Quoting: PublicNuisanceLike others this is a hard pass for me. I refuse to bend the knee to PSN, Microsoft accounts, Uplay, EA, or any other account linking. I barely even buy from Steam these days. Plenty of games on GOG and Itch.io that interest me.

There are Sony released games on GOG (God of War, Days Gone, etc), but I am guessing that will stop now due to Sony forcing their secondary PSN account for DRM on PC games going forward. For a single player game, this makes no sense to force PSN and it should always be optional for multiplayer games.

I think this really screwed Sony over with Helldivers 2 and started its downfall when it locked out international players. Sony is just another greedy company who wants to inflate their PSN numbers to meet some shareholder nonsense.

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Couple of things to digest here. The switch from SteamOS to Windows does suck and I'm sure Microsoft had a hand in it. I have a feeling that they are currently "tolerating" gaming on Linux since the market share is so low. If Linux market share were to go up, you would guarantee that Microsoft would go out of their way to stop the growth.

In China, they do have Kylin and Ubuntu Kylin as options. You would think that China would want their population to use a CCP sanctioned operating system vs the western based Windows. Many of these communist countries would love to remove their dependence on the west so they could have shipped a Kylin based OS for their Chinese customers and still use SteamOS or a custom Ubuntu for western.

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Capcom should have gone after the streamer instead of punishing paid consumers. Just shows how old fashioned and out of touch most Japanese businesses are.

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Quoting: sonic2kkShould be noted that this not only comes pre-installed on SteamOS but that it powers a lot of the Steam Deck's Game Mode performance behind-the-scenes!

So adding gamemoderun isn’t necessary in the launch options for a game? Or should we still add it?

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Quoting: RenardDesMersI was shopping for a new monitor for black Friday and was debating with myself about how useful would HDR and Freesync features be since Wayland can't support those yet and I don't really know when they'll get decent support.
Hopefully the wayland folks remember about the gamers when prioritizing the missing features.

KDE Plasma 5.27 has support for Adaptive Sync in the Display options. KDE 6 should also bring in HDR support.

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Hopefully D8VK can get some serious testing and gets merged upstream.

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Quoting: PyreticWhile I like the Gyro options, I wonder why they're working on it so much. I suppose they're trying to encourage developers to take a swing at it using Steam Input.

With the recent interest in gyro and improving the SteamVR experience, maybe we get that dedicated VR headset soon? 🤔

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Quoting: GuestI saw a couple of youtube videos about the game when it came out.
It looked interesting.
Went to buy it and found out it was Windows only.
Moved on and didn't look back.

So you won't play any non native games even if Proton works well? Sometimes the Windows versions running in Proton are better than native as the native ports tend to be abandoned and locked to old libraries.

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I'm looking forward to enabling ray tracing by default without having to add these flags on AMD:

RADV_PERFTEST=rt VKD3D_CONFIG=dxr VKD3D_FEATURE_LEVEL=12_2 

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Quoting: staywithmeWarning, installing this version brought with it some strange bug that prevents Steam from closing properly for me. Removing it as the preferred runtime in favor of Proton Experimental solved the issue.

I used to use GE more, but I’ve found Experimental has worked fine for me recently. I don’t know how much QA he does, but sometimes his releases are followed with another that says “oops forgot something”

That’s why I don’t use Nobara. Plus it’s based on Fedora which is part of icky IBM/Red Hat.

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