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Quoting: LoudTechieYeah, there're actually several.
The problem is just as always third party software compatibility(and this time also less expensive competition).

There are people in the Telegram support channel that have tried every Linux phone and reckon this is the only one which is truly daily drivable. I've only had a Pine Phone, which was not and there's just no comparison to my FLX1. You can read the reviews on their web site or join the Telegram channel. Support is first class.

It's running Debian so either install from the command line or Gnome "Software", including Flatpaks. The Android container (Andromeda) runs F-Droid, Aurora Store, whatever and compatibility's pretty good (Integrity API is a no go, obviously). The Wife's due a new phone so I tried Whatsapp for her and that worked, so I may get her a new FLX1s and she can ditch Google as well.

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The ARM SteamOS project runs so deep huh, I honestly have been less apprehensive about the adoption towards this architecture as of late since so much work is being put into compatibility for it. Hopefully this can help keep hardware budgets at least a bit somewhat in check.

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Quoting: dannielloAnd in the near future - Steam Pocket. The first true Linux phone with decent performance! (of course advertised as only for gaming, so Google should be OK with it... In the same sense like Steam Machine is just Linux PC so Sony and Microsoft also should be OK with it;)

That's already available, it's called the FuriPhone <https://furilabs.com/>. I've been daily driving the FLX1 for almost a year and it's fantastic. Don't really game on it though, apart from chess and the like.

It's incredibly liberating to be free of Google, using Linux 😀

As for the Frame, really looking forward to getting one.

Yeah, there're actually several.
The problem is just as always third party software compatibility(and this time also less expensive competition).

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Quoting: dannielloAnd in the near future - Steam Pocket. The first true Linux phone with decent performance! (of course advertised as only for gaming, so Google should be OK with it... In the same sense like Steam Machine is just Linux PC so Sony and Microsoft also should be OK with it;)

That's already available, it's called the FuriPhone <https://furilabs.com/>. I've been daily driving the FLX1 for almost a year and it's fantastic. Don't really game on it though, apart from chess and the like.

It's incredibly liberating to be free of Google, using Linux 😀

As for the Frame, really looking forward to getting one.

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That's cool, I think. Heh. I still don't entirely understand what ntsync does in practice, I saw that CachyOS also adopted it a while ago and read something about timing consistency. Can anyone elaborate?

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While it's nice to see the support coming, for most games it won't make much difference compared to fsync which is already pretty good (as you note in your article).

Still, in the future, ntsync might become the default, so the sooner it's supported the better, I'd say.

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As a retro game enthusiast, I really like what MicroProse is doing.

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Waiting for this too. This would make my setup 100% Linux ready. Only VR was an issue as support for the Sony PSVR2 isn't there yet. And the Frane is native. Very cool.

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Hhmmm.... Why does this look exactly like an extension gameplay to Carrier Command 2? 😅

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Quoting: discocatI'm very curious as to if that will make it into mesa 26 when that releases.

https://www.phoronix.com/news/RADV-UE5-Lumen-Merged

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Quoting: Linux_RocksIf advergames are gonna exist at all, better that they be non-toxic like those vs bullshit like America's Army.

You refer to the one funded by the US Army, that once upon a time was paying icculus to port it?
https://www.phoronix.com/news/NDk0

Or something else? Just confused, since that wasn't a Flash game, but I suppose the comparison was for "advergames".

As for Dungeon Rampage - doesn't look like my cup of tea, but I love the background story!

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I guess I'll skip this until the performance and optimization patches kick in to lower resource waste, and maybe get it (if at all) at a Steam's sale for 80%+ off discount, regardless of how good the game is, or how popular it turns out to be.

And is not that my current system would struggle, these guys simply seem to market to a bubble and not to a big audience. It would seem as if the game is more a tech demo than a game, as such. Looks to be dev laziness not seeking optimization, throwing hardware at a performance issue with their code instead of fixing the code.

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Quoting: Corben

But, a bigger vendor like Lenovo seemed a bit more trustworthy if I ever encountered hardware problems.

I thought the same... yet, I got disappointed by Lenovo.

Reminds me of Logitech when I asked them if my Logitech G815 keyboard keycaps will wear away: "no they are laser etched they cannot wear away."
One year later, the black plastic dye over the clear keycap is wearing away on the most used keys, e.g. everything surrounding the etched letter is disintegrating making some letters illegible.
1 year warranty.
I bought a replacement set from Aliexpress for $50 but still, buyer beware these days >:(

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Quoting: JohnologueInstant wishlist + follow + please give it to me

Ditto, 1995 Mechwarrior is alive and well in 2026 and I'm here for it 110%

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The flash games that I remember playing the most back in the day were probably Snowcraft and the Candystand stuff. The Candystand games were just advergames, but at least they were fun. If advergames are gonna exist at all, better that they be non-toxic like those vs bullshit like America's Army. lol

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How nice of Nvidia to finally start making a native Linux app for Geforce NOW so that I can get back to playing some of the anticheat games I bought some time ago. Sure, I can use the browser but I rather they make a native version since it seems to run better when I last tried it on the Steam Deck.

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Quoting: dannielloAnd in the near future - Steam Pocket. The first true Linux phone with decent performance! (of course advertised as only for gaming, so Google should be OK with it... In the same sense like Steam Machine is just Linux PC so Sony and Microsoft also should be OK with it;)

Yes, google, there is absolutely no need to worry about steam running on ARM and inviting APKs to Steam, no need at all. ;-)

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Instant wishlist + follow + please give it to me

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My brother got the Lenovo Legion Go 2, and while it is absolutely overpriced, it is a very capable system. I had to increase the VRAM in the BIOS and choose a quieter fan preset because, even when completely idle, that thing is obnoxiously loud.

Did he run all BIOS updates? Mine gets quite loud on the maximum TDP preset (30W) as you'd expect, but all other TDP modes are pretty reasonable when it comes to noise levels. I have mine on Bazzite, for what it's worth.

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Ooh, neat! RimWorld has had the ability for mods to support different versions of the game for quite a while now and it's pretty handy, so it's good to see that capability expand. (It doesn't have the ability to mark a mod as simple enough that it'll likely keep working with any version, so that'll be a nice feature to have.)

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And in the near future - Steam Pocket. The first true Linux phone with decent performance! (of course advertised as only for gaming, so Google should be OK with it... In the same sense like Steam Machine is just Linux PC so Sony and Microsoft also should be OK with it;)

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Although I'm not especially bothered by this month's Humble Choice, I think I'll be getting this - Both Ultrakill and Backpack Hero are in my wishlist.

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I really wish they would have done better with the names here. I am literally their number 1 target audience, and I can never remember which is the "frame" and which is the "machine" the names are so utterly generic and meaningless. I suppose its just because they're all coming out at the same time .. The "deck" you could say is also generic but it was the only thing they were releasing at the time.

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whoa that looks awesome! Looks super retro and modern at the same time. Love the art style. Let's wait and see how the gameplay holds up, but if its decent they could have something really great here.

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I honestly can't wait for the Steam Frame to come out, been wanting to get into VR for a long time but couldn't decide on a headset, and this one feels like my dreams come true.
My inner nerd especially appreciates the amount of work Valve put in to improve Linux on ARM – I already tried out FEX on a device of mine running postmarketOS, and it worked surprisingly well – especially for Jackbox games!

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The market is starting to be saturated with this type of games, but it also looks fun haha.

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Quoting: DrakkerTime to switch to an exponential trend line!

I'd be happy with one that mirrored Firefox usage vs IE

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Succesfull driver development is always impressive.

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Quoting: Phlebiac

Quoting: SeegrasYeahyeah, it also says you need Microsoft Windows to play this; nobody needs Microsoft Windows to play games anymore in 2026. 😆

Windows is the minimum; Linux with Proton is the upgrade. 😄

minimum: windows
recomended: linux

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Quoting: rustynail

Quoting: JarmerApparently some developers are mostly using ray tracing not to improve the visuals but as a crutch that allows them to not bother implementing lighting at all as they normally should, like iirc the latest Doom game doesn't work without ray tracing at all, although when you set it to low the performance is not as horrible as you may expect from ray tracing (but still pretty horrible)

This is a pretty unfair take IMO. Lighting the old way is one of the most time consuming things in game development right now. Ray tracing or path tracing would make lighting a game much much less time consuming.

The problem is that over the past decades devs have managed to get pretty close to replicating large parts of the look of raytraced lighting in traditional lighting models.

So now that raytraced lighting is here it only looks marginally better than what traditional lighting has offered. The only difference is that it's much less time consuming to implement. Which is not a crutch but a handy tool to keep dev times down while still making things look good.

I mean, you've just repeated the same thing I said but made it sound positive. Of course it's cool that they don't have to spend time on it, and I guess since I could play Doom Dark Ages at almost 60 fps on my low-mid tier rx6600 after all and it's in theory should only get better in the future, it's probably worth it

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