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I got the game after the big update to game on the SD and was encountering a lot of stutters. Glad to see that it was a bug and that it got fixed already! Time to dive right back in

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It doesn't use kernel-level anti-cheat on Linux, that's not a thing.

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Does anyone recommend a good workflow for dealing appimage apps in kde?

GearLever is a good app that manage AppImages for you. Once installed (available as a Flatpak) when you open an AppImage it will pop up and ask if you want to just launch it or add it to the system. It can also deal with auto updates if the AppImage provides an URL for it

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Steam Deck 1TB OLED - Valve Certified Refurbished went out of stock, but now the Steam Deck 512 GB OLED - Valve Certified Refurbished is in stock.

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Gist is Nexusmods jumps in and kaboshes mods that either are or can be perceived as controversial. Sometimes they get it right. Sometimes they ban the equivalent of setting the localization flag to a different country.

Credit where credit is due as a "who cares, they're mods, don't download it if you don't like it" absolutist: they're starting to learn. Few times now they lock down the comment section instead to avoid the shitstorm and leave the mod up long as it's innocuous.

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Does anyone recommend a good workflow for dealing appimage apps in kde? I know you can just download them and execute, but it would be nice to have them install somewhere standard with automatic launch menu integration and whatnot. Anyone recommend anything available on discovery for this?

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I am happy I bought a Deck for my daughter two months back. Now I need to hope none of the family's Decks will give up anytime soon...

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I've dug out an old dp to vga adapter I had, which helped me get around the fact wayland doesnt play nice with analogue signal

I've also switched to wayland experimental on linux mint cinnamon just to see how the experience goes, and this is on my partners old uni laptop with very modest specs (dual core, i5-5200u 2.20ghz) so it will be interesting to see how bad the overhead is with xwayland

It's a shame they're ditching x11 support, for someone like myself the favourite thing about linux is bringing new life into old hw. Hw prices are going up and its important people can still make sure of older hw!

Suppose there's always things like xubuntu to fall back on, but as it stands the main debian distros run great on extremely modest hw at the moment.

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Very interested in the game, and it's good to hear that it plays well on Linux. I'm still feeling pretty reluctant to allow any kind of kernel-level anything just for a game.

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Dang was hoping to upgrade from the LCD one soon and I waited too long.
Least my current one still works if not a tad clunky.
Oh well, just gotta wait it out.
Maybe not a bad time to look for some linux laptop sales in the mean time.

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Was worried this would happen :(

Really want to get one later in the year, guess I'll have to wait and see

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Still waiting for decent graphics tablet and colourspace support in Wayland.

colorspace support (far more advanced than what x11 ever could muster) have been in Wayland for a while now.

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Still waiting for decent graphics tablet and colourspace support in Wayland.

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Starfield's pronoun-removal mod

I looked it up. Has to be one of the stupidest things I've ever heard of, and these days the competition is fierce. I'd be fine with banning that for the moronicness level alone.

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No, that is not what Comandante Ñoñardo means by Nexusmods censorship
For example, Starfield's pronoun-removal mod has been banned by NexusMods,

And other mods have been removed. I can give other examples, but

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/index.php?module=rules

- Politics are important and affects everything and everyone. However, be mindful of what you talk about and spread. If it is likely to cause arguments, don't post it. Most of the time, political chat isn't really needed here.

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They'll never change.

Even if they give all the evidence of changing you should not trust a closed capitalist system. Even if they have a healthier culture or leadership or promises - ultimately a capitalist endeavors mission is growth at any cost - the same as cancer. It will grow until it has exhausted and subjugated everything and dies if the support systems can't protect themselves from the cancerous growth.

Even in the best case: they will behave, we will give them power, they will eventually turn that power against us and try to grow more - become more monopolistic. Open-source (copyleft/FLO) means built-in defenses against monopolistic abuse.

If it ain't open, don't ever trust it fully.

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I think Valve should create transparency and standards of Proton/Native support. So that when I buy a "Steam Deck" supported game, I can count on it being available for a long time and for game execs[1] to have serious incentives to continue Linux support.

Maybe auto-refund (at the expense of the studio, not Valve) for everyone primarily playing from Linux if/when the game execs drop Linux support? That though would have the undesirable consequence of studios being more vary to ever declare official Linux support. But I'd have less official support if the "official" actually starts giving guarantees (ultimately meaning more).

[1] Executives at the game development studio. Commonly called "devs", but technically it is a misnomer since executives call these shots (ideally based on market research and data, but actually also based on vibes). In case of the smallest studios "devs" would be more accurate - where everyone wears many hats. But even then execs would be equally applicable.

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Ordered my new OLED last Friday and it’s coming this Friday. Must have been one of the last lucky ones! Upgrading from 64g LCD.

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The base management is what turns me off from these games. :(

For me it's quite the opposite, I usually take missions as a distraction from base management and research. Especially if the missions are repetitive and not a challenge. Which is not true for Cyberknights or X-Com.

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^ Censorship in what way? There's nsfw stuff everywhere if that's what you mean. If you mean something else, like censoring language, I'm not sure. I don't use it much since mods on linux can often be too much of a pain. Which is why I'd love for this to be open to more games!

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In the dark ages all the blacksmiths used to get together to raise prices in lockstep and the people had no choice but to pay.

Pretty much all low-cost tightly integrated electronics are made in china these days.

When I see news articles like this. sus. It feels like one megacorp is cockblocking their competition by getting a favor from the factory.

Money talks and bullshit walks.

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I honestly look forward to a time when fabrication isn't purposely obfuscated that enthusiasts will be able to assemble and build their own hardware again.

When you think about VGA, CAT6, Serial, a lot of those things you could make in your garage -- how do you make a DP or HDMI cable? Does it require complicated vendor lock hardware moving the power to produce from the many to the few?

What about silicon and chips? Sure 1nm and 2nm are awesome, maybe someday we'll be able to produce circuits at a decent size that gets the job done but isn't exactly 1st. Still, repeatability is worth something especially if you care about not creating mountains of ewaste.

It's really painful how SBC's have been monopolized, hardware hackers used to hack on Nintendo Entertainment System CPUs 8086? and the whole industry has been ripped from the hands of the middle class' or hard working person's grasp to excel in. And I don't think it's anything but purposful monopolization and lock in.

If Valve can't get this patched quick hopefully they have a Steam Deck 2 in the works even if they have to launch earlier than previously intended. It's good never to put your eggs all in one basket and diversity of manufacturing is always good. The wold is changing, and new places and populations are ready to exchange labor for quality of life improvements.

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The lack of limits on the number of fish troubles me, as stocking levels are definitely an issue with real aquariums. Many a noob has last precious, expensive fish as a result. Might give potential aquarium enthusiasts the wrong idea.

Hopefully, they make it clear that this is a benefit that only a virtual aquarium can provide.

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Any connection to Gentoo Linux?

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All I can say is that I trust the Canonical Desktop Team to do a more competent job of it than I do the Manjaro Team. My experience with Manjaro on hybrid GPUs was not all that great. Limiting driver options and using archaic tools such as Bumblebee was not the best of decisions.

Otherwise, this change is only logical given that KDE has already forced the issue ..

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The Mint Team is working on the Cinnamon Desktop to prepare it for Wayland. The laptop I game with is on Linux Mint XFCE Edition. I am not fussed about Wayland support. I also have confidence that when the XFCE team is ready to move the XFCE desktop to Wayland, it will be rock-solid stable.

I haven't experienced any issues gaming on X11. I don't imagine I'll experience any issues with Wayland either, once I get around to trying it. For me, X11 is stable and that's all that matters to me.

I guess I just don't utilize the features that cause so many others distress. I'm not polarized for or against either X11 or Wayland. For now X11 serves my purposes and some time in the future, Wayland will replace it. I'm good either way.

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This is going to negatively impact the Steam Deck's rank in the Top Sellers list on Steam.

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If you're reading from the UK and still want a Steam Deck, act fast

I read Valve's statement as it should not concern the rest of the world?

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Isn't that the platform for modding filled with censorship?

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VP9 is what YouTube turns every video uploaded into. VP9 makes 1080p video look really bad, unless whilst recording or rendering video, the bit-rate is very high, like twenty thousand or above. I record in 1440p and my bit-rate is eighty thousand. When I render in Davinci Resolve I bring down the bit-rate to sixty thousand and render to H265 using Nvenc through my NVIDIA 4060 TI 16GB of Rammage card. I record gameplay through OBS using Nvenc too. Then to shrink final video down again, without losing quality using the brilliant Handbrake, setting the constant quality to lossless and bring the rendering speed down to it's slowest, that shrinks the video right down, plus it is Network optimised, which is supposed to make it smoother uploading.

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"Valve Certified Refurbished listing as being in stock right now." aaaand its gone...

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