Quoting: KoopacabrasI am actually curious if there is any blind people playing on Linux... Afaik accessibility specially for blind people is not on par with Windows or Mac OS. Fully accessible games are already a minority, also I wonder how many of those work 100% with proton, because you'd be diminishing your choices a lot if some of them don't work. I suppose with such small userbase it would be really hard to hunt down accessibility bugs on proton, or on native games.

I dunno if it was Linux or not, but I remember a Rogue like Radio podcast years and years ago talking about accessibility with Roguelikes. The intro and outro was audio of a visually impaired player playing a Roguelike using a screen reader. It was a really amazing thing to hear them playing the game!!

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Quoting: benstor214Valve should charge them!

Valve does... What's it, like 30% of their revenue from sales for a dev goes to Valve?

If you're taking that much from a dev that did 100% of the work making a game as a cost for a sales platform, you better be doing something much more that processing credit card payments and running an E-stote.

Proton is a good start. As is infastructure and technical support for those things. Valve should keep up the good work!

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Quoting: constWhat holds me back is that I bought quite a lot of pis over the years and hardly used them. There are quite a lot of ideas what I want to do with them, but I hardly find energy to do such things these days. Also, some of my old devices crash quite often, even though I use official plugs and solid, expensive cases. With my SteamDeck handling emulation better then they ever could, I don't know why I'd need a pi with such power. Maybe as a secondary PC when I need to boot Windows on my desktop for work or VR... but only after a modern distribution is available.

Same boat. I thought about using one as a first desktop for my kids, but the more I thought about it, the less the idea seemed reasonable. I understand using ARM for educational purposes and general school work, but more stuff, including proprietary software, needs x86. Great tinker boards though!

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Quoting: hardpenguinOkay, I really wanna fight zombies in my own neighbourhood so I am sold 😁

Won't lie... always thought my old neighborhood might make a good post apocalyptic base area. Flat residential bound by a river and major highway.

I wonder how big the maps in game are.... IRL my neighborhood is on the order of 7sq km. My current one is a a 3-4km circle (I'm not doing that type of math today)

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FYI - I couldn't get Night of the Rabbit to work last winter with current proton... sounds issues. It does appear to work under the much older 3.x proton branch out of the box.

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I'm honestly and pleasantly surprised how many "old games" are still pretty popular/ played today.

Or maybe I'm just old and just recognizing the old games I remember (but never played)

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Maybe I should try it again. I think I played it around the "Expeditions" update. I just admit, I'm not really into the surival-craft genre/game mechanic, so maybe the game isn't for me. But I love all things scifi and I played through the story (it was interesting).

Quoting: NezchanI like where they've gone, although I keep holding out hope that they'll overhaul the space stations, alien bases and similar stuff to make all that more immersive. Almost every other aspect has been re-done, it's time that one got some attention.

That would be my primary complaint. The locations to visit and poi's to explore are all the same. I did enjoy the variety in the planets and Flora and fauna, but even that started to get a little samsey after a few stops.

I might give it a go on the deck. That might be fun!

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That's really nice. I just got a deck and I think my biggest "issue" is deciding what to play!!

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For an everyday driver, I think I'd want a numpad.... But the more I think about it... I'm not sure how often I even use a numpad (especially when gaming)

Now a nice compact wireless keyboard 8 can use with the deck or Steam Link.... I think I'm interested... At 100$, that seems less expensive than other mechanical boards.

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Quoting: HolzkohlenIt would not even fit on my Deck. I still have not upgraded my SSD. I'm looking forward to playing it on Thursday on my regular PC though. Been waiting for it for 4 years now. June 6th 2019 is when they first announced it.

I did the SSD upgrade when I got mine first thing... It was very easy!!

The only weirdness was that the gamepad controls stopped working with the recovery image and then first run initial setup after reinstalling the OS to the new SSD. I had to do everything with the touch screen. But after an update and reboot, it worked great!!

I totally recommend it! I think I got a 1Tb for less than 100$ USD

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