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Don't expect GOG to support the Steam Deck
21 Feb 2022 at 3:23 pm UTC Likes: 40


Here's some of what we've learned about the Steam Deck
13 Nov 2021 at 10:25 pm UTC Likes: 8

Maybe you can have something like an overlayfs (you do modification on another partition). If you have any problem, just remove anything from the second partition.

But, yeah, ChimeraOS and every other console is working this way, that’s not really surprising. If you want a plain Arch Linux, then install it.

And it’ll be a lot easier for Valve to maintain it, and for non-tech users (and for Valve to support them).

Imagine if you could customize the Steam Deck colours - try it out with this tool
9 Aug 2021 at 11:49 am UTC Likes: 5

Here's mine, Glaz version. I wanted to add some black and white, but it was not convincing, so I just used a darker variant for the grips, pads and joysticks.


AMD and Valve working towards a new CPU performance scaling design for AMD CPUs
3 Aug 2021 at 9:24 am UTC Likes: 2

Quoting: orochi_kyoI need a new FULL AMD PC now.
This is what I have been saying for years. And my current one is a full AMD PC :D

I bet everything on AMD + Linux (+ Valve) for the future since the open-sourcing of the Radeon driver for Linux (I was already on Linux on an AMD GPU at this time. I always had AMD GPU, but with Intel CPUs before Ryzen, though). And Valve hadn't even released Steam Play yet.

Steam gets new a Downloads page, new Steam Library manager and Linux improvements
30 Jul 2021 at 8:17 am UTC

Quoting: EikeSpeaking of the Library manager, when I go into the directory I always find myself surprised how many games leave some stuff there that I actually uninstalled (I'm not keeping games around which I don't play)...
Are you sure that’s not the saves and users settings? Keeping saves and others user-related stuff, so I can continue if I reinstall the game is expected for me (and, for any user that can’t keep all their games always installed because of disk space, and have to rotate between them).

Epic Games has acquired RAD Game Tools so they now own Bink video and more
8 Jan 2021 at 9:53 am UTC Likes: 23

The good news is that Epic will not be locking it down to their systems
for now.*

The best Linux distros for gaming in 2021
5 Jan 2021 at 10:26 am UTC

Quoting: KohlyKohlManjaro for new users? Really? They purposely break important packages for various reasons. Recently, they even broke the Steam package. This was the final straw for me and why I moved back to KDE Neon.

If you want to recommend a bad user experience for new users then by all means recommend Manjaro. If you want new users to have a positive experience then recommend Ubuntu.
I already did and for now, concerned users are satisfied, with no problems. On the other hand, Ubuntu with Gnome is more and more slow, Snap is enforced with the problems of disk space, integration (locale and theme are often broken), and Ubuntu have still the same eternal problems of drivers that I never had on Manjaro.

In the worst case, Xubuntu have the advantage to be faster, and you can easily remove Snap (the standard Ubuntu use Snap even for the software center or the calculator…). Or Linux Mint. But Manjaro still the best, even more since the packages break you mention are now rare (I talk only about the main versions : XFCE and KDE (never tried the Gnome version). Community versions are still often broken…).

The best Linux distros for gaming in 2021
15 Dec 2020 at 9:47 am UTC Likes: 11

I think that Manjaro can progressively replace Ubuntu (and not only for gaming) since it’s more stable than a few years ago. And that’s already what we can see (<troll>for example here: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/index.php?module=statistics&view=trends#LinuxDistributionsSplit-top </troll>)

Because of some Ubuntu choices (like Snap enforcing recently), and because of the 6 months or 2 years upgrade vs rolling, I now recommend Manjaro for new users.

Minecraft Java will move to Microsoft accounts in 2021, gets new social screen
22 Oct 2020 at 10:40 am UTC Likes: 2

Quoting: ShroobsterMicrosft already bought Mojang in 2014.
Yes, sorry for my poor english. I wanted to say bought and not buy (in 2014 some people was afraid by this purchase, and they were right). I edited my original message.

Minecraft Java will move to Microsoft accounts in 2021, gets new social screen
22 Oct 2020 at 10:07 am UTC Likes: 14

Quoting: barottoWhy? What's the difference between having a Microsoft account, or a Mojang account, or a Steam account, or a Google account...
Valve and Mojang are trustworthy (or was, for Mojang), Microsoft and Google aren’t. When Microsoft bought Mojang, some people already hesitate, and there is the day these people feared… It was the same when Google made the fusion between YouTube and Google accounts, for the same reasons, and probably with the same result.