Reports in the Steam forum are that 3.5.2 being geared for the Deck OLED with its thicker fan have broken the fan curves for the OG fan.

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What have you been playing lately?

I've been working my way through the Shadowrun games for the last little while - I'm just finishing up Hong Kong now. The (default) community controller layout makes it an excellent experience on the Deck.

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Quoting: dziadulewicz

Quoting: mad_mesaLooking on the brightside, the English-only tracker hit an all time high with Linux at 4.15%.

Where (and HOW) can this info and percentage be displayed on the Steam Survey information site?

It's a derived value.

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Quoting: BrokattLooks great but I would like an update on mesa-git that was said to be bundled before I switch to the snap. Is it there? Is it working?

If you're using the edge channel of Steam, the Snap relies on the gaming-graphics-core22 Snap for graphics packages (see snap connections steam). You may switch gaming-graphics-core22 to a different channel to use different versions of mesa and other graphics libraries.

Currently, the channels are oibaf-latest (bleeding edge), kisak-fresh (new, but stable), and kisak-turtle (most stable). Switch between them with the following:

snap refresh gaming-graphics-core22 --channel <channel>

https://github.com/canonical/steam-snap/wiki/FAQ#how-do-i-use-a-different-mesagraphics-version [External Link]

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Quoting: MohandevirSteamOS 3.5 that's taking ages to reach stable... What is holding them back?

SteamOS 3.5 is the first time that the underlying OS got updated. I suspect they were expecting to just take another Arch snapshot, apply their patches, and then move onto other things - after all, Steam works on every distro already, and a lot of Valve's stuff has been upstreamed. Easy. But... that's not what happened. People testing 3.5 said that it was very broken, and it remained very broken for quite some time. And while Valve are busy putting out fires for that snapshot the Arch hosepipe has kept on going, meaning that Valve also need to come up with a sane way to keep rebasing on Arch snapshots much more easily than this time, to keep doing it for the next 10 years or so without just being distro maintainers that never get anything else done.

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That sounds like it was quite inspired by Westwood's Blade Runner point & click. Which was great, so I'm all for that.

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They could do with updating the System Requirements box:

Additional: Requires Adobe AIR 2.6 to be installed (installer scripts included)

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I've launched the demo on the Deck, and they've messed up the way they handle aspect ratios - the sides (the actual interface for the game) are completely cut off. If you manually pick a 16:9 resolution you get to see the sides, and it otherwise seems to work OK. I hope they've fixed it in the full game, or will very shortly - even if I were playing on the desktop rather than the Deck, that's 16:10, too.

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Quoting: DrakkerAh cr*p, does it mean they can't make any more Shadowrun games because Paradox still own the license?

That's unclear. Paradox own the three Shadowrun games ("Paradox will maintain ownership of The Lamplighters League, released this month, and other titles developed by HBS.") but the Shadowrun electronic IP is owned by Microsoft (other Shadowrun usage is possibly owned by Topps cards after they bought WizKids) and was licensed back to Jordan Weisman. Whether Paradox or Jordan Weisman now have that licence to make future games, and whether either could get a different licence to make future games, are unknown outside of those parties.

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Quoting: SlackdogAre you on duel monitors? I had this until I switched my second screen off before rebooting...

No, single monitor here. I think Liam's on single monitor, too, and the other people I've seen mention it. The screen turns off during any update of the driver on that branch, and the computer appears unresponsive - although one can SSH into it still.

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