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You can get Shadow of Mordor, Shadow of War and more in this bundle
27 Aug 2022 at 3:12 pm UTC

The last time I played The Hobbit the fishing mechanic didn't work. I'll have to give it another go.

iFixit have the Steam Deck Fan in stock if you're in the U.S.
18 Jul 2022 at 12:57 pm UTC

The warning in the Valve teardown video of "here is is how you open it, now never do it" would give me pause unless the whining drove me absolutely nuts.

13 years ago we appeared online, Happy Birthday to GamingOnLinux
5 Jul 2022 at 1:01 pm UTC Likes: 3

Now that GoL is a teenager should we expect a lot of moodiness and rolling of eyes?

This Steam Deck Durability Test had me watching in horror
17 May 2022 at 5:27 pm UTC Likes: 1

I suppose at least some of the parts are replaceable but I don't know what the purpose of scratching everywhere was. It's obviously all the same material (e.g. he could have just scored the back and made his point). Knowing that the buttons won't wear out and that some are covered with stickers is actually useful information, but defacing it and making instant e-waste seemed pointless.

Proton Experimental bumps minimum driver version, more playable on Linux and Steam Deck
13 May 2022 at 1:18 pm UTC Likes: 4

The NVIDIA driver requirement I think only applies to DX12 games and it's because vkd3d-proton now requires the VK_KHR_maintenance4 extension which was added in the 510.47.03 driver.

https://github.com/HansKristian-Work/vkd3d-proton/commit/beb58f8472047c1c632616f0aab8065300187ba9 [External Link]

Fedora Linux 36 is officially out now
11 May 2022 at 12:14 pm UTC

Quoting: slaapliedjeI meant being able to upgrade from RHEL 7 to 8, like you can go from Fedora 30, to 36..
Fair point. There is limited support to upgrade 7 to 8. I know there are some packages/products, IPA server for one, that cannot be upgraded this way. IIRC RHEL 7 was based on Fedora 19 and RHEL 8 on F28. That's quite a leap in a single upgrade.

https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/8/html-single/upgrading_from_rhel_7_to_rhel_8/index [External Link]

Fedora Linux 36 is officially out now
11 May 2022 at 12:09 am UTC

Quoting: slaapliedjeSure would be splendid if Fedora's upgrade actually would carry into RHEL and RHEL based distributions...
I'm sure it would be a nightmare. Depending on what release of RHEL you migrate to most packages would be a downgrade (by version at least, if not functionality).

But if you're game you could try https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/introduction-convert2rhel-now-officially-supported-convert-rhel-systems-rhel [External Link]

I don't know if it would work but since it's just rpms who knows. RHEL 9 was released today and is the most likely to work IMHO.

Classic Bethesda titles come to Steam, play them easily on Linux
27 Apr 2022 at 3:50 pm UTC Likes: 2

Quoting: slaapliedjeHuh, is it the native version of Enemy Territory? I still have my physical copy of Quake Wars sitting on my shelf. ET was kind of a game that started a genre and doesn't get the credit it deserves!
Not by default but it's easy to enable in Steam using ProtonUp-Qt and Luxtorpeda as described in the article. It took me just a few minutes.

Proton Experimental updated, fixes Resident Evil Revelations 2 for Steam Deck
21 Apr 2022 at 9:35 pm UTC

Sigh, yeah, I guess the diff context didn't include the version and I assumed, and we know what happens when one does that.

Proton Experimental updated, fixes Resident Evil Revelations 2 for Steam Deck
21 Apr 2022 at 7:13 pm UTC

There was another build today (Apr 21). The only change in this is marking Elden Ring as playable.