I'm using the Bazzite NVIDIA image, and so far, no complaints. I've recently got a Quest 2 for my birthday, so I might test out VR on this distro too, but I'm thinking it might not end well with the state of SteamVR on Linux and all.

The biggest issue I've faced was Firefox crashing repeatedly, but that was due to a bug on Firefox, not from Bazzite itself.

The second biggest is that, since it's an immutable distro, a lot of Linux fixes you can find online just don't work. Like I tried out a community WiFi driver and all of the steps threw an error. So there's that.

Other than that, no complaints. It's been smooth sailing, and I think I'll stick with it. I actually like how snappy it is in comparison to Windows 10. I kept a dual boot partition of that OS, and I haven't had to boot it at all, except for updates.

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Quoting: Caldathras

Quoting: PyreticNVIDIA still doesn't support Gamescope

Correct me if I'm wrong but but that no longer appears to be true. At least, not since May of 2022.

I should have specified better: Bazzite doesn't support NVIDIA and Steam Gaming Mode. Selecting NVIDIA on their website says that Steam Gaming Mode does not support NVIDIA as of now.

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Quoting: ToddLNow, I'm thinking of building a PC to use one of the SteamOS variants like Bazzite, ChimeraOS, etc.

I wanted to try out Bazzite, but NVIDIA still doesn't support Gamescope, so I'm stuck between choosing Bazzite Desktop Edition and Linux Mint.

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More Wayland improvements on Linux but still opt-in.

Just to be clear, this isn't just "Wayland improvements". Godot now natively supports Wayland! (Though, it is experimental)

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Oooh, that's so great for Godot! I wonder if they're going to start developing more benchmark projects, now that Godot's reached a more stable foundation.

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So another Godot game upgrades to Godot 4. Interesting to see that mods were broken because of it, although I suspect that's also because of the engine refactoring. According to the Steam Post, they're talking with the Godot Foundation on fixes for it.

Also, CONSOLE PORTS???

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Finally, Steam Deck IMU support! It's been really annoying that we've had to rely on Steam Input to expose the gyroscope and accelerometer. Hopefully, this means that more games will start to rely on gyro controls.

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Quoting: torhamWish they would implement the matchmatching too, this is the only part I care about. Something like Goldberg's emulator but for GOG.

There is actually Nermintgas' Galaxy Emulator for LAN games.

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Can't wait for Godot to adopt this

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Quoting: Calinou

SGSSAA

That's an acronym I haven't heard of for 10 years now (in official engine implementations, that is) :)

It's bound to driver-specific APIs and isn't part of standard Direct3D/OpenGL/Vulkan, so it's pretty hard to enable from the application side.

I've never heard of it before. Googling it now, it seems that it's not supported in DX11/12 applications usually, which is so weird when you see all the positive reactions to SGSSAA.

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