Valve have paid developers to work on the AMD Mesa drivers for years at this point, to improve Linux as a whole and ensure Linux drivers are in a good state for upcoming and future AMD hardware. Valve invest in a lot of different areas for Linux, not all of it specifically just for their own hardware. A lot of their contracted developers just work on regular upgrades and improvements like this. Valve have done this for a long time now that we've been covering here.

Standout example: Valve made ACO as a better-performing alternative to LLVM for compiling shaders; it was sufficiently better that Mesa also switched to using ACO rather than LLVM. Just standard open source ecosystem improvement things.

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Meanwhile, waitaminute, Windows 10 is rising? How does that work? Are we talking rise in Chinese language (which I'm imagining is more likely to use probably-pirated Windows 10)?

Recall that last month was iffy (with Linux GPUs adding up to 132%, for example). Long-term trends are much more useful than the single-month delta value.

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Why these Ubuntu's (core / snap and regular) are separated there makes no much sense.

You could be using the snap version of Steam on any distro. Same as flatpak.

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Perhaps they will earn enough from it to get real translations done by people who actually understand context and the languages properly.

As an alternative, being open enough and having a large enough community to have fan translations to correct what the auto-complete has come up with. But, yeah, professional localisation would be heaps better than entrusting the user experience to auto-complete.

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Seems like they need another pass over this one to correct some text errors.

The corrections box is a GOL feature that more websites should copy.

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Hey, I think I lived this already.

Linux fascinates and terrifies.

That's not an unhealthy mindset for a new user. I wish them luck.

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It seems you'll probably need Proton to play it on Linux.

Boo. I really loved Art Of Rally on the Deck, and I'd like to pay full price for this one, but if it's Windows-only then I'm not gonna.

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Lost Words: Beyond the Page

I'd forgotten this wasn't Verified already - the little one and I played through it quite early in our Deck exploration. It's good but it is about loss and grief, so there's that.

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Will you be picking one up?

Nope. As Stella points out there are no trackpads, the sticks are in the wrong place, and I've already got a Deck. If my Deck were to die before a Deck 2 is out I'd get another Deck rather than one of these or any of the other devices with no trackpads & the sticks in the wrong place.

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The SteamOS version is due in May with a starting price of $499.99.

It's a shame they aren't launching simultaneously; hopefully the hardware reviewers will also test with the likes of Bazzite while they're waiting.

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