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- Comment on what was the last game you played in 2024? 1 day ago:
Talos Principle 2! Man, what a banger.
Tap for spoiler
The mind transfer puzzles are kicking my ass though
- Comment on FBI recommends coming up with a 'secret word or phrase' to make sure your family know you're you and not some hellish AI copycat 3 weeks ago:
Truth be told, me and my parents have been doing this for a bit now to combat the kidnapping scam calls
- Comment on Sam Altman lowers the bar for AGI 4 weeks ago:
Moving goalposts as a Service™
- Comment on I will admit I had a nerdgasm at the portable pilet mini consoles from soulscircuit 4 weeks ago:
Contender for the worst headline I’ve read in weeks.
- Comment on ugh i wish 5 weeks ago:
I’m not ready for Moovid…
- Comment on ugh i wish 5 weeks ago:
Man, a shot of Vodka at 40% has me questioning my life choices, I cannot imagine taking a shot of this goddamn paint thinner holy shit
- Comment on DOJ wraps up ad tech trial: Google is “three times” a monopolist 5 weeks ago:
Jake Marshall is that you???
- Comment on Google reacts angrily to report it will have to sell Chrome 1 month ago:
The judge deciding is called Mehta
Ah man, the writers are being too on the nose this season
- Comment on A study found that X’s algorithm now loves two things: Republicans and Elon Musk 1 month ago:
What do you mean ‘now’???
It’s been like this since Elon took over - Comment on Valve dev details more on the work behind making Steam for Linux more stable 1 month ago:
Ok, I think we might be speaking about different things here, so let me try to clear it up.
Click the little ‘Games’ tab just above the search bar in your library, on the pop-up check ‘Tools’ and uncheck ‘Games’, then to the right of it, click the play icon to only show currently installed Tools. It’ll look something like this:
First we have the ‘Steam Linux Runtimes’. These are used to run Native Linux games.
I don’t think these get uninstalled automatically, but Steam will make sure to download the necessary one when a game needs it, so if you’re really strapped for space, you can just uninstall the runtimes and Steam will figure it out next time.
Next, we have the Proton versions. These are used to run Windows games.
While technically you should only need one of these, some games run better with some versions, some with others, so in a few scenarios Steam might automatically download and install a specific version when you launch a game that has been vetted by Valve. You can control what version gets used by clicking the Steam logo in the top-left corner of your client > Settings > Compatibility > Enable Steam Play for all other titles > Select one in ‘Run other titles with’.
This will make it so any game that doesn’t have a Proton version defined by Valve use the version you selected.
This includes games Non-Steam games you add to Steam.Now if you want to ignore the recommended versions and force games to use a version of your choosing, you can do so by right-clicking the game > Properties > Compatibility > Force the use of a specific Steam Play compatibility tool.
However, do so at your own risk, as said before, some games might not work so well with a version other than their default, so I’d leave this alone unless you’re having issues with a specific game (or are really, really, really strapped for space)
As is the case above, I don’t think these will get uninstalled automatically, so if you want, you can uninstall all them right now and Steam will figure it out next time you launch a game.Now, for Proton Prefixes.
I think these are what you meant when you were saying “Runtimes” earlier.
If you go into your Steam folder at ~/.steam/steam/steamapps/ (path for Arch Linux, might be different on other distros/Steam Deck/Flatpak/Snap) and peek into the ‘compatdata’ folder, you see tooons of folders with random numbers inside.
These are Proton Prefixes, and these hold files and other bits and bobs the games need to run under Proton. If you’re familiar with Wine Prefixes, it’s the same principle.Steam manages these automatically, and will delete prefixes from uninstalled games.
Non-Steam games that you remove from your library will have their prefixes deleted too.
It’s important to note that these prefixes act as “Virtual Drives” for the game to interact with. They simulate the C: drive of your typical Windows install, including profile folders, AppData, Roaming, all that jazz.
What does that mean? THAT THEIR HOLD YOUR SAVE DATA.
While most (keyword: ‘most’) Steam games have cloud saves and thus can be uninstalled and reinstalled without consequence, this definitely does not apply to Non-Steam games, so make sure to backup your saves/mods/other stuff you don’t want to lose BEFORE removing a Non-Steam game from your library.To explore the files inside your prefixes more easily, check this:
Each folder is named after the game’s App ID. For Non-Steam games, a random ID is generated.
The easiest way to correlate the IDs with games (IMO) is to use a tool called ‘Protontricks’.
This tool is allows you to modify the Prefixes in various ways and is very helpful when trying to make a problematic game run under Proton. We’ll ignore most of its functionalities for this use-case, though.After installing either from your distro’s repo or from Flatpak, open Protontricks.
It might give you some info/warning dialogs. That’s normal, it’s a very noisy tool, just hit OK until you eventually see a dialog that looks like this:It’ll show you all your Proton games, both Steam and Non-Steam.
Select which one you want to explore and click OK through the barrage of weird warnings and errors Protontricks gives you until you reach this dialog:Choose ‘Select the default wineprefix’ (yes this option is nonsensical), select ‘Browse files’ on the next and your file browser will open up at the proper prefix for the game. Tada!
Or y’know… might be easier to just read the numbers from the first dialog and navigate where you want manually :p
As said before, these hold your saves. Grab them before deleting, don’t just start blasting willy-nilly.
Use the PC Gaming Wiki to help you find save data locations.Hope this wall of text helps. Cheers.
- Comment on Valve dev details more on the work behind making Steam for Linux more stable 1 month ago:
It removes the proton prefix that was used to run the game, now the runtimes themselves stay, I believe
- Comment on Valve dev details more on the work behind making Steam for Linux more stable 1 month ago:
On your library, if you tell it to show you Software instead of games and mark the “Only installed” option, it shows you what Runtimes and Proton versions are installed IIRC
- Comment on Is an AI winter coming? Diminishing returns and scaling limit fears freeze AGI hopes 1 month ago:
Is the bubble popping?
- Comment on Valve dev details more on the work behind making Steam for Linux more stable 1 month ago:
According to Besset, one of their colleagues claimed setenv as “the worst Linux API”
Woof. - Comment on Jewel Beetles 1 month ago:
I cannot stand that “Unalive” bullshit.
Thanks for nothing Tiktok. - Comment on D-Link refuses to patch a security flaw on over 60,000 NAS devices — the company instead recommends replacing legacy NAS with newer models 1 month ago:
damn, side-eyeing the D-Link router I got in the closet now
- Comment on The .io domain might be in trouble 1 month ago:
Ugh, associating these things with physical land is such a waste of everybody’s time, they should just turn it into a generic top-level domain and be done with it
- Comment on Microsoft closing Arkane Austin was “stupid”, says founder: recreating “a very special group” like that would be “impossible” 1 month ago:
Correct. Fuck Microsoft/Bethesda/Zenimax/whoever the fuck it was.
I just wanted more Dishonored/Prey 😒 - Comment on Google is working on an AI agent that takes over your browser 2 months ago:
Oh, so just like that Large Action Model thingy Rabbit Inc. promised and did not deliver?
- Comment on ShipOS 1994, a shipping company management game with a stylized 90s Windows UI, released on Steam 2 months ago:
Basically Kingsway for ship management. Interesting!
- Comment on Kamala Harris Dropped a New Custom 'Fortnite' Map 2 months ago:
Wow, the future is weird
- Comment on Sharpen Your Nostalgia: CUT3 Shader Upscales Retro and Modern Gaming 2 months ago:
Oh hey, it’s by the same guy that made Lemuroid!
- Comment on Weird Proxmox NAS ZFS glitch?? 2 months ago:
whatever code did that was messing with the content indexer
Those guys were determined you’d get what was on the tin, no matter what
- Comment on PS5's 'Resume Activity' Feature Apparently Gone for Good - PlayStation LifeStyle 2 months ago:
How terrible, such a neat feature abandoned.
I find it funny how console makers spend tons of resources making up new features only for game publishers do the bare minimum porting job and never bothering with using them. - Comment on 'It even breaks my heart a bit': Denuvo pushes back on its haters, says Steam forums are a 'very toxic, very hostile environment' 2 months ago:
[…] a new effort by Denuvo to bring PC gamers over to its side, which kicked off with a Discord server last week (it didn’t go well) and an interview with Rock Paper Shotgun this week
PR baybeeeeee
- Comment on 'It even breaks my heart a bit': Denuvo pushes back on its haters, says Steam forums are a 'very toxic, very hostile environment' 2 months ago:
I’m with the company for such a long time," said Ullmann. "The guys here are like my family, because a lot of the others here are also here for ages. It just hurts to see what’s posted out there about us, even though it has been claimed wrong for hundreds of times.
It hurts???
I get he’s being paid to gobble corporate dick, but people try to at least hide it usually lmao - Comment on Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown Team Disbanded After Critically Lauded Platformer Fails to Meet Expectations - Report 2 months ago:
OK but did it really flop or where they expecting it to sell a morbillion units weekly?
- Comment on Portal 2 project lead wants Valve to return to single-player games 2 months ago:
Yes please, and start with the next Portal entry.
- Comment on Syncthing Android app discontinued 2 months ago:
I’ve been using custom ROMs for a while now, but the reality is that they can only do so much to stop Android’s ever increasing restrictions.
And the aforementioned Integrity API also detects unlocked bootloaders, meaning this will gradually become more of a problem. - Comment on Syncthing Android app discontinued 2 months ago:
This is my currently dilemma.
Each year Android becomes restrictive like iOS with none of the benefits, Rooting becomes harder as more apps tap into the Play Integrity API (and strong Integrity is on the way to kill most workarounds for it), iPhone got a little better but is still locked down as fuck, where the hell do I go to? 😒
