omg, they will miss the christmas! this is a HUGE deal, most of the sales happen in christmas!
source:
https://www.vgchartz.com/tools/hw_date.php [External Link]

i hope not many people cancel their pre order because they were planing to give it to someone else as christmas present, and cant anymore!

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"Either we move towards maintaining tens of thousands of lines of monkey patches"
holy cow, the floss developers dont change their tongue, lol.

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" enabled by launching Steam with -pipewire-dmabuf"
its so hard to put an graphical setting to turn this config on?
an checkbox...

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"Reminder: This special Vulkan beta driver is where all the shiny new stuff goes in before making its way into the stable release for everyone. Really, it's mostly aimed at developers and serious enthusiasts. Unless you need what's in them, it's generally best to use the stable drivers."

things i wish i were informed when i was an linux begginer trying all the stuff that i heard of.

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Quoting: GuestSo, we're on the second E here now.

I'll stick with non-Chrome as much as I can too.

i dont think this is possible to do anymore.
microsoft couldnt kill the web nor linux in the past, they could only delay the inevitable.
the web is ubiqutous, and linux is everywhere but the desktop.
the issue is that linux was shrinking on the desktop, as an frog in a boiling pan, but it looks like steamdeck/proton can reverse this trend a bit, if the marketshare dont skyrocket at least it should stabilize.
i dont think its possible to kill the linux desktop

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"Bioshock Infinite"
well we can play the native version if we want to avoid this drm i guess

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off topic to this news, but linux related, looks like the developers of TailQuest (the game featured on godot webpage) uses linux!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3H_yjVrtDgQ [External Link]

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just an reminder, this game made enough success to have an anime adaptation.

i dont know if the anime is any good, but it help to ilustrate how popular the game is, and why its a huge deal that its avaliable for linux.

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Quoting: natis1

Quoting: elmapul

Quoting: CFWhitman

Quoting: elmapulagain, that was an retraction from their first message.

The way I remember their first message was that one hundred percent Steam compatibility* was their eventual goal for the Steam Deck rather than a "promise" of the state of things when the Steam Deck first shipped. Of course they should have known how people tend to hear what they want to hear.

*(Of course this would be with the obvious caveat of the form factor not being appropriate for certain games such as VR titles.)

actually, it might have been "playable"
but their definion of playable is not the same as verified...

VR exclusive games are always marked unsupported on the deck even if they could run perfectly on Linux or even on the deck's hardware. This is said explicitly in the valve video.

i'm not complaining about it, the issue is:
when they said their goal was everything will be playable at launch, i was expecting then to try to fix the remaining bugs.

the game works, but any game cutscene dont work , count as playable?
or the full screen dont work?
or the sound effects dont work?

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Quoting: CFWhitman

Quoting: elmapulagain, that was an retraction from their first message.

The way I remember their first message was that one hundred percent Steam compatibility* was their eventual goal for the Steam Deck rather than a "promise" of the state of things when the Steam Deck first shipped. Of course they should have known how people tend to hear what they want to hear.

*(Of course this would be with the obvious caveat of the form factor not being appropriate for certain games such as VR titles.)

actually, it might have been "playable"
but their definion of playable is not the same as verified...

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