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Linux has now seen 4 months of being above 1% on the Steam Hardware Survey
2 Nov 2021 at 9:26 am UTC

Quoting: EhvisI got my survey again early October. So still pretty much getting them once a year.
When I got mine, it always was on first of the respective month.

Valve hosting a Steamworks Virtual Conference for the Steam Deck on November 12
2 Nov 2021 at 8:47 am UTC

Quoting: kuhpunktA lot of games relatively speaking isn't enough when you can't play most of the modern games.
Well, it was (and still is) enough for me.
Not enough to make lots of people change system though.

Linux has now seen 4 months of being above 1% on the Steam Hardware Survey
2 Nov 2021 at 8:45 am UTC Likes: 3

Windows 11 might play a role as well.

Valve hosting a Steamworks Virtual Conference for the Steam Deck on November 12
2 Nov 2021 at 8:16 am UTC

Development without a dev-kit
... or "Linux installation for dummies". ;-)

X.Org 21.1.0 sees a release with Variable refresh rate support in the modesetting driver
28 Oct 2021 at 9:37 am UTC

Quoting: Xpander
Quoting: Eike
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.
Oh man!
I've been actually using it on X already!
Yes, sorry, it's obviously not the big change I thought.

X.Org 21.1.0 sees a release with Variable refresh rate support in the modesetting driver
28 Oct 2021 at 9:26 am UTC Likes: 1

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?

X.Org 21.1.0 sees a release with Variable refresh rate support in the modesetting driver
28 Oct 2021 at 9:00 am UTC Likes: 3

I was under the impression that nobody would work on new X.org features anymore and it would even hardly be maintained?

The '90s mystery adventure Kathy Rain: Director's Cut is out now
27 Oct 2021 at 12:13 pm UTC Likes: 2

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.
I found it quite different - but very good. It's way more to read. :)

Get out together, go it alone or make your own rooms in Escape Simulator out now
22 Oct 2021 at 8:36 am UTC

I played the demo, and to be honest, it didn't appeal to me...

Valve launches Deck Verified, to show off what games will work well on the Steam Deck
19 Oct 2021 at 3:48 pm UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: BielFPs
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.
As far as I know you have to have a Steam account to order, right?
Steam could infer that you want to know about Steam Deck compatibility, and/or show the information about all games in your library during that process, ...