Comment edited, to include another possible way you can use the tag system instead of the GOL homepage directly.

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Quoting: undeadbydawnIs there any possibility of having separate section of the site for Steam Deck? Or even - deep breath time - a SteamDeck specific site

There's a tag system, use it. If you don't want to see Steam Deck news at all you can:
- Add it as a blocked tag in your settings.
- Simply not click on the article link.
- Use the category picker, with a few categories selected as your GOL homepage. Here's an example using it for only showing Free + Native.

Quoting: undeadbydawnYes, the Deck is easily the most important thing that's happened in Linux gaming... but far too much of that news is of little to no interest to desktop users, and it's starting to dominate the news feed.

GOL was never specifically about desktop Linux gaming. It was about everything. It follows my personal interests, always has and always will.

Quoting: undeadbydawnThe YouTube page is now almost exclusively Deck news, and would really prefer to avoid that happening here too.

The YouTube was almost never used, it's not a complaint that makes much sense.

Every tag also has an RSS feed, feel free to use it only for those you wish to follow.

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Quoting: TermyI still haven't seen a clear confirmation if it is native on steam or still tainted by the EA App BS?

But as some are insane enough to not boycott 3rd party launchers, it is nice to see it being tweaked either way. Valve is really putting in the effort.

There is no EA App here.

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Quoting: StalePopcornPosted yesterday, this [External Link] (YT link) guy seemed to have the game running pretty smoothly on his Steam Deck…does a walthrough of his settings in the beginning. Maybe it's one of the post-processing settings killing performance?

That user had clearly run it before the video given the time on the game and already being in-game, so they skipped showing all the serious harshness of the performance at the start. Stuff like that is quite misleading, especially for only smaller clips like that really, additionally you can see later in the video the stutter problem. There’s updates out now, a full video and article on the changes will be live in the morning as I’m waiting on YouTube rendering to HD and going to sleep 😴

Edit: their original video showed the problems quite clearly.

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Quoting: DarkVantageHi Liam,

As a Steam Deck owner and GOL Supporter, I really appreciate all your hard work! This is the first news source I visit every morning. I've noticed lately, though, some articles like this one talk only about the Steam Deck and ignore desktop Linux entirely. Please don't forget to spare a few sentences for the desktop/laptop experience. Thanks!

Hi, thanks for the support. It's a mixture of things: Steam Deck is what I personally use for like 99% of my gaming, and my focus on GOL has always followed what I do. That said, I'll do my best to test more on desktop too but for YouTube specifically - there's basically no views for plain desktop Linux gaming so the focus there is obviously the Deck directly. But for articles, I'll see how I can make it better.

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Quoting: elmapulim already at the point that i read news like this and think:
of course it does, why wouldnt it?

Because many...don't or have serious issues. I've blogged about quite a lot of issues over the last year.

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I've provided Valve multiple crash log files for it now, here's to hoping they find the issues.

As for the main menu performance, it's because it loads and readies a full save to jump right in, clever.

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Valve said they've now released an "initial" shader cache for it, but I loaded up my Steam Deck and it's not asking me to update anything. Would be nice if this system was clearer...Edit: it downloaded it only after I loaded it up, helpful.

I do have to wonder what Dead Space is doing with its rendering. Just sitting on the main menu on Steam Deck shows it going wild all over the place below 30 and up to 40 and constantly changing. How can a main menu perform so bad? 🫠

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It showing out of stock is probably only shown in unsupported countries, because obviously you order from Valve not Komodo.

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Quoting: deathxxx

Quoting: Liam Dawe

Quoting: deathxxxWhat a stupid game...

What makes it "stupid" exactly?

Noting serious. Just another children game.

You make absolutely no sense.

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