Latest 30 Comments

Quoting: CaldathrasI wonder if it might be Proton-CachyOS that is creating the perception that games run better in CachyOS?

I don't think they do run better there. But from what I gathered, CachyOS is incorporating a bunch of stuff that's work in progress but developed openly. I.e. let's say they see someone is working on feature X and published the early version of it for testing. Feature X is intended to improve performance.

What CachyOS does it taking it and releasing it before the feature is even ready from perspective of developers who work on it. That makes it appear "better" but it's really not. I call distros that use such approach - "hype distros". It's somewhat cringe, since they get the credit for work that other people are doing simply because many people don't realize how this is happening, and it's not really fair.

I.e. in the end, when feature is out, all distros will have it. But CachyOS "jumps the gun" with half cooked stuff which creates the false perception of it somehow being better. Unreleased things are unreleased until proper time usually for valid reasons.

View this comment - View article - View full comments - Report this comment

It is crazy to read such comments. Facts:
- Facebook is pushing these laws, a surveillance capitalism big tech company.
- Most affected are Google, Apple and Microsoft, other surveillance capitalism big tech companies that benefit from it.
- We have at least 25 years of digital law surveillance history where laws are usually introduced slippery-slop.
- We already have parent control software that fulfill the job better than these laws and especially more private. Laws could force app makers to send a standardized age requirement API to make it easier for parent control software to select software based on an age. Politicians don't even think about this.
- Politicians talk about different kind of "protect kids" laws as breaking encryption, client side scanning and other surveillance methods. Since they all fail they try the slippery-slope method.
- Interesting to see it right now when all the world talks about surveillance "to protect kids". Not just governments, but also companies as Discord and the new surveillance companies as Persona (financed by Peter Thiel - anti democrat, monopolist, CEO of Palandir the surveillance software for governments including non democratic governments etc). There is a huge push from right extremist people that benefit from such systems. It was never(!) meant to protect kids!!
- It is a great base tool to implement censorship on further steps (it introduces the basics that do not exist right now).
- etc etc

And now people still come and tell "there is no slippery-slope" and "that law is totally fine". If it wouldn't be that serious and dangerous, I would have laughed at this point. I don't care for US laws since I am European and these verifications do not really affect me. Debian will not ship such verification to EU citizens and so I am kinda safe. But I still see and understand the issue coming to US (and maybe Canada) citizens and I don't want them to suffer. I love free software, because it does not care for borders and thread all people with equal respect. With these laws it will change.

And now @ people who still don't agree: Why do you prefer to send personal data to all your apps instead of improving parent control software and let apps send an age requirement to your parent control software? Why do you want to give your operating system out of your control instead of keeping control and setting it up for your kids? Why there is not any little attempt to make a real improvement for kids? Please answer these questions to yourself first before spreading another excuse for spreading invasive and anti-democratic technology.

View this comment - View article - View full comments - Report this comment

Quoting: tuubiI'm not outright disputing your claim, but is this based on any evidence? Can you name a game that worked on CachyOS at launch, but not Ubuntu?

I agree with your assertion. I wonder if it might be Proton-CachyOS that is creating the perception that games run better in CachyOS? I have to admit, from testing on my Kepler laptop, that Proton-CachyOS makes it simpler to install and run games without all the fuss and workarounds that used to be required. Granted, we are talking about newer games than i play on that laptop, but one would assume that the experience would extend to them on more up-to-date systems as well.

Of course, the Proton-CachyOS benefit can be had on Ubuntu-based distros too. ProtonUp-Qt will install Proton-CachyOS into Steam, Heroic or Lutris quite easily.

View this comment - View article - View full comments - Report this comment

I have to say that DXVK-Sarek, in combination with Proton-CachyOS, is working brilliantly on my old Kepler laptop. The games I've installed so far are finally using Vulkan (via DXVK) instead of OpenGL with visibly improved performance.

Still using DXVK-Sarek v1.11 but I see that Proton-CachyOS incorporated v1.12.0 last week. I'll have to check if ProtonUp-Qt has picked that up yet.

View this comment - View article - View full comments - Report this comment

Quoting: WanderdueneI really enjoy using Mint because it's stable and very user-friendly, and I also welcome the fact that planning and stability are being prioritised by the developers. Will Mint's extended release cycles have an impact on me as a gamer?

Possibly. The longer the release cycle, the longer it will take to get any new features. Mint's default DE is in general behind on gaming related features and historically was playing catch up to bigger DEs like KDE and Gnome. If they increase their cycle even more, things will slow down further.

I personally don't recommend hype distros like CachyOS, but pick a regular rolling distro if you want newest features sooner.

View this comment - View article - View full comments - Report this comment

hey thats pretty nice , now i won't have to do them all by hand like i had to not but a couple weeks ago next time

View this comment - View article - View full comments - Report this comment

Meanwhile the GOG release of the first game remains abandoned with 2 years of patches missing.

View this comment - View article - View full comments - Report this comment

Quoting: walther von stolzing

Thunderbolt is already a thing, a well-known thing in tech.

Yeah, not only that, but my mind went to Mozilla's other (?!) Thunderb*** immediately -- 'are they changing Thunderbird's name? Is this a typo? Is this a chatbot inside Thunderbird? Is Thunderbird going to force-summarize my emails from now on?', etc.

What could be especially worrying for thunderbird users is that "MZLA Technologies Corporation" is precisely the subsidiary that is supposed to be developing said mail client.

Looks to me like the organization inherited mozilla's lack-of-focus disease.

View this comment - View article - View full comments - Report this comment

The 1.0 update comes with major new end-game content to play through in the form of a multi-stage quest. There's multiple new locations, new music, new achievements and best of all - over 600 new voice lines.

I bought Lucky Tower back in November of 2024. From what I can remember, version 1.0 is a significant upgrade from the version I played previously. To be honest, the "feature" which is most noticeable to me is:
there are so many more novel, unanticipated and humorous ways to die!

I had not previously played Lucky Tower on the Steam Deck, but the newest version works fantastically! The dialog is so snarky.

View this comment - View article - View full comments - Report this comment

Quoting: M@GOidPersonally I'm happy there are studios still focused in creating single player FPS games, specially AAA ones that cost a lot of money to make it happen.

Not that those had disappeared, but I'm under the impression we only get one per year, while there is a sea of multiplayer FPSs, with more appearing each month.

there is a lot of old games, mods and map packs for old games.

take a look at Arcane Dimensions, a map pack for Quake 1. It looks great and has peak level design. It is free and will offer you up to 50 hours of gameplay. Maybe just install some weapon reskin pack on top of it, because quake 1 weapons don't look good.

View this comment - View article - View full comments - Report this comment

If this is just going to be like the CA law where I can enter January 1, 1970 and be done with it, then this really doesn't seem like a big deal to me. It's "please enter your date of birth to view this Steam page"-tier, but you only have to do it once instead of at each individual website.

This isn't even in the same league as laws similar to what Texas and the UK have passed, where they want each individual website to separately verify ages by having the user give them personally-identifiable information like IDs and selfies. This would lead to dozens of companies and "trusted partners" handling personally-identifiable information in potentially wildly differing ways. Such a situation nearly guarantees this info getting leaked on a long enough timeline. We'd much rather have this new law become the standard model than garbage like that, if these kinds of laws are inevitable anyway.

I also don't buy the slippery-slope arguments that tend to crop up in these conversations. Again, many legislatures are pushing for actual ID scanning now, in some cases successfully. They could be doing that now if they wanted to.

View this comment - View article - View full comments - Report this comment

I've heard of it, and I care for hardcore mode even less, hah.

These days if I'm playing with software emulation I do want those save states, but I'm much happier in the original hardware rabbit hole. So, with the N64 I do want the fuzz, with the PSX I absolutely do not want Z-buffer fixes and so on. Achievements rip me out of that experience kind of like a 4x render of an old game would.

View this comment - View article - View full comments - Report this comment

this wine version in my case work with mesa 26.2-dev





😀

View this comment - View article - View full comments - Report this comment

The fact Deadly Premonition just works now out of the box is a huge step. Its still not perfect on my testing as cut scenes break but still far better than it was. I hope the take steps to get Obscure 1 working now as right now it requires you to find the GOG exe to even hope to get it running and that in and of itself is a massive challenge!

View this comment - View article - View full comments - Report this comment

@such I thought the same at one point. But I saw it had this thing called hardcore mode, which turns off most emulator advantages such as save states and rewinds. It still lets you use fast forward so you can skip cutscenes with it (thank goodness).

And I've had a lot more fun with it then I thought I would.

And hardcore mode is good way to keep the temptation of save states. Which does develop a bad habit of using it if you get annoyed at a game.

I would say give it a go. And if it truly isn't for you, then you will know for certain. I thought I wouldn't like it either.

View this comment - View article - View full comments - Report this comment

Sigh. Doesn't seem like it's using the Wayland driver 🤔

View this comment - View article - View full comments - Report this comment

Quoting: enigmaxg2

Quoting: WanderdueneI really enjoy using Mint because it's stable and very user-friendly, and I also welcome the fact that planning and stability are being prioritised by the developers. Will Mint's extended release cycles have an impact on me as a gamer?

For gaming, if you play the latest and greatest: CachyOS or Bazzite

If you wait some time to play them (waiting for bugfixing, DLC, etc) you can go with a more slow-paced distro.

I'm not outright disputing your claim, but is this based on any evidence? Can you name a game that worked on CachyOS at launch, but not Ubuntu? I get that sometimes a new feature in DXVK or Proton might require a recent GPU driver / Mesa, but those are readily available on any stable distro. And Linux native games tend to recommend (and test against) stable distros like Ubuntu anyway, and so does Valve with Steam.

The question is genuine, simply because I don't remember a single situation where I wanted to run a new game but couldn't due to my choice of distro. Might be because I mostly buy native Linux games. Non-native games I might pick up heavily discounted a year or two after launch. I've always got a long wishlist, and I seem to be immune to FOMO.

View this comment - View article - View full comments - Report this comment

Personally I'm happy there are studios still focused in creating single player FPS games, specially AAA ones that cost a lot of money to make it happen.

Not that those had disappeared, but I'm under the impression we only get one per year, while there is a sea of multiplayer FPSs, with more appearing each month.

View this comment - View article - View full comments - Report this comment

Quoting: WanderdueneI really enjoy using Mint because it's stable and very user-friendly, and I also welcome the fact that planning and stability are being prioritised by the developers. Will Mint's extended release cycles have an impact on me as a gamer?

For gaming, if you play the latest and greatest: CachyOS or Bazzite

If you wait some time to play them (waiting for bugfixing, DLC, etc) you can go with a more slow-paced distro.

View this comment - View article - View full comments - Report this comment

STS2 is great already (and getting better all the time)...Not sure why Chinese players don't understand its early access and still being worked on... :(

View this comment - View article - View full comments - Report this comment

With this ARM64 & FEX business, someone got a very early version of SteamOS running on a Nintendo Switch.

[SDHQ news post](https://steamdeckhq.com/news/steam-game-mode-nintendo-switch-proton-11-arm/)

View this comment - View article - View full comments - Report this comment

I feel like Early Access games should not have reviews enabled, or they should be only private to use as feedback for the developers.

View this comment - View article - View full comments - Report this comment

Quoting: SakuretsuCan they really be 100% sure none of the code from some contribution was generated by AI?

No. No project can. And? What's your point?

View this comment - View article - View full comments - Report this comment

Can they really be 100% sure none of the code from some contribution was generated by AI?

View this comment - View article - View full comments - Report this comment

Quoting: TimeFreezeNot sure how Deadly Premonition is considered Playable now. All i get is an immediate Crash to Desktop after the startup and few logos.

If you have the time then I'd appreciate if you could comment in the Proton issue https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/issues/2284
Include a Proton log

View this comment - View article - View full comments - Report this comment

I need to get an optical drive. I want to play Metal Gear 4 again

View this comment - View article - View full comments - Report this comment

I'm not sure what "this winter" means? We've got spring in my (northern) book, so I guess end of the year or beginning of next one?

View this comment - View article - View full comments - Report this comment

Well, two points I can make about it as it relates to myself:

(1) I don't run on the latest and greatest hardware, so most of the benefits that one would look for in a bleeding-edge rolling distro wouldn't be of use to me anyway.

(2) For the most part, I don't play recent AAA games that would depend on me having the latest and greatest hardware. From recent games I do look at, I choose the ones that provide a broader range of hardware support than your typical AAA game manages to do these days. I am content to run on lower resolutions, especially if it will improve the performance of the game.

As a result, Linux Mint meets my needs. A longer release cycle doesn't concern me as it means greater stability and less time spent on troubleshooting O/S upgrades. Thus, more time to play actual games...

View this comment - View article - View full comments - Report this comment

Not sure how Deadly Premonition is considered Playable now. All i get is an immediate Crash to Desktop after the startup and few logos.

View this comment - View article - View full comments - Report this comment

This game has been running great for me in Manjaro Linux.

View this comment - View article - View full comments - Report this comment