Isn't Obsidian owned by Microsoft?

I don't think Microsoft hates Linux as much as some people believe.

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Thanks for all your suggestions!

Pyretic's sounded like the easiest solution, so I tried that.

"Fabulously Optimised" threw an exception (maybe an old Java edition on my system?), so I installed only Controlify.

I found that I could start a single player game, "open" it in the LAN and then the other instance can join it.

Buut... I couldn't make both the Xbox 360 wireless and the Steam Controller control one instance each. Sometimes both controllers controlled both instances, sometimes the Steam Controller was disabled (due to being a mouse as well?), sometimes I only got a single "Steam Virtual Gamepad". I think there must be a controller choosing dialogue in Controlify, but I never got to see more than one controller there.

Having seen the local LAN server functionality, I guess I could just have one child play on PC and one on my Steam Deck, but I still would like to find a solution for the controllers on a single PC. (And maybe dad wants to play something too in the meantime?! ;) )

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The goal would be to have them both in the same world. I did see videos doing that, but I'm not sure if it's still possible and I for sure don't feel confident to configure it.

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Ah! Yesterday I had a Minecraft question (which to be honest is totally unrelated to the article)...

Can I, and how would I, enable two people playing simultaneously with split screen on one PC with two controllers?
My children are not happy with the other one holding the controller or with whatever the other one is doing... :dizzy:

Preferably in idiots style? :)
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/guides/view/an-idiots-guide-to-setting-up-minecraft-on-steam-deck-steamos-with-controller-support/

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To be honest, I've seen unions cause more problems than they solve. They tend to cost companies more

Where does this money go?

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If you're even remotely on the fence just dive in, you can contribute to the development with ideas.

I understand the appeal, but that's absolutely the opposite of what I want: a finished product.
A realization of the developers' vision.

So, I'll press the "follow" button on Steam. :)

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For the records: "Straftat" is the German word for crime.

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I do not understand how a quote functionality could hurt any law.

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Also, the developer of the game must have the source code, so they can simply port it to different platforms. That's not a big task these days.

Source code seems to have gone more often than you'd think.

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Remember that a basic job of the OS is to isolate processes. So an infected non-root app may be able to access your home, but it can't access other processes (like your browser, or the service that provides your keyring). With root privileges, that isolation is gone.

But I can replace the browser (Use The Source, Luke! ;) ) or password manager and send whatever they get from the inside. Not only what happens to be in memory, but everything stored.
I don't check on a daily basis what my Firefox start button actually starts...
You can also change the PATH variable and put the binaries there, so it would work from command line as well.

I give you that root access makes things less visible, but this attack would be good enough to spy on me at least.

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