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It's absolutely dog shit to cut off people who haven't upgraded for a while from their games.
I believe there is a legacy version of steam that can run on older OSs and download older versions of steam games, but it has to be run through a command line. A youtuber I watch that likes to install steam on ancient hardware that was never meant to play games uses it often.
 

GasBandit

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I believe there is a legacy version of steam that can run on older OSs and download older versions of steam games, but it has to be run through a command line. A youtuber I watch that likes to install steam on ancient hardware that was never meant to play games uses it often.
Is this referring to SteamCMD? That's a command line steam downloader typically used to install dedicated server software, I use it a lot on my server for things like Valheim, Conan, Empyrion, etc.
 
Is this referring to SteamCMD? That's a command line steam downloader typically used to install dedicated server software, I use it a lot on my server for things like Valheim, Conan, Empyrion, etc.
Probably, I've seen it used to download steam software onto older, no-longer-supported machines.
 
Something something gog.com downloadable offline installers
Something something planned obsolescence
Something something capitalism
Something something destruction of art
 

figmentPez

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Leaks and rumors say that Valve is working on a version of Proton that works on ARM devices. The main aim of this is likely to run Windows VR games directly on VR headsets, though it could, in theory, also allow Windows games to run on a variety of ARM based devices, including tablets and cellphones. It's also possible that Valve is hedging their bets for future versions of the Steam Deck, in case they want to move away from x86-64 based chips.

Valve reportedly working on ARM64 Proton compatibility layer for Linux gaming
 
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There are like 4 of them now, all from ex ZA/UM people and that's not including the unannounced one from the main writers. And at least two of them got announced hours apart.
 
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I won't hold my breath. Disco Elysium is easily one of my favorite games ever, I'm in danger of spontaneously writing several paragraphs on it here alone, and I just recently finished yet another playthrough of it. But it feels like lightning in a bottle that is unlikely to be recaptured.

Now an official English translation of the original book.. that I can still hope for.
 
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