Quoting: Purple Library GuyOK, I now have a brilliant scheme for acquiring a Steam Deck fast, and cheap!
I just buy a Stream Deck and remove the "r"!

Sorry in advance for derailing this thread further.

Deliberately ignoring the "fast and cheap" bit, here's an overtly Finnish Steam Deck:
Build an actual deck (preferably next to a lakeside summer cottage) and then build a sauna on or adjacent to that deck.

If you're on a budget or otherwise limited in your choices, just take a skateboard to someone else's sauna. A public one will do just fine.

Bleh. Another two or three months until it starts to feel like summer up here.

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Quoting: PublicNuisanceI normally prefer turn based over real time with pause for combat but the dialogue branches and story to this is enough to make me wishlist it.

Same here.

In a cRPG I'm primarily looking for an exploration-filled adventure in an interesting, fantastical world. And preferably tomefuls of lore to read and interesting characters to meet. Combat is often (but not always) an unavoidable component, but if it happens to be real-time with several units/characters/things to manage, it tends to just stress me out.

Thankfully the fighting in classics like the Baldur's Gate series and Pillars of Eternity wasn't too difficult if you didn't rush through and made sure to get kitted out properly. I'm looking forward to checking out the optional turn-based mode in Pillars II.

Spoiler, click me

But first I need to get through a big shame-pile of RPG goodness. Rushing through isn't exactly an option if you've got an obsession to map out every nook and cranny, read every codex, grimoire, scroll and shred of napkin you come across and exhaust every branch of dialogue available. An easy hundred+ hours every time. And I'm ignoring all the other genres in the pile here...

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Quoting: TheRiddickStopped using Lutris since every time I enabled Mangohud it would hard lock my system up. Happened between MULTIPLE ARCH OS installs. Using Bottles atm, its full of jank but doesn't lock my system up with mangohud....

Or just stop using Mangohud as it is not very essential to play games?

Lutris doesn't seem to give me any trouble with MangoHud. I've used it for adaptive vsync with several games from Itch, GOG and Steam, configured so that the HUD is not visible unless I hit a key combo. And I don't actually hit that combo unless I'm trying to troubleshoot performance problems (so almost never). I find even a simple FPS counter way too distracting to have on screen when I'm trying to enjoy a game.

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Quoting: pleasereadthemanualHow old is the Swedish Pirate Party, anyway?

They're the original crew of political swashbucklers.

Quoting: WikipediaThe first Pirate Party to be established was the Pirate Party of Sweden (Swedish: Piratpartiet), whose website was launched on 1 January 2006..."

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Quoting: Philadelphus

Open the Konsole terminal application, and drag the "install on Linux.sh" file into the Konsole window.

That works to run a .sh file in the terminal? You learn something new every day! :happy:

Just because it works on the current update of Konsole, do not count on it working for gnome terminal, LXTerminal, Terminator.. etc

I remember when I thought Cut and Paste into a terminal using the mouse right click felt like a luxury feature. Now get annoyed when it isn’t enabled by default.. :smile:

Drag and drop has been a basic usability feature of Gnome's and Xfce4's default terminals for so long that I doubt they'll just remove it on a whim. Same goes for paste in the right-click menu. You can't even disable these features, because why would you want to?

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Quoting: basedHOW is forza 4 considered playable??
It lags every few seconds and crashes every 30 (on average) minutes on my PC with superior specs, am I missing something?

Likely as not, it's just another example of the testing process not being rigorous enough. But we have to remember that the validation is specifically for the Steam Deck, not Proton on random desktop hardware. Maybe it's more stable on the Deck's AMD APU and driver/software stack? The lower resolution and default graphical settings might also make a difference.

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Quoting: matt22207Thanks for the great article as always!

Does this work for non-linux-native games on itch? Will it automatically install and setup the game in wine/proton like Lutris?

The itch.io app will try to run a Windows game using whatever Wine version you've installed on your system, but there's no fancy prefix handling or configuration support like in Lutris.

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Quoting: EikeI wonder what I would want to play with 15 fps though.
Not even a point and click, right?

Maybe a visual novel or some puzzle games might be perfectly playable? Not smooth, but playable. I suppose sometimes you might prefer a choppy experience to nothing at all due to your battery running out.

Besides, I remember enjoying Microprose's Formula One Grand Prix on the Amiga at something like 8 fps back in the day. And Stunt Car Driver wasn't much smoother. :wink:

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Quoting: Lofty

Haque I could download with the itch client, but it wont run, like you said it's missing libs. I just pointed to the 32bit steam runtime on my system and the game launched fine from my terminal.
Mixing 32/64 should be fine if you follow your distros multiarch guidelines. If your concerned with the age of the lib, just stick with the steam runtime if you want.

This seems like quiet a techy answer for me, maybe i should stop using linux j/k i mean i have no idea how to make an itch.io game use my steam runtime libs. What are multiarch guidelines i just want to play a game i paid for. Would it be easier to use the web version of Itch.io so i can download the windows version and run it in proton ?
All seems a bit hacky (or should that be 'Haque'y) if i reinstall my OS in future and have to redo this all over again, sigh.

thanks for the advice though.

Here's one relatively simple way to do it: Make sure you're on the game's store page in the itch app, then right click on the Launch button and select "Show in file manager". Now create a text file called "play.sh" in the "Haque1-0-0-0" subdirectory. Add the following content and then make the file executable.

 
#!/bin/sh
$HOME/.steam/bin/steam-runtime/run.sh ./runner

Now the game should launch normally using the itch app, as long as you've got Steam installed. At least it does for me.

I see how things like this can feel needlessly complicated for less "techy" users, but this is mostly down to how itch.io lets developers decide how they want to package their games. And of course they'll do it wrong or at least in a way that isn't compatible with the (completely optional) itch app. Their documentation and tooling are excellent, but developers can just ignore it all and upload whatever they want using the web interface.

I guess itch wants to keep the platform simple and accessible for game jamming and experimentation. Not always a great experience for users, but as someone who has uploaded a couple of jam games to itch and been very happy with the process, I can't really blame the platform. They've simply got different priorities than the more mainstream-focused stores.

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Quoting: KorhakaThat is a huge number of games, does itch let you filter games you own in a bundle to search by things like single/multiplayer and genre at all?

As I wrote in my earlier reply, itch.io doesn't provide a great interface for browsing these bundles, but https://randombundlegame.com [External Link] was built for exactly this purpose. There's a dropdown for genres, and the "Multiplayer" and "Local multiplayer" tags should do the rest. I guess you'd find exclusively single player games by excluding those tags.

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