Quoting: Salvatos

Quoting: slaapliedjeHa, some are complaining about the minimum. I spent enough that they said they had to personally verify it... and I basically have probably 80-90% of the games already.

Ha! Peasants, am I right? I paid so much they named an orphanage after me... and I don’t even play video games.

:sick:

ha, I want an orphanage named after me. Kidding, if I'm going to donate, I do it anonymously. Which brings up the people who are putting their names on there and donating lots of cash. I mean won't they get on Russia's 'list'?

Such weird times we live in...

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Quoting: FinixFighter

Quoting: dpanterStill wondering when the Mint team has had enough of Canonicals canonicalisms and instead adopt LMDE as the real/only Linux Mint version. To name just one example, LMDE packages Chromium now since Canonicals betrayal with the snap-deb.

I completely agree with you!! I didn't switch to LMDE just because I like a lot MATE environment, but it's not available for LMDE (and I don't like to install it over, I prefer to have a "clean install").

Easy way around that... just install Debian with a clean MATE.

It's interesting to think that the split was with Gnome-Shell, one went with the Gnome 2 / GTK2 and one with with Gnome 2 / GTK3 (I can't ever remember which is which between MATE and Cinnamon). But now aren't they both moving (eventually) to GTK4? Pretty sure they're both GTK3 now. But they still have a different 'feel' to each other as they seem to favor one set up or the other.

(for note, I just stuck with gnome).

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I didn't even think Postal 4: No Regerts was playable at all yet. :P

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Quoting: F.Ultra

Quoting: slaapliedjeI have a theory; Xbox as a hardware platform is going to be dead.

There is no need for it, really. It's already basically a stripped down Windows, from my understanding.

I believe Xbox Game Pass first came to be available on Linux via the Atari VCS. If MS is branching out and allowing that to be a thing... But it isn't like you can easily find a new Xbox (or PS5 for that matter) these days. They took away the dev mode from the Xbox users, so you can't use them as retro boxes anymore, which is a shame.

But why not ditch the hardware altogether next time a refresh is needed, when they can just sell games through Windows Store / Xbox Game Pass / Edge Browser, etc.

Streaming games isn't going to be anything I'll sign up for anytime soon. As it is, even using some games (especially mostly or all Online games) on Steam is bad enough. Too many constant updates that are huge. If my ISP decides to take a vacation, like it randomly does, that means I can't play anything. Not to mention the 'oh, I'll just play this for 30 minutes while I'm waiting for something...' is no longer available, as I'll boot up the computer, start Steam, and there is an update that takes 20min...

Ha, sorry, turned into a rant about modern gaming... I should just play on my MiSTer more...

Because you can buy a Xbox X for a lot less that you have to pay for a gaming PC, so you buy a relative cheap console for your kids and you keep a non-game compatible PC as your home Internet-browser / work-from-home computer. Have zero figures to draw from here but I wouldn't be surprised if the average Xbox owner is not like the people who roam around this site with a powerful gaming capable pc.

Yes with the Xbox Cloud you no longer need a powerful pc to play those games so you have a point there, but then you have to give up your pc for the kids AND pay for decent Internet that also competes on bandwidth for your Netflix and YouTube viewing. Not to mention how much easier it is to just throw a console at the kids and not have to worry about viruses, kids viewing whatever on the net and so on.

Not saying that the above is you or me but there are a lot of normies out there. But I do think that you are correct in that MS is going to try to move in that direction, I just don't think that they will do that until they are sure that Sony and Nintendo won't take over the market once they have left it.

The problem is all your bandwidth is still taken by downloading games. Even if you're buying physical copies, the patches these days are larger than the games of yesteryear. I live alone, and still am irritated when Steam is downloading something and taking all of the bandwidth, so Netflix/Amazon Prime that I'm usually watching while the game/patch installs is either degraded, or constantly stopping to buffer (this doesn't happen in Linux, but only when I'm using Windows for some unknown reason... I'll blame it on the network stack).

Modern gaming is both awesome, and a curse at times! Which is why I just received a boxed copy of Rogue64 for the C64/C128. :P

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As of right now it's at 5.7 million! Very nice!

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Quoting: syxbit

Quoting: fenglengshunKinda wanted to donate at first, then I saw that starting amount is $40 and it has less everything in terms of quantity and things that interest me compared to itch's, which I've already paid for. Much as I want to donate, I'll have to skip - that minimal amount is too much for me and even if I earmarked next month's discretionary spending, I can't really justify it with that kind of contents (mainly because itch's was just much better).

They really are a shell of their former self at this point. Even with this big of a bundle and for 100% charity, it's just... mediocre for what they're asking.

1, it's for charity, and 2, even if the games are worse, many would prefer steam keys.
I get my Steam Deck on Monday, so the steam keys are worth far more than any other PC key or even DRM-free download.

Jealous! Mine is slotted in the Q2 range.

Ha, some are complaining about the minimum. I spent enough that they said they had to personally verify it... and I basically have probably 80-90% of the games already.

I also already got the itch.io bundle. But the quality of games on there are quite a bit lower than the ones on the humble bundle. A lot were random RPGs, I'll have to trudge through those to see if any are good at some point.

But most importantly, this is for helping people out!

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Quoting: MasterSleortNot long ago, Google and YouTube would think you meant "Stream Deck" when you searched for "Steam Deck", now I can imagine it being the opposite. At least Google does not suggest "Stream Deck" to me anymore.

I haven't used Google for more than a decade now. So much happier using DDG.

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Quoting: a0kami

I heard you like decks so we put a Stream Deck on your Steam Deck.

Ha, wait until you also then add in the Steam Dock for Deck....

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I have a theory; Xbox as a hardware platform is going to be dead.

There is no need for it, really. It's already basically a stripped down Windows, from my understanding.

I believe Xbox Game Pass first came to be available on Linux via the Atari VCS. If MS is branching out and allowing that to be a thing... But it isn't like you can easily find a new Xbox (or PS5 for that matter) these days. They took away the dev mode from the Xbox users, so you can't use them as retro boxes anymore, which is a shame.

But why not ditch the hardware altogether next time a refresh is needed, when they can just sell games through Windows Store / Xbox Game Pass / Edge Browser, etc.

Streaming games isn't going to be anything I'll sign up for anytime soon. As it is, even using some games (especially mostly or all Online games) on Steam is bad enough. Too many constant updates that are huge. If my ISP decides to take a vacation, like it randomly does, that means I can't play anything. Not to mention the 'oh, I'll just play this for 30 minutes while I'm waiting for something...' is no longer available, as I'll boot up the computer, start Steam, and there is an update that takes 20min...

Ha, sorry, turned into a rant about modern gaming... I should just play on my MiSTer more...

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Now we need Atari to announce Steam for the VCS! Steam on all the things!!!

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