Is it some fun playing on one's own, not paying anything and ignoring squads and whatever?

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Did I understand correctly that enabling developer mode (or something alike) would allow me to install KDEConnect easily? I love that little one.

OT question: I guess Windows has something comparable? (Controlling media player and YouTube replay from phone, having phone notifications on PC and vice versa, sending SMS from PC, transferring files, sending custom commands to PC, ...)

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Quoting: LachuI have bought this game, but never install it. Maybe give it try? I do not have much time to play and can play too many games. In fact, I do not have drive space to install each game I can play.

It took me 60 hours I think... On the other hand, it might be suitable to play a round (one fight) and leave it again. For sure a great game.

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Quoting: GuestThis is when it annoys me when people think Stadia=Linux. Its better to think of Stadia as Android in terms of support Linux is going to get.

Don't bother with "but but", this is a high level view.

... but developers are learning to make games running on Linux. No games without developers.

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Quoting: eldarion

Quoting: Liam Dawe

Quoting: eldarionI really hope this fever will pass (no offense to the Steam Deckers out there).

I hope it doesn't. It's one of the biggest things to ever help Linux gaming as a whole, and any games I write about would work on a Linux desktop too.

Only time will tell. It's just that recently the news here looked too much as a Valve PR satalite then a Linux gaming news site. More about steam deck itself and less about actual games.

Don't you think a successful dedicated gaming device running Linux and hundreds, soon thousands of games verified to run on Linux and what most probably will be number one on many game of the years lists running on Linux at least as good as (supposedly better than) on Windows is like medium important for the topic at hand, "gaming on Linux"?

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Quoting: TimeFreeze

Quoting: ageres

Quoting: TimeFreezeCastlevania Anniversary Collection is also working without issues, same with Contra Anniversary Collection.

Is it? When I played these collections (two years ago), they ran terribly. Problems with fullscreen, aspect ratio, wrong button binding, glitchy emulator menu, no hotkeys, encrypted ROM files... I couldn't even quit the game without Alt+F4.

They work as they should. Just with Castlevania Anniversary Collection you have to force quit the game since the Devs didnt implemented an Exit Game option for whatever reasons. So thats an "issue" on Windows as well.

I don't know what systems these were made for, but on early "home computers" or the like, we didn't have an option to leave a game. I remember I had a game that had a quit option and I considered that so much unprofessional...

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An interesting one, I liked the demo!

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Quoting: PhiladelphusThis might be an odd request, but could you try running a game which has a native Linux version that works perfectly fine on desktop but is listed as Unsupported? I'm seeing some really surprising ones pop up from my library (e.g. Surviving Mars, or Ultimate Chicken Horse, which I'd've thought would be a shoe-in for the Deck). Do they run on the Deck (and just have such a crappy experience, for whatever reason, that Valve marked them Unsupported)? Or do they really not run? (If so, well…that's that I suppose, it just seems weird that Linux-native games that probably aren't using some sort of anti-cheat or anything wouldn't run on the Deck). Thanks.

I'm interested, too. My guess for e.g. Surviving Mars is that it works, but they (according to the wording of their message Valve, I'd guess the developers) want to improve the experience before it gets labeled.

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Quoting: slaapliedje

Quoting: Eike

Quoting: slaapliedjeBut seeing as how I had to hex edit a file to get the resolution right, I still have that one installed...

Doesn't Steam preserve edited files? I think so...

Nah, you can mod the files all you want. There is a 'validate files' thing you can do. I'm sure there are some games that are multiplayer where file checks are a thing. But a single player game like the Witcher? Why?

I was thinking the opposite: You edit the file, Steam does not rechange it, and when you remove the game, Steam keeps what you've edited. I'm not sure though if it only keeps files added by you or also those changed.

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Quoting: Spl-it

Quoting: AussieEeveeBut threatening a ban on players that manage to get the game running under proton is just scummy, Bungie and that makes you one of the scummiest companies in the industry.

They're not. They threaten people that disable the anti cheat with a ban.

Erm... no?

They're threatening people running the game on Linux with a ban:

Players who attempt to bypass Destiny 2 incompatibility will be met with a game ban.

This might be due to fear of cheating, but includes all people who just want to play, and it doesn't even mention anything about cheating.

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