To be clear, this is not a problem with Linux. Even Windows users are having problems with this launcher, so Valve is going above and beyond for this.

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I updated my controller in Chrome on Kubuntu without any problems. It's not my normal browser, but I figured I'd need it. Google originally sent my Stadia controller to me for free, so it's a pretty good deal that I at least end up with a free controller in the end.

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Just to clarify something, it seems most people don't really know what a boycott is. If you need help understanding, study the Civil Rights Movement in America. A real boycott is well-organized, well-planned and is designed to bring an organization or service to a complete halt. Simply deciding you don't want to support something is not a boycott. It's an individual choice that will have no real-world consequences outside of making you feel better about yourself. And that's not meant to be an insult or to tell you not to do it. It's just reality.

The problem with boycotting a person, especially one who already has more wealth than she can ever spend, is that even if everyone collectively decided not to buy anything from her, it wouldn't hurt her at all. That's why "cancel culture" isn't a real thing, and everyone who has supposedly been "cancelled" is still rich and powerful. The people who speak out against ignorance and bigotry have just as much right to speech as the bigots, and speaking out against them is a far better tool than simply quietly not buying something they might earn some royalties from.

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Quoting: CyborgZeta

Quoting: TiZ

Quoting: CyborgZetaThat's nice and all, but Vulkan on the Dolphin Flatpak has been broken for the past several months. Trying to use Vulkan just brings up a "failed to initialize video backend" and "failed to create Vulkan instance" dialog.

I don't see an issue for this on the Flathub package's issue tracker. [External Link] Any particular reason you haven't filed a report if it has been broken for the past several months?

I don't have a GitHub account, and I know jack about filing bug reports. People typically pull up the output in a terminal or something, yes? I don't know how to do that. All I can tell you is "Uh, it don't work".

There are discussions on Reddit that tell me other people have issues with failing to initialize Vulkan on Dolphin. Though I don't know what hardware or OS they're using. In those cases, it may be a driver issue, but the Flatpak build should be using the latest drivers. No clue.

Vulkan in Dolphin doesn't work on my desktop or my Steam Deck, so I don't think it's a hardware issue.

I just tried it with Vulkan, and it appears to be working on my system. There must be a way to work around whatever issue you're having, although I don't know what that is since I didn't do anything special.

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It's nice to see some more movement on this, as it's been a long time coming for those sticking with the open source Mesa drivers.

What does this mean? Do the proprietary drivers already have ray-tracing support?

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Being able to play a game on your desktop and then pick up where you left off on the Steam Deck is one of its strengths. It makes no sense to take that away. I saw that article and wanted to blast him in the comments, but that site doesn't have a comment section. :grin:

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"So there IS life after death." - Duke Nukem

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Quoting: mahagrI tried. It took forever to load into the game. It crashed after a minute of gameplay. I gave up. I will wait...

Does anyone know how to enable raytracing and DLSS in the game? They were grayed out.

It still crashes immediately for me on my desktop, even with Proton Hotfix enabled.

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Quoting: DrNickI've got three original Steam Controllers as well. Managed to get a friend in the states to pick up two and ship them up to Canuckistan for me. Cost many Kopeks, but it was worth it. One controller is beginning to wear out, so hopefully this means the other two will last until the new revision comes out.

Personally I hope v2 is just the Deck controls without the screen.

I've got two, one for my family room and one for my bedroom. As someone who has hand issues and uses a trackball instead of a mouse, the steam controller has been great for me when it comes to certain games. If it had a right stick and a d-pad, it would've been perfect for every game, so I'm 100% on board for a controller with all the Steam Deck layout.

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Quoting: TermyI don't really get those 95% keyboards - i want full size for a reason, those 1-2 saved centimeters won't hurt me, less keys will though. Especially if we have QMK or other fully customizable solutions like here, where you can remap 'useless' keys.
And i really don't like the 'integrated' arrowkeys either...
Aaand (just to keep on rambling ;) ) i really got to love the knob on my Q6, so that is a sadly missing thing, too. ^^

Other than that: the more open keyboards, the better! And size matters, so go for everything countering that stupid TKL-Trend ;P

That's what I was thinking, albeit with fewer words. 😆 It's close but still not a full size keyboard.

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