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@tuubi

you seem badly misinformed ...

Funny. I could have said the same thing about you. I just chose to be polite and end the conversation. I didn't see you backing up your claims either.

You are not going to convince me and I am not going to convince you. Let's just call it a day, shall we?

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Ooooo.... I think you guys are going to love this video: Dave2D demonstrating SteamOS running much better than Windows on the same hardware:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=CJXp3UYj50Q

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What I would like to know it's if Valve are working on something to make SteamOS egpu compatible?

Every source I found are telling the same thing: you need Windows to get egpu support. Is there a major technical roadblock that prevents SteamOS from supporting that feature?

Because, the Legion Go S, with SteamOS, is supposed to support that...

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@Caldathras

No offense, @tuubi, but you might want to check an encyclopedia yourself.

I know the difference, and I did mean to say dictionary. They seek to provide a short, to-the-point definition of a word or term, as opposed to an extensive explanation you'll find in an encyclopedia. Although I do recognise that different dictionaries (and encyclopedias) also have biases and might not always agree, especially when it comes to politics and other controversial subjects.

This is the last I have to say on the matter.

That might be for the best as you seem badly misinformed on these subjects, and unwilling to do even the tiniest bit of fact checking to back up your arguments. If your school truly taught you that Fascism is Socialism, your teachers didn't know what they were talking about, or were misleading you on purpose. I mean, write "is fascism a form of socialism" into any search engine and the only sources you'll find that say "yes" are ones pushing an easily confirmed right-wing agenda. That should tell you something.

And yeah, I know the "rules" in my previous reply were overly simplistic and easily nitpicked. That's why I put the disclaimer in front of that paragraph. But okay, here's another try: Socialism requires that the means of production are socially controlled, either by the state or collectively, and thus it's not compatible with Capitalism and private ownership.

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@tuubi

You might want to check a dictionary for a definition of Socialism.

No offense, @tuubi, but you might want to check an encyclopedia yourself.

If workers don't own the means of production, it's not Socialism

You have defined Communism (or, perhaps, Marxism), not Socialism. Socialism comes in many variants. Karl Marx was not the originator of the idea of Socialism, as many have come to believe. In regards to Socialism, it is generally considered that the resources and means of production should be controlled by the state. Not the workers, the state (i.e., the government). And this does not necessarily imply ownership, either. Capitalism functions quite well with many forms of socialism.

As I was taught long ago, Fascism is typically placed on the right of the socialist spectrum, whereas Communism has been placed on the left of that spectrum. However, in terms of political systems, all socialist idealogies are considered to be left-leaning (i.e., more government intrusion). The true political right leans towards less government involvement in society, not more. The failure to distinguish the difference between the socialist spectrum and its place in the entire political spectrum has led to a great deal of confusion as to what is left or right.

Fascism was developed by two socialists, expanding on the ideas of Karl Marx. What we now know as Nazism was originally called National Socialism. Both put the socialist focus on the nation instead of the working class, as would have been advocated by Marx.

Contrary to the assertion of @Purple Library Guy, Hitler did not hate the Communists. He considered them brothers and said so publicly. Hitler did, however, silence anyone he believed opposed him.

FYI, my understanding of the political realities of the first half of the 20th century pre-dates YouTube. Please do not attempt to denigrate my opinions by suggesting they are influenced by social media.

This is the last I have to say on the matter.

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Ah I didn't realise it was so complex, I like using the ui to launch my non-digital pc games and gog games, makes sense I guess when I look at the features for gog like cloud saves and gog galaxy stuff.. shame gog ignores linux when it comes to their official client

I did try to work around this by making a steam shortcut and adding the shortcut as a game on Heroic, which worked initially but then the shortcuts stopped working

I know I could just use steam, just that on some of the older systems I use it feels somewhat sluggish compared to the more simple UI on heroic

Thanks for the explanation!

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Steam runs natively on Windows AND Linux. There is no immediate need to go through the painstaking process of reverse engineering the Steam app and create an opensource client for it. (That is the required foundation for any platform/storefront that gets included in Heroic).
Heroic is the GUI for any other non-steam platform and it can create shortcuts inside Steam for its games.
Steam is a very complex target , OpenSteamClient has a long way to go as a one man project to come even remotely close to the original.

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Does anyone know if they plan to add steam support, as in launch my steam games directly from heroics UI

Sometimes I want to use heroic launcher as my main games launcher but haven't found a reliable way to get my steam library on there

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So I did buy this one and with bluetooth it works fine, but I can't get it to work with USB or the 2,4G stick.
The article says it works, does anybody has advice?
Im on Fedora-Plasma.

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Am a bit disapointed.
Hoped that the issues with individual scaling between docked and handheld desktop mode would be solved but no, it isn't because they still stick to x11.

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Handhelds are great, but can this be installed on a gaming PC for a "Steam Machine" living room experience?

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@Strapinski, just what a I read on Reddit. Lots of bans without any reason given, something about Cuba being banned after selling there for years, 34 1-star reviews on Truspilot (out of 35 total), it all paints a picture of a fairly toxic support process.

I suspect a lot of the negativity is really related to Funcom being bought by the Chinese, when Tencent stepped in.

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I can't change the password because I bought the Steam Deck from someone else. I do the procedure, but in the last step ctrl + alt + f9 errors appear: Losing delta precision while programming shaper LUT.
in several numerical sequences. Could you help me?

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I concur with the Frenchman. Clown shit, indeed.
Their first game worked natively in linux but the second game is steamdeck exclusive? That sounds less like a technical issue and more like a corporate "clown shit" issue. And the community is usually VERY loud about those.

Your game can have a diehard linux following or a really loud linux hate fest.... which turns from bad press to no press very quickly. So.... I had high hopes for this one and I'd like to see them turn it around, but I won't be surprised to see an "It is with an extremely heavy heart..." community post on Steam from them in a year.

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@Caldathras
You might want to check a dictionary for a definition of Socialism. A far-right ideology like Fascism simply cannot be it. Maybe you're simply mixing up your terminology?

At the risk of blatant oversimplification: If workers don't own the means of production, it's not Socialism. If the government doesn't protect and empower the working class (and seek to minimise poverty and inequality), it's not even Social Democracy. And Socialism, in any of its forms, is simply not compatible with a capitalist elite.

Correct me if I'm wrong (FYI, I'm not) but isn't the proper name of the Nazi Party actually the National Socialist German Workers' Party? Wouldn't that contradict your assertion in and of itself?

This talking point is a good example of the far-right revisionism Purple Library Guy mentioned. Policy and actions are what determine a party's position on the ideological spectrum, not the name.

Anyone who didn't learn their history of Nazi Germany from trashy Youtube videos or podcasts knows why the party had "socialist" in the name when it obviously didn't adhere to the ideology, and how Hitler had his own spin on the meaning of Socialism. He actually claimed that Marxists "stole and perverted" the word and he was taking it back or some such nonsense. Yet this is one of the most common arguments that Fascists and others on the far-right spout to try to discredit those on the left.

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@Purple Library Guy

the difference in what kind of elite is screwing everything up makes big changes in how they screw everything up.

In this we can agree.

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@Purple Library Guy

Revisionism? I was taught this in high school in social/political studies in the mid 1980s. I would be more inclined to believe that your view represents the revisionism. I even remember the teacher putting up a spectrum of Socialism showing Fascism at one end and Communism at the other. Presumably, social democracy was somewhere in the middle.

I should point out that I was talking about Fascism not Nazism. IMO, Nazism was a perversion of Fascism by a group of madmen. Not that this makes Fascism any better an option. That could, I suppose, also be said about Communism as well. In that case, the utopian wet-dream of Marxism, when implemented, became the reality of Communism which was later twisted by the horror of Stalinism.

and Nazi ideology was extremely anti-socialist

Obviously they weren't coming for the socialists and trade unionists because they themselves were socialists.

It is kind of naive to think that it is not possible for socialists to hate other types of socialists. Quoting the (admittedly profound) poem of a former Nazi supporter is hardly proof that the Nazis were not socialist.

Correct me if I'm wrong (FYI, I'm not) but isn't the proper name of the Nazi Party actually the National Socialist German Workers' Party? Wouldn't that contradict your assertion in and of itself?

All I was trying to point out that there are different kinds of socialism, just as there are different kinds of democracy, different kinds of feudalism, and different kinds of totalitarianism. On a very simplistic level, the primary difference between Fascism and Communism is the ownership of the resources and assets. Of course, one can find other differences if one chooses to dig further into the details.

I am not trying to engage in an argument here. I suspect you are younger than I. Your views are formed by the idealogies that influenced your education, as are mine. As, I suspect, would be the views of my father and grandfather, both of whom lived through WW2, the former as a child and the latter actively supporting the resistance to German occupation.

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Oh, does that mean it will make using Heroic launcher less painful when started from steam on the Deck? neat! (I installed it yesterday and it was kinda annoying to use...)

Flávio from Heroic here. Yeah, this is something we know it's happening although none of our team could reproduce it. Let's hope it fixes it, but it seems something ont the SteamOS side. Also might be a case when using wine or old proton version. Proton 10 should work fine.

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@CharlieTheMadHatter

Use `LD_PRELOAD="" %command`

https://github.com/doitsujin/dxvk/issues/4436#issuecomment-2466646597

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Dragon Age Inquisition is still a Problem with Controller Input

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@Dana Souly

I still use my old sn30pro+ from 8bitdo.
Why is every controller asymmetric i don't like this.

Very fair. I think it is an Xbox/Nintendo vs PlayStation thing. I.e. people that are used to different controller lineages have different expectations whether the thumbsticks should be symmetrically positioned or not.

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@FutureSuture

I find it a shame that this controller gets so much right but does not support AA batteries like the 8BitDo Pro 2 does.

I, too, prefer replaceable batteries. But to be fair - there are both pros (sustainability, longevity, long-term cost, unlimited sessions with a replacement set of batteries) and cons (weight, size, short-term cost) to it.

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Oh, does that mean it will make using Heroic launcher less painful when started from steam on the Deck? neat! (I installed it yesterday and it was kinda annoying to use...)

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At the moment, the [kisak-ppa](https://launchpad.net/~kisak/+archive/ubuntu/kisak-mesa) doesn't have Mesa updates for Ubuntu 25.04 …
(Info from Launchpad PPA: On hold until Focal and Jammy are retired due to PPA storage limit)

So I added the [Mesa Almost Stable](https://launchpad.net/~ernstp/+archive/ubuntu/mesarc) to my recent reinstallation. Let's see if it works as well in the long term and doesn't cause any problems.

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amatai: If I had been there when these screw-ups happened, I would probably feel the same as you about the distro. Especially since there is so much distro choices out there, there is no reason to stick with something that you don't trust. My point stand, though. They seem to have fixed their act, because there has not been any screw-ups since at least 2021.

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I find it very weird to need to disable email 2FA first and not have an option to have both enabled

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Well, that's expected. I'm surprised they're bothering with the Steam Deck at all.

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Keeping heroic from phoning to everything (from the shops to the proton/wine repository)

That part is strange.
Heroic skips analytics wherever possible and the only thing that needs to be toggled is the optional referral on the gog store.
This is confined to the bare essentials to whenever it is needed. How would they know which games you have and what updates are there for a good user experience if they can't poll data from the internet?

no option to disable creepy playtime tracking. For some weird reason disabling the playtime sync is deemed sufficient.

What isn't submitted can't hurt you imho.

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Second pet peeve: no option to disable creepy playtime tracking. For some weird reason disabling the playtime sync is deemed sufficient.

Hmm... Isn't playtime recording a good thing, for some self-insights?

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Did they say anywhere if there would be discounts for owners of the originals? It was sure nice that the Stalker remasters were free for previous owners...

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