Been a while since I decided on joining one of their beta updates this quickly, that focus stealing issue has been a real pain for me - and the update does deliver on fixing it.

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Yeah, the current RC phase unfortunately became a long one, we ran into a bunch of issues that ended up becoming blockers for a small subset of players - we've hopefully gotten those fixed with this latest RC11.

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Don't tell anyone, but we were originally hoping to have had the full release done during the weekend.

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Yikes. And I've been using GPL for ages now, to help test it in other places.
Apparently having 64GB of RAM and mainly running in-development games that are known to be RAM hungry means you don't notice driver inefficiencies.

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Amusingly enough, Steam has been using a fork of Flatpak [External Link] for their own runtime for a while at this point, so I guess this means people will soon be running Flatpak inside of Snap.

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It's nice to see that Flatpak - and Flathub as the default store - are continuing to focus on improving the desktop experience not just for the user, but for the developer as well.

Hopefully the system they build for doing the entitling of purchased applications is something that's going to be usable for more Flatpak repositories than just Flathub, since there's really not any good ways to distribute paid Linux applications right now, especially not in a way that lets them properly integrate with the system.

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Love to see it, wonder if the plugin-ability will help ChimeraOS and the like

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You know, I've seen one project so far where I feel that their choice of a blockchain actually was a decent solution; ALFIS - a decentralized DNS system.
They use the blockchain as an append-only log to track domain entries, while natively supporting peer-to-peer distribution and validation of the data - so DNSSEC and such is possible. And they use the act of mining as a means of artificial scarcity, to avoid people instantly grabbing all the attractive names, without having to actually "pay" for them.

But both of those things are dwarfed beneath the one thing they do that really makes me feel that blockchain is the right choice for them; They don't try to assign any goddamn monetary value to their tokens.

Now if only people would also do NFT software that actually used NFTs as database tokens, and not as some kind of glorified digital tulip mania.

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They've had their Flatpak beta for a while now, still missing a few things to let all their runners work, but for regular Wine - and native Linux game - usage it's been possible for many months. (My desktop install of the Lutris beta Flatpak is from December)

You can also include the version in the flatpak install command itself to speed things up;
flatpak install flathub org.gnome.Platform.Compat.i386//42 org.freedesktop.Platform.GL32.default//21.08 org.freedesktop.Platform.GL.default//21.08

This was actually one of the first things I did after getting my own Deck, since I'm part of the Star Citizen LUG, and wanted to see how well it'd do with such a heavy game. Currently not possible to play it in game mode due to what seems like a resolution switching issue, but it works remarkably well in desktop mode - albeit with some input difficulties.

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Quoting: Serious_TableX4 has worked pretty well on the Steam Deck in my experience! You can expect about 30 FPS in space stations, but 60 pretty much non-stop in Space!

X4 did reasonably well when TDP limited as well in my testing, with settings tweaked some. Definitely playable on Deck, that's for sure.

And it seems that Egosoft have gotten their hand on at least one Deck too (shown off sitting on the X4 menu during an interview with a streamer), so they're definitely looking to improve things - hopefully they'll start getting some Deck verification stamps soon.

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Wonder why Planetside 2 is marked as unsupported due to anti-cheat, seeing as it's working perfectly on regular Linux/Proton - they've enabled the BattlEye support after all.

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