This is cool and all but what I would really like instead is a "Gears of War: Marcus Fenix collection" that contains all the gears games that aren't on PC yet or haven't yet gotten steam releases.

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Quoting: tmtvlI don't know whether Plasma 6 is really ready for prime time yet. I've been using it on both Arch and OpenSUSE TW for a couple of months now and it seems to have issues with remembering window positions and sizes. I had to add a window rule to maximize Konsole despite having 'remember window size' checked in the settings, for example.

The biggest issue I'm having is, unless I manually block screen and sleep locking under "power and battery" on my taskbar, or run games with gamemoderun (which in many cases has made my framerate worse on CachyOS), if I play a game with a DualSense, it's as if KDE does not detect any inputs even though the game is detecting my controller inputs through steam, so my computer auto-sleeps itself while a game is open. I'm not the only one with this issue. [External Link]

Really annoying when I'm trying to play Tekken 8.

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Quoting: Nic264I have something close to that in NixOS using specialisations [External Link]: in a way you can see it like a dualboot where I have one NixOS install with proprietary Nvidia and stable Mesa for my iGPU and another install with source-built unstable Mesa all the way, except everything that can be shared is.
These days I use Mesa for work and some gaming (mainly osu!) and reboot to the proprietary driver for stuff that isn't there yet.

You can probably achieve something similar with OSTree-based distros like Fedora Silverblue/Kinoite as it supports “parallel-installable filesystem trees [External Link]”.

I appreciate the help, but I've tried 7 different times to learn NixOS, and it's too much of a clusterfuck to learn for a non programmer who isn't willing to donate about a month or three of time trying to use it. I also lost interest in trying to learn it an 8th time since it feels radioactive right now thanks to some drama happening behind the scenes at the moment so oh well.

The parallel installable file system in kinoite thing sounds interesting though, I didn't know that was a feature. Might give it a shot in the future, thanks.

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I wish there was an auto swap utility akin to prime-run/Nvidia Optimus where I could use the proprietary driver for games that run better with it, and NVK for games that run better with that, like A Hat In Time.

Even if I could use it by just swapping to it like a desktop environment in SDDM, where it'd be like Plasma (NVK Wayland) or (NVK X11)

This way I could like, check on the progress periodically without compromising my core experience, cause hot damn NVK is moving impressively fast in terms of updates and new features.

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Quoting: hardpenguinSo like EasyRPG [External Link] but for MV and MZ editions!

I remember thinking the other day: "Man I wish there was EasyRPG for newer versions of RPGMaker". Then I come across this article. Would be nice if this results in luxtorpeda entries.

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Quoting: Augustus-OctavianAww I wish there was more official support from companies than from random distros that may or may not exist tomorrow.

I've found CachyOS to be to Arch what Nobara Project is to Fedora. Where I've seen people say there's a threat of it not being maintained, and yet it's one of the consistently best experiences I've had with linux in my time distrohopping for the past 2 years deck has been out.

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Quoting: CatKiller

Quoting: BrokattRemember that most PC gamers are not that tech savvy.

This still seems weird to me. I can accept that it's true, but it's weird.

I blame the crypto mining boom making prebuilt PCs a cheaper way to upgrade than building your own stuff for a while, the lack of dedicated server options for a lot of games meaning that you don't need to learn how to port forward anymore, how much is automated in Windows (often against your will), and the lack of manual modding support for games (most stuff is automated through things like R2Modman, Steam Workshop, Mod Organizer 2, and Mod.io nowadays) and search bars like the one in the taskbar on windows and even stuff on Linux like Rofi/Pop Launcher meaning you don't have to really understand filesystems [External Link] as much as you used to, either.

To be clear, I think having a mod manager is a good thing, things SHOULD work that way instead of manually replacing files in my opinion, though that leads to lost skills obviously, plus I have strong disdain for matchmaking based multiplayer cause it removes the social "town square" element of servers that specialized in specific kinds of gameplay with specific regulars of people you could meet and become fast friends with.

When a skill is no longer needed, it atrophies in people.

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Quoting: GuestWait. Why? Is valve...? Why are they doing this? Is something with nvidia in the works or is it steamos?

I've been strongly suspecting the reason SteamOS 3 has not seen a general release is that you can't exactly have a consistent and reliable gamescope session on Nvidia cards yet so they're playing it safe and trying to get this kind of stuff sorted first so that 3 doesn't come out, have dealbreaker problems, and have a bunch of new people who've never used linux before go "SEE? I KNEW LINUX WAS BAD!"

This could also be copium I'm huffing however and valve isn't gonna release SteamOS 3 except to hardware devs, as in people who make handheld PCs that aren't Steam Deck.

Would roll my eyes if the real reason is that they were trying to update SteamOS 3 enough that the one that releases is 4, cause, you know, valve and that number 3.

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initial D3D12 support for OpenVR

I'm happy to see literally any movement forward at all on VR for Linux. That's the final hurdle keeping me dual booting windows.

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I'm actually surprised this wasn't already a thing for a while.

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