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Steam Winter Sale is live and Steam Awards voting is now open
20 Dec 2024 at 4:38 pm UTC

Quoting: rcritIt also adds "Earn even more Steam Sale trading cards by crafting game badges." but I have no idea what that means. Craft them out of what exactly?
Games come with cards you can collect. Playing those games gives you about half of the cards from the set. If you get the whole set, by buying or trading the remaining cards from other players, you can trade those in for a game-specific badge. That's referred to as "crafting" by Valve. Crafting badges makes you eligible for "booster packs" of other cards.

Steam Replay for 2024 is live to show off all those hours you played
20 Dec 2024 at 3:27 am UTC Likes: 3

Quoting: Eike
Quoting: Purple Library GuyHuh. Mine didn't give me a %Linux. I assume it's 100%, but it didn't say as far as I could figure.
I guess it's not displaying the statistics if it's too boring.
PLG needs to get a Deck to make their statistics less boring.

The upcoming Lenovo Legion Go S may come with a SteamOS Linux version
20 Dec 2024 at 3:23 am UTC Likes: 2

Quoting: sarmadI still don't see how this can be legal. If you are buying a machine from retail then yes, they can't remove the license because the license is tied to the machine. But, if you are the manufacturer, not the retailer, then you should be able to manufacture a new machine and not assign a Windows license to it. I don't see how any legal contract can prevent you from doing whatever you want with your own product. Volume licensing is about buying volumes of licenses, but how you use those licenses shouldn't be Microsoft's business. If I buy 1000 licenses and I manufacture 1500 laptops, then the extra 500 laptops is mine and I don't have to pay Microsoft for an extra 500 licenses. I don't see how Microsoft can add a contract term that says "if you build more machines than the number of licenses you've bought, then you have to buy more licenses". I guess the only way for Microsoft to impose such a term is to be a joint owner of the hardware brand itself.
The way it used to work was that you had to buy a licence for every machine you sold because obviously Microsoft software was the only software OEMs would want to use, and so obviously all the other machines were using pirated Microsoft software. I'm pretty sure that the antitrust case was the catalyst for them stopping that practise. Then it became that if the volume licensing was, say, $75 per machine, then OEMs could get a discount to, say, $20 per machine if they "voluntarily" only sold Windows machines. Plus Microsoft would give them a bag of money (or further unit discounts) if they plastered "$OEM recommends Windows" everywhere.

Steam Replay for 2024 is live to show off all those hours you played
19 Dec 2024 at 3:25 am UTC Likes: 7

Quoting: emphyAny way to disable this creepy tracking?
Sure. Put Steam into offline mode.

Steam Replay for 2024 is live to show off all those hours you played
18 Dec 2024 at 11:41 pm UTC Likes: 2

Were you surprised by any details in yours?
Not a surprise, but I did confirm that games streamed to a Deck using Remote Play don't count as "played on Deck" for Valve.

Steam Replay for 2024 is live to show off all those hours you played
18 Dec 2024 at 11:39 pm UTC Likes: 1

Yes, Valve changed the name of this again. It was Steam Replay, then Steam Year In Review and now back to Steam Replay again.
I really hope they include MAU in the Steam Year In Review this year.

Proton Experimental gets fixes for Final Fantasy XIV, Nioh: Complete Edition and more for Steam Deck / Linux
18 Dec 2024 at 5:58 pm UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: legluondunetDo someone have info about Wine/Proton progress with support for anticheat games that we cannot play on Linux?
This is a barrier for gamers who want to switch to Linux and leave Windows.
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/anticheat/

There's nothing we can do about it, other than growing our market share so that they have to care. The software is carefully looking for deviations from known Windows behaviour, and Wine isn't even Windows.

The upcoming Lenovo Legion Go S may come with a SteamOS Linux version
16 Dec 2024 at 2:16 am UTC Likes: 1

The "Steam Compatible" branding guidelines seem more likely to me than SteamOS.

Steam Compatible requirements for input peripheral devices

Inputs

The buttons below must be dedicated, and not overloaded with different functionality
  • Steam Button

  • Quick Access Menu Button

  • View and Menu buttons, with glyphs that match Steam Deck

  • ABXY in a layout that matches Steam Deck

  • Rear / Auxiliary re-bindable buttons (2 or more)


Required Features
  • Gyroscopic controls

  • Capacitive Touch Sensing Thumbsticks


Other
  • The controller must be able to directly interface with Steam running on a device (without a Steam Link)
More hardware with gyro is still a win, though, to encourage game devs to consider mixed input.

SteamOS 3.6.21 Beta "Update of the Year" fixes security issues, plus Indiana Jones and the Great Circle rendering issues
13 Dec 2024 at 1:32 pm UTC

Along with various security issues in the SteamOS system itself also solved.
Hopefully it won't be long before it's released to stable, then.