Quoting: Shmerl32-bit on 64-bit sounds good! Especially if it will work also for OpenGL / Vulkan parts.

I wish someone would also make the same thing for native Linux games.

Or for running a certain popular game store client that's stuck on 32-bit for some reason.

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NetHack is a hodgepodge of popular culture milieu, from discovering Hobbits running around searching for the One Ring, to including an entire Tourist role as some kind of elaborate joke.

The tourist is another fantasy reference. Based on the Twoflower character in the Discworld series.

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Neat-o!

Had this on my wishlist since playing the demo.

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Quoting: ShabbyXHibernate would be slower than just adding a few seconds though, why not recharge the deck every few days if you don't play it (but somehow left it in the middle of a game you didn't want to quit)?

There's a hybrid option too:

Suspend, then hibernate, but only if battery falls below a certain limit or a set amount of time have passed. Resume would be just as fast if it was still in the suspend phase, and if hibernated you would save the battery.

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Quoting: slaapliedjeHere's what I want to know... what are people needing 4080/4090s for? 8k gaming?

Probably those dang Warhammer games. They are 40K!

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Quoting: CyborgZetaJust did a fresh install and re-enabled my settings one-by-one, testing Vulkan each time to see if it works. When I checked the box for "Enable API Validation Layers" in the Advanced tab, I got the problem I've been experiencing. That's why Vulkan never worked.

Thanks for sharing the solution!

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X11 fork bomb?

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Quoting: dibzThese games are great. If anyone is considering this, doesn't already own them, and likes old-school point and click adventure games do yourself a favor and get these. It's downright criminal how cheap the bundle is for what you're getting!

To note, not only do they have native linux versions, but WadjetEye hired the dev that did the linux ports in a post-proton world where he absolutely did not need to do that.

To note #2, ScummVM also semi-recently added the AGS interpreter -- which is what these games are made in -- to ScummVM and you can play most if not all of these games in ScummVM if you'd rather for some reason.

Primordia and Gemini Rue are some of my personal favorites for this type of game, and I pretty much always recommend them whenever Point and Clicks come up.

+1 to what the hyperkinetic three-foot lagomorph wrote above ⇧

The only thing to not like about this bundle is that I already own all these except Technobabylon...

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After all these years, still Counter-Strike?

CS:GO is 10+ years old, the original 20+. Time to try something new?

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Quoting: MrowlJust wait for the Steam Controller 2, imo. Would also be cool if Valve let us use our Decks as a controller, somehow, like a Wii U GamePad for our PC.

I would be surprised if someone had not already trie this. Doing a quick WiFi gamepad (read input events on the deck, send it off with UDP, play the events on a uinput device on the PC) seems like a 30 minute project.

If latency is an issue another alternative is Bluetooth:
https://github.com/xenogenesi/hidclient [External Link]
(That's for a software keyboard/mouse but it should be similar for a gamepad)

A third option might be to use the Deck as wired USB gamepad. But it depends on if the Deck hardware supports USB Device Controller (UDC):
https://www.collabora.com/news-and-blog/blog/2019/02/18/modern-usb-gadget-on-linux-and-how-to-integrate-it-with-systemd-part-1/ [External Link]

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