Quoting: Purple Library GuyAt any rate, in an odd way a good sign. I mean, I'm happy the Deck exists and believe it has led increased Linux adoption for gaming. But, if overall Linux is up despite Steam OS within that being down, that means overall Linux is clearly growing. That's a happy thing for me, since I want to see continued growth of desktop Linux in general, along with growth in use of the Steam Deck in particular; it wouldn't be so great if the Steam Deck became huge but the rest of desktop Linux shrank and became an irrelevant appendage.

Of course, caveats as usual given the bounciness of polls and the unknown nature of Steam sampling--none of this data is necessarily that real. But taken at face value, it's nice.

Agreed. My preferred scenario is that the Deck never grows to more than half of the Linux market and they both grow in tandem. Proton and the Steam Linux Runtime are very useful abstractions for developers to target all of Linux without worrying about specific details, but I wouldn't want my desktop machine to be forced under the limits of the Deck because that's the only Linux they're considering.

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Quoting: ageresWhat is "Freedesktop SDK 23.08 (Flatpak runtime) 64 bit" and why has it risen from 0 to 5%? Was it some SteamOS update that changed something and affected the Steam Deck statistics?

It's Flatpak Steam. It has a new version number, which is why that entry is new and the previous entry has dropped off the list. Exactly the same as the versioned Ubuntu entries, but unlike the unversioned Arch entry.

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Quoting: ArehandoroSteam OS Holo has -2.46%, is that a typo or are people removing Steam OS to to install other distros?

It just means less Steam Deck machines were apart of this recent survey.

That statement is too strong. Proportionally fewer Steam Decks were sampled, yes, but they could very well have sampled more Steam Decks than last month as well as even more non-Deck machines.

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Quoting: gradyvuckovicStuff like this is why Steam's still ahead of the pack by a mile on PC.
I can imagine that being very useful for stuff like making sure you and all your friends have the same mods when you play an online game together.

Also "mods on desktop" and "mods on Deck."

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Make the film script just the last pizza delivery mission. Sorted.

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Quoting: kshade"If we only had a few more programmers" he said while drying his tears of sorrow with the stack of microtransaction dollars he made that same minute.

Don't forget that it's less than three months since he got rid of over 800 staff members.

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Quoting: LoftyPersonally I find NMS to be a complete grind fest, and i have tried really hard to 'get through it' wonder if this will be any different. I guess time will tell.

Trying to "get through it" is likely why you found it a grind. It's a sandbox game like Minecraft, just with lasers and spaceships - there's a lot of making your own entertainment involved.

I just don't have time in my life to 'make my own entertainment' in a game, i purchase them to entertain me from the outset (i am wiling to learn and put a good few hours in before i sense it's not really working out though).

Yeah, NMS probably isn't for you.

The onboarding prices of teaching you the survival systems by guaranteeing that you need to use the survival systems, and encouraging exploration with the limited inventory space (you can buy a new slot at each new star system), isn't really for everyone. The big thing that tends to rub people the wrong way is that the whole game is set up to make it pointless to spend a lot of time on any one planet - you're shunted into a space hobo life. Perhaps just having the one planet in the new game will address that? Time will tell.

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Quoting: doragasuSomeone should make (maybe somebody has) a vd3d vs VKD3D-Proton vs DXVK for dummies, I am always lost about which one is for which use case.

You've missed one, which would add context.

WineD3D translates Direct3D up to 11 into OpenGL. This comes from Wine.

DXVK is a Valve/non-Wine project to translate Direct3D (initially 10, but picked up 9 & 11 subsequently) into Vulkan. This was more performant than WineD3D and was a big factor in Proton being a successful thing.

VKD3D is a Wine project to translate Direct3D 12 into Vulkan.

VKD3D-Proton is Valve's fork of VKD3D for use with Proton so they can implement the changes they want on their own schedule without waiting for upstream to approve.

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Quoting: zledasHey, one of the developers here. Yeah, default Deck setup does not use mouse, but there is alternative official setup that uses right trackpad for mouse input :) Feel free to switch to that.

P. S. Connecting an external mouse also works. We made it extremely easy to switch between input schemes.

I've completed the game and moved on to something else now, but thanks.

One thing that would help with the default controls would be to have the inventory switch buttons step through rather than scroll super fast. It would have made one of the timing puzzles much less obnoxious, and would make the feature useful for the rest of the game - scrolling to some random inventory item that's essentially impossible to identify with the scale of the Deck's display isn't super helpful.

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Quoting: LoftyPersonally I find NMS to be a complete grind fest, and i have tried really hard to 'get through it' wonder if this will be any different. I guess time will tell.

Trying to "get through it" is likely why you found it a grind. It's a sandbox game like Minecraft, just with lasers and spaceships - there's a lot of making your own entertainment involved.

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