Quoting: whizse

Quoting: AussieEeveeWhat I am expecting from Valve is an easy way to install these other game stores. Yes, they are competitors but Valve promised me that I could.

Where?

https://www.steamdeck.com/en/hardware [External Link]

You can also install and use PC software, of course. Browse the web, watch streaming video, do your normal productivity stuff, install some other game stores, whatever.

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Nice to see Valve responding quickly on this.

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This could be good, if it's done well. Z-level mechanics can really make a game shine. Take Dwarf Fortress for example -- it was a good game when you could interact with only one z-level, but adding the ability to dig down to the magma sea (and, uh, beyond [External Link] really opened up the possibilities. Here's hoping it's done like that, and not say modern XCOM base-building mechanics.

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Quoting: slaapliedjeProbably because I didn't notice until I had told it to restart the computer because I was going to do something in Debian, and it compiles to a temp dir.

In that case, either set PKGDEST (see 'man makepkg.conf'), or stop compiling in tmpdirs. :tongue:

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Quoting: slaapliedje2) it took so long to compile still, and I was doing other things, that it then prompted me for the sudo password, as enough time had gone by where it'd need to be re-authenticated. Problem was, I didn't notice it prompting for a while, and it gave up. Guess what that means? I get to recompile Librewolf again...

Why on earth would you have to recompile it again just because the sudo prompt timed out? Just install the built package with `pacman -U`.

Incidentally, consider setting `passwd_timeout` in your sudoer defaults if you find the default 5m timeout too short. A value of 0 disables the timeout.

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Time files when you're having fun. :D

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Oh boy, I can't wait to see how long it takes for their new flagship features to be exploited in the wild and subsequently throttled by microcode/kernel updates. :whistle:

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Nice. Been a while since I played this, but it got a bit boring only dealing with dragons and vikings. This update should give things a good shake up.

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Quoting: F.Ultra

Quoting: PublicNuisanceI don't have a horse in the race but here is an article worth reading as devil's advocate.

https://flatkill.org/2020/ [External Link]

Yes this "next generation" packaging is really the stone age packaging while rpm/apt is the real next-generation. That said, for games the security issues are basically zero (basically but not to 100%) since few games have open external ports or handle random files/data that you feed it like it is for applications.

lol, I've never seen rpm/deb described as 'next-generation'. I can kind of see it with rpm, but deb is something that deserves to be consigned to history as a terrible mistake that future generations should learn from.

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Good news for EAC users. However, given Garry's open hostility towards Linux historically, I won't be buying Rust again even if it works flawlessly with Proton.

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