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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.

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It's good to see more 16:10 panels being used.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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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If Valve are in the mood to make new games, and if they'd like them to work well on the Deck, could we have In The Valley Of Gods, please?

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Mentioned last month, but it would be nice to have Cosmic separated out as its own option for those that are on Pop.

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Quoting: elmapulgood news:
1)we can be prety much 100% sure that this game will support linux and probably will treat it as first class citizen, it will be opimized for linux as much as it is for windows or maybe even more.

Sadly not. It will run on Linux, yes, but first class is definitely not a given. Linux gaming is hugely strategically important for Valve, but they historically haven't been good at dogfooding their Linux work. The Index is still only partially functional on Linux, for example, and this beta is not yet available on Linux. Vulkan-native and first class Linux support would be sensible for Valve, but reusing their DirectX stuff and just plumbing it through DXVK would also be well within Valve's historical norms.

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