Quoting: Donbot5000who's own software in the article REQUIRES visual studio is now getting highlighted here on GamingOnLinux ? What a Croc.

The requirements are disappointing, but the nature of it being open source does allow for the possibility that someone takes the core of it and rewrites it without that requirement. Long shot, but hey ho.

As for it being reported here, I'm thankful. If not for GOL, I wouldn't hear about this stuff, and wouldn't benefit from the comments/community here.

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Quoting: etoven"Allot of users won't notice the difference."
No just the apox half of them now suffering a broken deskto.

He's not making stuff up, you know. They're using actual stats to back up their claims. Perhaps you declined to provide telemetry in the "User Feedback" Settings page, or maybe you haven't filed any bug reports?

You haven't said how you're affected badly by this though. Can you elaborate? Is your issue on the Significant Issues tracker?

Quoting: etovensomething starting to feel shady about KDE love affair with this broken pos compositor if you ask me.

It's been clear for several years now that Wayland is the future of the Linux graphics stack. What are you suggesting they do instead? Other than "stay on X11 and accept the development issues (for the KDE Plasma team) that entails".

I do miss having my windows remember their positions, although it's being worked on. But I wouldn't go back to X11 because a) no 120Hz support, b) no HDR and c) no brightness controls for external monitors. It's just too good now (for me, at least), despite its other issues.

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Playing opening scenes such as movies/cut-scenes/intros before being given the option to change settings is infuriating. And no, this doesn't mean I want launchers! Just give us an opening screen offering those options: graphics settings and audio settings, but also subtitles.

Good grief, subtitles. I've lost count of how many opening scenes I've had ruined by having subtitles on. Talk about an immersion breaker. I suppose that's less sinful than not having them and needing them... but just give us the option!!

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Disolver Group.

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I got good value out of Dune: Awakening, really enjoyed my 110 or so hours.

Negatives:
- There's a bit of grind for sure
- The same-y-ness of the PvE missions starts to pale eventually
- The forced PvP mid-game is a weird design-choice even if there's almost no chance of you meeting another player
- End game is all PvP, which I have no time for.

But the positives! Beautiful game, decent choice of weapons, nice progression through meta-tree unlocks. Shai-hulud breathing down your neck as you cross the sands between the rock islands. The atmosphere, the mining, the base-building. It's all great. And the ornithopters! Hell yeah.

Really enjoyed it. Unless they change end-game, I'll never play it again, but it was so much fun while it lasted.

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The concept reminds me of Tactical Breach Wizards, which is definitely in my (completely imaginary and ever-changing) Top Ten Games Of All Time list. It allows you to do mad experimentation that you wouldn't normally do in games, especially mid-run.

Might have to give this a go, although the real-time nature of it puts me off a little.

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Yeah, it's eXtended Reality. Basically slotting in an X to mean either A (augmented) or V (virtual), since it does both.

VR terminology is baffling. Monado vs SteamVR vs OpenXR, all with their own quirks and compatibility.

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What Valve (or third-party) would need to do here is simply an easy way to make the LAN-Server reachable

I agree that this would excellent, but it won't happen, because there's no money in LAN servers. None of your friends will shell out actual money for skins/inventory tabs/hats/upgrades if they're playing local.

Maybe I'm wrong there though. Maybe there's a way to allow that monetisation, but it still works in a LAN-party, as well through Steam Networks. That would be cool.

But I doubt it'll happen.

From the sounds of it Valve aren't going to go super aggressive on the pricing. I wish they would though as it would really shake things up.

Sony, MS and Nintendon't all provide hardware as loss-leaders against their walled-garden stores. I suppose, in a sense, Steam is also a walled-garden, in so far as you need a PC to use it... but I doubt Valve will be happy burning money to create a loss-leader. Honestly, if the original Steamdeck launch is anything to go by, it's clear that Valve don't have a manufacturing capacity to create a loss-leader! If they loss-lead the price on Steam Machine and demand goes through the roof - they could find themselves with months- or each years-long supply shortage (ala PS5).

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This PC World article from the start of 2025 suggested that there were somewhere between 4 and 6 million Steamdecks sold to that point, with another 2 million expected to sell by the end of this year. So best case, 8 million steamdecks out there.

But there are 84 million PS5 consoles out there, 10 times as many decks, let alone XBOX and Switch devices. So, as a dev, I don't where the tipping point is, but I think it all adds up - Deck, Frame, Machine, they'll all contribute to applying pressure to support the idea of Linux as THE operating system to game on.

That's my optimistic hill that I'm willing to die on.

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D-pad in the wrong location. Pass.

That's the XBOX360 location, which I was quite used to... about 20 years ago. It's got the XBOX markings though, so it makes sense.

But then I got a PS2 and became sony-fied, all the way to the PS5 today. So every controller I've used since has the d-pad at the top-left. So yeah. Pass.

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