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EVERSPACE 2 out now, devs focus on Proton for Linux - Steam Deck optimizations planned
8 Apr 2023 at 2:22 am UTC Likes: 1
Quoting: tgurrPromising something in a Kickstarter campaign and then not fulfulling the promise is another cup of tea though but at least they offer refunds.
If they'd promised it, not delivered, and not given a refund, that would be fraud, so... they had to give refunds.
Report: Steam Deck to pass 3 million sales during 2023
8 Apr 2023 at 1:12 am UTC Likes: 4
Quoting: elmapulif your numbers are right, then steam might have half a billion users nowadays... i dont think this is correct, last time i checked it was something arround 120 millions or maybe 160 millions, but not even close to 500 millions.

there is something wrong here, either most steam deck users install windows on their machines, or linux marketshare is wrong or steamOS marketshare...
Nope. Very few users install Windows on the Deck. The Deck is about 1/400th of the Steam market (AMD Custom GPU 0405 is the Deck's GPU). Steam is just huge. The hundred-and-something million is just how many people happened to sign in during a particular month - the monthly active users. The total number of users is bigger.
Report: Steam Deck to pass 3 million sales during 2023
8 Apr 2023 at 12:38 am UTC Likes: 4
Quoting: Purple Library GuyOK, so 3 million units. And, how many Linux desktop users are on Steam? It's certainly significant from our point of view. These are the kinds of figures that make Linux a bigger target for game development than Mac.
Not directly. March's figures are still broken by double-counting China, so I'll use February's. Mac was at 2.37% and Linux was at 1.27%, of which 21.05% was the Deck. So the 1.6 million represents roughly 0.27 percentage points of the Steam market*. If we add another 1.9 million, that's an additional roughly 0.32 percentage points, which would take us up to 1.59%. There's still a way to go until we're a bigger market than Mac. Of course Macs come with all sorts of hoops to jump through to develop for, so we'll have an easier time being a better market than Mac. We're arguably there already.

*(obviously this is only an orders-of-magnitude guesstimate; remember to warm up before attempting hand-waving so vigorous)
Report: Steam Deck to pass 3 million sales during 2023
7 Apr 2023 at 4:30 pm UTC Likes: 4
Here's the top Steam Deck games for March 2023
5 Apr 2023 at 7:05 pm UTC
I got Sleeping Dogs on a whim because it was cheap and it quickly became my second-favourite GTA after San Andreas. Completed that. There's some jank at install time and the text is tiny, but it otherwise works well. Also completed Braveland that had been unplayed in my library for years. Got it in a bundle, maybe? Next up is either Syberia 2 or Broken Sword 5.

I've also played some No One Lives Forever, Kendria (controls stop working after time, so I stopped, but I'll probably go back to it at some point when they've fixed it), Ziggurat, Ori And The Blind Forest, The Gardens Between, Bridge Constructor Portal (controls on the default native version are broken, but Proton works OK), and Lara Croft and the Temple of Osiris. The little one played some Lego Brick Tales but was on a computer ban for much of March.
TUXEDO reveal the Stellaris 16 (Gen5) for people with money to burn
5 Apr 2023 at 4:26 pm UTC Likes: 4
It's good to see more 16:10 panels being used.
The Last of Us now Unsupported on Steam Deck, bad look for Valve and Naughty Dog
4 Apr 2023 at 12:53 pm UTC Likes: 6
Kinda amusing their note about verification but Valve ran it through anyway…
It's definitely the case that this game in its current state is not "Great On Deck." The store page should reflect that. Even if game developers pinky swear that it's going to get better at some point in the future.
Short underwater survival game FarSky now free on itch.io
29 Mar 2023 at 4:38 pm UTC Likes: 1
Quoting: Ardje(It uses java-gl so you have to install openjdk 8 on linux. Didn't get it to work on the deck though).
The hassle of managing specific Java versions for Minecraft got me to use a flatpak Minecraft launcher that could provide its own Java separated from the system Java. If someone - ideally FarSky's developer - could package up FarSky as a flatpak on flathub along with the Java bits it needs, that would make it easier to manage in general and easy to install on the Deck specifically.
Fresh Steam Deck and Steam desktop Beta, Valve dropping old Windows support
28 Mar 2023 at 5:14 pm UTC
Quoting: mr-victoryI can't believe millions of PCs are left out. I didn't really expect that.
If you want to depress yourself:

Spoiler, click me
The number of users stranded by this move is currently bigger than the total number of Linux Steam users (1.43% + 0.34% + 0.09% = 1.86% vs 1.27%). Windows is super dominant.
Fresh Steam Deck and Steam desktop Beta, Valve dropping old Windows support
28 Mar 2023 at 10:51 am UTC Likes: 9
Quoting: Eike
Quoting: Zapporwhen 64-bit linux client
why 64-bit linux client
The idea is that if Steam is 64-bit (but still able to launch all those 32-bit games that will never be updated) then distros (and users) can drop all those (poorly secured) 32-bit packages that are no one wants to (or even really does) maintain.

The reasons for Ubuntu's (premature) desire to drop the maintenance and packaging of 32-bit packages at the same time as they dropped their 32-bit install images are still true, it's just that the infrastructure for ruining 32-bit proprietary applications on an entirely 64-bit system weren't yet up to the task. Without a significant push, it'll never be up to the task, and Valve dragging their feet on removing their dependency on 32-bit packages delays that push.

As I understand it.
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