ONE OF US! ONE OF US!

The idea of over a million gamers, gaming on Linux. Love it. Still a long road before we see vendor support, or anti-cheat budging, but that's a big proportion, and should be celebrated.

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Quoting: GuestSnaps = non-free (proprietary) file format belonging to Canonical

=> No thanks, I don't want it on my operating systems

But... you don't have snaps on your operating system? Unless you're using Ubuntu? So it's not "no thanks", it's literally "this doesn't affect me in any way". So why the negativity?

And it's proprietary? So what? Or do you not use Steam, in which case, fine, I guess you're on Debian on the whole Richard Stallman philosophy, which is kind of admirable, but definitely not for me.

But hating on snaps because they're proprietary, and not hating on flatpaks where anyone can upload a dodgy flatpak to flathub feels really disingenuous to me. Even the fact that flatpak can be run from sources other than flathub... for 99.99% of flatpak users out there, that's irrelevant, because that's where flatpaks are hosted. It might as well be proprietary, because no-one is using it in any other way.

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Quoting: rea987Using Snap so any time I launch a program, it hang for 5 seconds as if it is on a 5200 rpm spinning HDD. No thanks.

Sounds like your PC has a problem. Or are you referring to the long-fixed Firefox start up delay?

Snap might not still be the absolute fastest at startup, because it unpacks some libraries on first launch, but it's quick enough that you'd likely not notice unless you already knew.

As for getting "annoyed" about snaps, it's like using Debian and being annoyed that Fedora uses RPMs. If you're not on Ubuntu, it doesn't affect you. Move on.

Jesus. People love to hate Canonical for weird-ass "reasons".

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Quoting: RedjeI consider myself a casual user.
And I don’t really get the hype for flatpak. Me and friend of mine had several big annoying bugs. For example; in the steam flatplat my nvidia 3080 mobile was not working in games. And games installed outside flatpak worked just fine. And also apps just not working with flatpak, and local app just working as expected.

Flatpak is out there for 10years+ or so? And still such big issues…

Steam is a terrible example of flatpak - it's not created, or recommended by Valve. I'm actually not sure who created it, tbh, but it's a constant source of issues on our Discord support channel when people use it.

The "hype" for flatpak is two-fold. First, it's not distro-specific, so any Linux distro can install a flatpak and it'll generally give you the same experience regardless of what libraries you, personally, have installed, either manually, or through your distro. Second, it's containerised, which means that it has far less access to your PC than normally-installed software, hence less ability to negatively impact your system (e.g. through malware).

That second point is the cause of so many of the Steam issues. Games often need quite a lot of access - screen recording for Steam Replay, access to microphones, access to gamepads, sometimes even access to external filesystems (if you have a "Games" drive, for example). So a Steam flatpak was always going to be challenging. You can use flatseal to manage these permissions, or if you're on a recent version of KDE Plasma, you can manage them directly from within System Settings.

I kind of wonder if Valve will ever fully embrace flatpak and create an official version (and make it the recommended install). Might solve a few issues!

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Not perfectly on topic, but wasn't there chat recently about Steam going 64bit? Or was that Windows only?

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Quoting: BrokattYou said it. Although I have promised myself to stop when No Rest for the Wicked releases their co-op update. Maybe I will manage to get to Arbiter by then? :) I love Poe2 but as it stands it's simply not a good multiplayer experience.

I really enjoyed the last fortnight of playing No Rest for the Wicked with my two best pals. Gutted that we have to wait two weeks for the official multiplayer release, but it's a small price considering how mind blowing the game is.

In the meanwhile, back to Path of Exile 2!!

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Quoting: BrokattFor once I actually played most of the games on the list. It's very positive that almost all games are indie and not AAA.

Silksong was an experience to play. Looking forward to the DLC unless that one also develop into it's own game just because Team Cheery can't stop themselves ;) Both Peak and RV there yet have been a blast with friends. Baldurs Gate 3 have gotten classes, cut scenes and even a Linux port since release. I haven't finished Dispatch yet but the story is interesting. I will get around to Clair Obscur, Arc Raiders, Hades II and Silent Hill f at some point. If I can only stop playing Path of Exile 2...

One does not simply stop playing Path of Exile 2...

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Quoting: BrokattGreat! Looking forward to february.

Anyone knows if they removed the annoying window that popus up every time you start a controller, requiring you to give permission to the controller to actually control things?

The what now?? Is that a Plasma window, or a Steam one? Got a screenshot?

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I've had the screenlock kick in while playing using a gamepad back in my early Mint days (maybe around 2016'sh?) but I've never had it happen recently. I wonder if you have to have sleep enabled as an option for this to trigger? I have screenlock configured, but not sleep.

I've spent tens of hours playing No Rest for the Wicked on gamepad recently, and never had my screen randomly lock.

Now that I think about it - those Mint days were when I was using a wired Xbox360 controller, but now I'm on a bluetooth Dualsense controller. Maybe it's the bluetooth keeping my session alive.

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Quoting: Purple Library Guy

Quoting: scaineI also like the pop-up that overlays the entire game page if it uses AI.

Hrm. A bit ironic, that.

Well, not really. It's not using AI to detect AI, which would certainly be ironic. The feature is just the AI section of the Steam page's declaration being shown as an overlay, because it's easy to miss way at the bottom of the page.

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