Quoting: slaapliedjeI was shocked when Pools of Radiance: Ruins of Myth Drannor just worked out of the box with the CD check. I don't think it will even work on Windows 10.

I love that game, but is a bag of worms in terms of bugs, and usually was easier to get it working on wine than Windows ever since the days of Vista.

Alas, there are many older games that do require CD check that you have to use a noCD cracked exe

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Totally loved this Linux-centric Steam Deck jam spear headed by Jason. All the points raised and the way, when it came to it, the discussion went was really well balanced. I hope you 4 will do it again and maybe once a month? (Or whenever another event as impactful to the Linux community at large as the SD release comes along).

My only gripe is that the device is so limited in its availability, that I'll be getting a PS5 before I am able to even reserve one of these! Alss the same happened for the first two years of the Steam Controller before I was able to get one off Amazon (Steam never had it as available in my region).

One question I'd ask the bulk of you, though on that note, what if Valve signed a distribution agreement with Amazon for global delivery of the Deck instead of having it so tightly locked to certain regions? I am aware that the current situation has more to do with manufacturing yield than anything else, given the shortages we've been having for the past couple of years, but still, damn I am angry at Valve to have us cut off (BTW I live in Mexico, so it is particularly frustrating to me to be so close, yet so far)

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Hopefully these small quality of life changes prompt some devs to fix their notoriously bad bugs with sync and cloud saves (yes I'm looking at you Metro: Exodus!)

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Ahh! The memories!

UT99 was about one of the first games I had on Linux running with Glide on a Voodoo Banshee and later on a Voodoo 3.

Quake 3 ran much better for me back then on Linux than Windows, maybe due to the miniGL implementation Windows used for 3dfx cards and the overall good support for OpenGL through Mesa. I was there when even though 3dfx had gone, support for its hardware was strong (albeit only one VSA-100 was usable on those cards), performance was rather good, as well (for the time, until the GeForce 3 brute forced its way to the top).

nVidia had a rough time back then with its detonator drivers, which could literally explode and leave you with a softlocked system (basically only the mouse cursor worked, all else was frozen, even networking), and it was like that for some years (actually, the last time I got that softlock should have been somewhere in 2010-ish with my then trusty 9800GT). Man! Those were fun times!

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The closest to the Mac experience on Linux, and as such feels really restrictive, though it aspires to offer a cohesive and tightly integrated user experience. For the bulk of us, not our cup of tea, but I do reckon it does have it use cases.

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I'm on the same boat as most for the keypad and layout. Though I can adapt to not having it.

Regardless of the layout, those USB hubs are sweet indeed and I do have more use for those than the keypad.

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I bought this on release, but held back installation until the native support arrived, so I guess I'll be installing it "soon-ish", then!

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About that Broadcom Wifi-Bluetooth combo, I wonder which driver they are using on Linux for it, as BCM usually requires a blob for it to work well (or at all).

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Quoting: legluondunetwhat is the best graphical version? Windows or Linux one?

For this game in particular, the 'best' is to have the S3TC 'high res' textures, though some skyboxes render wrong in both D3D and OpenGL. Performance wise, OpenGL was better with 'beefy' graphics cards, while D3D used to make the game playable with less powerful graphics cards. To my eyes, though, neither D3D nor OpenGL were visually as "clean" as the Glide renderer for 3dfx Voodoo cards**... actually UT99 was one of the few games that actually had the Glide renderer available on Linux, and ut performed just as well as on Windows, back in the day. Damn the memories!!

*Especially noticeable in the foggy areas, such as the initial flyby in both UT and Unreal. I did not notice any banding, while the nostalgia lens may distort reality.

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Quoting: bisbyxI have no idea if there is any "bad blood" between X and Wayland devs

The X devs turned into Wayland devs; no one is really working on X11 any more.

Seems as if X11 has been on Life Support for the last several years (5? more?), though they are still actively fixing bugs and polishing some features. Wayland needed and still does need much more work to get to the point where it can finally substitute X completely (getting there, though). Some times I see Wayland catching up to the X features in the same way as Wine is catching up to Windows (though much, much faster, LOL! :grin:)

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