This does not appear to be well-received with gamers, Linux gamers or otherwise. I haven't heard of anyone enjoying Discord since 2019. Hopefully this doesn't take off.

This one is a big "no" from me, even if I loved Discord, I don't want it integrating or overlaying in my games. Discord Rich Presence is awful enough - no, Discord, I don't want to see what my friends are playing. I can see that on Steam, and if they aren't playing on Steam then I don't want to know.

So... How's TeamSpeak these days? I've been eyeing up moving to Signal (I avoid Discord servers like the plague) but I remember hearing TeamSpeak was getting a bit of a resurgence.

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I can report that the desktop session is still X11. I wonder what's on their shortlist that makes them not touch that default yet.

Thanks, saved me switching to Preview. I think there are ways to work around it, but easy fixing of Overscan for TVs in the Plasma Desktop settings would be a pleasure (only available in the Wayland session). I want to watch YouTube on my TV with my Deck and keyboard/mouse, Firefox doesn't work properly in fullscreen in Game Mode last I tested (or with GameScope in general on my Desktop PC). Considering compromising on Ungoogled Chromium for this, but would be nice to use Firefox in Desktop Mode without overscan. :grin:

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Picked this up yesterday, just got past the tutorial. Seems more comfortable with a keyboard despite the recommendation to use a controller, although the controller layout is still very enjoyable (more than I can say for any other ARPG I've played, where a controller severely hinders the experience). Nice to see this improvement as I might give it a go on my Deck that I've recently dusted off for the first time in months for some emulated gaming.

The game definitely has optimisation issues, and doesn't let you disable upscaling from the menus. So at Best Quality FSR 2 running at 4k on my 7900XTX, it still chews up 80% GPU. However it does this regardless of scene, even on boot splashes, and GPU usage never changes. It is consistently 80% usage.

Any performance improvements are only a good thing from any side, so let's hope once the game gets more optimisation that these SteamOS-specific ones (Mesa-specific?) only add to that. :grin:

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Awesome to see! Zink is handy to use even on AMD for some older native titles (BioShock Infinite ran much better with it back when I tested).

I'll be interested to see some games like Minecraft benchmarked with Zink on Nvidia GPUs.

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Quoting: TevurDear Remedy, sincerly hope you're the next devolper getting pulverized by capitalism. You earned it!

Let's not forget, Control was an Epic Exclusive. Even more reason to dislike the studio.

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Some awesome features in this! Great to see the devs pushing through and against all of the negativity surrounding Godot.

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Personally, I don't use Steam because I play on PC, but rather I choose to play games on PC because of Steam. Any company is going to have a hard time challenging that.

I also support GOG and Itch, and I'd sooner stop playing games altogether than touch the Epic Games Store.

As for Amazon, eh. Free games don't entice me to use a service. I've got hundreds on GOG and thousands on Steam, I don't need more. And I'd rather buy a game on Steam than get it for free elsewhere.

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The fractional scale improvements here are utterly groundbreaking. Anyone following the proposal for the fractional-scale-v2 Wayland protocol will know this has been a pain point for a while. This is the single most exciting thing in Plasma 6.3 for me!

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Got this expecting it to be a short game, but 12 hours for the asking price is more than worth it (possibly more if you're going for 100%). Was a fun way to spend a Friday after work, thanks for reporting on this! :grin:

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For anyone wondering, this game appears to use NetEase Anti-Cheat. It's not disclosed on the store page, but some Steam Discussions users did a bit of digging ( credit to Corinarh [External Link] ).

Not sure how invasive this anti-cheat is on Linux, but some might want to skip this one.

EDIT: To be clear, GamingOnLinux and AreWeAntiCheatYet both disclose the anti-cheat (although AWACY lists it as speculative). But the Steam Store Page, at time of writing, does not.

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