Quoting: GuestI got my hands on a steam deck a few weeks ago and played around with it. Great console OS, awful computer operating system.

What did you expect from an immutable OS? The desktop computing is going to be limited because the only thing that would never get wiped whenever a new SteamOS update get installed is the Home directory. You can use distrobox or Nix if you ever need software that's not available on the Discover store but anything you want to do with it would still have to be done on the Home directory.

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Quoting: scaineThis is an absolutely superb metroidvania. The "bullet hell" tag is seriously misleading. Yeah, there are bullets, but it's hardly "hell". In fact, the difficulty is perfectly judged, I think. The movement is sublime. And the upgrade system that lets you change your build at the drop of a hat? Amazing. For some reason Steam isn't telling me how I played this for, but again, it's a perfectly judged length, albeit there's a series of "final" bosses which aren't actually the end of the adventure, and I did get a bit bored at the "door challenge" bit - but that's well past the final final... final boss.

Great game. Highly recommended!

Edit: My steam profile says that I played for 14 hours. No regrets!

After reading that you wrote, this game looks like something up my alley since I like shmups and metroidvania and I'll definitely get it when it hits a price point that I'm willing to buy it.

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Great to see Tango Gameworks being acquired by KRAFTON and hopefully, we can see a future The Evil Within 3 game from them if MS decides to let them do it. Now, will Shinkji Mikami ever come back to Tango Gameworks after leaving them last year?

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Quoting: constI've sunken some time into it, but somehow always felt bad afterwards.

There's no shame in sinking time into a good game :grin:

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Quoting: ToddLThis is why I avoid adding plugins or anything else to my Steam Deck because you can never tell what can go wrong.

Plugins that simply customize the interface are fine. Ones that add new features or change core functionality seem to be the culprits here.

Right but even then, I still keep my Steam Deck as is without any modifications and I do understand that there are those that like to make changes to it.

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I think this bundle looks pretty good and out of all the games listed, I only own 3 of them. Might be a good time to buy it despite whatever DRM is used as long as it works on the Steam Deck and anywhere else that I might to play these games :smile:

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This is why I avoid adding plugins or anything else to my Steam Deck because you can never tell what can go wrong.

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Quoting: Pyrate

Quoting: sprocket

Quoting: PyrateGuess they're too busy powering genocidal rogue states.

You definitely aren't wrong about this.

At his point on the internet, I actually can't tell if it's sarcasm or you're being genuine. You being an employee there I guess you could have more insight, so I'd like to know if you know more about this.

Even if he did, he wouldn't share that information on an open forum like this anyways.

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Quoting: MangojuicedrinkerThank you for this report!
In truth, people are simply unaware of Linux.. unaware of its gaming capabilities, its now ease of use.. etc.. They are also kept back by invasive technologies such as SecureBoot which usually prevents installation of Linux..
My Windows 11 enjoyer brother-in-law was truly having a blast playing games on my Linux PC... he was also in disbelief of how good it was performance wise... (I never asked/pushed him though, he simply turned the PC on to try it himself and now has a new view on Linux..)

If people knew how easy Linux has become and how amazing levels it has reached regarding gaming performance (that it can sometimes outperform Windows 11 in even AAA titles with proton overhead!!) they would certainly use it.

Distros such as Linux Mint, Nobara, CachyOS, have given Linux both the easy GUI/OOB-Gaming experience and also have kept the power of the Terminal as well so users can really enjoy using Linux (best of both worlds)... (at least this has been the case for me who migrated from Win 7 to Linux for 2 years now..).

As great as Linux is for gaming, it still has issues with anti-cheat from companies that won't support the OS (e.g. EA, Activision, Bungie). Until that's resolved, along with anything else holding back gaming on Linux, the numbers will continue to stay low.

Despite this though, I'm glad that Linux continues to gain shares and hopefully, they'll get to a point where more people will transition to it over Windows.

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Quoting: Vortex_AcheronticHow many times did they now fixed the EA App? It feels like every new Proton version list this fix again.
At this point it becomes the Herobrine from Minecaft. :D

It's that cat and mouse game that never ends because for every new update that EA does to their crappy launcher, it breaks Proton. Once Proton fixes it, it'll break again later on and the cycle continues.

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