Quoting: Guest

Steam developers can now select which Steam for Linux runtime to use for native titles. Please consult the partner site for more details.

What exactly is a "Steam developer", one that works for Steam or they intend "Game developers publishing on Steam"?

Well, probably "Game developers publishing on Steam" or one that works for Valve ;P

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Perfection

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Quoting: grigiIt's really looking like a second order trend line would match those stats much better.
Or at least a trend line before/after the steam-deck release?

Not sure if it really is necessary, but yeah pretty much matches, although we don't know how it will develop in the future for sure.

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Unfortunately kinda expected, all material so far about the game was only mediocre at best, but I had hopes to be honest. The concept is known to work, ppl want such a game, even more so with tons of (actually good ) DLC and even more important (Good)Mod support. Paradox could have offered it. Kinda sad to see they canceled it, it cant be so difficult to make a okey-ish game like that, mod support and future development over 1-2 years could have made it a Sims killer(potentially). I would have bought it.

Really irritating that they killed it, but a delay at best was inevitable at this point.

Now I have even more fear that Europa Universalis V might fail miserably, EU4s legacy is just too great to easily beat within the next 5years.:unsure:

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A few other interesting numbers from Steam, apparently Aragami allows up to 1GB (my basically full play through only takes up around 10KB of that).
But beware Valheim with up to 9.31GB of available Cloud Storage...
however both pale in comparison to...

Spoiler, click me

Rimworld allowing up to 93GB of cloud storage to be used O.o
Well I get it I get it, some ppl have a lot of Rimworld saves, a lot of Backups and one save can easily take up well over 100MB. Still kind of funny.

Btw Wizard of Legend only allows up to 1.91MB.
I assume you can find other interesting numbers over on SteamDB.

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I think it's good that they move away from Minecraft, while I believe that more additions for ease of use are neccessary i.e. quick inventory management, smooth and fast movement etc. Otherwise just take what Minecraft did well or what folks would miss.
A lot of stuff Minecraft has and had was good, so there obviously is a lot of potential for cloning, but besides that individual ideal offering a good coherent experience could also serve as a nice foundation for Mods to build on.
If the base game is more fluent I could imagine myself being one of those Mod authors and maybe even with some converted Minecraft friends of mine.

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Quoting: BrokattI tried Manjaro in February but it broke after an update. I was unable to boot so I wiped the disk and install Kubuntu instead.

i think this is the problem a lot of manjaro users have.

remove QUIET from grub fixes it.
but i would not use manjaro today with AMD GPU, because they removed x264/5 hardware acceleration from mesa

In the last 3 out of 4 years of me using Manjaro this was literally my only real issue, although I used the testing branch.

After I had that issue and couldn't fix it I tried a few Distros until I settled with Fedora and I have to say I don't get how Fedora can be considered a stable Distro?!

The package manager takes ages to load, especially after the first install, I have constant crashes of some applications(more recently mostly when closing anyway but still) sometimes the Desktop just randomly restarts itself, some webpages cause Fedora to freeze my whole PC(and not just FireFox WTF) and the XWayland-videobridge is broken, upgrading to the Fedora 40 Beta with Plasma 6 kinda improved the situation, but maybe I have just gotten used to a lot of it(I also disabled a lot of the crash notifications).

Compared to Manjaro a long term friend and the first Linux Distro I settled with when I switched ~5years ago from Windows and being able to use the AUR without any issues, and butter smooth experience until you have a bug once in a while(or nearly never) is probably going to make me switch back to Manjaro some time soon. Although I might consider testing out another Arch(-based) Distro with a tiling-windowmanager that supports hardware accaleration.

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Quoting: elmapulvalve will think twice before they launch the deck 2, after all , tey dont know how to count to 3

Oh trust me they know, we got SteamOS 3 when the Deck first launched after all ;)

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Quoting: Guest

Quoting: PinballWizardIf only I could stream in discord on it.

I can stream in discord on manjaro with kde plasma, in x11 session though

Anyway, plasma is good. When I tried to switch to linux for the first time, the weirdness of gnome was a big downside. Hours of tweaking it to make it feel write, while plasma just already has everything.

Works on Wayland just as well, using the xwaylandvideobridge [External Link] package from the AUR.
With some other applications it can sometimes be a hassle but I personally have good experience with screen sharing on KDE Plasma + Wayland + Discord Flatpak

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Quoting: LiamA pretty massive increase and the biggest in a single month for years. So why? Well, considering Valve just recently had a huge sale on the Steam Deck, it's probably not all that surprising. A lot of people over the last month will have been playing with their Steam Deck that ships with SteamOS Linux.

But Liam can that really be the reason, I might be wrong but I thought you wouldn't get surveyed on the Deck for the initial few months or so?
Also I got a Deck as well and I wasnt (at least actively) surveyed 🤔

Well anyway nice news though I expect a drop next month as well, it will be interesting to see if it swings back to "normal" or if it can at least keep parts of that share.

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