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Steam Spring Sale 2024 live, Valve list the Top 100 games on Steam Deck
14 Mar 2024 at 6:43 pm UTC Likes: 4
14 Mar 2024 at 6:43 pm UTC Likes: 4
I'll have a proper look through later, but Death's Door [External Link] and Blue Fire [External Link] are the games on my wishlist that meet my discount threshold for a non-native but Deck Verified game.
Steam Deck had a strong end to 2023 and a great start for 2024
13 Mar 2024 at 2:38 pm UTC Likes: 2
13 Mar 2024 at 2:38 pm UTC Likes: 2
Quoting: PrettymuchnothingWay too optimistic, especially for a handheld console that costs up to 649 dollars. Sales will already be fairly limited due to the relatively high price, especially for the oled models.How so? They're doing at least 2M per year when they're only selling in a limited number of countries, and building up this category of device as acceptable to mainstream PC gamers. 5M per year seems like a perfectly fine aspirational goal for a second-gen device that's built up some momentum and is available for sale everywhere.
Steam Deck had a strong end to 2023 and a great start for 2024
12 Mar 2024 at 4:27 pm UTC Likes: 6
For Deck 2 I hope they can aim for a worldwide launch and something like 5M units per year.
12 Mar 2024 at 4:27 pm UTC Likes: 6
Quoting: pleasereadthemanualObligatory "it's still not available in Australia" comment. Maybe a Steam Deck 2?You know how it is: they try to bring you a Deck and the delivery person gets bitten by a spider. Or a snake. Or a jellyfish. Or a drop bear.
For Deck 2 I hope they can aim for a worldwide launch and something like 5M units per year.
Proton Experimental fixes up Apex Legends, Epic Games Store, Warlords Battlecry III
11 Mar 2024 at 4:34 pm UTC Likes: 1
11 Mar 2024 at 4:34 pm UTC Likes: 1
Quoting: Jarmerahhh so experimental is on the 9.x branch?https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/02/proton-experimental-updated-with-proton-9-adds-fixes-for-helldivers-2-and-more/
Fedora Workstation 41 will drop GNOME X.Org session as fallback option
8 Mar 2024 at 3:08 pm UTC Likes: 1
The crux of it is
8 Mar 2024 at 3:08 pm UTC Likes: 1
Quoting: pleasereadthemanualMy understanding is that AMD and Intel's drivers implement implicit sync but NVIDIA doesn't want to implement that; they want explicit sync because implicit sync is imperfect, but I'd take imperfection over the flickerfest. I haven't looked into it at all; that's just what I've heard. Some cursory reading suggests this is accurate.There's a quite detailed article about the issues with implicit synchronisation and the work being done to explicitly synchronise like every other platform (including Android) does here [External Link].
The crux of it is
Quoting: CollaboraEach of those can be pretty bad by itself but when you put them together the result is that, in practice, using implicit synchronization in Vulkan would completely serialize all work and kill your multi-queue parallelism. So we shut it off if the kernel driver allows it.
If we're turning off implicit synchronization, how do we synchronize with the window system? That's the real question, isn't it? There are a number of different strategies for this which have been employed by various drivers over the years and they all come down to some form of selective enabling of implicit synchronization. Also, they're all terrible and lead to over-synchronization somewhere.
Horizon Forbidden West system requirements up, devs mention 'portable gaming devices'
7 Mar 2024 at 6:50 pm UTC
7 Mar 2024 at 6:50 pm UTC
I've been enjoying the first game on the Deck recently, so I'll probably pick up the sequel. By the time it hits the discount milestone for the level of Linux support, I might have a Deck 2 to play it on. Or I might have replaced my broken GPU & just stream it from my desktop if performance on the Deck isn't good enough.
Plasma 6 lands in Arch Linux, KDE neon teething issues and Plasma 6.1 heating up
7 Mar 2024 at 6:43 pm UTC Likes: 3
7 Mar 2024 at 6:43 pm UTC Likes: 3
Quoting: Purple Library GuyWasn't tearing supposed to be a bad thing?Yes, it is.
Quoting: Purple Library GuyWhy are we trying to make it happen now?Because people demanded it, and giving it to them made them go away.
Fedora Workstation 41 will drop GNOME X.Org session as fallback option
7 Mar 2024 at 6:08 pm UTC Likes: 6
The first two only really came about during the long, long development of Wayland, admittedly, and the primary motivation wasn't about features, but just that everyone that was capable of doing anything with Xorg no longer wanted to do anything with Xorg.
7 Mar 2024 at 6:08 pm UTC Likes: 6
Quoting: ssj17vegetaI always wondered. What's in it for the end-user ? (Wayland)Support for multiple monitors of varying refresh rates, HDR support, and eliminating round trips between the display server and the compositor because the compositor is the display server are the headline desirable features.
The first two only really came about during the long, long development of Wayland, admittedly, and the primary motivation wasn't about features, but just that everyone that was capable of doing anything with Xorg no longer wanted to do anything with Xorg.
Steam Survey for February 2024 shows a big bump in Simplified Chinese
6 Mar 2024 at 11:00 am UTC Likes: 1
Having dredged this data from the Wayback Machine before, I can give you two top tips:
There are two valid URLs for the hardware survey - one with "Steam-Hardware-Software-Survey-Welcome-to-Steam" and one without. The Wayback Machine archives both of them at different times.
The survey lists the delta from the previous month, so if you've got the value for one month you also know the value for the previous month.
Well, it's just an "add trend line" in LibreOffice. But it's the least-squares line of best fit, which is what you'd want.
Yeah, either would have been valid choices, I think. I gave Liam enough of a push so that it was something he'd definitely considered and made a definite choice about, and then I've gone with what he picked since.
Valve used to correct the survey results later in the month when there'd been an overcount of China, but they seem to have stopped doing that for the past 12 months or so. That's why the later data is so much noisier than the earlier data.
6 Mar 2024 at 11:00 am UTC Likes: 1
Quoting: EikeWhere did you get the missing Steam Deck percentages? Internet Archive didn't yield data for many months...
Having dredged this data from the Wayback Machine before, I can give you two top tips:
There are two valid URLs for the hardware survey - one with "Steam-Hardware-Software-Survey-Welcome-to-Steam" and one without. The Wayback Machine archives both of them at different times.
The survey lists the delta from the previous month, so if you've got the value for one month you also know the value for the previous month.
Quoting: EikeI guess you added the trend lines manually?
Well, it's just an "add trend line" in LibreOffice. But it's the least-squares line of best fit, which is what you'd want.
Quoting: EikeI wasn't sure about that either. On the one hand, it looks like bad data, and we know there's problems with the data, on the other hand, leaving something out feels like cheating. *shrug*
Yeah, either would have been valid choices, I think. I gave Liam enough of a push so that it was something he'd definitely considered and made a definite choice about, and then I've gone with what he picked since.
Valve used to correct the survey results later in the month when there'd been an overcount of China, but they seem to have stopped doing that for the past 12 months or so. That's why the later data is so much noisier than the earlier data.
Quoting: EikeI'd say, percentage-wise nothing has happened for over two years, but as you're pointing out, Steam is probably growing, so yes, desktop Linux usage is at least growing along. Good point.Eyeballing the desktop trend line now and comparing it to how I recall the trend line was when I was encouraging Liam to put the trend line on the tracker graph, it's steeper than it was then - certainly no shallower. Which means the growth rate would be higher now than then. One could check the gradient of the line of best fit over time if they wanted, but "line goes up" is good enough for me right now.
Steam Survey for February 2024 shows a big bump in Simplified Chinese
6 Mar 2024 at 12:31 am UTC Likes: 3
(I'd previously discussed with Liam dropping the definitely-bad 03/23 from the tracker and he was insistent that the data we get is the data we get, so I've got the dips you removed in for consistency with the tracker data - same as I've done with the Linux/Mac graph previously)
Note that because this is a record of proportions, if the trend for desktop Linux were completely flat (it's not - it has a positive gradient) it wouldn't mean that desktop Linux usage wasn't growing, only that it's growing at the same rate as Steam as a whole. Since the trend is slightly positive, it means that desktop Linux usage is growing slightly faster than Steam as a whole.
6 Mar 2024 at 12:31 am UTC Likes: 3
Quoting: EikeBut here you go...That's not a bad approach. I've filled in the gaps for you.
(I'd previously discussed with Liam dropping the definitely-bad 03/23 from the tracker and he was insistent that the data we get is the data we get, so I've got the dips you removed in for consistency with the tracker data - same as I've done with the Linux/Mac graph previously)
Note that because this is a record of proportions, if the trend for desktop Linux were completely flat (it's not - it has a positive gradient) it wouldn't mean that desktop Linux usage wasn't growing, only that it's growing at the same rate as Steam as a whole. Since the trend is slightly positive, it means that desktop Linux usage is growing slightly faster than Steam as a whole.
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