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Quoting: legluondunetIs wayland mature today for a day by day use and for a gamer config?

Alien: Isolation crashes on startup

I played Alien: Isolation start to finish on Wayland last year. Could be something else youre facing, or a recent regression.

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Quoting: legluondunetIs wayland mature today for a day by day use and for a gamer config?

Very select games have problems (Alien: Isolation crashes on startup; X4: Foundations doesn't display its cursor when using controller due to Wayland's broken virtual cursor functionality), but by and large the vast, VAST majority of games work, and games using Proton are always functionally identical on Wayland

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Quoting: hardpenguinTechnically we ALL use xorg to run games without "native" Wayland compatibility, right?

How so? Can you explain this further?

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Ugh I wish my copies I had purchased from GOG had transferred over back when they were doing that library share thing with Steam. They're $1.49 and $1.99 right now on Steam though so I went ahead and re-purchased them there.

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What will you be voting for?

The Drifter

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1170570/The_Drifter/

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I'm still using Xorg because:

- XFCE is not yet compatible with Wayland, will be compatible in next version
- I need a stable gaming experience

Is wayland mature today for a day by day use and for a gamer config?

I'm using a AMD GPU.

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For those of you still rocking xorg rather than Wayland

Technically we ALL use xorg to run games without "native" Wayland compatibility, right?

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That's quite unexpected! Pretty good games too ☺️.

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What will you be voting for?

I actually had to make a couple shots in the dark because I have not played that many games from 2025 😅

2024 and 2023 though? Very good 😙👌

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So no real changes, just reverts of the previous "fixes" that caused bugs (because nobody really tested them before merging). *sigh*

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Quoting: GoEsrIsn't the whole point of WinBoat that you don't have to interact with the Windows DE to use the apps? That's a pretty big difference from just using a VM.

Yes, that too... (and it *mostly* works fine)

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No new features - but essential security and bug fixes where really needed.

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I thought, xorg is dead, buried and doesn't get any more development and fixes?

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Isn't the whole point of WinBoat that you don't have to interact with the Windows DE to use the apps? That's a pretty big difference from just using a VM.

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Missing last 10 quests, so it will be artifact hunting now :-D

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Perhaps I misinterpreted, but I got the impression that the Steam Frame could run "some" low-end Win32 games (via Proton and FEX), and Android games, but was intended to stream anything higher-end from something more powerful (like the Gabecube).

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Anyone know how to change the mouse sensitivity?

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Quoting: taosecurity"Windows runs as a VM inside a Docker/Podman container, we communicate with it using the WinBoat Guest Server to retrieve data we need from Windows. For compositing applications as native OS-level windows, we use FreeRDP together with Windows's RemoteApp protocol."

I don't see how this is better than just running a Windows VM?

It IS a VM and sure you can do everything this does yourself.. its the simplicity this gives people with the setup process that IMO makes this appealing

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Great to hear they drive SteamVR on Linux forward! 🥳

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The project history from their web-page is worth a read, to summarize, it started around 2013 and it was a total cluster...ef. Switching engines few times, stopping the project, re/starting the project, leaders coming and going, etc.
After reading all that I feel that is amazing that it reached this point with an actual release, even if early access.
Hoping for the current momentum to continue.

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Did someone here tried this guide?
[https://www.gog.com/forum/baldurs_gate_3/native_steam_deck_build_on_gog/post17](https://www.gog.com/forum/baldurs_gate_3/native_steam_deck_build_on_gog/post17)

It would be nice to have your feedback etc.

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The Intel Atom minimum requirements reminded me about how I miss netbooks. My old ASUS netbook was a great Linux machine.

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Probably because gaming is basically Valve's entire thing. And they are doing it with a specific purpose to make their own ecosystem of hardware and software.

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Okay okay, I still have one I got from the last sale that I've still yet to open. Now is as good of a chance as ever to get one if you missed it, unless you're waiting to see the prices of their new toys next year.

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Even as I write this, I still don't think I truly grasp the ramifications of this. How Valve is so ridiculously ahead of the entire industry including Microsoft, Apple and Google with making computing (and gaming) on ARM a thing.

I don't know how more popular these little ARM chips are going to be in the future, but thanks to the open source community and largely Valve, the platform just got a whole lot more viable now.

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"Windows runs as a VM inside a Docker/Podman container, we communicate with it using the WinBoat Guest Server to retrieve data we need from Windows. For compositing applications as native OS-level windows, we use FreeRDP together with Windows's RemoteApp protocol."

I don't see how this is better than just running a Windows VM?

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The Steam Deck LCD is good, and this is a great deal - but if you can stretch, the OLED is far superior overall.

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It reminds me a bit of One Finger Death Punch (1 & 2). That plus the TBW ability to try out alternate futures and experiment is an interesting combination. I see it has a demo, I'll give it a shot.

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Quoting: _wojtekWinBoat is super weird… and they still require windows licence so for me it's a huge "no-go" meh…

Well it can/will install windows even without a valid reg. key (into trial mode). So f you need some windows app for only a relatively short time frame (like me, who required m$ office for about a month due to me preparing/modifying a bunch of office docs for an event happening once a year [ISO 27001 certification audit]), it is absolutely great.

So yes and no at he same time

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Hey! [Glyptodonts](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doedicurus) spotted in the trailer! One of my favorite (sadly extinct) mammals.

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