All I get is that Fedora has a new Budgie build of something available called Fedora Onyx Immutable Budgie!. :smile:

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It's amusingly ironic to see Microsoft in the position of trying to adapt to a Linux device for a change. Or it would be if the whole thing weren't DOA---dead on arrival. And it's depressingly ironic to me to think that this article could be used to bring the idea back to life.

Would-be intellectualism aside, fuck Microsoft.

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I don't own a Steam Deck (yet?), but I'm excited by any news like this that indicates that the gaming industry is adapting new and old games to run on it. I'm particularly excited to see game devs and publishers investing in reworking and re-releasing old titles because they want some of that sweet Steam-Deck money. More money for them, more money for Valve, more gaming for the Mighty Tux.

P.S. Could the Deck be used as a controller for another computer? My eyesight's less than it could be, and that little screen .... But as a controller, it has EVERYTHING

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Yay!

When people play a game, we call them Players. When people purposefully break a game in order to harass, bully, and deceive Players, we call them cheaters.

Ban them. Or, iirc, do like GTA-V did and exile them to a special server full of all the other cheaters. Or, my final idea, bury them at the high tide mark and let the crabs have 'em. :grin:

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I never played the game, but I remember watching the classic "Invasion of the Grabber Robots" [External Link] video it spawned, like, twenty years ago. Thanks to this article I went and looked it up again.

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I'm happy for them, those are really incredible numbers. Playing fast and loose with the numbers, at 1% total users, that's like 880 new Linux/Deck users. That's exciting to me. Now if they would just open up the Steam Controller source code ... ;)

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Pretty. Almost hypnotic gameplay. I would die mucho.

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This is the first time I've really ever taken a look at Fanatical, they've got some amazing prices!

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This looks interesting. I watch a few hours of Netflix each evening and a couple movies on Saturdays, it should be simple to add this to the lineup. Not enough time? Pish posh. Watch what I can when I can until I'm done and like that. :)

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TL;DR: I dislike Lutris.

The one design flaw I've found in all these launcher/wine manager projects is that all of Wine's fiddly bits---at best---can be challenging for Wine neophytes like me. I like that Lutris tries to deal with this via "runners," but I've never been able to sort out how to make it do what it's supposed to be doing, always found the overall design of Lutris's user interface too maddeningly inscrutable.

Every time I install it and try to use it, I only get confounded and frustrated and angry and, after an hour or two, I swear at the damn thing---and then...I quit and uninstall it. Again.

Now it could be---though I don't think it is---Lutris's design isn't for Wine neophytes, instead it's for the Wine savvy, and they get it at a glance. I don't know, but for myself, a Wine neophyte, the ways of Lutris are mysterious indeed.

I don't like it, but it's been about a year, so maybe it's all fixed up now.

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Quoting: BloomberyI'm use PortProton

Thanks for mentioning this. I'd never heard of this project before. :)

Quoting: GuestSame. I find port-proton to be the most streamlined option of every app I've discovered so far as it works essentially like in windows where simply double clicking an app launches it but also gives you the power to set launch options (and even parameters in a text file) as you please. Its a very simple to use tool but that is particularly powerful as well. The dev is even working to get rid of dependencies entirely and integrate VR into it so that most VR devices will work out of the box. Highly recommend!

Thanks for discussing the PortProton project [External Link]. I became curious from MercifulBoss's comment, and your comment transformed curiosity into enough interest to go looking. (I'm surprised Liam hasn't already covered it). I'll check it out.

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