Quoting: fenglengshunGranted, Plasma 6.0 is still pretty rough from what I hear

I don't know what you heard, but as someone who was used to more "official" desktop experience of Windows 10 and co until 2 months ago, Plasma 6 is near perfect. I don't have any issues that I can recall right now.

I appreciate the insight into Bazzite. Do you reckon it could be used on a gaming laptop that is also used for general desktop work? or is it exclusively about gaming, where I'd be better off using something like Nobara? (I'm thinking of Bazzite because I'm interested in the whole atomic variant concept of Fedora)

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Quoting: spacemonkeyWould you say that Ubuntu is the best OS if you just want things to work and not tinker, especially for gaming?

I hear Bazzite/Nobara are currently some of the best Just Works(tm), no tinkering distro's out there.

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Since Sony isn't bothered to sell it for us here, I'm excited to play the game free of charge!

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Quoting: TimeFreezethey said i quote:

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the steam linux SDK is like 8 years old

Is that true? How is Valve and other developers releasing Linux Native games recently then?

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Quoting: PenglingI'm currently preparing for an emulation-heavy approach to gaming in the future until things right themselves again

That's basically been me these past couple years, a mix of emulation and generally older titles I missed out on. It's a good life; you'll probably never run out of good games, and your backlog will remain enormous for years to come. There's nothing especially important in getting the latest and the "greatest" of games if you think about it, once you wrap your head around that concept and ditch that FOMO feeling, you realise time doesn't amount all that much to art, and graphics aren't even close to being everything in a game.

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Am I the only one who's not necessarily too excited for a new Deck at the moment? Keep in mind I could be salty because I just got mine August last year, but it feels like the OLED model fixed pretty much every nit pick there was with the original we had for now.

Furthermore, people asking for Deck 2 to run current games... do you guys want to throw $1K or more on your handhelds? I know I wouldn't, I find the current Deck perfectly fine for what I realistically expected would run on it, besides, setting up Sunnine/Moonlight was easy enough I'd never bother with a more powerful handheld if I can locally stream all my demanding games (which aren't many) from my capable PC.

I'd probably be more into the idea if there'd be specific exciting features and innovations coming with a Deck 2, not just adding more RAM etc.

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Quoting: Linux_RocksYou're playing a "live service" game. You've got no room to bitch cause of that fact alone.

Even if your language is harsh, I 100% agree with this, wherever the game comes from, if you play a live service game and they decide to fuck you in the ass on a whim, you shouldn't really be surprised, I'd even go and say you deserve it, it's almost written in the rules at this point with how often this happens.

I do like that the consooomers finally came together for something to stand up for, even if we both think it's comically exaggerated.

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Quoting: TeomyrI really don't understand why these people doesn't run their own Gitlab server (or similar) ?

Because 8535 people didn't fork Yuzu's repo to start developing 8535 different forks individually, I'd just round this exaggerated number of forks to just non technical people just forking the repo out of panic thinking this can be a way to preserve it somehow.

A fork that is actually being developed, Sudachi [External Link] is still up, so this does just seem like they were going after duplicates here. I heard Sudachi removed some of the problematic code from Yuzu and that could be why it's still up, not sure what the problematic code is or if this is even true though.

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Quoting: F.Ultraso if you happen to live in any of those countries you are now blocked from playing the game you bought.

I just want to say this is not true at all, as someone from an African country that's not South Africa, this is not news at all, it's always been that for any of these global services, you just pick US/UK/EU, or whatever region where you have access to that region's currency so you can buy stuff from the service etc, since no one will support your local currency, obviously, that's just the status quo here. Steam itself until very recently (November last year) didn't officially support MENA countries either. Yeah yeah lying about your region probably breaks TOS or whatever, that's never been forced in any service that I know of for us here. Just because Sony or whoever doesn't "officially" support our regions, doesn't mean there are no PS5s here or no userbase or that we're "blocked" from playing.

This is just to give everyone an idea of how things go here.

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Quoting: WYWThe 4 minutes of setup and the data mining aside this creates a new point of failure.

What data mining? Realistically speaking, you'll only need to use that account to play the game no? So whatever data they would mine through PSN they should be able to do so already if you play the game now. What makes this worse from a privacy perspective?

Quoting: WYWIf the PSN network goes down, or if your PSN account is stolen or lost (or banned) you lose the ability to login and play the game.

This is very true, adding another point of failure is a big annoyance and downright discouraging. The good thing about this overwhelming backlash is it may just be big enough Sony will act like they listened and drop this crap.

Also I want to make it clear I'm not defending these morons for this unnecessary and over reaching action. I was just surprised by the strong response and some of the feedback felt like people were afraid of things that can already happen, with or without PSN, so their worries are misplaced I think. This is like windows users who are against ring 0 anti cheat software because it can "steal your data". Any user level software can steal what's on your documents folder. You don't want kernel level software because it's way more dangerous than that, you simply don't trust that software or any 3rd party software for such a critical level of access for your machine, and you don't like the idea of that software running before everything else starts on your computer.

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