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Quoting: devlandLutris forces you to configure each game from scratch while bottles gives you one prefix aka bottle in which you can run things however you want.

Uh, no? I myself just uses the same prefix (and the same system Proton CachyOS) for Lutris, Heroic, and Faugus.

If I need to, I am able to make them use different prefixes, of course. Which, in a btrfs system, is honestly just pure positive - I get to enjoy different games that may need different protonfixes, and it doesn't take much space on my system.

Them being all UMU based makes it easier for me, actually. All of Bottles' own middleman to work around the "legacy tools" meant they're actually got blindsided when everyone adopted UMU (which is also where non-Valve protonfixes are centralized). I do have Bottles installed, but Faugus takes care of most of my needs with Lutris being there for the ones I want to add to Steam, and Heroic there for GOG/Epic.

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Does Bazzite and CachyOS not get named labels on Steam's Survey?

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Forecasting a drop back to the high 3~% range next month. This kind of sudden change certainly looks anomalous along the greater trend. Glad to be a part of this growth though. 🐧

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Quoting: PhiladelphusWhat does DRM stand for in this case? Because I read it as Digital Rights Management, and I couldn't figure out from the headline if NVIDIA announcing something about "DRM Per-Plane Color" on April 1 was the height of April Fools, or a new depressing reality.

I have a feeling it's something else. Really, acronyms kind of suck, and they're worse in the internet era because they're so impossible to search.

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I guess it's this: https://dri.freedesktop.org/wiki/DRM/

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Quoting: PhiladelphusWhat does DRM stand for in this case?

Direct Rendering Manager https://dri.freedesktop.org/wiki/DRM/

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Quoting: PhiladelphusWhat does DRM stand for in this case? Because I read it as Digital Rights Management, and I couldn't figure out from the headline if NVIDIA announcing something about "DRM Per-Plane Color" on April 1 was the height of April Fools, or a new depressing reality.

In this case they likely mean the [Direct Rendering Manager](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct_Rendering_Manager). It's a confusing abbreviation.

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Quoting: CatKillerThe VR market is 80% Facebook

I did notice in the Steam survey stats today that OculusMeta Quest was prominent. I think they made more affordable options, which would certainly account for it.

Quoting: CatKillerFacebook have recently reorientated away from VR gaming - closing studios and calling off hardware partnerships

If there was a "free dev money" thing going for a while, then it certainly tracks with a "recent shift".

Quoting: CatKillerIt would be quite a good time for Valve to swoop in with a cheap device that can play all those games without any retooling from game devs, but RAM crisis.

The "Index" was rather expensive; I assume the "Frame" was intended to be cheaper, but who knows how it will be priced now...

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https://www.lokigames.com/products/heretic2/index.php3f

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I want an 8GB Raspberry Pi 4 for a FreeBSD file server, but hopefully the prices don't go up any further by the time I can get one. D:

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What does DRM stand for in this case? Because I read it as Digital Rights Management, and I couldn't figure out from the headline if NVIDIA announcing something about "DRM Per-Plane Color" on April 1 was the height of April Fools, or a new depressing reality.

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I've been playing Neoverse, that rather Slay-the-Spire-like game except the characters you play are anime girls. It's fun.

And, I've been playing Lamplighters League. As a turn-based tactics game with unsurprising similarities to Shadowrun it's totally my kind of thing. And I like the dieselpunk-with-creepy-magic setting, and like the story fairly well. There are some definitely annoying things, the worst for me being that especially if you have an attack that is shooting multiple targets, it can sometimes be really hard or even impossible to force it to target the enemies you want. To be clear, this is a game glitch, not a design decision, which is generally what the problems are. Pity it's abandoned or they might have fixed that. For me it's still quite fun despite rough edges, but I won't guarantee other people would agree.

On that ranking list, I find it interesting that #23, the Elder Scrolls one, is Unsupported. Must be a pretty good Unsupported to be hitting the rankings.

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what have you been playing the most over the last month?

Cyberpunk 2077

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@Th3_Fr1ng3: That, combined with VR support, would actually be pretty neat 😁

On the other hand, with a 5K+ library I wouldn't even know where to start...

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Tim Sweeney is a sucker, this is the man that cries competition and free market in courts, and then cripples the competition.

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prices never come back down... 😭

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Quoting: rea987

Quoting: omer666Well that's good news, because it was the last legacy id software related game that was missing a source port

Enemy Territory: Quake Wars begs to differ. 😬

Up until your comment I never considered this game as "legacy," but since you're mentioning it...

Damn, I'm getting old 😭😂

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production quality code

Time will tell.

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Quoting: Caldathras[...] some definite QoL improvements, like autodetecting WiFi printers.

I'm sure Cinnamon gets lots of polish, being Mint's primary DE, but I don't think this one counts. In fact, all three Mint desktop variants handle printers in exactly the same way. Maybe you simply changed over just when it started working on Mint in general? I think Mint 21 switched to CUPS "Driverless Printing" / IPP as the default, so that's probably when it happened.

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Quoting: Phlebiac

Quoting: Caldathrasadding Wayland support does not equal removing Xorg support.

It does not. But GNOME 50 dropped X11 support. KDE plans to drop X11 support soon (they already split out the X11 stuff in preparation for it). Any desktop environment planning to stick around will support Wayland, and may drop X11 support if they end up with too few active users. That could take a long time in some cases, sure.

KDE is apparently targeting some time in 2027, with the 6.8 release of Plasma. If there will be no x11 support at all, then I will either have to switch my Kepler laptop to the Mesa/NVK driver (which I've read, does poorly in Plasma) or switch to a DE that still supports x11. I guess they risk losing all of us legacy hardware users. It's a shame. I really like Plasma, but there are always roadblocks that get in the way of using it on my laptops.

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyCinnamon . . . I haven't tried it in a while, so I don't know what it's like these days. It's certainly available to me as a Mint user, so I probably will give it another shot at some point.

I switched over from Mate on my daily driver 2 or 3 versions of Mint ago. What attracted me at the time was the ability to customize the look of the DE (i had it looking like Win7 for a while). That novelty didn't stick but I stayed on Cinnamon afterwards. I am quite happy with it and it has some definite QoL improvements, like autodetecting WiFi printers. It is really a matter of taste, however. I'd check it out in a VM before committing to wholesale change.

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One of the greatest tools of the last decade.

I still use my RDNA2 GPU and thanks to this, I can use FSR4 (only 4.0, but good enough) everywhere. Can save money for GPU. Will buy a good OLED Monitor instead. 👍

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Quoting: tuubi

Quoting: SirMCJeagerI'm not as concerned about who they interact with as many people here have been stating. The amount of left-leaning bias and 'passion' is a little concerning in these comments. We should commend this company for the good they do, rather than condemning them entirely based on a few interactions with someone who holds a differing view.

I am not concerned about who they interact with, but I don't like that they actively and financially support a known racist and bigot like DHH. Which makes me unwilling to support them, so that I do not support the hate by proxy.

If that doesn't sound reasonable to you, I suppose that shows your own bias. Willing indifference is an active political stance.

Looking up about him, just seems like a conservative who doesn't like the influence of Islam and the negative influence of illegal/asylum immigration into Britain.

"Just" is the wrong word to use here, I feel. You should read the article posted above. It clearly outlines and summarises his dog whistles and thinly veiled racism.

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Quoting: TechnopeasantI was aware the Quake 4 port was largely playable but how is the Prey implementation? Has anyone made fully polished versions of these?

Quake 4 and Prey are fine with both proprietary versions and engine reimplantation. Especially Luxtorpeda offers out of box experience for both games with both engines.

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/05/luxtorpeda-adds-classic-marathon-for-playing-the-native-linux-version-via-steam/

The engine reimplantation in question:

https://github.com/glKarin/com.n0n3m4.diii4a?tab=readme-ov-file#idtech4a-harmattan-edition--

Also, if you happened to own a legit CD Key of Prey, you can activate it on Steam, then use Luxtorpeda to automate the installation process.

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Quoting: jkaartI can move to Cinnamon immediately when it has Classic Menu "applet" (do not know what Cinnamon calling these)

I think "applet" would be appropriate. That's how I refer to them. They have also been called Cinnamon Spices.

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Btw, it is easy to build Optiscaler from git on Linux.
Here is script: https://pastebin.com/TW17k7Fr

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Quoting: tuubi

Quoting: SirMCJeagerI'm not as concerned about who they interact with as many people here have been stating. The amount of left-leaning bias and 'passion' is a little concerning in these comments. We should commend this company for the good they do, rather than condemning them entirely based on a few interactions with someone who holds a differing view.

I am not concerned about who they interact with, but I don't like that they actively and financially support a known racist and bigot like DHH. Which makes me unwilling to support them, so that I do not support the hate by proxy.

If that doesn't sound reasonable to you, I suppose that shows your own bias. Willing indifference is an active political stance.

Looking up about him, just seems like a conservative who doesn't like the influence of Islam and the negative influence of illegal/asylum immigration into Britain.

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Quoting: rea987Among the old id Tech 4 titles, only Doom 3 and Doom 3 BFG received source code and source port releases. Quake 4 and Prey got Doom 3 source code based engine reimplantation made by the community. ETQW, Wolfenstein (2009) and Brink received no source code release or a modern port.

I was aware the Quake 4 port was largely playable but how is the Prey implementation? Has anyone made fully polished versions of these?

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Best worst thing that has happened in my gaming time recently.

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At this pace I will be able to resell my RPi 5 16GB for the price of a Steam Deck 😅

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