It already sounds to me like a better Portal 2 than Portal 2 was. :)

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Quoting: NanobangAfter reading through the Best Linux ditros for gaming article of a couple days ago, I decided it was time to begin a distro-hop and began downloading several potential Xubuntu replacements.

The first of these was Linux Mint XFCE because it keeps me close to the Debian derived Ubuntu I've grown accustomed to over the years while ridding me of Canonical's Microsoft-like "We know best" policy of forcing Snaps down everyone's throats.

The others, incidentally, are Manjaro and EndeavorOS (both XFCE); PopOS (I was really impressed with their hotkeys, window tiling, and focus on gaming); and KDE Neon because, well, I want to like KDE.

I expect it'll end up being Mint XFCE in the end, though. :)

If you still have some time for distro hop, do give a try with Fedora too. As far as gaming and work goes, with an Nvidia card, it has been a very nice experience for me. I come from Arch btw.

Y'know, Fedora used to be a regular part of my distro-hopping, and now I don't remember why I stopped including it. Okay, you've convinced me to give it a look again. Thanks!

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After reading through the Best Linux ditros for gaming article of a couple days ago, I decided it was time to begin a distro-hop and began downloading several potential Xubuntu replacements.

The first of these was Linux Mint XFCE because it keeps me close to the Debian derived Ubuntu I've grown accustomed to over the years while ridding me of Canonical's Microsoft-like "We know best" policy of forcing Snaps down everyone's throats.

The others, incidentally, are Manjaro and EndeavorOS (both XFCE); PopOS (I was really impressed with their hotkeys, window tiling, and focus on gaming); and KDE Neon because, well, I want to like KDE.

I expect it'll end up being Mint XFCE in the end, though. :)

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I love that they've released it as an appimage! I wish more games did that.

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Though I've been using some flavor of Ubuntu pretty much non-stop since 2008 (with the occasional forays into Mint and once into Manjaro), I think our time together is rapidly drawing to a close. More and more weird little things have been breaking in my 20.04 install that ... well, let's just say I've spent too much time working around problems that simply shouldn't be.

I can no longer recommend Ubuntu in good conscience. It's just become too sketchy in its construction and function. It won't be the first time I jumped the Ubuntu ship while Canonical sorted itself out, but it might be the last, since I don't see them pressing hard to create a quality desktop experience in the near future.

In the meantime I'll be revisiting Mint and Manjaro in the coming months (both with an XFCE desktop, of course). Mint for the de-canonicalized Ubuntu experience and Manjaro because I liked everything about it until something broke my Steam Controller on game-night. I really only left Manjaro because it felt just a little too under-cooked at the time I tried it (though I really loved pacman).

For the new gaming user? I'd probably recommend Mint Mate for a familiar, stable, straight-forward experience.

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Quoting: SpirimintOh wow, with the new Version finally its working. But it has way less options as the steamoverlay. Will be hard to setup a game with not all of these options :whistle: I got so used to use one button for different actions and also using the action layers etc.

tl;dr I'm an SC-Controller fanboy. :woot:

SCC may have fewer options than Steam's client, or it may not. I don't honestly know, but I think SCC may have more. A lot of what you see in Steam's UI is available in SCC, but you might have to do it differently. In many ways, Steam's UI is to Kozec's SC-Controller as Windows is to Linux: the first (Steam's) is simpler but is less customizable, fewer granular choices, and the second (Kozec's) is way more choices, but isn't as dumbed-down.

For example, the Activators in Steam's UI (Regular, hold, start press, etc.) are easily done in SCC, but are set-up in either mode-shift or macros. Action sets are done just by making another profile, otherwise it's the same, it's just that SCC doesn't keep track of that in the UI.

But SCC lets me do so many things Steam's client can't. In Steam an input can only have one mode shift. In SCC I can add as many mode-shifts to a button as I want: Press 'A' and pull the trigger, one thing happens; press 'B' and pull the same trigger, something else happens. Mode-shift combinations on the SCC are exponentially greater than Steam's UI. That alone would be enough for me to count SCC the better of the two.

Rings on pads are more configurable, so that more than just buttons can be placed in the rings. I'll give you an example based on my own basic Payday 2 SCC profile. Normally the Rpad is a trackball mouse to control a camera. On top of this I add a mode-shift so that when I click the RPad it becomes a DPad where LEFT is reload, UP is change weapon, DOWN is drop weapon, RIGHT is flashlight, and center is grenade. All that is doable in Steam's client, but with SCC I've added more. To more easily interact with Payday's menus, I added a mode shift so when I press the back button the very edge of the Rpad becomes a circular trackpad mouse-wheel and the center becomes an Arrow Dpad.

Once again, an open source solution outshines a proprietary one.

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Quoting: CatKiller

One major issue is with most modern Linux distributions moving to a major Python update, which broke SC Controller. Thankfully, as of the v0.4.8 release that's not so much a problem with the AppImage now working on Ubuntu 20.04 and comparable distributions.

Python 3 has been out for 12 years, and Python 2 has been EOL for a year already. Containerisation is useful in its own right, but using it to limp along with a dead Python version doesn't seem like a great plan for something that's under active development.

The problems created in the move from Python 2 to Python 3 seem to be one of the reasons Kozec is porting SCC over to C, and that's why he's not focused on creating a Python 3 port too. However, as Akien stated above, there is a functional Python 3 port of SCC [External Link]available now thanks to the Community!

Quoting: NoSTDoes anyone know if it works with Stadia or GeForce NOW?

Liam would be able to say for sure regarding Stadia, but I'm going to say that it very probably does. SC-Controller (SCC) operates independently of game clients and games and can tell those games that whatever the Steam Controller input is, it's an input the game is expecting. Since SCC is available as an Appimage [External Link], it's nothing to download and tryout with Stadia, etc. Give it a try!

P.S. Full disclosure, I'm an SCC Patreon supporter from way back. If you like (or more likely love) Kozec's SC-Controller [External Link] project and (like me) can't code or figure out Github, please consider financially contributing whatever you can.

You can support him at Liberapay [External Link], thru Patreon [External Link] (like me), or directly via a donation at Paypal [External Link].

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Wow.

I haven't seen a native-Linux-market-share kerfuffle like this in a couple years --- at least not since I stopped going to /r/linux_gaming with any regularity (although, due props to Liam, here it is all much more civil and cordial). I find it ... weirdly comforting, seeing all the players are still on the board and in play. It's also interesting to see the effect streaming services (Stadia, et al) are having on this old chestnut.

As far as Cyberpunk 2077 goes, I don't see what all the fuss is about, particularly. I'll just buy it like I buy so many other games nowadays: on sale. And since CDPR earned my ongoing resentment and ire (no Linux Galaxy client, reneging on a Witcher III Linux port, etc.) I'll buy it when it is deeply on sale, probably several years from now. It'll probably run flawlessly under proton then. On hardware that's a couple generations old. That I'll buy on sale.

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Y'know, I dismissed Last Epoch when I first heard about it. "Time travel? Phhhtt, please," I thought, "Dr. Who in a dungeon." But now that I go and look at it again, and look at it more closely, I can see I was so, so wrong to dismiss it like I did. The "time travel" looks like it could be called "dimensional shift" or "alternate reality" for all that it matters --- and that's great! It looks awesome, so it's goin' on the wishlist at last! Thanks Liam.

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It's always sad to hear about a longtime vendor, in any field, falls by the wayside, even when I've never even heard of that vendor. A moment of silence, then, for a fallen Community business ...

(...)

It's almost inevitable that small boutique start-ups will be swept aside by bigger, more powerful players enter their market. But bigger players only ever entering the market because they smell money. So, while it saddens me to see Zareason slip into history, I'm heartened for the future of Linux by the presence of Dell, Lenovo, and System 76. It says to me that Linux is hearty and healthy and spreading.

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