Quoting: MayeulCI fully agree with bisbyx above, nothing prevents a compositor from implementing this today, or even a separate app, like KDE devs did for X11 screen capture compatibility. Obviously better if the apps register shortcuts themselves, though.

Quoting: syylkviewport/video memory sharing

Now I don't understand this. We already have dma-buf.

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Back to the article: an interesting tidbit is that, last time I checked, the Steam Deck was still using the X11 session. I wonder if they are going to change this?

yea, once the X11 session is dropped, I expect SteamOS will also drop it, though probably not immediately since SteamOS packages are quite far behind.

Overall this is a welcome change, I've been running everything under Wayland since about 3/4 year and had zero issues that I could directly attribute to Wayland. Flameshot said something about Wayland being incompatible but the flatpak seems to work fine. I think it's in a good enough state so they can drop the X session entirely

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Hopefully this won't cause problems for 32-bit games or 16-bit programs via Wine eventually, I'm assuming the prior version of Steam Linux Runtime will continue to be available for compatibility?

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so now we can finally play RDR2 in DX12 mode - amazing! :wub::wub:

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Meh, absolutely not a fan of 8GB GDDR. It's already very tight in 2025, and that's speaking from personal experience. I upgraded from a 3070 because the VRAM just was not enough. But that was in Dec 2024. I have very serious concerns about the usability of this device in a few years

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Forza Horizon 5 and Jurassic World Evolution 3, but recently I got the urge to play some more classic PC games from the 2000s. I'm ordering some (used CDs) for my birthday and see if I can get them to run. Ahh, the nostalgia! :wub: Those were the good old days when ownership was still a thing

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This is really cool, while there's already an implementation of Directx 1-11 in the form of WINED3D (openGL), Vulkan is just better. Try it for yourself, the installation is dead simple. In the Demo for Harry Potter 2, all the graphical glitches with the transparency were entirely gone when I switched to Vulkan rendering :wub:

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How well does crossover handle the newer microsoft offices these days?

Fifteen years ago, it handled office2000 very well, only problem being the help function.

You can only run up to Office 2016 in Crossover, everything above that is not possible to run through Wine, you need a VM, Winapps, Winboat, or a Windows Docker Container for that
I use this https://github.com/eylenburg/linoffice [External Link] which works pretty well, it auto installs everything for you, and you can then simply launch Office like a native app with full Linux integration

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this in Bazzite when? :wub:

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Regular users just wants to run their games and discord and a web browser, for which immutables are perfectly sufficient, just look at SteamOS, it has far more share than any other distro on Steam and it's immutable. If you see them as restrictive, there's enough mutable options out there you can use. I value the stability and robustness of Bazzite, its zero maintenance nature, the fact that updates (even major OS upgrades) are instant, and that you basically have a cloud save for your operating system built in, in addition to local rollback options.

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@bara there's 2 Steam Deck models, 0405 is the LCD and the OLED has a different codename. I believe AMD Radeon Graphics (RADV VANGOGH)
12.64% is the OLED

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