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Steam Spring Sale is live, Steam Deck gets a discount and startup movie customization
3 May 2023 at 8:52 am UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: MayeulCBut I sent it on Friday evening, and opened my Steam Deck on Sunday :woot:
Congrats!

Valve reveals the top Steam Deck games for April 2023
2 May 2023 at 12:28 pm UTC Likes: 2

A, right, it's May!

... and hwsurvey is fluctuating again:

Linux 1.32% +0.48%
Simplified Chinese 25.03% -26.60%

The Striking Soulslikes bundle has some punishment ready for you
2 May 2023 at 9:29 am UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: MinuxCould you give me a bit of advice about this?
Humble is one of about three stores I trustfully use (Steam, GOG, Humble). It's all fine.

Dust off your game dev environment with the Linux Game Jam 2023
29 Apr 2023 at 4:24 pm UTC Likes: 2

Quoting: spacemonkeyTry getting intellisense to work. It requires the exact correct combination of software versions for Unity, VSCode, Dotnet, Mono and the C# plugin for VSCode. So don't even think about updating any of these, once you get it to work. And also expect random Unity crashes.

Game dev takes a lot of time, so I hate it when the environment I work in is wasting it.
Any software development takes a lot of time and all of my brain, that's why I'm loving a stable, "it just works" environment, which I found, sorry to say - it was decades ago - in Visual Studio. I tried VS Code, but it feels to flaky already to me without meeting the problems you describe.

The Striking Soulslikes bundle has some punishment ready for you
29 Apr 2023 at 1:10 pm UTC Likes: 5

Think you have what it takes?
Nope. (And therefore never even tried.)

Dust off your game dev environment with the Linux Game Jam 2023
29 Apr 2023 at 12:41 pm UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: spacemonkeyHoping someday Unity + Visual Studio Code just works on Linux. Game Dev is what is keeping me on Windows.
VSCode should run all fine as far as I know?!? (Though personally I hate it! :D )

Valve moves ELDEN RING back to Proton 7 as it has issues with newer Proton
26 Apr 2023 at 8:34 am UTC

Quoting: itscalledrealityFWIW (nothing) I always use ProtonDB and never find Valve’s SteamDB really helpful at all.
SteamDB isn't by Valve either though. See bottom line of main menu there.

What are you checking out in Steam Puzzle Fest 2023?
25 Apr 2023 at 3:03 pm UTC Likes: 3

Quoting: PenglingEDIT: Just grabbed Portal for 85p! :shock: I've never played it before, so this ought to be interesting.
Not very 2D though. ;)

Roblox intentionally blocking Linux with Wine in their new update
24 Apr 2023 at 10:44 am UTC Likes: 3

Quoting: sprocketIf you haven't seen this video on the subject, and you have children, you need to see this video on the subject: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gXlauRB1EQ [External Link]

Plus the follow up, which is quite damning: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTMF6xEiAaY [External Link]
I had no idea. Thanks for pointing out!

Roblox intentionally blocking Linux with Wine in their new update
22 Apr 2023 at 10:13 am UTC Likes: 23

Quoting: pb> As a Linux user I am sure you understand the challenges of the Windows ecosystem.

Am I ignorant or does that sentence make no sense?
I take it as "You're probably Linux user because Windows is... suboptimal." Which is fun to read, but not fun enough to make Linux users wanting to play the game happy.