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Stellar Blade has consumed a lot of time, I'm already at 40 hours played, it's been great and it performs quite well on Deck.

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Oh well. I'm still waiting for them to fix "the Alters" which is still thoroughly FUBAR, which is a bit surprising because it's unreal engine.

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> To keep adult content legal, you’ll need to prove you’re 18+ before accessing most adult-tagged mods. (Exact mechanics aren’t live yet.)

Out with the old
In with the new
Screw what worked
Now barriers accrue.

Proof of age, scans of ID
Delays and rejects
You’ll wait and plea.

What once was simple
Free to explore
Now stranded behind a locked door.

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I don't remember hearing about this one before. Always just used ProtonUp-Qt like most, and it does work perfectly fine, but this looks a little better when using Gnome (you know, for the 20 seconds a month it gets used). Glad there's options out there.

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"Diablo 2" and "auto battler" really shouldn't ever be used in the same sentence.

As someone who deeply admires the underlying systems and mechanics that turned D2 into an eternal gem it almost hurts physically.

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Looks great but as KDE user, gnome adwaita UI just mismatches so much and doesn't layout in ways that make sense to me. I don't expect the devs to drop everything and add KDE/Qt into the app as that's completely unreasonable. For now, I'll continue using protonup on my deck and desktop until something like protonplus comes around that fits my desktop environment.

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@Vortex_Acherontic

But forcing every distribution to drag around 32bit libs just for Steam ... I don't think Valve should be allowed to hold us all hostage with this.

It's not just Valve's Steam client, you know ...

if ppl would have adopt Flatpak

If people would have to adopt Flatpak? ... What happened to free choice here? Why should I be forced to use it if I don't want to use it?

@Eduardo Medina

Windows doesn't kill anything, it keeps very old components for decades

Huh? Since when? These days, old Windows software runs better on Linux than it does on newer versions of Windows. Admittedly, M$ isn't as ruthless as Apple but still ...

Also, refer to the quote from @CajunMoses

Microsoft has the audacity to block users of older technology from using the most recent version of its desktop OS.

In case you didn't know it, Windows 11 enforces planned obsolescence by unnecessarily requiring specific hardware security features that are only available on new computers (mostly 2019 or later), forcing the discard of perfectly good hardware to use Windows 11. For those of us who prefer the quality of older hardware, M$ is giving us the finger.

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So what if you are not using the "supported" platform that techbros so generously have chosen for you?

Or worse, if you really don't feel comfortable with that platform. Some of them have absolutely atrocious terms, such as using uploaded images for AI training, or retaining all of your data indefinitely, even after the process has completed. Before we make these things mandatory for anything, we better talk about how to get it done without creating a privacy nightmare in the process. I have no problem with showing ID when there is a good reason for it. But when I do that in a liquor store, the store at least doesn't keep a copy of my driver's license in their files forever. The same standard needs to apply for online ID checks, IMHO.

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@Cyba.Cowboy

You might want to reread the second paragraph or check out the Nvidia link. Both say that the upcoming 580 series will be the last for Maxwell, Pascal and Volta GPUs. It's not happening immediately.

@mi1stormilst
Or, in my case -- since I game on a laptop -- I don't want to to spend any more money on a new laptop ...

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I hope I am wrong, but a change in ownership of a popular platform never ended well as far as I can tell/remember.

PayPal is doing better than it would have under Thiel and Musk. Minecraft is doing better than it would have under Notch.

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@Stella Small open source projects tend to be very tricky to work with and be difficult to use, build and whatnot. This is going to be true in any OS, but they are much less common in Windows . . . small open source projects are usually Linux based. It has little to do with whether Linux is "viable as an application platform".

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Sunshine completely stopped working for me. The deb package was never supported on Ubuntu 25 and just generates errors when you try to install it. The devs recommend 'self compiling it' as a fix
And flathub package used to work on KDE Wayland but doesn't anymore.

I feel like Linux still needs a lot of work to be viable as an application platform, because my experience is that stuff constantly breaks. All the time. And then you have to wait for a fix, if it even is ever fixed

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Let the enshittification begin! It didn't even took them a month to start.

Sure, part of the excuse is laws, but they are also putting stuff behind a paywall:

"Images which contain Pornographic content or contain Extreme violence must be posted to the supporter image share".

Not that I care about the images, or the extreme violence, not my thing, but it's clear they are going to change more so that the free users are being forced to start paying.

I hope I am wrong, but a change in ownership of a popular platform never ended well as far as I can tell/remember.

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What I'm really concerned about with this approach is that to verify, one usually has to use some kind of a technology/software which is usually available/working only on so called "supported" platforms...

So what if you are not using the "supported" platform that techbros so generously have chosen for you?

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Not sure what the bit Steam Input should be doing.

I tested HITMAN running with Wine-Wayland for that sweet HDR, and even with the latest 10-8 release, controller still doesn't work, until I manually turn off Steam input for the game.

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I'm curious... desktop doesn't work, Steam Deck does - what about the Legion Go S?

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Next step fingerprint verification, and for even naughtier content, a blood sample.

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Thank you for doing these kind of articles Liam! It's so helpful to have these guides, not just in the moment for the game at hand, but also because it introduces interesting projects and commands we might not be aware of (example: protontricks).

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Hell yeah, go nvidia! 😂 love to see it

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Dang, Helldivers in the top 25??! Incredible game, but how do people play that game so much on deck?? Between the complex button mashing and 720p I can only do a couple hours in that game before my eyes and wrists beg for mercy 😂 maybe I need to revisit my controls / graphics settings!!

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Oh, that looks interesting! "Somebody wake up Hicks."

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Ah, I guess the tearing in VR that got introduced with 570 got fixed in this one, right?
Or the headset tracking delay that's happening since 440 got this minor fix, right?
And for sure the asnyc reprojection issues where only needing this minor fix as well.

Obviously!



550 club reporting.

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I don't know....
It is hard to explain, but this *feels* like some kind of a new low...

I mean like "-Does it run on my overpowered&expensive Linux gaming rig? -Well, sure, we do support Steamdeck" low...

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Ah, I guess the tearing in VR that got introduced with 570 got fixed in this one, right?
Or the headset tracking delay that's happening since 440 got this minor fix, right?
And for sure the asnyc reprojection issues where only needing this minor fix as well.

Oh, the ppa doesn't have this driver for any Ubuntu version prior to 25.04. Maybe it'll come with the update from 575.51 to 575.64 then.
But for now... frick, cannot test. Too bad.

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Steam Input no longer works on Wayland.

Why am I no longer surprised by this..

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Well, another crappy developer added to my ignore list.

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Valve are probably going to have to do better testing since this

SteamOS:
This game runs successfully on SteamOS

isn't really true. Only Deck. And potentially only LCD Deck if it's like the others that use this anti-cheat.

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More like Linux anti-cheat break

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There is hope, Wuthering Waves uses the same anticheat and it's playable on Linux. Hopefully someone figures out the trick. or if it's up to game devs to enable support, well, hopefully they do !

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What kind of break is this? More like summer break, limit break, or dragon break?

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