Quoting: Creak@skinnyraf Have you tried it with Steam Play? It seems ok-ish: https://www.protondb.com/app/24010 [External Link] (maybe less a hassle than rebooting on Windows)

We're off-topic a little, but well :)

Yes, it works well, but requires some workarounds which are cumbersome considering the amount of DLC I have (100+ GB), third party add-ons and workshop items. Not only it means almost doubling space used by the game (it can be freed after installation with another workaround), but it has to be repeated after each update of the game or DLC (and would double occupied space again). Considering the workarounds require use of command line, and I am playing games on SteamOS, it's just less hassle to continue dual booting.

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Quoting: WJMazepas

Quoting: 14You guys talking about 200-500 hours in the game and now you're bored... that sounds quite satisfactory to me.:O But, different strokes for different folks I suppose. I like to move on after a while.

This reminds of when i see a review on Steam about someone who played more than 2000 hours of a game giving a negative review.

Not the case here, but reminded me of that

It's quite typical for Train Simulator, but for other simulator games with tonnes of DLC too. Many such reviews focus on long outstanding bugs or failed promises from the developer/publisher, rather than the actual quality of the game.

Train Simulator itself pisses me off and yet I have played it for 1200 hours, and it is the only reason I boot into Windows these days.

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So, we have game-specific (well, even game-under-Proton/DXVK-specific) fixes and tweaks in proprietary drivers for Linux.
Strange times :)

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Transport Fever. I returned to it after the Thank You patch and I finally grasped the mechanics. It proved to be even more fun than I remembered.
Mad Max. Yes, backlog. Warner Bros games are great. They truly capture the cinematic feel you'd expect from a movie studio.
Finally, Far Cry 1 via Proton. Works great on Debian and Neon. Doesn't work on SteamOS though.
Ah, yes. After 18 years I moved from Debian to KDE Neon, Ubuntu-based. Some games require glibc newer than the current Debian stable and I'm too old to run testing.

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyFor a while it seemed like cyberpunk went away, but it really seems to be making a comeback lately--particularly today though.
This looks pretty interesting.

Yes, it is interesting. Consider recent advances of gene splicing, bionics/prosthetics, VR, robotics and AI. Consider corporations becoming more and more powerful, all-knowing about our life and filtering how we perceive the world. Consider ever increasing inequality between the rich (who become more and more like Tessier-Ashpools) and the poor - especially the working poor, trying to survive from one gig to another in the emerging "gig economy". Finally, almost everyone has always-on access to the internet and we can follow lives of celebrities 24/7.

Functionally, cyberpunk today would be just a realistic genre, think GTA with more accents on technology. Instead, cyberpunk is all about aesthetics: neon lights, chrome, bright colours, over-sized guns, body modifications, whining antique prosthetics and music. And it's this aesthetics that sees a revival, more than the underlying social themes of cyberpunk.

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Quoting: Comandante ÑoñardoI agree with the technical definition.
But "Indie" is also used for low budget.

But then Grow Home from Ubisoft is also indie :) it even ticks other boxes like being simple, innovative and runs on Linux :)

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Quoting: GuestDebian testing xfce [External Link] is far less full blown than SteamOS, Debian testing Xfce fits to a cd-rom disk and it is a stable and compatible rolling release OS.

You're missing the point. It's not about the installed size. It's about tweaks to make it a keyboard-free experience: steamcompmgr, unattended upgrades, restore scripts, sane Pulseaudio configuration.
A part of it is a rock-solid foundation. The expectation is that if something went wrong, restore scripts should be able to fix it, without users assistance, and that issues basically don't happen. Testing is ok for regular computing, but not for console-like experience.

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Quoting: GuestWhen I tested SteamOS a couple years ago the Debian part of it was very stripped down and non usable for daily computing. Debian derivatives are a waste of human resources and point release software too.

But you know that SteamOS is not meant for daily computing, don't you? It's like complaining you cannot fit your family and luggage in a golf cart and drive for holidays. Maintaining a full-blown Debian installation just for gaming is a waste of time.
My three years old Steam Machine sits in a living room. I connected a keyboard to it like 10-15 times over these three years, just to tinker with it, but it would be just as usable only with a Steam Controller. And I have a dedicated PC running Debian for general computing.

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Transport Fever mainly. I'm at 90 hours and finally started to grip it. My cities, towns and industries grew so that neither truck transport or point-to-point train transport work anymore, do I built my first true cargo hub.
Other than that it's Far Cry 1 via Proton, trying to get Paladins to run under Proton and perhaps some CS:GO with my son. He'd rather play Fortnite with me, but my primary machine is Linux-only, so no luck.

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Two gripes:
This method didn't work on my Steam Machine. For some reason, X is set up in a way that prevents launching Steam Client via su. Normally, I'd investigate, but because it was a one-off, I went for a brute-force approach of xhost +localhost.
The second issue: several games flatly refused to launch or misbehaved, while they work perfectly on Debian Stretch (not a bleeding edge distro either) with fairly recent nvidia drivers from experimental. Dark Souls II is one example: doesn't launch on SteamOS, works perfectly in Debian. FarCry (the first one) has severe mouse issues on SteamOS, works perfectly on Debian (well, the mouse doesn't work in Steam Overlay even on Debian, but the game itself runs flawlessly).

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