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Latest Comments by Liam Dawe
Steam Beta for Dec 11 brings new game update options plus a new downloader style
12 Dec 2024 at 12:01 pm UTC

Quoting: ZetymWhile it's nice that they've separated the progress bar for download vs updating/installing files, but it's annoying that they removed the numbers for how much data needs to be processed by the update/install.

They also removed the ability to quickly navigate to the library page for the game currently being downloaded as you can't click the cover art for it as you could before, and still can with the games that are in queue, or already finished...
Oh yeah, I just noticed that, looks like a slight woops there. You can right click it for all sorts of options, but no option to go to the library page for it until it's finished now or your drag it out of the download.

Proton 9.0-4 is out now bringing big compatibility improvements for Steam Deck / Linux
12 Dec 2024 at 10:27 am UTC

Quoting: linuxjacques9.0-4 made my Diablo 4 glitchy. :sad:
You should properly report this to the GitHub [External Link] with an explanation and log files.

Proton 9.0-4 is out now bringing big compatibility improvements for Steam Deck / Linux
11 Dec 2024 at 11:21 pm UTC Likes: 11

Quoting: ada_Genuine question for people who use versons besides proton-ge, why? i don't believe i have in quite a while and haven't ran into any issues.
GE has less testing, and no support. You also can’t log a bug with Valve when using GE, since it’s not Valve’s Proton and that can end up limiting the amount and correctness of actual bug reports. It can get messy. Ideally, you should use the likes of GE on Steam only specifically when you *need* it. For outside Steam though, GE is generally what you want thanks to the umu launcher.

Proton Experimental adds initial speech synthesis support, lots of game fixes for Steam Deck / Linux and easier modding
11 Dec 2024 at 10:55 am UTC

Quoting: WMan22
Quoting: dpanterThe modding support is potentially enormous news.
For sure, I hope we also get an official GUI interface within steam itself to run third party mod loader .exe files inside of a prefix too, then the modding support will really be nice. People shouldn't have to rely on third party stuff like Protontricks to do this.
Sounds like something along those lines [External Link] is planned to come!

Valve now sell refurbished Steam Deck OLED models
11 Dec 2024 at 9:25 am UTC

Quoting: wintermuteEverything is showing out of stock for me. Probably for the best, I can't really afford it before Xmas :grin:
Yeah seems like they're all out in the UK now too, they went fast.

Funko issue a statement about the itch.io take-down, while also apparently calling itch founder's mom
10 Dec 2024 at 10:03 am UTC Likes: 4

Quoting: weipahI also don't get the part
"imitating the Funko Fusion development website"
So, they still think this is the case, somehow.
If you have a look at their Funko Fusion site I see next to none similarities.
If you take in consideration they have some dev site, I guess it should not be publicly known. And then I must I say, I wonder who copied from whom if there were any similarities.
They're specifically talking about the page itch.io took down. The pages on itch can be heavily customized.

Path of Exile 2 now in Early Access and it works on Steam Deck / Linux
8 Dec 2024 at 2:27 pm UTC Likes: 7

Played 8 hours now, sticking to Desktop because the Deck performance and text size just isn't good enough IMO.

Loving trying out the Witch, mixing together summoning spells with attack spells. Plays so nicely on Desktop with Proton.

The best Linux distribution for gaming in 2025
7 Dec 2024 at 6:56 pm UTC Likes: 2

Quoting: Cyril
Quoting: Liam DaweThis "bloat" is not something normies care about, only pedantic people who like to watch a few extra MBs get used up. The reality is: only a few people really care.
Liam, like many people here, you have a monster of a PC, of course you don't care about snaps in performance aspects.
But in reality, not only your reality, when your low-end computer slow down because of snaps (it worked perfectly fine before), I assure you: you care.
And when because of that, you think about buying new hardware, I assure you: you care.
In the end it's just more waste (we surely don't need that) for zero benefit of using snaps for normies (as you say).
Microsoft do this kind of shit to force people to buy new hardware, people complain about that and some did installed Linux, we don't need Linux distribution doing the same as Microsoft for "reasons" that only make sense (globally) for Canonical.
It's just crazy to pretend there is no problem about that, and worse: that it only concern pedantic people...
I hope there are people who understands me, as it seems nobody in the comments mentioned that until now.
Computers don't slow down from snaps, that's an odd thing to claim.

As for storage space, that's only really an issue on truly low-end stuff, which you're not going to be using a whole lot of anything on anyway.

Big storage has been cheap for a long time now. It's a small price to pay for a one-package-fits-all approach that both Snaps and Flatpaks do and both package types are being improved all the time.