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I got the notification to participate on my Windows dual boot but not on my Nobara partition 🫩

Did you deny?

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I got the notification to participate on my Windows dual boot but not on my Nobara partition 🫩

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The EU website seems to be having issues, the link is correct though but it's now doing a 404.

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i made a account just so i can share these here, THERE HAVE BEEN UPDATES!

in #bug-reports -> linux help center in THE FINALS Discord, Embark Dusty posted:

Hey guys! There are no plans to drop support for SteamOS/Proton/Wine and/or SteamDeck, despite us not officially supporting the platform, we will do our upmost best to maintain your ability to play!

adding to this, a little later, Embark tvandijck posted:

Just to add to what Dusty just said, we're working pretty closely with CodeWeavers to QA every release we put out there since about Season 5, and I don't see a reason to stop that. It's not exactly a collaboration, but we do catch issues with SteamDeck early because at the very least they do a pass on the game before we release a patch. Do we miss some things once in a while, absolutely. It's not our primary platform after all, but we understand there is a pretty passionate and growing playerbase on SteamDeck. Please keep reporting issues here, to our support, or report them to the Proton devs directly, and we will investigate what we can do to fix things...

so they really do care about us linux gamers

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There's a reddit post with a screenshot from (seemingly) an Embark employee in their discord that seems to say that they will not try to drop support for proton etc. (I haven't double checked it's validity though).

https://www.reddit.com/r/linux_gaming/comments/1lqpdc5/the_finals_will_still_be_playable_on_linux/

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with plans for Native Linux support too

Now THAT is what I like to see!

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Update shared via their Discord. It's good news for once.

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So basically they're going to replace a dedicated kernel based anti-cheat for their own because they think they can do better than a team of people whose only job it is to create an anti-cheat system?

A third party anti-cheat is a service they need to pay, they are probably trying to lower the costs.
Writing an anti-cheat is easy, simply use AI! Nowadays you do not need developers or know how, you only need 1 single AI guru and an easily persuadable CEO .

How could this possibly go wrong?

Yep, waiting for the fireworks to start

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So basically they're going to replace a dedicated kernel based anti-cheat for their own because they think they can do better than a team of people whose only job it is to create an anti-cheat system? How could this possibly go wrong? Not interested in the game itself, but I'm quite curious when the first security hole will be exploited.

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Thanks. Put it on the wishlist.

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Man, that's sad to hear. Cheating has gotten to such a ridiculous level. The Finals was genuine good fun too, and a very aim-intensive game which is pretty rare since Quake etc died out.

I wonder if PlaysafeID will be considered in the future, or at least something similar. Not sure if it's been covered in any articles previously, but it seems like the best (NOT perfect) solution that could handle both cheating AND linux compatibility. That or server side anticheat, but I'm not convinced that will help as much as it's hyped up to.

Be really great if cheaters could just stop cheating though.

COD: WWII is no longer playable on PC at all now due to RCEs, meaning every last call of duty is impossible to safely run on linux without a custom launcher (like plutonium or the BO3 one).

CS2 is of course great, but it's also pretty cheater filled and I sometimes like faster paced games. Hero shooters seem to have it pretty good, but tac FPS and arena shooter fans seems to be out of luck. As much as I hate EA, battlefield is one of my favourite series and now only BF4 is playable (which is great don't get me wrong). I feel like every time I find a shooter I enjoy playing, it gets blocked again. RIP

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I only heard about it recently when it blew up in light of Pirate Software criticising the petition heavily. See here, for example: https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/sports/esports/news/what-is-going-on-with-pirate-software-and-stop-killing-games/articleshow/122207917.cms

Some said Thor (Pirate Software) deliberately misrepresented what the initiative wants to achieve because his parents are/were both deeply rooted in the more (from a consumer's perspective) toxic parts of the industry – which sounds like a valid point but might just be a narrative. I didn't dig deeper because it's always such a hassle to try to squeeze "the truth" out of social media, so take it all with a grain of salt.

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Whew, I checked it a few days ago and it was at just 660k so I got a bit worried, but now it looks we will hit the required 1M in time, and country thresholds have already been met long ago, so it will go through. Can't wait to see what they come up with to try and get it blocked. :-/

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Cool. I signed that the very week the petition started, but as the hyphed moved over I thought this was a lsot cause. It's nice to see a second wave of hype now.

Let's just hope the invalid signatures are not to many.

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Heroic does let you install anything using Wine too, yes but naturally any integrations and updates are not available.

Yes you can add anything to Steam too like Heroic.

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Seeing so many members of the gaming and tech communities announce their support has made the last few days very exciting.
Just to name a few: PewDiePie, Cr1tikal, Asmongold, Jacksepticeye, Michael Bell of Bellular News, Louis Rossmann, Steve Burke of GamersNexus, Jeff Geerling, and so many more.

I can't believe my eyes. I signed several months ago but I thought it was hopeless. More of a symbolic protest to the powers that be than anything. The last last couple of days have been so positive and really has given me some hope. Maybe we aren't doomed to an "everything as a service" future were all aspects of our digital life are run on the whims of big companies.

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I already signed the EU one. I think this is a good move.

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Seeing so many members of the gaming and tech communities announce their support has made the last few days very exciting.
Just to name a few: PewDiePie, Cr1tikal, Asmongold, Jacksepticeye, Michael Bell of Bellular News, Louis Rossmann, Steve Burke of GamersNexus, Jeff Geerling, and so many more.

It's been very uplifting.

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That's a whole 'nother argument, but I do agree. Much like buying something, and then features that came with it suddenly behind a paywall - it all needs to stop.

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this looks awesome! Next time I need to tinker with my proton versions I will give this a try instead of up-qt.

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It's not just about games...
When MasterVolt pulled the plug out of the cloudservice of the Web soladin 1500, a month later my solar panels stopped producing.
It should be illegal that if you buy something, that it requires the cloud to be functional.

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I don't like sharing my login credentials with 3rd party apps. Is it possible to use Heroic with GOG installers that I manually downloaded? Does it have any disadvantages, like missing auto-applied game fixes (UMU integration, or similar)?

A second question, is it possible to add the whole Heroic/Lutris UI to Steam instead of individual games, and still control it using gamepad, when I start it from the Steam Deck gaming mode?

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Thank you for making a post about my application, it means a lot to me!

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@d3xt3r yeah I get it. This is why I switched to KDE. I like GTK/Adwaita, but the devs are such a pain. At first I was a big fan of them, but the more I got to know the DE the more I understood that they just live in their own bubble. At this point it would be too much for me to rewrite my application in C++ and Qt. If only they listened to the community they could be so much more, but it is what it is.

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Heroic is also exploring adding other stores, but they are committed to only adding those when they have good cli option so it can be natively incorporated to Heroic UI.

https://github.com/Heroic-Games-Launcher/HeroicGamesLauncher/issues/4605

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Thanks!

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Still a great deal most of the time for the games you get though IMO.

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Desktop Linux with the Deck excluded has been at the same level as Mac for a couple of months already.

https://i.ibb.co/hRNbFjGW/Steam-Deck.png

Your graph shows some interesting patterns.

For instance that the Linux desktop trend seems to drop right after Steam Deck released. This is not unreasonable since I expect quite a few Linux users to own one and some of them will simply have been counted as deck instead of desktop.

Deck growth also seems to have stalled for a while now (growing with Steam instead of faster). Liam's graph even shows that its share has been dropping steadily. So desktop usage is going up faster than on first inspection.

This is probably all somewhat speculative (especially the second observation) because I suspect that proper statistical tests would not show much confidence with the limited data set. This is made even more difficult when you realise that the "Steam Deck" graph is not an independent data set. It is likely that most deck users are also desktop users, interlinking the data and making proper analysis even more difficult.

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Nice to see CachyOS going quite strong already.
It is so far my most favorite distro I ever used.

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If you remove the local peaks and subtract the SteamOS values, then you get that approximately 1.6% are Linux desktop users. Which may not sound like a lot, but it's starting to approach MacOS level now and on the whole user base of Steam this is still a lot of people.

Desktop Linux with the Deck excluded has been at the same level as Mac for a couple of months already.

https://i.ibb.co/hRNbFjGW/Steam-Deck.png

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