Voxlands [External Link] was pretty fun.

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Quoting: Marlockcan a user on a linux pc pass

SteamDeck=1 %command%

to fake being on a steam deck too?

Yes.

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/01/forspoken-desktop-linux-spoof-steam-deck/

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Emberbane [External Link] looks like it might be interesting. Synergy [External Link], too (although there's not a Linux demo for this one - the full game is supposed to be coming for Linux, though).

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It's very close to being a viable device.

It has trackpads!... But they're in an awful position (and the rest of the controls are also terribly placed).

It comes with Linux!... But it's Manjaro.

It has a 16:10 display!... But the resolution is too high for the GPU to comfortably drive in the power envelope of a handheld.

Having multiple RAM configurations is also very silly: it increases production costs with zero benefit to either customers or developers.

Still, maybe someone else will do better on another attempt.

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Quoting: StoneColdSpiderI wouldnt share a car with a crazy person who cant type "art of rally" correctly...... (There are no capitals in the art of rally [External Link] title.....)
:wink:

I'm not gonna write Metal Gear Solid [External Link] as allcaps, either.

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Quoting: chickenb00This in-home streaming bugginess has really been crappy for my Deck useage. Either the video freezes entirely, with sound and input continuing, or, I get a green screen error. I tried out the Beta fix but I prefer being on Stable channel. I should really just install Moonlight...

I don't get that. There was the dead sound issue that had hung around for years on Linux and eventually got fixed after the Deck had been out a year, but then with the recent stable update after the OLED released the stream is just way too dark on the Deck. Apparently there's a fix in preview, and disabling hardware decoding acts as a workaround. I don't use streaming that much (in-between breakages, obviously) because it needs to be a specific middle ground game where I'd prefer the performance of the desktop but not the spectacle of the big screen. Outside of that middle I'm either playing directly on the Deck or playing directly on the desktop. But it would be nice if it worked.

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Quoting: pytrysI think the number of reviews deosnt say anything.

https://newsletter.gamediscover.co/p/what-steam-review-count-tells-us [External Link]

The particular demographics of the Apple Arcade compared to Steam, how easy it is to write a review, and how encouraged it is to write a review, will all affect the specific ratio of reviews to sales, but it's extremely likely that there is a ratio even if we don't know exactly what it is.

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I finished Beyond A Steel Sky [External Link] and then it's been a whole lot of Art Of Rally [External Link].

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I'm hoping that the fix for in-home streaming gets promoted to stable, and they've sorted out the display quality issues, before I get my OLED model soon.

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Quoting: EikeI guess we found the misunderstanding. Of course, I wouldn't extrapolate this into the future. Nobody forces us to do that.

That is literally the whole point of matching a data set to a curve.

As said and shown - not for like half of the curve.

The trend has changed, can we agree on that?

No, we cannot. The trend has always been positive. The gradient is steeper now than it was in the past, but that is not a change in trend.

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