OMG Awesome !
Pretty good memories playing this with my brother yeaaars ago. :grin:

View this comment - View article - View full comments

I'm using LogiTech with piper. So far so good.
https://github.com/libratbag/piper [External Link]

View this comment - View article - View full comments

"some original thoughts were that since Stadia was using Debian Linux and the Vulkan API, that we might see some cross-over of ports but that never really materialised either. The majority ended up just sticking to the Stadia ecosystem."

Publishers dont want to make ports for 1% marketshare, but they do it for Stadia, which is 0.00001% :huh:
(Ok Stadia is only ONE setup, but...)

View this comment - View article - View full comments

My first purchase is from 2014, but the screenshot is familiar since it was the same interface for Half Life/CS back in the days (but i was more on "The 4th Coming" at this time).
I have now 526 games.
Fun fact (for me): as i have switched to 100% Linux in 2017 (previously dual-booting), my Steam account had more time on Linux than Windows. :grin:

Happy birthday Steam ! And thanks for all the fish Linux Games !

View this comment - View article - View full comments

Quoting: Eike

Quoting: GuestI do worry that the Deck was oversold on that idea of 100% comparability.

This. People will be disappointed.

Exactly, the 100% compatibility statement is for me a big PR error, the expectations will be high and the disapointment too...

View this comment - View article - View full comments

Quoting: slaapliedje

Quoting: DebianUser

Quoting: slaapliedje

Quoting: DebianUser

Quoting: GuestI kinda brace myself since some people love to point fingers at things like this and claim that Arch is a bad/buggy/difficult distro. I ran it for many years and something big like this happened maybe once or twice a year and always had a simple fix; it's darn solid. I am pretty sure I had more problems with my distro of choice's last upgrade than my entire Arch days..

I don't know Arch but tu put things into perspective, i'm using Debian, and they have broken grub two times this two last years (on stable), leaving users who have updated at the wrong time with an unbootable device without any warning (have to use another install or live cd, and reinstall grub on the disk).
Of course, this problem has been spotted in derivatives (Ubuntu, Mint...)
So yeah... sh** happens, even on the most stable distros (and on Windows too, of course).

Huh, do you have something weird there? I've been running stable for decades, and haven't had grub break. Also, I mean why would you reboot unless you've updated the kernel? :P

I think only users who have make an update at the wrong time have seen the issue (i hope the bug has been fixed rapidly, as reinstalling grub on the disk was sufficient).
But searching the web for a solution, i found other users with the problem, and one who has stated it was the second time (and it was for me too).
I don't remember the first issue, but the second is here https://www.google.com/search?q=grub_malloc+grub+update&source=lmns&bih=1013&biw=2144&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiKz9jFqeLyAhUI3OAKHXTDCVEQ_AUoAHoECAEQAA [External Link]

Since that, i keep a old non-updated install on a small partition on another disk, with grub on it, to have another grub/install for rescue, if the same problem happens, i just boot this system, chroot into my main system, and reinstall grub on the main disk.

I must shut down my computer because it is in the same room than my bed :p

Speaking of rescue modes... I am going to give a shout out to Red Hat here. I was playing around with RHEL 8 in a VM to see how it stood up as a desktop / workstation. I did something and then probably shut down before it had finished, so it was in a weird state. But yet choosing the rescue mode from the command line would boot up a full Gnome desktop! I was quite impressed.

Turns out I was playing with enabling fips mode, and it had gone a little sideways, and I just needed to run the command again so it could finish that. But I thought the rescue mode having a sort of 'snapshot' to get a bootable system with full GUI was quite impressive.

Yeah rescue mode is pretty helpful in some cases... but not when updates are breaking grub itself :s

View this comment - View article - View full comments

Quoting: slaapliedje

Quoting: DebianUser

Quoting: GuestI kinda brace myself since some people love to point fingers at things like this and claim that Arch is a bad/buggy/difficult distro. I ran it for many years and something big like this happened maybe once or twice a year and always had a simple fix; it's darn solid. I am pretty sure I had more problems with my distro of choice's last upgrade than my entire Arch days..

I don't know Arch but tu put things into perspective, i'm using Debian, and they have broken grub two times this two last years (on stable), leaving users who have updated at the wrong time with an unbootable device without any warning (have to use another install or live cd, and reinstall grub on the disk).
Of course, this problem has been spotted in derivatives (Ubuntu, Mint...)
So yeah... sh** happens, even on the most stable distros (and on Windows too, of course).

Huh, do you have something weird there? I've been running stable for decades, and haven't had grub break. Also, I mean why would you reboot unless you've updated the kernel? :P

I think only users who have make an update at the wrong time have seen the issue (i hope the bug has been fixed rapidly, as reinstalling grub on the disk was sufficient).
But searching the web for a solution, i found other users with the problem, and one who has stated it was the second time (and it was for me too).
I don't remember the first issue, but the second is here https://www.google.com/search?q=grub_malloc+grub+update&source=lmns&bih=1013&biw=2144&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiKz9jFqeLyAhUI3OAKHXTDCVEQ_AUoAHoECAEQAA [External Link]

Since that, i keep a old non-updated install on a small partition on another disk, with grub on it, to have another grub/install for rescue, if the same problem happens, i just boot this system, chroot into my main system, and reinstall grub on the main disk.

I must shut down my computer because it is in the same room than my bed :p

View this comment - View article - View full comments

Quoting: GuestI kinda brace myself since some people love to point fingers at things like this and claim that Arch is a bad/buggy/difficult distro. I ran it for many years and something big like this happened maybe once or twice a year and always had a simple fix; it's darn solid. I am pretty sure I had more problems with my distro of choice's last upgrade than my entire Arch days..

I don't know Arch but tu put things into perspective, i'm using Debian, and they have broken grub two times this two last years (on stable), leaving users who have updated at the wrong time with an unbootable device without any warning (have to use another install or live cd, and reinstall grub on the disk).
Of course, this problem has been spotted in derivatives (Ubuntu, Mint...)
So yeah... sh** happens, even on the most stable distros (and on Windows too, of course).

View this comment - View article - View full comments

After some research, i found that CrossOver is focusing on productivity applications (MS Office for example), but Wine(staging) seems to be better for games.
Obviously, it is just a technical point and buying CrossOver is always good to support Wine development !

But i dont know personaly, since CrossOver is a Wine Wrapper (like PlayOnLinux), i think he must be good for games too.

I use a Franken-PlayOnLinux, with some Lutris wine builds, and im pretty happy with it.

View this comment - View article - View full comments

120 millions of monthly active users in 2021. 1% of that is 1.2 million, and dual boot are obviously not counted.
When developpers say 1% do not worth it, they are letting 1.2M potential customers on the side of the road.
And i really think a Linux (or Mac OSX) user have more chances to buy a game than a Windows one, because he have significantly less choice.

OSX has 2.5%, that is approximately 3 millions of users.

I'm wondering how many users became to "worth it" for some.

View this comment - View article - View full comments