063, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48040063", "by": "foresto", "date": "2026-05-06", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I installed LIMBO from GOG with GE-Proton and it worked great even with vibration.", "excerpt": "> It only works with Steam, it can't work on a desktop OS without it, despite standard layout. This review says otherwise: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/05/the-new-steam-controller-from-valve-is-out-now-some-early-thoughts/ > Using The Steam Controller Completely Outside Of Steam > [...] However, at least on the newly released Fedora KDE 44, the system does appear to detect it as a basic gamepad out of the box. ", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Valve releases Steam Controller CAD files under Creative Commons license"}, {"id": 743565376, "item_id": 46472836, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46472836", "by": "tombert", "date": "2026-01-02", "version": null, "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I'm not sure what it buys me over regular Proton", "excerpt": "I don't have Kingdom Come so I can't test it. > That's effort I wouldn't have to make on Windows. It's weird the amount of amnesia people seem to have with all the bullshit associated with Windows and Windows gaming. I think you're being absolutely ridiculous if you're claiming that things consistently work better with Windows, even for Windows games. There's been plenty of times when I had to do shit like disable \"D", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Linux is good now; to feel like you actually own your PC, put Linux on it"}, {"id": 732705859, "item_id": 45794116, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45794116", "by": "Jach", "date": "2025-11-02", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "the GloriousEggroll proton fork, which are easy to install", "excerpt": "What games do you play? I really wonder about experiences like these since they differ so much to my own. The only time I mess with linux-specific things like proton versions is if a newly purchased game doesn't launch with the default proton for some reason. It's annoying, sure, but pretty rare nowadays and I usually anticipate it by checking protondb before buying a game rather than after, and it's not like it's mu", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Linux gamers on Steam cross over the 3% mark"}]}