16 years? Nonsense! I can't have been more than a couple of years right? I'm not old enough for it to be 16 years, right? Right?

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Blocked in The Netherlands, Belgium and a few other countries. A clear consequence of the gambling based monetisation.

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So basically they're going to replace a dedicated kernel based anti-cheat for their own because they think they can do better than a team of people whose only job it is to create an anti-cheat system? How could this possibly go wrong? Not interested in the game itself, but I'm quite curious when the first security hole will be exploited.

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Desktop Linux with the Deck excluded has been at the same level as Mac for a couple of months already.

https://i.ibb.co/hRNbFjGW/Steam-Deck.png [External Link]

Your graph shows some interesting patterns.

For instance that the Linux desktop trend seems to drop right after Steam Deck released. This is not unreasonable since I expect quite a few Linux users to own one and some of them will simply have been counted as deck instead of desktop.

Deck growth also seems to have stalled for a while now (growing with Steam instead of faster). Liam's graph even shows that its share has been dropping steadily. So desktop usage is going up faster than on first inspection.

This is probably all somewhat speculative (especially the second observation) because I suspect that proper statistical tests would not show much confidence with the limited data set. This is made even more difficult when you realise that the "Steam Deck" graph is not an independent data set. It is likely that most deck users are also desktop users, interlinking the data and making proper analysis even more difficult.

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If you remove the local peaks and subtract the SteamOS values, then you get that approximately 1.6% are Linux desktop users. Which may not sound like a lot, but it's starting to approach MacOS level now and on the whole user base of Steam this is still a lot of people.

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Ah, I guess the tearing in VR that got introduced with 570 got fixed in this one, right?
Or the headset tracking delay that's happening since 440 got this minor fix, right?
And for sure the asnyc reprojection issues where only needing this minor fix as well.

Obviously!

:cry:

550 club reporting.

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On deck I've been playing Okami HD. I chose that to play in the garden (fleeing the indoor heat) because it's relatively bright and games like Little Nightmares are just to dark to play outside on a standard steam deck.

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I've been meaning to try the update. But I don't think it's going to do me any favours with regards to the temperature in my room.

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Opus Magnum was slick, but did not provide a lot of challenge for me. As opposed to Infinifactory where finishing it did fill me with a profound sense of accomplishment.

This one seems to lean more to space restrictions, so I hope this one provides some more challenge while keeping sufficient room for varied solutions. Will definitely try the demo when it drops.

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The only thing I can say is that the problem is not price, the problem is value.

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