Quoting: denyasisSo that's about 118,000 Deck Users. I guess that's a good number for sales, but I guess I was expecting the over all Linux % to be more positively affected by the Deck. I guess it'll take more time. Hopefully it translates into more mainstream Linux use as well.

A lot of people are just waiting for the mere opportunity to pick up their Steam Deck. The platform's rolling out so slowly, though I'd prefer they do it this way over just bulk releasing them and have scalpers snatch em all up and run into the same problem anyway.

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It's funny, I had a hankering to play Crypt of the Necrodancer again for the first time in like 4 years while trying to think of games I wanted to play on my steam deck and got back into the game, and like 2 months later, we get this surprise update. I love when things like that happen.

Really an excellent game all around that only got better during my absence from it. Funnily enough a lot of memes nowadays use Phonk music and it goes really well with custom music choices in this game atmosphere wise. I was also pleasantly surprised to see there's an official phone version of the game so I can play it wherever even if I don't have my steam deck yet.

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- Implement network video support for The Good Life and VRChat.

If this means that video players are fixed in VRChat this is massive enough news to me to warrant it's own article, because VR related things are the only things that have me keeping a windows partition around at all, and VRChat's inability to play video players in proton is one of those VR related things. To me this is like on the level of if Halo MCC's multiplayer suddenly started working on linux.

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Frankly I couldn't give less of a crap (at the moment). I expect a loading time difference of like half a second or at least within margin of error, most of what I'm gonna be running I'm gonna be running off of a MicroSD anyway. I can see why people might be upset but we haven't seen benchmark differences yet as far as I know so it's too early to tell if this is a "It's whatever, I'm just glad to get my steam deck sooner" or "oh man what were they THINKING"

Don't get me wrong, this isn't me defending playing two barrel russian roulette with hard drive quality within the same pricetag skews, I know how it feels like to watch someone defend a really bad decision and I don't intend to frustrate people in that manner, it's just more me saying we don't know if this will really make a meaningful enough difference to get the pitchforks out yet like we had to with what happened with the REMake games and their bad engine updates that doubled the filesize of the games and introduced bugs.

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Quoting: damarrinYou realise it’s 5% of 1%, which means 0.05% of all users?

Oh daaaayyyymn... No I didn't think of that. DUH!
Ok so THAT's a lot less impressive indeed. Damn. It's barely anything at all.

I mean, I got a reservation like 2 weeks ago now and I have to wait till October to get mine. It's gonna be a while for most other people, too.

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Man if this wasn't using Denuvo DRM this would have flown into my game library, but until they remove it I'm just simply happy Project Diva finally has an (official) release on PC for those who don't boycott Denuvo. Probably going to stick with Project Heartbeat once I buy that, though since that doesn't have restrictive DRM as far as I know.

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Whatever happens from here with the open source stuff, I just hope it contributes to making Wayland as viable on Nvidia as it is on AMD. Would be nice to get a backend that lets me use VR on linux with less issues and also doesn't have issues with multiple monitors of varying refresh rates.

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The worst part about this is that I sang praises towards SEGA for the Sega Megadrive Collection everywhere I could for how much of an example it is of how I wish older games could be sold in the modern era, complete with 2 emulator wrappers and steam workshop support for romhacks as well as giving you the uncompressed roms to use in an emulator of your choosing if you don't like theirs, but if they're delisting this, we're stuck with a version that not only doesn't have these things, but also contains Denuvo DRM, in SEGA GENESIS GAMES.

Thanks SEGA. Almost got my hopes up there that you knew what you were doing. I hate the modern game industry so much (outside of the indie scene)

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Quoting: TheSHEEEPIndependent of all of that, I do hope this makes Twitter a better and more open place.
I tried Gabber, I tried Minds, I tried Odysee (as a YT alternative), I tried lots of different ones, but they all suffer from most of their userbase being people who were either banned from other places for having an unpopular opinion or from people who were looking for echo chambers. And as such, they (mostly) became echo chambers of their own, even if they were not originally meant to be that way.

It would be extremely hypocritical of me to pass judgment upon other people for wanting an echo chamber when I'm literally saying I wish for a website that bans a particular kind of discussion, I just simply personally believe that when it comes to software projects that are unrelated to politics, politics should be quarantined as far away from it as possible unless the project is specifically and explicitly made to cover a political topic, since trouble brews in politics' wake that can damage or outright kill an otherwise perfectly functional thing that didn't need to die or become a source of stress due to unrelated IRL stuff.

Like, for example, Elon making twitter open source is a great thing for everyone regardless of ideology, but instead of celebrating, I see people diluting how good of a thing that could potentially be because of what people think of Elon. That kind of stuff drives me insane, from my perspective their political ideologies are suffocating them from realizing instantly that if he keeps his word, they can fork twitter and potentially make a "I hate Elon, I hate modern twitter" version of twitter, much like what Mastodon is doing, kinda.

A little bit of pragmatism goes a long way when it comes to software, and it's like pragmatism is the first thing to get chucked out the window when people feel strongly about a political topic. I've seen it in a not insignificant amount of situations and it bothers me immensely that when someone says "Hey let's laser focus on making something better and duke this out elsewhere" people take that as like, me trying to be centrist or something, when it's really me just going "Please cut that out, get your grievances out somewhere that isn't this project/game. I'm not saying to not have political opinions, I'm trying to say trim the fat around this thing that causes ire among people that could otherwise be working together or having fun together, it'd be nicer to follow a project that just is helpful to everyone or enjoyable to use without the added stresses of unrelated things."

I guess what I mean to say is, I'd like a place that enforces that people get rid of the "bloat" to put it in coding terms. I'm not asking for the support or condemnation of any ideology. I can do that elsewhere whenever I want to. I'm asking for a place that gives me a break, for the sake of the projects I enjoy, and my mental health.

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Honestly, I've got no strong opinions about Elon, but I don't think this is gonna result in anything but good things, since he apparently wants to open source twitter, and the idea of free speech being enforced equally (assuming he stays true to his word) is nothing but a good thing in my eyes. However, this probably isn't enough to get me to use twitter. It's still a cesspool. This won't make it any worse.

I wish there was a website like twitter, where you have the freedom to say anything you want, EXCEPT political discussion was just straight banned, cold turkey, left and right wing, so people can focus on collaboration/promotion of neat projects first and foremost without being at each other's throats for 5 seconds, like, I enjoy stuff like #ScreenshotSaturday but I don't want to follow a game project for example and have the game developer whining about something happening in the world on main when I've likely already heard about it elsewhere ad nauseum by that point and it gets tiring especially since I'm there just to follow the project not get inundated with more divisive and abrasive BS.

I genuinely believe political discussion and involvement is the most effective way to create problems that would have otherwise not existed in projects that should be otherwise unrelated to it, such as the recent node-ipc disaster, where it doesn't matter how good your intentions are, you know what they say about where that road you're paving is going. [External Link]

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