Quoting: shanedav4It's still not an install an go to get it working. You have to compile and install a couple dev version libraries to get it working. One is Xwayland. Forget about installing it on anything but the most bleeding edge rolling release distros. I would say it is still very much beta.

470 seems to already be in Debian Testing / Sid. Only a matter of time until it is backported to Bullseye. Pretty sure it doesn't require bleeding edge, just wait for your distribution to package it.

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Quoting: SalvatosWell, we’ve already seen CDs sold in fake books, thumb drives as keychains, and flash drives in credit cards to make them easier to carry and find... I wouldn’t be surprised to see something similar being done for the Deck if it reaches a sufficiently large userbase, if only as a collector item or Kickstarter exclusive. Pretty hard to make an anything-themed microSDXC considering the form factor and the fact you won’t see it while it’s in use, but as a piece you take out of a bigger collector item, it could work.

I imagine the appeal would be bigger for heavy 100 GB+ games in places with slow/capped Internet, though in this day and age the files would already be outdated and require a patch by the time they reach consumers anyway. Besides that, it would just be a more expensive drive to store more games on. GameCube memory cards served a similar function but you could see their stickers while they were plugged in, and on some of them write down the games (saves) within.

I could imagine them being used to sell bundles of smaller Linux-native store-agnostic games, or with accompanying Steam keys, e.g. "20 kid-friendly games for you child’s Deck" or "the complete [insert franchise here] collection on the go", but just typing this makes it sound gimmicky as hell, like those cheap movies and games in cereal boxes back in the day.

Probably. :grin:

In fact, it comes from a video I saw of someone who 3D printed a microsd card holder for his futur Steam Deck... It could hold 20 cards approx... It made me wonder how he could easily identify them if he's got, let's say, 10 cards... Tought about a game/brand logo on each cards...

Personnally, I'll get the 512gb model, so not really an issue for me, anyway. :wink:

Ha, and here I am ordering a 2TB m.2 drive for my main system, as I keep running out of disk space with 1tb of SATA SSD.

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Quoting: slaapliedje

Quoting: Mohandevir

Personally, I'm getting seriously tempted by DEATH STRANDING on Steam as it's 60% off and seems to work well with Steam Play Proton nowadays and it seems it hasn't seen a higher discount yet.

I bought it, couple of minutes ago, before reading this article... :grin:

The Walking Simulator. I bought this on the PS4 back when Sony didn't release PC games. 😜

Every time I think of it, I think of the conversation in Clerks II about Lord of the Rings vs Star Wars...

I heard Death Stranding called a walking simulator so many times, it actually put me off buying/playing it. Then I saw Corben streaming it, and realised that the whole thing was just a joke. Bought it and sank some hours in. Great game.

Ha, it's a sort of joke. I mean you have to balance out your steps and such as you're walking or you fall over... Not sure how it works on the PC, but that's how it was on the PS4.

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I never really had a lot of issues with it not picking the right device as default. Though Discord likes to prompt to change audio device every time I wake up my computer...
But yes, Bluetooth headsets are gatbage under PulseAudio

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Quoting: Mohandevir

Personally, I'm getting seriously tempted by DEATH STRANDING on Steam as it's 60% off and seems to work well with Steam Play Proton nowadays and it seems it hasn't seen a higher discount yet.

I bought it, couple of minutes ago, before reading this article... :grin:

The Walking Simulator. I bought this on the PS4 back when Sony didn't release PC games. 😜

Every time I think of it, I think of the conversation in Clerks II about Lord of the Rings vs Star Wars...

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Quoting: GregZengFinally discovered a website that "puts the fun into Linux". This site allows reader participation much more than other websites.
On this one item, it was surprising to see a comment recommending Pop OS, which is based on Gnome, rather than KDE. However, it was shown by other comments here that most Debian based Linux systems can be converted to KDE.
Another surprise for me was the non mention of the KDE specialist, KDE NEON, rather than Kubuntu. The user of fingerprint readers, or high DPI screens being common the new KDE settings? The flakiness of all these improvements & changes, to whatever is hoped, or claimed? These comments are normal & expected. It should also be mentioned in any worthwhile press release, in my professional opinion.

These improvements are welcome. KDE, Wayland, high DPI, fingerprint reader, Debian preferred, conversion to KDE for non-KDE systems, Nvidia hostility to Linux, etc.

The overall problem within Linux is the lack of these changes being done at the Linux kernel. Eventually these downstream experiences might be moved upstream, into the Linux kernel.

These downstream innovations are temporary & very limited. They were unpredictable & flaky. Similar to the releases of the latest Linux kernel, updated every week or so, with big fixes & improvements.

Both Microsoft & Linux currently rely on massive downstream development. Linux is a small newcomer to the gaming world, but it shows promise, theoretically, with rational & logical design, with its Linux kernel & system structures. This website shows the way to injecting greater usability into Linux, which is only used on a few percent of desktops, at this moment. Hopefully, with excellent website, this will change.

There is a fine line between what should be in the kernel and what should not. Nothing to do with DEs etc should be in the kernel. Your 'kernel' for the DEs is really Wayland and X.org. Sure there are some things that are kernel side, like the DRM (Direct Rendering Manager, not Digital Rights Management). This helps with the hardware acceleration.

There are some scheduler changes you can do to make the kernel support more desktop-like management of tasks and such, though I rarely play at that deep of a level, as my Debian desktop (I prefer Gnome) is very zippy.

It's interesting to watch someone like Linus of LTT try to switch to Linux, and some complaints of window dragging being slow, something I've only really seen on KDE without hardware acceleration, or potentially the right setting. Which brings me to my opinion on the current 'failure' of the Linux Desktop...

This is that Gnome needs a bit more customization, and KDE needs less. There should be some sort of happy middle. KDE Plasma needs a serious clean up of it's settings dialogs. Or as has been suggested in the past, have a Basic / Advanced toggle to hide a ton of the rarer custom choices.

Gnome has seemed from the ground up like they've had some form of consistent 'dream' of where they want to go with the design of it. KDE in many cases feels like the contributors would randomly say "I want to be able to do this" and coded it in without others discussing if it really should have that option. Then over the years (decades) they've shifted and moved and cleaned stuff up, but there is still tons of cruft to go through.

Problem is always, there will be some minority that'll just whine loudest when a feature is changed or removed, so it's almost like dancing on eggshells and trying to find a clean piece of floor to stop for a moment.

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Quoting: slaapliedjeOn FreeBSD 13, if you install it on a system with an Nvidia card, it still defaults to Wayland, but it just crashes when you try to log into KDE (can't remember if Gnome did it too), you have to switch to Xorg then it works fine. Weirdest thing as I'd think sddm wouldn't work as well, but it works fine..

Didn't knew that BSD had wayland too, I remember that the unfortunately side of Wayland was being linux exclusive, nice to know :smile:

You know, I had heard people insist that Gnome was also becoming Linux only because of its tie to systemd, but FreeBSD still has an (almost) current version of Gnome.

I kept wanting to get it set up on some 2008/2009 macbooks someone gave me, but I did not have much luck.

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Quoting: WiseSageBumDoes anyone know about any motion-based locomotion systems—i.e. KAT Walk C, Omni One, etc—that are linux-compatible?
If not, anyone know ways to develop hardware that's compatible with SteamVR/OpenVR that could help do something similar?

Good question, I bought Naturally Walking.. I think that's what it's called, but never have used it...

I found it amusing with the LTT Linux Challenge, Linus mentioned something about switching to Linux, but not on his VR system, as if he thought VR was impossible to play under Linux, and the one game he plays a lot, Beat Saber, is one of the best supported VR games under Linux.

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Quoting: BielFPsAnd I would like to welcome the Nvidia users friends to the wayland side of the force :smile:

I hope now the Linux Mint devs can stop pretending that Wayland is not a thing.

On FreeBSD 13, if you install it on a system with an Nvidia card, it still defaults to Wayland, but it just crashes when you try to log into KDE (can't remember if Gnome did it too), you have to switch to Xorg then it works fine. Weirdest thing as I'd think sddm wouldn't work as well, but it works fine..

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Quoting: fabertaweI wandered into "Mistlands" the other day and had no idea what it was, I'd never heard it mentioned before. I actually didn't wander far in though, the massive cobwebs put me off - until I looked it up! If it's as brutal as the Plains I'll be very cautious exploring, those damn Deathsquitos are a pain when there are multiple of them at once.

I had to take the boat to find Bonemass' summoning skull altar thing and the island it's on has a very thin slice of Black Forest between the Swamp and a Plains Fuling base with four Berserkers and a herd of Lox - oh the fun of leading Trolls in there or running round the swamp until I'm followed by a small army of skeletons and Draugrs and leading those in for a punch up :grin:

Looking forward to more content, to an already fantastic game.

One of our latest sessions involved attacking a Fuling village, and while we were being rushed by about 8 of them (got a little too close while popping up on a rock to plan our attack), we got the 'You are being hunted...' event, so we ran back into the village with an army of wolves chasing us. Still not sure how the three of us managed to not be slain!

Edit: This village was also a quick jog away from a Draugr Village. It was an insane few hours of running around!

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