Quoting: Guest

Quoting: Mountain Man

Quoting: GuestThis update has completely broken desktop mode for me, meaning I'll have to do another reimage of SteamOS to fix it.

It's getting ridiculous how many times updates break something on the Deck.

One day, Valve might actually hold back an update until all the bugs are ironed out.

To be fair, you did install a beta build. When you select the beta channel in Steam settings, it even warns you to expect bugs. If you don't want to risk an update breaking things, then stick with stable.

I'm actually on the Stable branch and hadn't updated since November.
It doesn't matter what branch we use,SteamOS is broken and buggy.

Surely that's an exaggeration. I've been using Steam for nearly two decades, and it is far from being "broken and buggy".

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Quoting: GuestThis update has completely broken desktop mode for me, meaning I'll have to do another reimage of SteamOS to fix it.

It's getting ridiculous how many times updates break something on the Deck.

One day, Valve might actually hold back an update until all the bugs are ironed out.

To be fair, you did install a beta build. When you select the beta channel in Steam settings, it even warns you to expect bugs. If you don't want to risk an update breaking things, then stick with stable.

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Another amazing flight simulator from Laminar Research. They are somehow able to repeatedly raise the bar with every release. Microsoft Flight Simulator might arguably have prettier ground textures, but X-Plane is vastly superior in literally every other way, especially the physics and flight modeling, which is by far the most important part in a flight simulator.

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What does Valve have against single player?

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I still rate the Steam Controller as the best controller ever make, and I would love to see an update.

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I remember when Unreal Tournament 2004 was released with a picture of Tux in the list of supported operating systems. For some time, UT2004 was the game to play on Linux.

Ah, the good ol' days.

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Quoting: tfkOn YouTube 90 percent of the comments seem to be in vavour of the acquisition... weird but true.

YouTube is full of paid shills.

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Pretty ballsy. I wonder if Firaxis is going to protest?

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Quoting: WorMzyI got gifted a copy by an ex-coworker who knows how much I love Dwarf Fortress. I'm playing the tutorial for shits and giggles and while I know it's really dumbed down for newbies, it seems a little too dumbed down. Maybe the help guides fill in the gaps, but there's no explanation of how to "prepare carefully", how to manage dwarf labours, how to check your stockpiles, how the health/military systems work, how to raise, butcher and process animals and use their by-products, how and why to avoid carp*, how to create and manage burrows, the importance of booze, etc.

Yeah, finished the tutorial, and was like, "Now what?"

Looks like I have some reading to.

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[quote=mattaraxia][quote=Mountain Man]

Quoting: mattaraxia

Quoting: TuxeeI have yet to understand the usefulness of lighting with opaque keycaps...

(Apart from that I wouldn't like the cursor keys arrangement and the lack of a proper ins/del/home/end/pgup/pgdown block.)

Quoting: Mountain Man

Quoting: mattaraxia

Quoting: TuxeeI have yet to understand the usefulness of lighting with opaque keycaps...

(Apart from that I wouldn't like the cursor keys arrangement and the lack of a proper ins/del/home/end/pgup/pgdown block.)

It's actually really great. When you hit either function key to activate another layer, just the keys active in that layer light up, with a different color for each layer.

(I have the first gen launch, and love it so much I registered just to answer that question.)

The complaint is not about the RGB lightning but that the keycaps are not shine through, so you can't see the legends in the dark. The key caps also appear to be a non-standard size, so you can't replace them with something off the shelf.

No I get that, that's the point. I'm not sure how to put this that doesn't sound a bit snarky, but I thought it was implied -- people who need to see the keys to type aren't exactly this keyboard's target audience. I interpreted Tuxee's point as, given that, why bother with lighting?

It's a really niche device. It's ok if it's not for you. I can hit the key I want just as well blindfolded (it does have old school little ridges to help you find the home row) but it is sometimes nice to visually see what layer I'm on.

There are reasons to look at a keyboard other than not being a proficient typist.

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