It’s been several months that I have completely stopped Twitter to switch to Mastodon as a microblogging tool. To be honest I was never too hot about Twitter: my timeline was mostly garbage, irrelevant, making it a waste of time… Continue Reading
There was a new data dump available a couple of hours ago from ProtonDB, so here’s a quick overview of new items we could identify this time for February 2019. There were less unique contributors in January, with 1307 individuals… Continue Reading
Just like in last month, after yesterday’s quick overview of what the ProtonDB larger trends look like in January 2019, here’s a more detailed look at the new games that had never appeared in ProtonDB until January. So, here goes!… Continue Reading
There was a new data dump available a couple of hours ago from ProtonDB, so here’s a quick overview of what we can learn from contributors, this time for January 2019. There were less unique contributors in January, with 1439… Continue Reading
Valve has just updated Steam’s client (at least the beta one) to introduce some very welcome changes for Linux gamers. There are two major ones. First, Steam on Linux now allows users to force the use of Proton even for… Continue Reading
Yep, I am still busy looking at the data from ProtonDB. Why? Well… that’s the stuff I like to look at, and there’s always new ways to look at data that provide new findings. This time around, I checked what… Continue Reading
Following my last post on the December 2018 analysis of the ProtonDB data, I went through the free text comments (i.e. what people actually wrote about the performance of the game they tried with Proton), and based on 3541 comments,… Continue Reading
Oh my, did I push finishing this article for so long! Even though I finished Rise of Tomb Raider a long time ago, it left me somewhat indifferent. I can’t say it was a very good game. I can’t say… Continue Reading
There was a new data dump available a couple of hours ago from ProtonDB, so here’s a refresh of the data I shared about november just a few days ago, this time for December 2018. There were less unique contributors,… Continue Reading
While on the whole things are pretty much getting better in many places, sometimes there are two steps back instead of one step forward. The looming disaster for PC gamers in general is store fragmentation. Up until not too long… Continue Reading