Quoting: scaine

that sees you take down an evil reincarnation of Maggie Thatcher

I think there might be a redundant word in there somewhere...

Probably just a wrong ordering of "reincarnation of evil Maggie Thacher"

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Quoting: BielFPsI wish paradox still support Magicka 2, that game could use a new sdl lib and some fixes for steam deck.

Magicka 2 was amazing. My partner loved pressing random buttons and just seeing what spell happened.

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They do say it requires "the latest SDK" before the option can be tweaked on the Developer Portal. I wouldn't be shocked if many games shipped with an older SDK, though I'd love to be surprised.

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Quoting: subThe first two attempts got rejected?

Rare is the patch series affecting system calls, new file systems, schedulers or otherwise performance related, that makes it into the Linux kernel on the first attempt. When it takes more then 7 revisions, then you should start to worry. Memory folios, an important rework of memory handling, are on their 14th iteration right now. (https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Folios-Pagesets-MIA-5.15 [External Link]) Folios only change internal APIs, while new system calls, as part of the kernel external API, will be maintained forever.

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I had Drawful 2 (which they gave away for free) and Party Pack 3, which I bought after enjoying Drawful a lot. I've played a lot of Trivia Murder Party and Guesspionage recently, so I decided to get the bundle.

Jackbox party games are great for family videochat nights - you share the computer screen(the animations are minimal and even relatives on bad internet get a clear picture) and people play on the phones, while chatting over video.

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Quoting: Dan_igrokI wonder how those results are computed. Are these based on total connected users every day? Are they based on a sample of users? On all users at one particular moment?

Many factors could explain the "up-and-down" pattern shown on the graph.

One possible explanation could be that many Linux users aren't hardcore gamers and don't connect to Steam all the time, which could explain the pattern. If we have a small sample of users, then the amount of Linux users fluctuate more.

I don't think over a million is a small enough sample for a whole lot of that.
I'm wondering more about what's happening with Chinese users. Very often when Linux % surges it's because Chinese user share dropped and so that very-low-Linux-use group was taken out of the pool. Someone needs to get Chinese gamers using Linux.

Of course it's also still true that the Steam Survey, which these numbers are based on, is opaque. We have no way of knowing how accurate it is or how it selects the sample; we do know that Valve has publicly mentioned correcting errors in it before now, which if you're an optimist means that after all these years of error correction it's probably pretty much OK, and if you're a pessimist means that all we know about it is they do make mistakes.

The US ban on Huawei getting modern CPUs will probably encourage them to put more effort into Ubuntu Kylin, the distro maintained by the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Simplified Chinese did fall by 0.4 % points, not more than the usual variation. English did go up by almost 2% though - the steam linux tracker has an entire graph for different languages. I didn't expect Russian to command a 10% market share though!

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The modern Plasma System Monitor replaces the old KSysguard

What are they drinking??? This is a completely backwards decision. KSysGuard is the only answer Linux has to TaskManager. Plasma System Monitor is on the same level of usefulness as gnome-system-monitor - better than nothing but insufficient for power users.

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That's a monetization change, not a cheating prevention change.

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That is interesting, I will have to read the details to see how much this causes Vulkan to creep in spec

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Requiring sales to other parties to be made at "price no lower than to you" is called a most favorabl nation provision, and it's one of tell-tale signs of an oligopoly (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Most_favoured_nation#In_contract_law [External Link]). TL;DR: Antitrust proceedings inbound.

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