Quoting: tonRIt does make sense that Japan, South Korea and Taiwan (ROC) got the Deck first as they have fairly sizeable Linux community especially Taiwan.

I guess that most Steam Deck customers don't care for Linux though.

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyGood news! Hmmm . . .

Japan, South Korea, Hong Kong, and Taiwan!

When it comes to Asia, aren't we kind of missing an elephant here?

Two, of similar size, actually.

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Quoting: BlackBloodRumReally wish some of them would grow a brain and stop blaming us for everything that's wrong when we were fighting the same fight they are........ :grin:

I'm not fully sure what you're talking about, but... The youth absolutely should do some things better than we (well, I was thirty when you were young :D ) did, and we shouldn't see that as an affront. Optimally, we did our best and they do their best - on our shoulders.

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Quoting: buckysrevengeI think them finally fixing issues with Nvidia GPUs w/gamemode (new BPM) is a nice step towards getting SteamOS 3.x out as a generic ISO. I'd love to get it set up on my old Steam Machine (currently running Manjaro stable and new BPM), the ease of Valve's updates on the Steam Deck translated to a dedicated HTPC would be nice to have again.

what is bananas per monkey and how does it help? I can't find anything about BPM

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Quoting: hardpenguinHuh, it never affected me THAT much. I guess my gaming sessions are short 😅. Plus one could restart the stream every now and then. Anyway, glad it is fixed!

Yeah, I've had this bug since it was introduced in 2019. Restarting the stream didn't always work. A reboot would, but that kinda defeated the purpose of remote play.

I'm glad they finally fixed it. I'm curious as to how it got introduced in the first place.

Introduced? Maybe at a party. The host was all, "Oh, hey, Remote Play, great to see you here! Say, there's someone you just have to meet--sound bug, this is Remote Play, I've been thinking you two would really hit it off!"

... but finally, after three intense years, they broke up!
(They said communication just hasn't been working...)

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Quoting: hardpenguinHappy Year of Steam Deck!

... and Happy New Year of Steam Deck, now! :)

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Quoting: kaimanThere's also some dialogue that's clearly directed at grown ups, but I guess kids will just shrug that off or find it funny regardless of whether they get the actual joke. So there's probably a bit in there for every age.

Shrek is my standard example for this effect, and I like it. I also think they will just ignore what they don't understand (and maybe will be surprised what nonsense grown-ups are laughing about :-) ).

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Quoting: CatKillerSweet. I got that for my little one shortly after it released, but I've not put it in his queue yet.

I was thinking about the same (and after this kind of support, I will buy the game either way).
Do you already have an idea for which age this might be suitable?

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Quoting: TeodosioAnother gift from the Steam Deck. I am sure the only reason they went with a native release is to maximize performance on the Deck.

Developer Clockstone has everything on Linux since their first release in 2013, Bridge Constructor.
The oldest game from Thunder Publishing, Steamworld Dig, is also from 2013 and also on Linux.

No. Sorry, but no.

This is a long-time Linux supporting developer meeting a not Linux-unfriendly publisher.

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Quoting: TermyI'm not sure how you compiled the first chart in this article and can't find another statistic of that sort, but i would be really surprised if that curve didn't go down in the last months/years.

There were 1380 Linux native games released (so far) on Steam in 2022.

In 2021 there were 1222, and in 2020 1104.

SteamDB [External Link] is very handy for these searches!

Yeah, so the number is actually on the up.

In relation to the total numbers [External Link], this would be 11.2% in 2020, 10.6% in 2021 and 11.2% in 2022. (The seemingly exponential increase of game releases came to a halt in 2019?!?)

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