Quoting: LoudTechieThis is, because the reason behind the whitelist is complicated and thus unsuited for marketing.
At the time of establishment this whitelist contained only CPU's without known side channel attacks.
They really, really wanted to get rid of old side channel attacks for some reason.

After what I gathered from the side channel attack history (which is not too much), I expect every current processor to have some side channel weakness too, though.

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Quoting: BrokattGreat! Looking forward to february.

Anyone knows if they removed the annoying window that popus up every time you start a controller, requiring you to give permission to the controller to actually control things?

The what now?? Is that a Plasma window, or a Steam one? Got a screenshot?

It may be something unique for Steam Controller? I will post a pic when I get home. It's similar to the one @mr-victory linked to.

I'm using a Steam Controller (from time to time) and KDE (always) and I've never seen this window.

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Quoting: Phlebiac2) macOS usage declined for years, but in recent times it has scaled at nearly the same rate as desktop Linux. I wonder what factors are involved with that; I don't think Valve has done anything major on that front, and to my knowledge Apple hasn't done anything to improve things for gaming (they are actively hostile to it in some ways).

MacOS profiting from Windows 11 as well? If you're not keeping your box and install Linux on it, maybe buy a new one with a new OS?

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Quoting: mr-victoryI feel that the GabeCube *ahem* Steam Machine will be DOA due to anti cheat, I hope to be proven wrong but Windows on ARM laptops being frequently returned item on Amazon doesn't give me confidence, those laptops' game compatibility issues are not that different from ours... the advantage Deck had was being a handheld so who cares if an fps doesn't work.

If the Deck wasn't DOA because of anti-cheat, why would the cube be?

That just makes no sense. Will it be a bit limited? Sure. Will there still be tons of people who don't care about games like Battlefield? Clearly the answer is yes.

It's not expected to sell 50 million units, even 5 is a . . . huge success.

I'm not sure they're right, but I do see their point: People expect different things and play different games on a handheld.

When I buy a handheld, I expect the handheld games to work (like on Switch). And I wouldn't want to play FPS on it. On a box on the other hand, on a "real PC", I'd expect "every game" to work.

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I already wanted to write that I'm not affected by the bug for whatever reason...

... but I think I was (am) and just disabled the screen saver!

Looking forward to the bug fix when it arrives in Debian stable, probably in 2027. :D

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Quoting: satorideponSomething tells me there wouldn't have been a backlash if they added the same feature, but without "AI" label on it.

How would they summarize reviews without AI?

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Quoting: Tethys84Sorry, but COMPLETELY disagree with you. That argument is BS and EXTREMELY TIRED at this point. Move on already. You people are so f***ing ridiculous. I'm done with these conversations. I have better things to do, like trying to find reasons to keep living in a world that's completely falling apart more and more every day when I turn on the news.

I do get that (later) mood.

But it's not the right mood to post in a gaming forum.

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Quoting: Tethys84I can't see BG3 having done anything deserving that award. 100% feel like people just vote for what's trending.

Well, they did release a native version for Steam Deck. And I guess it won't make them lots of money... (I'm not saying this is the reason for the people to vote for it though.)

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The best game of the year(*) is available natively for Linux!

(*) according to some voting

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My impression is that programming itself is slowly moving towards Linux, and that this movement is not as big in games development (due to obvious reasons), but it's touching game development as well. The case sounds a bit like Baldur's Gate 3 - some developers that are just too much into Linux to ignore it. I like.

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