The bug for blizzard games was fixed in the 7.x series already (https://gitlab.winehq.org/wine/wine/-/commit/6b8cbfe3fdc1ab8c6efd55dc51df7c3d738c4a47), they just closed the bug report now for it.

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Just realized that I'm a Millenial (1984)...

Quoting: NezchanMeh. I'm Gen X and there doesn't seem to be much of anything that appeals to me.

A lot of that older stuff just isn't my thing in the first place; I'm much more into the modern indie scene. They can keep their collection of Duke Nukem variants.

I'm a Millenial (1984) and a lot of this appeals to me. Maybe they are targeting the wrong generation :D.

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I'm a bit sad that they didn't fix the downloads page. I'm not sure if I'm the only one where the active download shows in completed and if you clear the completed it disappears but still downloads... at least in the normal / non big-picture mode.

The client is in my opinion a bit of a mess and could need a rework at some point.

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Quoting: MohandevirEdit: Just confirmed. It was enabled by default. In my case, enabled or disabled doesn't make much of a difference. Maybe because I'm on an old laptop with GTX980m?

Sad, that would have been great. Well... no idea what's the issue there, but either NVidia or Valve need to fix this.

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Quoting: Mohandevir"The new BigPicture mode has been made the default one"

Meaning it's now the Steam Deck UI for desktop users too?

Edit: Yep! Just confirmed it. Performances are still abysmal, on Nvidia gpu.

Question, do you have "Enable GPU accelerated rendering in web views" enabled in Settings / Interface? I read that helps with the new big picture mode on NVidia for some reason.

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Quoting: Mohandevir

Quoting: zgilletThis is why I like having and Xbox Series S as a side console as well as a gaming PC and a Deck. Any of these BS jump-through-hoops games usually are on Game Pass, and I'll just bypass all this and play them there.

Doing similar with GeForce Now. This said, the few Ubisoft games I have and played (AC Origin, AC Odyssey and Immortals: Phoenix Rising), I bought them on sale and never found the energy to finish them... They all feel... Souless? ... Empty? ... Like trying too hard? I can't put the finger on it... I've been spoiled by Witcher 3 and God of War, I guess. The only EA or Ubisoft game that I might miss, if ever a launcher issue lingers on, is Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order (EA).

GeForce Now ... I really struggled with their setup (no copy/paste, didn't remember the steam account, ...).

And filling in my paswords without copy/paste is essentially impossible, especially since I do not have am english keyboard.

Maybe it got better in the past year, but I decided to buy a gaming rig since I could not find an adequate streaming service. My connection with 250 mbit fibre would be good enough depending on the servers location (preferrably central europe).

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Quoting: kaimanGood I've been boycotting Ubisoft (and EA) for the past 15 years or so.

Though, I would have been really, really hard pressed to keep it up, had Ubisoft released the new Settlers as originally announced. Luckily, they botched that, too!

I did not. But the last one I really enjoyed was Dragon Age: Origins. All others feel so... same cookbook, and if I even play them through (I rarely do), I have regretted buying them in the end.

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Quoting: drjoms

Quoting: basedPointless launchers are convenience for the publisher, not the user

I wouldn't argue, if Windows users were affected too. But it is not the case...

Linux users who depend on proton, MUST remember, that at any time their fav game can be broken for any reason.(unless dev specifically supports proton, which I don't know how many such devs are out there)

Quite some actually. The bigger publishers wouldn't give a wet fart though. Those are mostly the ones with the launchers ;-).

But you're right of course, we can not expect support but from Valve, and they only can react and not act proactively.

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Gotta' look up if they still depend on ancient gnome depends or if that was done by now (last time I looked was some releases back).

Josh had plans to do so, maybe they got around doing that by now.

I always liked Budgie. I am by now used to my new workflow in Gnome, but I still disagree with a lot of decisions made where you need extensions (as AppIndicator, which breaks every major Gnome release and makes the Desktop crash).

Raven was a blessing in Budgie, and I considered recently if I want to install it next to gnome and give it a shot again.

Only thing is they suffer from the input shortcomings in mutter as much as gnome, which makes KDE the saner choice for gaming. And all the crashes in mutter... if you asked me 15 years ago I'd have said KWin will never become stable, but is by today rock solid.

[edit] yeah, that was done it seems, no dependencies on old gnome libraries that I can see in the meson files. Nice, will certainly install it alongside Gnome now and check if I like it better.

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That's why wr got the permanent BF doenloads ... I wondered already

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