Well, I can see why Valve employee wouldn't choose Gnome. This is a proof that they really like customization, and Gnome's arm-length approach to customization likely alienate them.

The recent KDE talk says that their choice for KDE was very much because of the preferences of the people developing Steam Deck and nothing says that they prefer customization than officially adopting boot screen customization.

It's very nice too - boot is one of those things I'm too afraid to touch, because I just don't want to deal with the hassle of fixing grub. I'm really hoping that official SteamOS release is out soon.

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I watched the whole talk, and I don't think it's a million shipped? I think it's a million ordered, but they're still getting more. Not entirely sure, but I'm doubt Valve would get to a million shipped without a massive celebration post.

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Oh, this is just like the Civilization VI situation. Well, thankfully it can still be skipped just like with Civ VI, so that's nice.

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Quoting: belisamaSo this is using a QR code to log into the website? Ugh, what's the point of that, logging into a real website on a real computer is easy.

You have to understand that games like Dota and Counter Strike are (were? it's been a while) VERY popular in Asia, where you play them in net cafe/PC rental shop. This would make it so much more convenient and secure in those environments.

You might have a better threat model, in which case that's cool, but this is a good feature to have in those environment and would only help.

Besides, as someone who often got logged out due to vpn stuff, this would be handy for me too even if I have bitwarden, since I wouldn't have to open my browser.

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Quoting: eldakingFor games I think it would not be sensible, but I wonder if this could be the solution for people that need Microsoft Office on their machines and would want to migrate. It is "work" software where unreliability can be catastrophic, and people who are already willing to pay for an office suite might be willing to spend an extra money to... well, to not use Windows.

Exactly this. I pretty much just use CrossOver to 1.) Install MS Office 365 (mostly used to recheck documents as WPS Office is otherwise mostly sufficient - as well as Outlook because I don't want to bother with the mess that is email stuff); 2.) Support Wine development.

I'm not thrilled by the gtk usage, but I'm not not fine with it either. Overall, so long as Office works, I'm happy. I'm looking forward if Bottles can eventually have an installer for office-365 because they do have winecx in their (hidden) runner list, and now someone 'simply' has to do the tedious process of translation the script to install o365 [External Link] into a Bottles Installer script.

Quoting: foobrewThe update coincides with a massive price increase for yearly subscriptions. How massive? Try an increase from $30 to $75.

This, though. I've renewed for now, since they gave me a massive discount, but I'll see next year if they similarly has massive discount because I'm a poor dude who can barely afford frivolous shit if I want to eat decently for the month.

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I just recently reinstalled my Nobara to Manjaro, just to keep myself up to date with what's going on with Manjaro. Surprisingly, glibc 2.36-1 only lasted for... what, a week? They held back 2.36 for as long as they can and then blitzed through the Testing for 2.36-2, releasing on Stable today.

Between that, as well as having the most painless automated installer I've had -- seriously, I wish more distro offers the choice of swap/swapfile/swap-with-hibernate + filesystem choosing and automated autosnap setup for filesystem that supports snapshots -- I feel like the recent Manjaro backlash is overblown.

I get that they have their issues, but I can definitely see the merit of Manjaro as a whole now. Considering my main 'dependency hell' on AUR/Arch has been the lib32-sane insanity for using Office via CrossOver and that WoW64 is coming sometimes this year or next year, I think I might just migrate back to Manjaro for my main machine sometimes (though I'd rather go with Pop, if they eventually have autosnap -- edit: huh, they will for 22.10, in that case Pop+distrobox-archlinux would be my preferred best-of-all-world choice).

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Quoting: anewsonevery time I see a post about Heroic I have to make a comment about how much I love it; please someone help

Same, they are legitimately awesome. I'd have thought GOG Cloud Saves would be too complicated, but here we are.

I wonder what's next for them -- I'd personally would love for other stores to get support but I really don't know if that's finally in their target now and if so, which one will get priority.

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Huh, vkbasalt is already available as Flatpak? Hm, at some point can we get a list of all the gaming tools that are available as Flatpak, and how do they work for both normal Linux and Steam Deck?

I haven't been following all the recent Flatpak shift so I feel like I missed a lot. Maybe a full guide for Linux Gaming purely via Flatpak? That would be great as a singular guide to point all newbie Linux gamers towards regardless of distro.

In any case, more update is nice, but for now I have to use bottles-git because still waiting for libadwaita 1.2 to come out before non libadwaita-git bottles could be packaged again. Though I'm still not fully using it since I'm still waiting for play time count in Library mode -- hope it comes soon, because I'd be pretty to ditch Lutris once I have that, as I love to report my play/read-time for the games/VNs I play.

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Initial Wow64 thunking in WIN32U.

The promised future! Soon, no more lib32 dependency nightmares!

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Quite a lot of Japanese exclusive ones. It might not be "good" to a lot of people, but Ar nosurge is still a PS3/PS4 exclusive for their English version. Lots of Japanese games never received a port either.

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