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Forspoken needs desktop Linux to spoof being a Steam Deck to work
25 Jan 2023 at 6:31 am UTC
25 Jan 2023 at 6:31 am UTC
>Forspoken needs desktop Linux to spoof being a Steam Deck to work
>It"didn't be installed" on my Windows Linux.
It do be like that sometimes my bro.
The restriction is... weird, and normally I would say "I'll take it," but all the reviews I saw says the game is mediocre with some issues and the PC req is being so high means that, while I appreciate it being possible to run in Linux in general, I don't want it, thanks.
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It do be like that sometimes my bro.
The restriction is... weird, and normally I would say "I'll take it," but all the reviews I saw says the game is mediocre with some issues and the PC req is being so high means that, while I appreciate it being possible to run in Linux in general, I don't want it, thanks.
Wine 8.0 is out now with major compatibility improvements
24 Jan 2023 at 4:52 pm UTC Likes: 5
24 Jan 2023 at 4:52 pm UTC Likes: 5
Well now, that should be in time for Ubuntu 23.04. Wonder if it'll make it to Debian 12 since we haven't yet passed the Soft Freeze deadline.
I'm glad for all the improvements for CJK and media playback. As someone who plays a lot of Japanese games, I'll take every improvements for them because good lord can those Japanese games can be very messy to run with a whole mess of dependencies to play videos, have fonts rendered well, and sometimes just to get running.
A massive thanks for all the people involved and congrats on the new release, here's hoping for a good 2023 for Wine and related projects.
I'm glad for all the improvements for CJK and media playback. As someone who plays a lot of Japanese games, I'll take every improvements for them because good lord can those Japanese games can be very messy to run with a whole mess of dependencies to play videos, have fonts rendered well, and sometimes just to get running.
A massive thanks for all the people involved and congrats on the new release, here's hoping for a good 2023 for Wine and related projects.
An interview with the creator of the Heroic Games Launcher
21 Jan 2023 at 8:23 am UTC Likes: 2
But I do vastly prefer Heroic for my Wine games. The best part about Heroic for me is how easy it is to add games now, and make it look good. Also, the fact that it tracks game play time is nice, as I like to report playtime HowLongToBeat and VNDB accurately. And separate wineprefix makes it easy to prevent dependency conflicts and backup my saves per game.
I'm also super glad that they could have a Windows release -- it's been very convenient using it on Windows side too.
If I have a wishlist... I guess it's a JAST USA integration -- or an extension system that would allow that like Playnite have for JAST -- because price there is cheaper for me than GOG, and some sort of simple way to plug in emulation games into the library (the Add Game panel just spoils me, it's so simple to add game, have it auto-added to Steam, and then play the game).
21 Jan 2023 at 8:23 am UTC Likes: 2
Q: Why do you think people should use Heroic over Lutris, or Bottles or *insert other app*? Do you see them as competition, or is it more like companions?Honestly, I think these days it's just about which user experience fits your usecase and preferences better. I can see how Bottles fits some people's and I still need Lutris as my emulation games' tracker.
But I do vastly prefer Heroic for my Wine games. The best part about Heroic for me is how easy it is to add games now, and make it look good. Also, the fact that it tracks game play time is nice, as I like to report playtime HowLongToBeat and VNDB accurately. And separate wineprefix makes it easy to prevent dependency conflicts and backup my saves per game.
I'm also super glad that they could have a Windows release -- it's been very convenient using it on Windows side too.
If I have a wishlist... I guess it's a JAST USA integration -- or an extension system that would allow that like Playnite have for JAST -- because price there is cheaper for me than GOG, and some sort of simple way to plug in emulation games into the library (the Add Game panel just spoils me, it's so simple to add game, have it auto-added to Steam, and then play the game).
Plasma 5.27 Beta live with Flatpak settings, multi-monitor upgrade, SteamOS updater
20 Jan 2023 at 9:42 am UTC Likes: 2
20 Jan 2023 at 9:42 am UTC Likes: 2
Multi-monitor has been the achilles heel of using Plasma last year. As someone who has multiple monitors with 3-5 workspace/desktops at a time, kwin/Plasma has often crashed requiring me to run the restart-plasma script (kill/restart kwin & plasma) I've binded to a shortcut. More improvement on that is welcomed.
Not requiring Flatseal anymore is nice. That and the new welcome app seems like one of the Deck-driven improvement that benefits everyone that uses KDE as well.
Having followed Nate's Pointiest Stick blog, it's been awesome seeing improvements to Plasma every week and that improvement is now finally landing. Here's to a good last hurrah for Plasma 5.
Snap Layouts I've found to be rather annoying, but I do use it sometimes so I keep it on despite how bothersome it is sometimes (I've disabled the screen-top's Snap Layout UI tho, too annoying considering I put my taskbar at top).
Not requiring Flatseal anymore is nice. That and the new welcome app seems like one of the Deck-driven improvement that benefits everyone that uses KDE as well.
Having followed Nate's Pointiest Stick blog, it's been awesome seeing improvements to Plasma every week and that improvement is now finally landing. Here's to a good last hurrah for Plasma 5.
Quoting: mr-victoryThis time KDE stole from Microsoft, the new tiling feature is probably inspired by Win11's corresponding feature. (was it called snapping?) But they didn't just copy pasta but slightly improved it.Regarding tiling, the only thing that KDE 'stole' from Microsoft is the Snap Layouts that appears when you however Maximize button -- in the form of someone making Exquisite, which is similar to that Snap Layouts feature.
Snap Layouts I've found to be rather annoying, but I do use it sometimes so I keep it on despite how bothersome it is sometimes (I've disabled the screen-top's Snap Layout UI tho, too annoying considering I put my taskbar at top).
AYANEO confirm their Linux-based AYANEO OS arrives this year
19 Jan 2023 at 3:53 am UTC Likes: 2
19 Jan 2023 at 3:53 am UTC Likes: 2
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).
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).
GameImage turns games, emulators and Wine into an AppImage - useful perhaps for Steam Deck
19 Jan 2023 at 3:45 am UTC
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).
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.
19 Jan 2023 at 3:45 am UTC
Quoting: Comandante ÑoñardoI ask this because the earliest version of Bottles used to be available as appimage...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.
It was very practical. just click and use...
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.
State of the industry: MSI offered a chance to win the ability to buy a GPU
18 Jan 2023 at 10:06 am UTC Likes: 2
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.
18 Jan 2023 at 10:06 am UTC Likes: 2
Quoting: einherjarWe 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?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.
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.
GameImage turns games, emulators and Wine into an AppImage - useful perhaps for Steam Deck
18 Jan 2023 at 9:58 am UTC Likes: 1
Which shouldn't be that hard to backup -- I myself sometimes just run `WINEPREFIX=$PWD/_winepfx wine ./Game.exe` to make it easy to backup the wineprefix inside the game's folder.
18 Jan 2023 at 9:58 am UTC Likes: 1
Quoting: Comandante ÑoñardoIs possible to GameImage the app bottles?If you're talking about the app Bottles and their 'bottle' winepfx container, I'd imagine you'll probably have to just use Wine and winepfx.
Which shouldn't be that hard to backup -- I myself sometimes just run `WINEPREFIX=$PWD/_winepfx wine ./Game.exe` to make it easy to backup the wineprefix inside the game's folder.
State of the industry: MSI offered a chance to win the ability to buy a GPU
17 Jan 2023 at 7:32 am UTC Likes: 3
17 Jan 2023 at 7:32 am UTC Likes: 3
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.
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.
The open source NVIDIA Vulkan driver 'NVK' begins to run games
12 Jan 2023 at 2:36 am UTC
12 Jan 2023 at 2:36 am UTC
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.
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.