The Year of Linux Handheld is Here.

Anyways, I'd be happy to have this. Valve hasn't touched my region while Chinese distribution network are generally better at working with local trusted distributors, so for a long while now there's been official stores in Tokopedia (so much safer in terms of warranty/returns) selling the Chinese handheld over Steam Deck (though recently Steam Deck price has started to come down, locally).

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Quoting: Comandante ÑoñardoI ask this because the earliest version of Bottles used to be available as appimage...
It was very practical. just click and use...

I feel like that's just an unnecessary extra step in this context, since you can just make the AppImage do the "wine ./Game.exe" for the 'Game.exe' packed inside the AppImage, thus having a "click and use" experience already.

I don't think old Bottles have good CLI pipeline either, since I recall it being a late addition or rework in the middle of last year.

A better approach IMHO is to use Portable Mode [External Link] and/or modifying the 'default wineprefix' in the Wine folder you bundle for the AppImage (or do an automated winetricks dependency install if it doesn't detect an associated .wine/.home portable folder).

Quoting: McCartheeSeems like an absolute dream for pirates.

Please. As a pirate myself, I find this to be an unnecessary step over just finding a pre-installed copy of the game, and either double-clicking the .exe in file manager or using Heroic/Lutris/Bottles to manage my library of pirated games.

I can see usecases for this tool, but as a pirate myself, I don't really see the point of using this over something that already works -- unless there are people who bothers to pre-package this for me, but even then it just means extra download size over just downloading normal pre-installed version of the game.

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Quoting: ChuckaluphagusI can only speak for my kids and their friends, but all of their gaming is on Switch, Xbox, Playstation, and Steam. None of the younger kids (10 and younger) we see have phones that are capable of gaming, but everyone has a console at home and/or their parents' PC.

Same here. And they make fun of mobile gamers.

We always have a 'core' gamer and a 'casual' gamer divide, and the 'core' gamer will always mock the 'casual' gamers. Why would anyone think it'll be different with children today?

There's always that kid who has a cool console/PC that's a cool kid for getting their friends to play together and that's a circle that'll eventually grow to feel superior about being able to play 'real' games.

Elitism will always exists in children, and if it's not having a cool Fortnite skin or Genshin character, it'll be about "playing real games on a real gaming console/PC". Things don't change as much as some people think, humans will be humans, and kids will be kids.

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Quoting: Comandante ÑoñardoIs possible to GameImage the app bottles?

If you're talking about the app Bottles and their 'bottle' winepfx container, I'd imagine you'll probably have to just use Wine and winepfx.

Which shouldn't be that hard to backup -- I myself sometimes just run `WINEPREFIX=$PWD/_winepfx wine ./Game.exe` to make it easy to backup the wineprefix inside the game's folder.

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It's kind of weird in that while the top end are going insane, the budget end here in Indonesia are actually at or below MSRP. Yeah, only a few models like 6600 and I think 3050 are at that price, but it's not hard to get them and they don't have that much markup beyond what you can expect from import and currency exchange.

So I hear all these insane news and it feels like seeing another world where top-end matters while we're just nicely vibing to last-gen budget offers here in Indonesia.

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A part of me does wonder -- if people use the open-source Nvidia driver and, say, the OBS issue happened again, would that break those user's OBS? From what I've read it seems that proprietary Nvidia driver users avoided OBS' issue so that's... weird, and kinda funny, given how annoying Nvidia-Linux experience can be.

Yes, yes, I know it's a logistical issue that shouldn't happen often... but there's been a LOT of those last year, so I just wonder if it'll happen again and if that'll affect the people choosing to use the new open-source driver's users at that time.

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Hm, I do have a laptop I leave idle'd as my makeshift self-hosted cloud/backup storage. I could get a game installed there, and then distro-hop, and quickly get everything back running. Peer-to-peer tech is cool, I wish we have a simple self-hosted peer-to-peer cloud suite (Syncthing and Resilio is decent for storage, but they don't come with a full suite of stuff that would be useful on phone and PCs).

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Quoting: JahimselfAre the performance good? I mean do you need powerfull hardware to run games?

I can run a JRPG (which, on the one hand, isn't too taxing, but OTOH Japanese devs aren't known to be most efficient) like Ar nosurge just fine on a 3400G. Not at the best quality but it does run well. It's never going to be as light as PCSX2 games, but efficiency-wise, I think it's gotten there.

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Some people speculated that it's because a lot of Windows gamers tuning back for Winter Sale and holiday gaming, rather than a real drop in Linux usage. If that's true, we should see a correction from that in the next two months. Either way, I hope the upward trend continues this year.

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Can't say I expected that, but I should. System76 and Red Hat has been the main people in focus for HDR as of late, but Valve has been the most substantial with driving gaming on Linux (naturally) and a lot of stuff has been progressing much faster after Valve starts contributing.

Not to praise on them too much, but Linus' quote on Valve saving desktop Linux seems to remain pretty on-point. I hope that he remains right on that (though I also hope his quote on Nvidia will no longer apply next year).

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