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Quoting: TrainDocI think that this is maintainers realizing some bugs can't just be left to rot and decided to patch up before they leave.

Variable refresh rate support sounds like a major thing to me, though?

But the question is, what did it improve?
VRR has been working on X for long time.. the only issue has been that it has been working only with 1 monitor active.

Quoting: TrainDocI think that this is maintainers realizing some bugs can't just be left to rot and decided to patch up before they leave.

Quoting: scaineLooks quite similar to the awesome Full Throttle - I played through its remaster a year or so back. I'll definitely take a look at this.

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Quoting: CFWhitmanThis is not really a proper evaluation of the "Opt-in" situation. If the majority of users don't activate it, it (at least in theory) will be because the majority of users don't care whether it works on the Steam Deck or not.

You don't have to opt-in in order to buy the device, so "motivation" doesn't really matter in this case.

Quoting: Liam DaweInstead of launching through Proton it would run it through a compatible native game engine.

Quoting: BielFPsImagine this hypothetical case:
-A kid likes to play PUBG (example) and see on the internet that there's this "new console" that can run steam games (driven only by marketing) and asks their parents to buy it intending to just play PUBG on it. The parents them spent money buying this console, only to discover that "the console isn't working" for some reason (remember both the kid and the parents doesn't have the technical knowledge in this case). Them the parents demands refund because because of it claiming that the "video game isn't working properly". In this case, while we (power users or above) know that technically in this case are the parents fault for not checking this information before, and maybe resulting in denial of the refund.

Quoting: BielFPsThis could open a case for a possible lawsuit against Valve / the store that sold it for them claiming that this was false advertised.

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Quoting: BielFPsTry to imagine the developer / publisher side situation: You're selling your game in a store which bites 30% of each sale you do, and suddenly your game is now advertised with the mark of shame in the store because of the lack of support for a OS that you didn't intended to support (for whatever reason), and this can give the idea for some customers that there's "something broken" in your product (even if this does not affect you like windows players), because you can't expect every consumer on steam to know what that mark means.

They could make the display optional. Those who care (and should know what it means) can switch it on.
I don't think they need to, though.

Oh come on. They say clearly in the video that the "mark of shame" appears only if you open the store from the deck. And why shouldn't be that way? If you're playing on the deck it is supposed that you want to buy and play games there. Everything on Steam is contextual and configurable. I can even decide to display windows games if I want.

Quoting: RockPaperShotgunWill the compatibility badges be visible when viewing games on a PC, or in the Steam mobile app? It would be good to see if a game works well on the Steam Deck even if you’re primarily playing on a desktop or laptop.

Quoting: ValveWe plan to make the Steam Deck compatibility badge visible on PC for players who own a Steam Deck, and compatibility badges will also be discoverable via searching and tag browsing for everyone using the desktop version of Steam or the Steam web site. In addition, the team is currently working on a new feature, to be released before Steam Deck's launch, that will let players check the compatibility category of each of the games in their own library.

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Quoting: GuestSo, this is essentially a Proton whitelist 2.0. The one that Valve have abandoned after a couple of Proton releases.

I do hope that native Linux games will get their check and hopefully their badge early.

Not sure about this one... Have you tried running Shadow of Mordor native on anything else than Ubuntu? The "Unsupported OS" pop-up window is pretty anoying. Not sure it qualifies for the "Supported" badge.