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@shadowofward I'm on CachyOS with KDE. My machine stats are in my profile if there's a question there.

I can play Baldur's Gate 3, Cyberpunk 2077 (no RT), and FF XIV with no issues and honestly, with a modern video card, you'll not notice the minor overhead from KDE or GNOME. I would honestly suggest trying *both* KDE and GNOME and see which is more to your liking. I feel like GNOME is more like macOS and KDE is a very customizable Windows.

Good luck with the transition! It will throw challenges at you but it will also make you much more proficient in how computers and operating systems work which are always good things to have in a skill set.

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@shadowofward - if you look at the steam stats, all the distros are one of two variants:

- ubuntu
- arch

it's all either vanilla or variants thereof. I'd say arch (and their variants) are advanced mode, so my recommendation would be Kubuntu to start with. It's modern, feature packed, and has a TON of community support which is great if something goes wrong.

Personally, I'm on cachyos with gnome and loving it - so very much looking forward to this 49 release!

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shadowofward, if you really want _every_ ounce of performance I wouldn't recommend either GNOME or KDE, but you should use gamescope. That said, as a first timer that would require a ton of effort for relatively little payout, so I'd recommend you just use either GNOME or KDE and just ignore the half a percent overhead. I believe KDE lets you do some more tweaking than GNOME so if you're interested in messing about that's the way to go.

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If this were reminiscent of a Nintendo property rather than Capcom they'd be sued already. Not saying Capcom isn't going to do anything, but at least it isn't a complete certainty.

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Hey Linux gaming pros around here, for a first time user racing that Oct. deadline, what do you recommend for gaming and squeezing ever ounce of performance from Linux, Gnome or KDE Plasma? thanks in advance!

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RIP X11 session, end of an era...
Also RIP Nvidia 7xx & older, they got none of the wayland improvements in the past few years.

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I'd be absolutely terrible at this, but I appreciate it. Like the music, too.

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I believe it's a speculation, but one rooted in the history of the Netbook, where that definitely did happen.
There are two main differences currently, the first being that Windows was not quite as badly suited to Netbooks as it is to Steam Deck-type rigs, and the main one being that the big player in the space is not going to quit using Linux, so any competitors using Windows get compared unfavourably, hampering their chances of success.

Of course all competitors to the Deck, whatever they're running, have the basic problem that Valve can ignore margins on the Steam Deck because they'll make it up on their percentage from game sales. Competitors don't get that so they have to charge more. Probably one reason most are trying to do a higher-end machine where the difference is slightly less obvious and the buyers less price-sensitive.

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Oh is there? I never noticed, I don't believe the game even tells you that - should just be the default IMO.

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That's a good point, I've added "Guide: " to the beginning of articles on the main RSS feed to make it clearer going forward :)

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straight to the anti-compatibility bin!! pretty nice of them to save you time on having to update it in the future too.


...skate? more like skip.

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Awesome. I get everything through RSS, so that didn't jump out at me, but now I see at the top it says "Tips & Guides". Sorry for the noise!

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Hi tam, as this is a guide in our dedicated section it will be updated regularly as noted :)

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I really like this list. May I suggest making it a recurring feature, like the "how to proton" guide? Or perhaps a list that gets updated regularly, rather than an article that gets published once?

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Casting magic does look like FF VII magic, love it!

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One thing I do feel is missing is a clearer way to see how much damage you're going to deal or be dealt, especially versus how much health each enemy has.

There’s an option in the settings to show enemy health, so you can at least pick your targets accordingly since you know how much damage your own attacks deal.

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i was wondering at some point if AMD themselves were going to release the code to this anyway once the next gen of cards were announced and the FSR4 hype had died down a bit?

Just looking at the guide here, and the fact you also need to be in developer mode, follow the deckyloader guide, optiscaler guide before following the FSR4 guide, before adding a launch command to each and every game doesn't make it user very friendly for everyday gaming folk.

It would be nice if an official plugin system was supported by valve on the SteamDeck (for desktop Linux too in 'big-picture') & without having to be in any kind of Beta/Dev mode.

Still it's more progress and it is very welcome.

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Added Kart racing for Nintendo alts.

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Another developer dumping non-hidden files into $HOME. Ugh! I filed an issue, I hope they'll be willing to fix it.

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IANAL, but I think one vector for a legal attack is the really poor name of the project?

I think that's true -- because Nintendo, *they* sure are ANAL about such things.

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IANAL, but I think one vector for a legal attack is the really poor name of the project?

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Lovely, would like to be able to drag & swing weapons with the mouse on top of of shooting bullets all around. WinXP Professional is my first OS lol.

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This game is insanely fun and plays great. The new changes look to be a rework but they've made "save slots" so you can play both your change/pre-change experience.

Really cool

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Man, I've tried every possible way to get this to work on Linux but to no success. Reading the comments here I'm glad this wasn't an issue on my end. Hopefully this fix will happen soon, I am looking forward to play this once again, it's been years!

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I'm willingly and consciously engaging in conspiratorial thinking here 😅 - but AMD's "massive oopsie" really sounds like a Clippy moment to me 🤔. I'm referring to the right-to-repair campaign by Louis Rossmann.

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And once again we have the community to thank for this, showing what is possible when you're not blinded by corpo mindsets. AMD could've unlocked FSR4 on their previous gens to reward customer loyalty, and increase their value, but they decided that their new GPUs need a selling point. Ironically this makes them look worse now from a consumer standpoint and will probably hurt their sales rather than increase them

The code came from AMD though, so clearly they've been working on it. Since it's still in this halfway state the performance isn't all there yet.

Perhaps with redstone it'll be "officially" supported.

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Added platform fighters, split into two tables between PC and Nintendo alternatives.

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I see OTXO as inspiration, I had really bad time with it as the controls on gamepad were really strange (I couldn't get used to how the character was turning). Hopefully this will not be that case.

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I'm not sure about the "randomly generated rooms" part, but other than that, looks great.

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This is good news for desktop Linux and Valve.
They see the need to address the SteamDeck separately and not push needless extra stores.
EA'll intentionally be one of the latest to allow their software to run on desktop Linux systems.
They're fighting Valve and keeping Linux down means that Microsoft can keep Valve in check.
Yet they've SteamDeck became enough of unit on itself to be addressed separately even though with the same motivations(remember SteamDeck isn't even half of the Linux market share).
Lets hope they'll need a SteamOS and/or an Arch statement next time, because it shows effort on their part.
Every time they need to split the platform it means they're now dealing with two problems instead of one.

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