If I had enough playing space anywhere in my household, I would buy VR hardware from (and only from) Valve.

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Another disgusting piece of malware that no doubt people are going to play. Gaming these days is depressing...

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Heads up that a debit card also works fine, if you don't have a credit card. Although it bills you £1, rather than presumably £0 for a Credit Card. :grin:

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The lack of support for an Nvidia GPU was a big reason I was driven to Framework. This has been disappointing. Having these "AI" series chips is definitely disappointing too but I think that is more around naming on AMD's part.

I'm very happy with my original Framework 16 without a GPU module. It works very well, although I do wish they'd make a model with a bigger screen as 16-17" is too small for a laptop. Investment in this, smaller bezels, and a bigger trackpad would've been a much better investment than an Nvidia GPU and as others have pointed out a measly 8GB VRAM.

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I've never really had a reason to use Bottles. Steam for games, begrudgingly Heroic for the odd game, or manually running something with my system Wine usually does the job.

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I've never really had a reason to use Bottles. Steam for games, begrudgingly Heroic for the odd game, or manually running something with my system Wine usually does the job.

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Hate to nitpick but shouldn't this be tagged with anti-cheat? I try to avoid news about games which feature invasive client-side anti-cheat.

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I understand not wanting to maintain a build for a distro, heck, even Linux as a platform. The part about not needing to care when you aren't being paid, I'm totally behind them on.

But Stenzek appeared quite hostile to allowing anyone else to support Linux. Kind of an "I don't want to support it, and I don't want anyone else to support it either!" type mindset based on the Creative Commons license that DuckStation uses, and the hostility to disallow building on a specific distro (Arch Linux, in this case).

Unofficial packages exist, and they are not upstream's problem. I don't understand why they want to be so hostile here. Users can complain, but as a maintainer, you don't need to care. Heck, you don't even need to tell users where to go to get support. I fully understand the frustration of dealing with end-users. But just focus on developing and supporting what you own. If a user gets a package from a third party they are not your problem, especially if they can't even tell whether they got it from you or not.

For those discussing issue templates: Stenzek has issues disabled on the GitHub repository. It appears to me that bug reports are primarily brought in through some form of Discord Server (where information goes to die, I might add).

Stenzek's prior behaviour has left a poor taste in my mouth with using DuckStation, and this has, too. It is absolutely trying my ability to separate the software from the creator.

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@R Daneel Olivaw

I'm glad to see someone else actually acknowledges that they at least made *some* false promises about how the game was meant to be. I respect that you enjoyed it one hundred percent. And yup, I basically took the game as how you described it, "pretty much another ubi open world questapalooza". Not that this is a bad thing, but I don't enjoy this kind of game. So I don't think Cyberpunk will be for me. It's so refreshing to actually hear any kind of agreement that Cyperpunk's issues weren't solely bugs but that at least *some* of the promises they made on how the game would be didn't come to fruition.

As for No Man's Sky, this is an excellent comparison. People did a 180 and forgave that game, too. I have played a bit but it's very hard to enjoy properly knowing it's a similar situation to Cyperpunk 2077.

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Always nice to see stable fixes, but it's also good to note that Mesa-git is usually available and good to run. There were PPAs for Ubuntu and friends back in the day, I believe it's also available on Fedora in some capacity though I forgot the term for packages there (it can be used on Nobara a bit more easily iirc or maybe even by default). I use it from Chaotic AUR on Arch on my PC and laptop.

Being bleeding edge has its risks, but a nice option to call out for those (like me) who prefer the trade-off of stability for the latest and greatest. I haven't had any issues using Mesa-git on my Arch system personally.

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