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Check out this great overview of NVK, the open source NVIDIA Vulkan driver
21 December 2023 at 3:18 pm UTC

Quoting: ArdjeWow, so I can actually use my steam machine again? Or are those too old? There was vulkan support on the steam machine. But taking it out of the hands of nvidia is only positive.
Ah, only new cards. My 2012 laptop with an 2014 AMD on the express card bus was more capable than my 2016 steam machine with unswappable unsupported nvidia :-(.

Check out this great overview of NVK, the open source NVIDIA Vulkan driver
21 December 2023 at 3:08 pm UTC Likes: 1

Wow, so I can actually use my steam machine again? Or are those too old? There was vulkan support on the steam machine. But taking it out of the hands of nvidia is only positive.

Dominatrix is a fresh updated port of Ritual Entertainment's SiN
23 November 2023 at 12:45 pm UTC

Dominatrix is also an awesome and free game on steam, and it has been deck verified.
Try it out!


Edit: *Dominatrix simulator
It would have been so much fun if it was just Dominatrix ;-).

Ubuntu 23.10 download got pulled down due to a malicious translation
13 October 2023 at 10:50 am UTC Likes: 4

What I could find was bad, but bad from the mind of a minor. Also, the language thing had me confused. I saw UK, and I thought, that's not it, it must be .UA .
Nevertheless it's good they retracted this.
It's also good to realize that opensource means open traceability and finding of bad intentions.

Welcome to opposite land where Microsoft has a Linux install tutorial
12 October 2023 at 11:53 am UTC Likes: 6

Copy paste from telegram :-).
ardje, [12 Oct 2023 11:43:56]
I was in tears when I read last week, that in order to test azure-sql-edge on windows you first have to install wsl2 with an ubuntu distribution and within that you can install azure-sql-edge...
Azure-sql-edge is apparently a linux only docker solution.
It feels like yesterday when they were throwing shit and dirt at anything linux because they had the budget to do that, and we as a department had to time after time explain and proof that Linux was the only way things would work correctly.

ardje, [12 Oct 2023 11:46:31]
I remember a tour at dell where the tour operator was laughing at us and saying that linux is going to die and nobody uses serial consoles anymore, everything is USB (explains that he has a lack of knowledge). We set that guy straight with an e-mail to the main dell office where the Linux Poweredge department resided.

Not telegram:
It still feels unreal. The war on linux was extreme, the setback on the computing industry as a whole was extreme (something windows users will never understand). The indoctrination of students at schools by "sponsorship" from microsoft if you go microsoft only. (Apple still does that).
It still is a company that wants to get as much of money as possible from their "victims" I guess.
But since Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer left the stage (I mean: Bill Gates is now trying to take over the WHO), it seems a breath of fresh air came in. And co-operation was suddenly possible.

SteamOS 3.5 for Steam Deck gets a screen colour temperature setting
22 August 2023 at 11:06 am UTC Likes: 1

I switched to Main/Beta due to the instability in the other channels.
The amount of updates is not that big, it's always steam client, but that's the same as other channels.

At least now I can complain about the memory leaks in the clients :-0.

So a switch to 3.5 starts with BIOS updates, and at least 2 dock updates. And my dock needed those updates.

But despite it not having that many OS updates, don't switch if you are not a Linux expert or tinkerer and can not live with a non functioning deck for a while.

For me it was necessary as the dock really had issues with my monitor and I work on the deck. And as a warning: there is a major memory leak in the steam client in desktop mode. It will eat about 6..8GB of memory if you do not open/close/switch views in the next 8..12 hours.
So if you are working and you just have your client in the background for a day, your system will OOM.

To be clear:
these are my current issues:
https://github.com/ValveSoftware/SteamOS/issues/1100
and:
https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/issues/9895

The memory leak is just bad javascript. The sudden power off issue is not I fear. Got it twice yesterday at a bad spot so I turned off the wifi so I can play divine divinity \0/.

Steam Deck now the global #1 top seller on Steam
30 June 2023 at 7:59 pm UTC Likes: 2

Quoting: blindcoderI _want_ to pick one up, but it's _still_ a lot of money for a device I don't really _need_.
I use the steam deck 100% for work, as a replacement for my laptop.
It crashes less. Most of the things just work.
So if you need something to work on... It's nice.

Steam Deck hits over 10,000 verified and playable games
27 June 2023 at 9:03 am UTC

And here I am still playing unsupported games on my deck :-).
I am actually waiting for the 10 release for empyrion galactic survival.
It's probably unsupported due to: videos not playing in tutorial and I think something with anti-cheat. Dunno, never tried being "social". The videos were weird though: a white pane where the video should have been. But maybe with the 10 it is gone.

Amnesia: The Bunker is stressful horror done the right way
9 June 2023 at 8:19 am UTC Likes: 2

Quoting: Liam DaweProton is here, has been for years - and for gamers 99% just want a game to work. You can click play on it right now and it works great.
It's not just gamers.
I am a Linux only software, platform and infra developer since 1999. I invested money into every linux game I could get. Those were of porting houses.
Some do native ports. Like the X series, wonderful, native and supported by the developer because they develop on linux too.
But 99% of developers have only seen windows. For a meager less than 0.9% you are not going to re-educate all your developers.
I've been working for a company that has a direction of Linux only for a decade, and still every developer only knows windows. And you can't just go and ask the market for Linux developers as they are 10x more expensive.
So nagging about it is stupid. If you really want to change this you have to start at your local schools.
Apple, Microsoft and Google are initially paying/sponsoring education on their platform, and once they have a foothold, they give you a plan on how to buy only from them and have a "discount". Apple really is terrible at extorting money out of education in the Netherlands (as it is not necessary to have an ipad, but you won't be able to pass without one).
Microsoft doesn't care, they throw money to only give their courses, and the result is that even higher education give severe broken windows only computer education.
The result is clear. The tabaco or alcohol industry does the same, teach the young, so they won't know any better when they are old.
Stop complaining to developers, educate your kids. Volunteer at school to teach. That's the only thing that works, because nobody using linux is spending money on computer education at school. Microsoft does spend money on the education of your kids, and they are the future developers.
Best is to see what these companies are to your kids: groomers.

Overkill drops Linux support for PAYDAY 2
9 June 2023 at 8:02 am UTC Likes: 2

I am actually just glad if they keep supporting proton.
The fact is: proton is the only middle ware that guarantees support for the next 20 years. Not because it acts like windows, in fact it doesn't. Unlike windows, proton guarantees a fixed API and bug compatibility.
None of my original Linux games still work, but their windows counter parts work without problems or patches on proton. And no, they don't work on windows 11 either.
The good thing about proton is this: you can implement any buggy windows API in proton that microsoft has made incompatible (as they do that a lot), but you can not implement that buggy windows API in the next windows release if you changed that API, because that would break new applications.