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Valve continues tweaking their new Store Hubs for tags
18 Jan 2022 at 1:33 pm UTC Likes: 2

Quoting: rustybroomhandle
Quoting: einherjarIt would be interesting to know, how many titles are steam deck verified by now
Probably still just 1.
Yep, just one [External Link] for now.

God of War is now on Steam and runs out of the box on Linux with Proton
14 Jan 2022 at 9:24 pm UTC Likes: 11

Quoting: BlackBloodRumWhat to do?! :cry:
What I do is to wait for a sufficient discount: the developer gets some money by virtue of their game not being broken on Linux, but they'd get more money if they'd made a properly-supported game.

Quiet ocean survival-adventure Aquamarine launches January 20
14 Jan 2022 at 11:37 am UTC Likes: 1

This looks exactly like the kind of game I'm planning on enjoying on the Steam Deck, so I hope they'll have their native build (not currently listed) and controller support (not currently listed) sorted by the time I have my unit, and that the text isn't too tiny.

SuperTux released free on Steam, an open source classic
13 Jan 2022 at 6:20 pm UTC Likes: 2

I'm really looking forward to shots of this running on the Steam Deck. And that the exposure brings more contributors, too, of course.

Looks like Monster Hunter Rise runs well on Linux with Proton
13 Jan 2022 at 9:06 am UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: Phlebiac
Quoting: CatKillerI hope this won't be an issue for the Steam Deck; that they'll have rolled out their re-encoding solution by the time the Deck ships.
I haven't followed too closely; does anyone know the (technical? legal?) issues with the solution used in ProtonGE?
GE just takes the library from Windows to decode those files. That's at least copyright infringement if you don't have a licence for that software on the machine you're running it on. Likely patent infringement, too (since that can be a thing for software despite it making no sense), given that Valve haven't taken the reimplementation approach.

Looks like Portal 2 is the first Steam Deck Verified title
13 Jan 2022 at 1:42 am UTC Likes: 4

It has to start somewhere
It has to start sometime
What better place than here?
What better time than now?

Looks like Monster Hunter Rise runs well on Linux with Proton
12 Jan 2022 at 7:03 pm UTC Likes: 3

Tested with Proton Experimental, the only issue currently encountered is a small intro video not playing. This is a reoccurring issue and will be for the Steam Deck, for titles that use things like Media Foundation.
I hope this won't be an issue for the Steam Deck; that they'll have rolled out their re-encoding solution by the time the Deck ships.

NVIDIA 510.39.01 Beta driver out for Linux
11 Jan 2022 at 3:40 pm UTC

Quoting: mrdeathjrThis new linux driver is first 5xx series driver and works with kernel 5.16 avalaible in kernel mainline for ubuntu users

however must be use this tool (ukuu fork) for more easily installation process

https://github.com/bkw777/mainline [External Link]
You only need a kernel that's newer than 3.10.

ΔV: Rings of Saturn continues to be popular with Linux gamers
5 Jan 2022 at 3:58 pm UTC Likes: 15

It seems that the moral of the story is that if you love your Linux customers then they'll love you right back.

A look at the top 100 Steam games on Linux - January 2022 edition
4 Jan 2022 at 2:56 pm UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: [Linuxtayshady]The fact of the matter is if you did ANY type of research into what I just said, simply pulling up the ProtonDB page for It Takes Two for instance, you would've seen that people with Linux Mint are unable to get the game to run.
If it works for everyone else but doesn't work on Mint, that's a Mint problem. You can see that, right?