This is the best summary I could come up with:
Dwarf Fortress now has a Linux Beta available on Steam, so you can get testing and see what all the fuss is about with this new version.
While it was already playable with Proton, we knew for a while that Bay 12 Games planned Native Linux support as well.
As they said in the Steam announcement “The Linux version is almost ready, and in about two weeks we will be looking for beta testers, after Tarn gets back from Germany… in fact, it’s already on the Public Beta Branch!”
Simply opt into the main Beta for it on Steam and you’ll be able to play and test it.
However, if you find you can’t get it because it keeps using Proton, you can select the Steam Linux Runtime from the Compatibility menu which will then make sure it grabs the Linux version.
So far so good it’s all working as expected, although the game still intimidates the heck out of me.
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Man this game is so fun. I gotta start a new fortress soon.
I’m waiting for adventure mode to dive back in. Can’t wait.
Nice, I avoided it when it wasn’t native; it has now been upgraded to ‘under consideration’
Nice. We always used to get simultaneous releases in the pre-Steam days, and since the front-end is now the cross-platform SDL, hopefully we’ll be back up to complete parity again. Might need to wait a while to get Dwarf Therapist and DFHack back working again; the new UI still isn’t quite there as your forts get bigger.
Come hang out in https://kbin.social/m/DwarfFortress
Direct announcement: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/975370/view/3660916710568153375
I’m curious. Does native perform better than with proton? In a lot of cases it doesn’t seem to.
Making cross platform versions, i.e. upgrading to SDL2 IIRC, actually gave an enormous performance boost on all platforms due to it enabling multithreading. I guess we will see on Proton vs native, but everyone should rejoice regardless.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Dwarf Fortress now has a Linux Beta available on Steam, so you can get testing and see what all the fuss is about with this new version.
While it was already playable with Proton, we knew for a while that Bay 12 Games planned Native Linux support as well.
As they said in the Steam announcement “The Linux version is almost ready, and in about two weeks we will be looking for beta testers, after Tarn gets back from Germany… in fact, it’s already on the Public Beta Branch!”
Simply opt into the main Beta for it on Steam and you’ll be able to play and test it.
However, if you find you can’t get it because it keeps using Proton, you can select the Steam Linux Runtime from the Compatibility menu which will then make sure it grabs the Linux version.
So far so good it’s all working as expected, although the game still intimidates the heck out of me.
The original article contains 194 words, the summary contains 160 words. Saved 18%. I’m a bot and I’m open source!
