Quoting: PhiladelphusI interpreted that initial comment as saying 100% of games would work with Proton, and I was definitely skeptical of Valve pulling that off before December, unless they're sitting on a ton of improvements they haven't released yet. This interpretation makes a lot more sense. Thankfully it doesn't make a difference to me, but I can see this being a turn-off for Windows gamers. Hopefully Valves pulls off enough Proton improvements by December to get enough of the popular games working that Windows gamers are willing to wait for further improvements.

I'm not sure if this is an unpopular opinion, but I think it's smart of Valve to hedge their bets and support Windows too.

For many it will make the purchase a much safer choice. SteamOS sucks for your particular game? Install Windows and go about your business. The hardware is still great, so you recommend it to a friend. When they purchase the Deck Proton have progressed somewhat and they are happy with the OOTB SteamOS experience.

A key to the success of the Deck is to get game developers on board, and the best way to get their attention is to push units. By hook or by crook.

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Quoting: WorMzyhttps://www.steamdeck.com/en/hardware [External Link]

You can also install and use PC software, of course. Browse the web, watch streaming video, do your normal productivity stuff, install some other game stores, whatever.

Ah, right, as an open platform. As long as people doesn't read into that too much and assume Valve promises to support other stores in Proton.

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Quoting: AussieEeveeWhat I am expecting from Valve is an easy way to install these other game stores. Yes, they are competitors but Valve promised me that I could.

Where?

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Quoting: JVargasIs there a way to set up this manually?
steam settings seems to not be available on my menu for some weird reason.
!steam settings [External Link]

Family Control enabled maybe?
https://steamcommunity.com/discussions/forum/1/154644928861005330/ [External Link]

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Quoting: fleskOne of them is even translated to Norwegian; Freddi Fish and the Case of the Missing Kelp Seeds.

Swedish too!

(One of my first FLOSS contributions was sending in checksums for the data files from the Swedish dub to ScummVM!)

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Quoting: TheRiddickHow long/big is this game meant to be? I've heard people say they beat the EA in around 4hrs which is ultra short even if its not full content yet! (heard EA was like 75% of the game).

The road map [External Link] mentions these headlines:

* Story Chapter One (Early Access Start Content)
* Story Chapter Two (During Early Access)
* Story Chapter Three (For the full release of the game)

So I guess the content in EA is roughly 1/3 of the full game at the moment. The howlongtobeat.com entry [External Link] for the game suggest 5-6 hours in the current state so something like the promised 20 hours for the full game do seem likely.

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Quoting: posthum4nTo the moon!

What the cucumber! Over 1%!

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Quoting: GuestI kinda brace myself since some people love to point fingers at things like this and claim that Arch is a bad/buggy/difficult distro. I ran it for many years and something big like this happened maybe once or twice a year and always had a simple fix; it's darn solid. I am pretty sure I had more problems with my distro of choice's last upgrade than my entire Arch days..

I don't know Arch but tu put things into perspective, i'm using Debian, and they have broken grub two times this two last years (on stable), leaving users who have updated at the wrong time with an unbootable device without any warning (have to use another install or live cd, and reinstall grub on the disk).
Of course, this problem has been spotted in derivatives (Ubuntu, Mint...)
So yeah... sh** happens, even on the most stable distros (and on Windows too, of course).

Huh, do you have something weird there? I've been running stable for decades, and haven't had grub break. Also, I mean why would you reboot unless you've updated the kernel? :P

I'm not sure if DebianUser is thinking of the same bugs as I, but there where a couple of bugs over the last years where grub broke for some users.

One was if you were running a system without udev. Another where you ended up with an unbootable system if you upgraded grub non-interactively with an unknowingly broken configuration.

Both quite esoteric cases fortunately.

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Quoting: leillo1975The game is now on Steam with a 40% discount at only 6.47€, and is really awesome. I think you Liam, must write about it.

Looks like a game that would be a good fit for the Steam Deck too!

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Quoting: buonoCan we replace the windows 'super key' :)

I usually hide mine with a small Debian swirl logo sticker!

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