Quoting: ROllerozxaFeels weird to see this because I've always thought of Cheat Engine as something that's so deeply married to Win32 that it wouldn't even make sense to port it to Linux. In the past I've used Game Conqueror on Linux.

actually cheat engine and similar programs are exactly the opposite of what you thought. they directly read and write raw data in ram, and technically they should be able to peek into anything as long as they can access memory. i guess there might be some tools inside such programs with specific API, like faking a system call or something like that, but their basic functionality is to read X bytes at memory address Y, and overwrite it if user tells them to.

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don't panic. all of your aur packages are fine, if you use a dozen of popular ones, that were not orphaned. still, check the mailing list just in case.

i wish official arch linux repos included packages that other distros do, even some arch based repos include apps like heroic launcher and vesktop. debian has vmtouch.

meanwhile arch repos have some half broken image viewers and similar abandonware, that should be removed

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I don't get mad about Sweeney's hot takes, and you wouldn't too, if you'd knew he has "crazy scientist" mindset. It doesn't justifies his statements on twitter, but you will just understand that he is a bit out of touch when he gets distracted from math/programming stuff and jumps to discussing current trends.

And as he doesn't go deep in the trends, his hot takes and predictions often, if not always become true in the opposite way of what he thought was to happen. I'd prefer it to stay this way.

Regarding Steam Deck prices, it looks painful indeed, but it still has an additional value that other consoles simply can't give you: it is a general purpose PC without vendor locking. You can run applications on it, you can dock it into a setup with a big display and full sized keyboard. You can even take it to a conference as a backup device for your presentation in case if your laptop gets stolen or lost.

Even if Steam Machine will cost $1500 on launch day, so will do other PCs with similar specs.

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Quoting: Kimyrielle

Quoting: PlayingOnLinuxphoneWhile on the other hand, Steam probably has the age of most of its users anyway.

According to what I told Steam, I am 99 years old. 😂

Fun fact, 95% of steam users were born on January 1st.

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keep your room tidy, pay attention to your electric equipment and nothing bad will ever happen, unless a cat or a mouse chews on wires.

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Another cycle in history of the endless loop between console companies coming to PC and leaving it. Personally I am indifferent to console exclusive games.
Out of all PlayStation 3 games I liked only Demon's Souls, and I still I wouldn't miss much if I looked over it. Tried few other PS3 exclusives, they were pretty bad, after it I decided I don't care anymore. I really start to believe that exclusivity is a gas lighting strategy to convince consumers that exclusive games have more value than they actually do. And my hypothesis is supported by cultural environment that surrounds it. Just check the bizarre emotionally negative posts in social media that some people make when another game stops being a console exclusive and gets released on PC.

Regarding the topic: don't worry. These news are not about all games that are released on consoles. Only games developed by internal Sony studios will be exclusives, other won't.

Correct me if I am wrong, but games, like Stellar Blade, were not developed by an internal Sony studio, and had only time limited exclusive deal with Sony. After that, they got published on PC, yes, by PlayStation publishing, but anyways. Games like this will seek multi platform publishing, unless they estimate sales on PC will bring them less money, than exclusive deals with Sony. Sony can buy few games for this purpose, but they won't be financially able to buy most of them. Especially after everyone have seen how much profit can be made on PC.

Example 1:
Stellar Blade sold a million units in 3 days on PC.

Example 2:
Stellar Blade 2 to be self-published, may go multi-platform.
Shift Up says Stellar Blade 2 news is on the way this year, and it could be a day-one PC launch.

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Quoting: scaineIt'll always be "horde-survival" to me!!

I do agree with other comments that the tags are often useless. I tried to find a good RPG for the train today, I was hit with things like Borderlands 4, which might be technically "role playing", but not really what I would associate with that tag.

it will overlap with games that have horde survival mode, but without mechanics of bullet-heaven.

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Quoting: cameronbosch

Quoting: vic-bayIf microslop really wanted to prevent their games from running on Linux, they would just block it with some anticheat-like measure or straightly blocking it like genshin impact devs did.

You do realize they did just that with Call of Duty Black Ops 7, right? Don't think for a second Microsoft actually "loves Linux", they do, but in the classic "triple E [External Link]" ways, even if they at first appear to be more adept at hiding it.

There's no other valid explanation at this point. The Steam Deck absolutely sold "millions of units", aka, what Tim Sweeney want for him to have Epic reenable EAC for Proton, which was intentionally disabled at first for "that reasoning". Of course, that turned out to be BS, and his settlements in the Google anti-trust lawsuits show it, as does him never suing Microsoft for the same reasons of a "monopoly", which with the whole Windows 8 Microsoft Store monopoly attempts, actually started Valve done the whole Linux route in the first place. While that attempt failed, Microsoft still keeps trying to make lock-in a thing, just like Google and Apple.

The real reason he won't allow for Fortnite on Linux it is because he, like Microsoft, sees Valve as competitors, and Linux gamers as too free from his control, and he can't be helping his competition, can he? (Even if it means burning millions of bridges and more in the long run!)

And in reality, any "code" that runs at ring 0 that isn't the OS itself or FOSS (so independent people can see what it's actually doing) and even more so if it can detect a VM and refuse to run should be treated as malware. Do not run it! And don't fall for that lock-in!

probably you missed my point, here is tldr version: low level rendering internals is not the place you intentionally mess up for any reason other than rendering performance.

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Quoting: melkemindI'm afraid it might get even worse when the steam machine comes out and Microsoft views it as a direct competitor to the Xbox.

Other devs might support Linux more, but we can't rule out the possibility Microsoft will try some anticompetitive tactics with Forza and their other games.

At first I aslo thought microslop did some shenanigans in rendering code to make the game run worse on Linux, but I don't think it is the case. Most likely fh6 devs did some optimizations, that are just hard to reverse engineer and translate.

If microslop really wanted to prevent their games from running on Linux, they would just block it with some anticheat-like measure or straightly blocking it like genshin impact devs did.

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That's why we need intellectual property laws to be improved, so entities like HDMI cartel shouldn't have control over software implementations. You produce physical connectors, take your $0.99 and get lost, from people writing software support for it. It is twice as bad as it should be, as not only HDMI cartel doesn't write software support for Linux, but also forbids others to do it. What's the point? To make the world a worse place? This is plain evil.

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