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Steam Deck - SteamOS 3.6 officially out with improved performance, Mura Compensation, lots more
24 Oct 2024 at 5:32 pm UTC

Nice, but I wonder why they didn't go with Mesa 24.2. Mesa 24.1 is already quite old at this point.

Nintendo Switch emulator Ryujinx gets shut down
1 Oct 2024 at 11:06 pm UTC Likes: 17

Quoting: Mountain ManIf you want to play Nintendo games, just don't.
Fixed.

Valve (Steam) begin a direct collaboration with Arch Linux
28 Sep 2024 at 9:20 am UTC Likes: 3

Quoting: scaineIf we're being optimistic about that secure signing piece targeting better anti-cheat, I'd suggest that Valve are looking to out-perform Windows in that regard, and turn SteamOS into THE trusted way to prevent cheating on any given game. Make it as trusted as a console, or more so if possible.
That would sadly damage regular Linux desktop and its gaming usage as a whole so I really hope it is not the case.

Valve appear to be testing ARM64 and Android support for Steam on Linux
22 Sep 2024 at 7:18 pm UTC Likes: 2

What about x86_64 support? (Steam client is still 32-bit.)

ZOTAC Zone is yet another AMD gaming handheld
6 Jun 2024 at 11:08 pm UTC Likes: 1

It's a shame that it officially supports only Windows. I am still waiting for something like Steam Deck, but more lightweight (yet still powerful), more compact and more suitable for travelling. Not sure about this Zotac handheld, but I have already seen some Chinese ones that did look like something I wish for, sadly they all supported Windows, but not Linux. And although something like ChimeraOS would probably run fine on most of them, I want to be sure before I purchase one. I do not want another Linux computer that I have to take care of in case of hardware (or other) issues. I want a gaming handheld that works without issues (ideally all the time) and can be used to seamlessly play my favourite games on.

Moonlight PC for game streaming via Sunshine gets HDR support for Linux / Steam Deck
6 Jun 2024 at 10:58 pm UTC Likes: 1

Sadly, the HDR support itself is still in a pretty rough shape on Linux.

(For more information see the Wayland color management protocol ticket [External Link] - that is required for full HDR with metadata support - and the GNOME Mutter HDR support [External Link] one. Not sure about the HDR support state in KDE though.)

Old School Rally plans full support for Steam Deck - got me feeling nostalgic
8 Apr 2024 at 11:12 pm UTC

This would be great native game. Sadly, it looks to be Windows-only, so again just Proton. :unsure:

EmuDeck removes Yuzu And Citra emulator support
5 Mar 2024 at 12:36 pm UTC Likes: 1

While I can understand their fight against Yuzu, taking down Citra (3DS emulator) does not make much sense and sets a dangerous precedent against other retro emulators.

Game over for Roblox on Linux / Steam Deck as it's now blocked
1 Mar 2024 at 3:04 pm UTC Likes: 2

Quoting: EhvisAs longs as devs/publishers believe that rootkit anti-cheat is a valid solution, this will always be a problem
This. This goes way back to the old "Starforce days" (that are fortunately gone now, but were replaced by not much better anti-cheat rootkits). I was a Windows user for some time (with Gentoo in dual boot) back then and Starforce was something that I would never allow to be installed on my computer. Sure, I had to sacrifice many good games, but at least my system was not compromised.