I had no idea what smurfing is until I read this article and decided to go dig up the meaning. The article tried to make it out like, all these well known players wanted to challenge themselves against noobs back in the day and that's how smurfing started. Maybe it was just the language barrier that lead the article author to suggest a bunch of noobs could be a challenge. Given, the smurfer knows probably 100% of the game knowledge, all the best strategies and how to min max their character along with all the built up muscle memory. While the noob barely know what button does what. Imagine playing Quake over the lan for the first time and having zero clue, armor and power ups exist let alone exactly where to go look for them. It's always going to be no contest in favor of the smurfer. I definitely tried playing Dota2 and HON back in the day but I would just get smashed because I had no clue what to do. All the while the other players are just bitching at you for not knowing how to play. Of course I don't know how to play, I just installed it. There wasn't even tutorials. I just went and played other games, no big deal. As it were and as it still is, I barely have time for games anyways. Let alone time to get good at any game. One reason I love the Steam Deck (jump in and out of a game with the press of a button).

People can sugar coat it all they want, "I want to challenge myself", tell themselves whatever lies they need to. I can understand if the match up's are uneven because of limited players during your normal game hour. Hey it happens. If they are really looking for a challenge maybe they should try pressing the devs for 1v3 match ups or other mechanisms for increasing difficulty; instead of rolling a fresh account.

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It's a title from Nintendo:

Super Mario Brothers (Mario and Luigi the early years)

That's my guess anyway.

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Quoting: Liam DaweDon’t even get me started on the people trying to claim things were good pre-Steam

I suppose it's all relative. Me twenty years ago installing Slackware, compiling a custom kernel, building wine so I could play EQ on my dual Celeron system with 440BX mother board. 2010 - 2015 was hands down better in comparison. But for sure now, in 2023, with Steam+Proton... things are so easy now. I don't even question it, I just click buy, click install, and click play. Major triple A titles are day 1 supported.

I even told my Brother In-Law and my nephew, "yeah buy a Steam Deck, 110% worth every penny." They don't even know anything about computers. They were Xbox console gamers and now they want to build their own custom consoles with SteamOS and just forget about Xbox. If there was a chart of how easy it is to install and play games prior to Steam+Proton, Valve broke it. Nobody but Gabe could have predicted this.

Steam+Proton is a new era with new rules and new metrics. I for one am still completely blown away. I just can't believe we are here. Here is to the next 5 years with Proton and Steam and anything the Game Devs want to throw at us.

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Quoting: slaapliedjeWait, SteamOS runs on the Teslas? Since when? I knew they ran some form of Linux, but it is more likely it is more similar to the Atari VCS (apertis is what that is based upon, and it is a Debian based distro designed for automotive infotainment stuff)

It might not be SteamOS exactly, the article I read sort of muddied what exactly was installed.

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I wonder how much the Tesla vehicles running SteamOS for the games have accounted for. I completely forgot SteamOS going to the Tesla.

Edit: I remember Ford, Chevy, and GM made 10 - 11 million cars a year. Imagine how Linux gaming would be if Tesla produced those numbers and all of them came with a built in Steam Deck. Right now I think Tesla ships about 1 million cars a year. I'm sure the cars with the built in Steam Deck only count for a small percentage of vehicles shipped right now. If I had to sit at a charger for 15-20 minutes once or twice a week, you know damn well I'd be playing a video game. Would I rather be playing my current game or some crappy mobile game on my phone. That's reason enough to buy a Steam Deck or upgrade my car infotainment system to be a Steam Deck. Seems like more reason for Valve to keep all hands on deck for the Steam Deck and it's eco system.

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I just stop reading the entire site if I think they are using AI to write the articles. Same with YouTube channels if they use TTS to read a script. There are plenty of other sites to read. But really I don't read popular news websites.

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Quoting: slaapliedjeWonder how many are going to sell off their Steam Deck for the ROG Ally. I think Valve needs to release a SteamOS image for it, since they basically make more of their money on people buying Steam games rather than hardware, but I think it'd be a nice slap in MS's face :P

I'd heavily consider getting the ROG Ally if SteamOS was released for it. Only question minor hesitancy I would have would be from the lack of touch pads which I use all the time. Can I really use a thumb stick for mouse as effectively, for example? As it is now, everything I play works just fine on my Steam Deck. It's the SteamOS and Steam Deck features that make the form factor console levels of convenient. It would be hard to give those things up strictly for performance and visual quality as much as I want that.

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Steam Deck - 10K+ Console

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Quoting: GuestThat's it, the Steam survey is definitely skewed against Linux users: out of the ~120 million monthly active users on Steam, 7 (seven) of them commented on gamingonlinux.com lamenting they never, or very rarely, received a survey.
Clearly, this should be a priority for Valve and fixed ASAP!

6 of them. I gave instructions for making sure a survey would occur. No need for "lamenting" when you are the one finding the solution.

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Quoting: t3gI haven’t gotten a Steam survey in over 2 years. Maybe Valve should use the actual login and playtime data vs some random survey.

I say this because every month these stats come out and gaming sites use them as gospel in the state of Linux gaming.

If you close steam
run this command  
sed -i -e '/SurveyDate/ s/"[0-9].*"/"'$(date +%Y-%m-%d -d "1 year ago")'"/' ~/.steam/steam/config/config.vdf
Then reopen steam
You will get a steam survey.

I would prefer the login and playtime data as well. Hit me up Valve; I can make this happen for you.

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