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Assassin’s Creed Shadows is Steam Deck Verified
17 Mar 2025 at 8:41 pm UTC Likes: 2

Lmaol, so basically they are afraid that the game is going to flop, so they are doing the bare minimum to optmize it

SteamOS 3.7.0 Preview brings the 'beginnings of support for non-Steam Deck handhelds'
15 Mar 2025 at 5:50 pm UTC

From KDE's own list, accessibility seems like the only obvious one: https://community.kde.org/Plasma/Wayland_Known_Significant_Issues [External Link]
Maybe they are waiting for steam and proton to switch to Wayland?, that other issue that I can think about

OCCT for stress-testing comes to Linux and Steam Deck, with a Steam release planned
20 Feb 2025 at 11:41 am UTC

...which applies to most, if not all, closed source game as well.
They don't run as root

The glibc 2.41 update has been causing problems for Linux gaming
14 Feb 2025 at 7:25 pm UTC Likes: 2

They really outta listen to Linus on not breaking userspace.
Ther kernel don't break userspace, userspace break userspace all the time

Fedora threatened with legal action from OBS Studio due to their Flatpak packaging
14 Feb 2025 at 5:40 pm UTC Likes: 3

Cool, more Fedora things that are so Fedora that only Fedora could manage it. *shrugs in Debian*
The distro that couldn't use Firefox for a long time and had to rename it to iceweasel?

Fedora threatened with legal action from OBS Studio due to their Flatpak packaging
14 Feb 2025 at 5:38 pm UTC

Indeed but, if they did not want people repacking the software and redistributing it with the branding intact, they should have made this clear from the get-go that it was not permitted, as opposed to waiting until the software had been redistributed with the branding.
They said in the post that they don't have problems with redistribution, fedora also redistribute an RPM package and they don't have problem with that because it works, also the license say that you can't redistribute the trademark they just allow it in good faith

NVIDIA Beta driver 570.86.16 released with VRR for multiple displays and lots of improvements
31 Jan 2025 at 12:23 am UTC

Does multi-monitor VRR work with Wayland only, or both X11 and Wayland with this driver?
X11 don't support VRR using multimonitors

NTSYNC for Proton / Wine now in Linux kernel 6.14 that "Should make many SteamOS users happy"
28 Jan 2025 at 7:52 pm UTC

I might be blind and dumb as usual, but are there any benchmarks out there comparing this to e/fsync instead of vanilla Wine? I'm far more curious about those numbers.
Fsync don't have a big performance difference against wine, so nsync gonna have a better performance than both wine and proton, you can see that on Brodie video

The upcoming Lenovo Legion Go S may come with a SteamOS Linux version
15 Dec 2024 at 3:36 pm UTC Likes: 4

"During a gold rush, sell shovels"
Valve created the gold rush, made most of the gold money, is selling the shovels, and aparently now is selling the land too lmao

Sober is a new way to play Roblox on Linux from the Vinegar team
8 Aug 2024 at 7:39 pm UTC

Quoting: doragasuI wonder if this fixes the mouse and perf on AMD hardware, but will wait until there is a non-flatpack version to test.
Conplain about problems, decide to use the unsupported and not official flatpak version, really?