I've landed on opensuse Tumbleweed. The reason. YAST. I've never seen anything like it when I was in the debs or heard of anything like it anywhere else. I would have expected something like it to appear in other distros, but maybe I just missed the news (I last used Ubuntu in 2007)

For me openSuse TW is fresh enough that I'm running the latest packages pretty fast, bit not so new that I get the obvious bugs. I'd date say I think it updates a little faster than Debian testing, or already feel that way.

I also like it because it is mature. The defaults make sense and most things work out of the box. In the 2 years I've run OpenSuse TW, I think I've only had 1 breakage and on top of that they've anticipated that possibilty and mitigated it with a snapshot system to roll back the system in case of a bad update.

I think I'm going to stay on this one for a little while

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My apologies, I was not trying to quote you out of context, I read your comment as some how Valve dropped the ball by providing proton and thus competing with the porting houses. Which I think we agree on. My comment or argument rather is that it is a great move by Valve for Valve regardless if it is good for Linux gaming or not.

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Quoting: fleskFeral didn't drop the ball, Valve did.

I don't think that valve dropped the ball. They played the perfect move. How many of us bought a game to play on proton? That's profit. And it's immune from the decisions if devs to release on Linux or not.

On topic:

Hellpoint, looks awesome. I might pick it up. I've never played a "souls like". Would this be a good starter? Or is there a better game to introduce the genre?

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Quoting: gojulIt's clear that Feral has dropped the ball. Their radar looks empty. Too bad. Without Proton Linux gaming would be almost dead by now.

I sorta wonder if that is partially due to valve's embrace and extension of wine into the steam platform. It's hard to compete with "free".

My apologies, back on topic.

I highly enjoyed:
Crying Suns (proton until it stopped working for me). Usually not a huge fan of roguelikes, but the setting and art, make it so good.

S.T.A.L.K.E.R series (wine). I really love the openness of the world to exploreb and freedom to tackle a lot of objectives. It reminds me the joy I had paying my favorite game of all time, Morrowind. It's much much more linear, but still excellent.

Kerbal Space Program: probably my third favorite. It only seems to be getting better. I can never make it past the Mun though.

Factorio. I finally beat it. My inner logistics manager is pleased. So pleased. They will be handing out a certificate of appreciation shortly

Other mentions, Super Tux Cart, Contraption Maker, and Poly bridge. Great for little kids and adults trying to relax.

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Have a wonderful weekend. Please be safe out there, everyone. Seriously, especially if you're out drivingn or anything.

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Quoting: EagleDeltaAnyone running into issues with:

 
[INFO] [CORE]: Loading dynamic libretro core from: "/home/dhollinger/snap/retroarch/423/.config/retroarch/cores/dosbox_pure_libretro.so"
[ERROR] Failed to open libretro core: "/home/dhollinger/snap/retroarch/423/.config/retroarch/cores/dosbox_pure_libretro.so"
Error(s): /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libm.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.29' not found (required by /home/dhollinger/snap/retroarch/423/.config/retroarc[INFO] [Environ]: SET_PIXEL_FORMAT: RGB565.

Granted I'm on Pop!_OS and not Arch, and am running the Snap version since the Flatpak one has some issues.

Do I need to build retroarch from scratch?

I guess the easiest question is do you have glibc installed at the correct version? It looks like it's asking for 2.29. From a quick Google, it looks like glibc provides libm and is running 2.32 most recently.

I'm not near my computer, but hopefully the newest version will satisfy that dependency.

Small edit: looking at the online Ubuntu repo, looks like the package is libc6. I think pop_os is based on Ubuntu, so I'd check for that package and update.

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Quoting: SpykerI still wonder why there isn't a gaming market on Raspberry Pi yet, considering the million devices already sold.

ARM. That's my guess anyway. Not even all the linux distros target or can when run on a PI without issues, mostly due to hardware limitations.

It is probably too much of a hurdle for commercial games at this stage.

Emulators, classic games and the like, on the other hand,bit seems perfect for

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Quoting: GuestIt's almost sad, to see Valve stepping up with so much effort into something that's reportedly so buggy..

Money. They get a cut of every game sold right? Making it work better, specifically using Steam directly translates into more sales and more commission.

It also suppresses other stores' sales, after all if it works with Steam, why buy it elsewhere?

Going with the post above, you'd want to maximize sales during the peak release window and before the sales cycle begins.

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Quoting: Ehvis

Quoting: gbschenkelFor get some performance out of Cyberpunk 2077, check this thread:
https://reddit.com/r/cyberpunkgame/comments/kccabx/hey_cd_projekt_red_i_think_you_shipped_the_wrong/ [External Link]

This one is actually pretty interesting. It seems to me that these sorts of values should be dynamic and based on the particular PC it runs on. They should also be different for the latest generation consoles. If the game actually does run on very conservative defaults, this says a lot about how badly they ran out of time.

I wonder if those were the defaults for the Stadia version?

Edit:
Also, I kinda figured Steam had already broken the 1 million mark. I guess I imagined them to be bigger than they really are, or some games to be much more popular

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Forgive the social media comparison, but it's the only thing I can think of:

So it's kinda like a self-selected news/hype/announcement bubble?

I really don't mean that in a bad way. I can see people really enjoying game, site, or genre related news.

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