Hopefully they fixed the cross-platform cloud save.

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Quoting: Whitewolfe80

Quoting: slaapliedjeThanks GOG for not support cloud slaves on Linux. Keeping up the impression that it is barely supported by you...

You would think by how much they are hurting lately, that they'd want to try to support as many platforms as possible for the 'easy' releases (ones that have Linux native support in parity with what Steam has). Hell, especially the DOSBox ones, those are just randomly 'not for Linux'. One would think it'd be fairly straight forward to create an auto-build system that just packages up any DOSBox game into a nice Linux installer.

Is it not still a licensing thing they have the right to sell for Windows but haven't stumped up the cash to have the Linux licence. Or perhaps the publisher has said that's a hard no for Linux. Either way in my eyes gog gave up on Linux long long ago

Who knows. I do find it amusing that the game cracks of old that so many were afraid were malware are basically likely the same cracks that GOG uses to make these games playable via DOSBox.

I also find it surprising that Wine is now capable of using some of those same copy protection schemes that some thought would never work. There very much used to be a time when NoCD cracks were required for Wine to work, but I have had games from the raw disc install work fine, but only after mounting it.

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Quoting: LightkeySo I just learned the other day that Elon Musk was removed as CEO of PayPal [External Link] because he tried to move the infrastructure from Unix to Windows. Guess he learned his lesson. :wink:

That is hilarious. Sadly that is basically what happened to Hotmail after MS bought them. Moved all their stuff from FreeBSD to Windows, and like the majority of all things bought by Microsoft, it turned shitty.

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Quoting: slaapliedjeThanks GOG for not support cloud slaves on Linux

Oh, wait... I don't think you meant that in the way it was written... I was about to agree... well, I guess I still do. Down with slavery, everywhere!

Other than that, maybe it isn't that bad... I mean there are now several open launchers instead of one proprietary one. That has to be positive, right?
No, seriously. I like having the choice of manually downloading, archiving, and installing my games. I usually don't have that choice with Steam, unless the devs go out of their way to make sure their games run without Steam.

And while I don't actually know, likely one also doesn't have that choice with any of the other stores (Epic, Ubisoft, etc.?)

We should all have cloud slaves. How else are going to get over this drought?

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I want to say this game is NOT a Souls-Like. Because I can actually play this game and not get so frustrated with it that I want to do the ol' bag of crap on fire on From Software's doorstep. 😜

(Please note I am being a bit overboard, I am far too lazy for such things.)

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Quoting: LordDaveTheKind

Quoting: 1xokThe Switch currently has currently 4404 games, see:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nintendo_Switch_games [External Link]

Where will the Steam Deck be after 5 years?

There could be surely more working games than any major console currently in the market, but people has to verify also very unknown games. Unfortunately there are around 64k games in the Steam store, and the ProtonDB website has shown that around 70% of the recorded games have a silver (or better) rating. Ideally, if we assume that that percentage is evenly distributed along all games, we could reach around 45k games supported on Linux/Steam Deck.

I mean how many of those games are the kind that are asset flip trash? There's a decent percentage of those...

There are definitely types of games that just won't fit smoothly with controller + touch screen as the only input. And some that are just plain going to be more playable with mouse / keyboard.

But even if only a 5th or a 3rd of Steam games get full Deck support, it'll be one of the largest game libraries ever. Not to mention all the emulation potential!

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Thanks GOG for not support cloud slaves on Linux. Keeping up the impression that it is barely supported by you...

You would think by how much they are hurting lately, that they'd want to try to support as many platforms as possible for the 'easy' releases (ones that have Linux native support in parity with what Steam has). Hell, especially the DOSBox ones, those are just randomly 'not for Linux'. One would think it'd be fairly straight forward to create an auto-build system that just packages up any DOSBox game into a nice Linux installer.

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What would be nice is a 4th category. Keyboard Required. Like a game that runs perfectly fine, but needs a keyboard to play it.

I should attempt to set up a portable setup to play the Gold Box games....

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Quoting: STiATI'm using Nvidia and decided I will just buy it once it's confirmed running. I have no doubts it will, most games running on deck do actually run on Nvidia.

And seriously, playing a cat in a survival game? Couldn't be a cooler setting. An almost perfect hunter with night vision in a survival game...

I mean the feline is the world's greatest murderer.

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Quoting: EWG

Quoting: eldakingalso competing with phones/tablets

I would never seriously play games on a phone. I much prefer having separate devices that are good at doing their own thing. i.e. phone for communication (SIP, XMPP, Matrix, E-mail,...), gaming console for games, something else with a good DAC for music, eBook for reading, desktop for srsbns. etc. All running GNU+Linux of some variant of course. :wink:

Quoting: ElamanOpiskelijawhat is this device offering that is so important, that a small laptop cannot? What is the use case?

It's the built-in gamepads/buttons/sticks and the form factor. Also, perhaps a different mindset when it comes to expectations for the device. It's designed to play games first and foremost, everything else it does is just a bonus.

Quoting: eldakingI'm looking more for the equivalent of chromebooks for this form factor than for the equivalents of Alienware.

You probably want something single board computer (SBC) based like a Raspberry Pi retro gaming device. RP4 can run Ubuntu MATE fine but I'm not sure what kind of games it could play because it's aarch64 / arm64 rather than x86_64.
reviews: https://retrododo.com/best-retro-handhelds/ [External Link]
DIY book: https://www.pishop.us/product/retro-gaming-with-raspberry-pi/ [External Link]
OS: https://www.lakka.tv/ [External Link]
Otherwise, perhaps some Intel or AMD based 2-in-1 that runs GNU+Linux. Garuda Linux KDE Dra460ized Gaming Edition [External Link] is an Arch based distro, like SteamOS is, that ships with a bunch of game related software.
There are plenty of controllers that can expand one way or another to hold a tablet. I wish the Madcatz L.Y.N.X. 9 [External Link] still existed. Maybe if we send them enough e-mails. lol.

Oh, and https://itch.io/ [External Link] has plenty of Linux, Android, HTML, and web based games available. Many are from small indie devs and don't require the horsepower of an army. They're also less expensive and the site has great deals/bundles regularly.

Quoting: Leprotto

Quoting: CatKillerNot all of them: the GPD boss went on a public rant about how the Deck was terrible because it couldn't run pirated games. I think he was feeling rather threatened by it.

I'm quite sure i can run pirated games on Linux, so why i couldn't on the deck?

I'd be wary but, if Steam is running in a sandboxed flatpak that only has permissions to read certain directories then it should be fine because the Steam client should not be able to read the separate directory that has questionable game files. Or, simply multiboot.

These "questionable game files" could simply be backups, purchased elsewhere, or bought by somebody else that the device is shared with. :) Or, these days, even cached data from some archive or streaming service...

addendum:
I wonder what the possibility & potential of all these small game ODMs getting together to form a co-op organization to increase their buying power with OEMs. Like, if they had one buying account they pooled their money into but negotiated to still have at least slightly different components.

In niches like this, I think cooperation rather than cut-throat annihilation would be the best for everyone. And, I certainly don't mean buy-outs and mergers because that often leaves the consumer in the dust. Competition and innovation are good. Choices are good and I'd rather not see any company fail that doesn't deserve it for being, in short, "evil".

Yeah, I hate playing games on my phone. Honestly if my phone was a simple browser / email / phone / text thing, I'd probably be happier with it, and the battery would likely last a lot longer throughout the day. There are occasions when I need something else, but then many times I end up just pulling out a laptop or tablet so I can actually read stuff in non-mobile internet mode... Maybe I'm just getting older and crankier and don't need all the extra crap that just gets in my way :P

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