There are too many banger games coming out for me to put up with Denuvo DRM. Even if I REALLY want a game, like in the case of say, Hi Fi Rush, I will skip over it if it uses Denuvo.

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If it has trackpads and grip triggers this will pretty much be the only real "competition" to steam deck in my eyes because PC gaming on a controller is unusable without those IMO. Not sure why it's not industry standard yet to have them. One trackpad is mandatory for comfortable mouse usage, a second is nice for a macro menu via radial/touch menus in Steam Input.

Manjaro is an... "interesting" choice, but hey, I can just replace it with something else like CachyOS Handheld Edition, Bazzite, or Nobara Handheld Edition.

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$2 really is a steal for black mesa, when people ask me which version of HL1 they should play, this or the original, I say "both".

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@eggrole

I DO want a competitive market, this is why I use itch.io, gamejolt, and GOG as well as steam. I want that competition to succeed, not Epic, with the rare exception of Epic clapping Apple's ass in court which I am 100% in approval of in a very "Enemy of my enemy" fashion.

But those other places have things that actually benefit me as an end user, instead of holding games at gunpoint and going "Use our badly made store with no linux support outside of a 3rd party launcher like Heroic or you don't get to play this" while itch and gamejolt host fangames, experimental projects, and mods, and GOG has DRM free games to entice me. Epic just has a whiny CEO pretending (outside of the victory against apple, that was pretty cool of them) to be hero of the industry and Fortnite which I'm too old to be the target audience of.

But speaking of demographics, You know what I am the target audience of? Unreal Tournament. And they did not treat the franchise their engine's namesake comes from with any level of dignity since UT4 got cancelled and they delisted the entire franchise, so there's that chip on my shoulder about Epic too.

Contrary to what Tim Sweeney has directly said, Consumers decide the store wars, not publishers.

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I wonder if they left the VR support enabled in the Linux build.

They didn't, which is disappointing but quickly solved by just running this game in proton which I do anyway because of a multi monitor refresh rate bug with the linux version that doesn't exist in the proton version, as well as easier management of SpinShare via protontricks.

But what they did do was somehow make a multi touch touchscreen control scheme for Steam Deck which is something that, until this game got this linux port, I had no idea was even possible on Deck. I just assumed it emulated your single point of interaction mouse. I've owned my steam deck for 2 years at this point, I've tinkered with it to bottom of the iceberg levels of knowledge, yet I had no idea it had multi touch support until the spin rhythm devs added it to this game.

In any case, Spin Rhythm XD is one of the best rhythm games on steam and I can't recommend it enough to anyone reading this article if you like rhythm games, I've been playing it long before it got a linux port.

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This would have flown into my GOG library even at $30 but I hear it's missing some music.

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If nothing else this should be good news for the NVK driver, right?

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This is genuinely cool and all and it's nice that people who have never heard of minecraft shader packs are going to get an official taste of one, but unless Mojang also officially implements a thing like Optifine or Sodium to fix the optimization as well I'm gonna stick to my usual shader packs I was already using.

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All of these fixes are stuff I've wanted for a while, kudos to the HGL team, there's a reason I go out of my way to buy GOG stuff using the affiliate link inside the launcher.

itch.io has a native client like Steam, use this for gog.

Would still be nice to eventually get itch.io implemented in HGL so I only need 3 launchers to play games on linux, not 4.

Would only be 2 launchers after this addition, Steam and HGL, if HGL also gets a "full backup" option like Bottles has where it zips up a WINE prefix and all the changes I made to it into one file that can be transferred and deployed across different systems and distros, since that's the main reason I can't do without Bottles.

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I thought Counter Strike: Source was dead already. Why are people still playing that when CS2 exists? And why are the servers still up anyway?

It has the best version of the community Zombie Escape gamemode as far as I'm concerned. Best map rotation, best controls, most fun.

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