Quoting: no_information_hereAs I have been complaining forever, Valve could easily take the data from live Steam client connections. They really have daily information of the base OS for every single user. It wouldn't have the hardware detail, but the OS statistics would be a 100% sample of logged-in users. Not sure why they don't.

Valve know what OS each customer is using. Sharing that information with third parties without specific consent is a privacy violation.

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Quoting: CyborgZetaInteresting that Ubuntu's back in 2nd place, and both Ubuntu 20.04 and Linux Mint have disappeared entirely.

Ubuntu was in first place last month. SteamOS has now overtaken it by virtue of shipping a shedload of units. Ubuntu 20.04 has dropped as people have upgraded to 22.04, and now both that and Mint are low enough proportions that they're in that huge 43% Other.

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This month I've still been working through my backlog of point & click games: Darkside Detective, Lair of the Clockwork God, Technobabylon, Voodoo Detective, and now just started Unforeseen Incidents. I also finished Dust and Limbo, and my little one finished A Short Hike. I've started Cloudpunk, A Plague Tale, Mad Max, Scarlet Nexus, and BallisticNG, and did some more Dead Cells. Now that streaming from a Linux host started working again with a recent beta I've also done a bit of Death Stranding streamed from my desktop.

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Quoting: GrifterI wonder how many games were actually ported to linux for stadia, and how many were simply protoning the windows version.

They were all ported to Linux: Google only allowed a Wine solution when Stadia was already dead. At least a couple used DXVK, though.

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Quoting: StoneColdSpiderThe trailer is just 1 and a half minutes of "What the f*@k?"

I didn't find it so. What do you want, they should give you the plot?

I think they're referring to the "distinct folk horror tone and grounding."

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Quoting: grigiWhat is FlickStick?

It's a control scheme where the right stick, instead of controlling both pitch and yaw, just controls yaw. The 360° of the stick represent the 360° of rotation for the player character, so one can either rotate the stick to turn the character or just push the stick to, say, six o'clock to snap to facing that direction. You would typically combine it with gyro controls to give you pitch control and fine aiming control.

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If you're going to hem and haw about whether you can be bothered to do a thing at all, it's probably best if you hadn't already bragged about how excited you are to do it and how well it's all going 14 months prior. What an absolute clown shoe.

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Quoting: lvlarkAnyone know of any package that allows for better desktop controls? Like, idk, using right track-pad for controlling the cursor and the left one for scrolling? Or right for cursor, left for fine-grained cursor, and a joystick for scrolling?

Steam.

Go to desktop mode, go to Steam's settings, and then Controller -> desktop configuration. Mouse clicks on triggers and scroll wheel on left trackpad are changes that I find particularly useful.

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Quoting: MohandevirMaybe the dualboot support will happen when Valve release SteamOS 3 for general PC use?

That's how I interpret it, yeah. But definitely not "supported" and definitely not "promised," just making people feel comfortable about spending a few hundred quid on some Loonix machine. I expect it'll just be like existing Linux distro installers: Windows will stomp over everything, and then the Linux installer tidies up after it.

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Windows is still unsupported on the Deck, but the ability to repurpose it as a Windows machine increases customer confidence. The current restore image nukes-and-paves, like the Windows installer does, but Valve did say that when they eventually get around to releasing a SteamOS 3 installer that it will be considerate of the dual-boot use case.

While Steam Deck is fully capable of dual-boot, the SteamOS installer that provides a dual-boot wizard isn't ready yet.

https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1675200/view/3131696199122435099 [External Link]

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