New devices are cool but I don't like the design. Too many sharp edges and all the RGB makes it look like something for the Fortnite generation. Maybe that's the target audience, in which case best of luck to them, or maybe I'm just old.

In any case the specs look good and it will be interesting to see how the Intel chip performs. But I can't find any info on price. Like the old saying goes: "There are no bad products only badly priced products."

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Hope they have the resources to get it nice and stable in time for release. And if not they have some extra time until Kubuntu 24.04 LTS which is probably when I will get my hands on it :)

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I'm so happy Lethal Company won the co-op award. So much fun that game is with friends. Also easy to mod with r2modmanplus (appimage) so you can play with more than 4 people, plus a bunch of more stuff. I will eventually get around to play Dave the Diver. It sits waiting on my Steam Deck and feels like a perfect game for handheld play.

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Quoting: blindcoderAbsolutely, Starfield has pretty much zero innovation. It's a decent game, but innovation is not part of it, at all.

This is probably why Starfield won. https://www.gamesradar.com/starfields-new-game-plus-narrative-is-bethesda-rpg-innovation-at-its-finest/ [External Link]

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Liam you and the Gaming On Linux site are corner stones of the Linux gaming community. I visit it several times every day and it's a big reason why this became the year I finally left Windows. No dual boot or backup PC in the closet, I'm fully on Linux now. I look forward to next year and all the exciting things happening in the Linux gaming space, and I look forward to you reporting about them :) Happy holidays!

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Quoting: Shmerl

Quoting: deathxxxThis ray-tracing is just useless. Heavy drop performance for what?
Are someone care about ray-tracing? If you play game, do you look at ray-tracing? Or look other things, like how to keep alive?

I'd agree about something like Cyberpunk 2077. Performance drop in it is just not worth it. But may be some lighter games can benefit more from it. Didn't something like Minecraft add ray tracing support? No idea how it works without Vulkan though.

Raytracing is good on older games like Minecraft and Quake. The problem is that I have already played these games - a lot. I can't bring myself to start another Minecraft world just to see all the rays. On newer games the performance hit is not worth it and in competetive game I would disable ray-tracing anyway. My brain can't handle more shining lights in Dota xD

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Quoting: Bestia

Quoting: BrokattI am also a Kubuntu user, you have to have Flatpak for this. It's not available either as a snap or deb. If I remember correctly you have to open Discover, go to settings and enable flathub. If I am wrong you can follow these instructions: https://flatpak.org/setup/Kubuntu [External Link]

No you don't have to have Flatpak.

ProtonUp-Qt is available as AppImage.

https://github.com/DavidoTek/ProtonUp-Qt/releases [External Link]

My mistake. I don't use Appimage as if find it tedious to, find the file and right click, open in terminal, everytime I want to run them.

Quoting: sonic2kk

Quoting: BrokattIt's not available either as a snap or deb.

While it isn't available as a Snap or a Debian package, it is available via Pacstall [External Link] for Ubuntu-based distros since January ( DavidoTek/ProtonUp-Qt#83 [External Link] ). There is an open issue for adding a Debian package ( DavidoTek/ProtonUp-Qt#69 [External Link] ).

Historically, ProtonUp-Qt was not provided as a Snap due to some issues with strict file access ( DavidoTek/ProtonUp-Qt#3 [External Link] ), but there was renewed interest and a new issue was opened afterwards ( DavidoTek/ProtonUp-Qt#123 [External Link] ). Hopefully this is some useful background.

ProtonUp-Qt is also available via AppImage as another user mentioned, there are also two AUR packages, and of course it's available on Flathub.

That's interesting, thanks for the info.

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Quoting: KeyBounceI am having trouble figuring out how to get this to work (I am new to this).

I saw a report of a new version of proton (Ge-proton), and the article describes ProtonUp-Qt. But "Discover" doesn't find this, so the Steam Deck / KDE Plasma instructions are a non-starter for me.

I am KUbuntu, with plasma, and lts 22.04. Not wayland, yet (people have been recommending that I switch given X issues).

Steam Deck / KDE Plasma - Open the Discover store, in the search box (top left) type in "ProtonUp-Qt", click it and hit Install (top right).

Discover does not list this. Searching the web for "ProtonUp-Qt" lead me to a github page, an install link, and then appstream://net.davidotek.pupgui2 being passed to discover, which complains that it's not available in any repository (with ... grumble, an error message that cannot be copy/pasted.)

Can you help someone that is new to configuring / administering modern linux with this?

(The last time I had to deal with linux was 1999. I knew how to admin BSD back around 1992, mac OS's of various types from 2005-2019 [last version used there was 10.12], but modern linux is like a sea of chaos where the documentation seems dumbed down and/or hidden.)

I am also a Kubuntu user, you have to have Flatpak for this. It's not available either as a snap or deb. If I remember correctly you have to open Discover, go to settings and enable flathub. If I am wrong you can follow these instructions: https://flatpak.org/setup/Kubuntu [External Link]

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Quoting: enigmaxg2Since the vast majority of GPUs out there are Nvidia, and it's known how bad they play with Wayland, I see this as a risky move.

Unless they manage to tackle down ALL the issues in the 105 days (at the time of writing this) remaining until release, with little to no help from Nvidia.

They have been going for a couple years with this and got only a small success, unless a miracle happens, I see this becoming a shitshow.

It's not as risky as it might seem. On Windows the majority are indeed Nvidia GPU's, but on the Linux side the majority is actually Intel or AMD GPU's (even if we exclude Steam Deck). However Nvidia is a gigantic company and I'm sure the Wayland situation will improve soon.

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Plasma is just great. It's the maturity of Proton and Plasma that made me fully switch to Linux earlier this year.

KDE has a fundraiser for Plasma 6. I just signed up and if you want support them here's the link: https://kde.org/fundraisers/plasma6member/ [External Link]

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