The ONE time I bought an Ubisoft title, they do this. With their resources, not a single person at Ubi thought to QA this on a Deck?? It beggars belief. They are utterly inept. Beneath contempt. No more money from me, likely ever.

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Quoting: legluondunetThis tool does not permit to install GE-Proton v7-48 for Lutris?

Lutris has its own management system for Proton versions. I think there's a special Lutris version of GE-Proton too? There used to be at any rate, because Proton in a non-Steam environment causes issues.

EDIT - Yep, it still exists. Latest version [External Link] is Wine-GE-Proton7-36, released a few hours ago.

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I get that we all hate launchers, but please be mindful of the forum rules when expressing your (entirely understandable) anger/frustration. Thanks all.

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He obviously has some kind of "vision" for what his little app will be, but as with any such pet project, it'll narrow the usefulness for anyone else. Nice he put it on github, I suppose, but it's not a tool for other people to use, clearly. And yes, after five months of ignoring the ticket outright, this was just a handy way for him to close it down cleanly.

What a waste. Thankfully, steamdeck-ui [External Link] is still going strong. I only tried Boatswain at all because streamdeck-ui needs to be built in a venv environment right now due to incompatibilities with Python 3.11. Hopefully that'll get fixed in the coming months though.

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Quoting: PhiladelphusFollow-up article about your personal experience trying out Boatswain, or maybe a comparison between the two?

That's a great idea. I feel like it might be a little unfair, given that Boatswain is only three weeks old (not even a teenager!) and I'll be testing on Plasma, not Gnome, but in terms of how fiddly it is to get streamdeck-ui working, it would make for a nice short comparison.

I'll keep the idea in mind!

Quoting myself to add - although I'm probably not going to write a whole article on streamdeck-ui vs Boatswain as suggested above, I did get around to trying out Boatswain a couple of weeks ago. It's easily installed via Flathub and detected my v2 Streamdeck with no issues. But, there's this [External Link] - you can't run custom commands using Boatswain. You can only do what the app lets you do - which is a decent amount, but I have two or three scripts which I trigger with a keypress, and you just can't do that with Boatswain.

It's a real shame. The author of the app doesn't want to add it, and there's been no movement on the ticket I linked since that refusal, five months ago. As a result, I won't be using Boatswain.

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Quoting: GuestGreat :)

They should release it for free on Steam...

Probably not a good idea, sadly. Steam reviews would crucify it in its current state. Maybe one day.

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Quoting: dosIt was known that Gamescope is being used by Valve for VR already since November: https://github.com/Plagman/gamescope/commit/279146669257d374a367dce965e94e6f6792b782 [External Link] :P

Good find. But there's a big difference between a six-word comment in a random git commit and a member of Valve's team making a public announcement, I think!

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Buy the game, or don't, but buying it does support a confirmed bigot, as eldaking pointed out earlier. If you're one of those people who can admire the work despite the artist, that's cool. I'm generally not - doesn't matter if it's writing, music or film, if the people behind the creative work are arseholes, I don't fund them. Or I try not to at any rate. Turns out, there's an annoyingly large amount of arseholes around, sadly, and occasionally I hear about their various exploits too late.

At least by this point, you know what you're getting into with JKR.

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GOTY is always tough. Best game I played for the first time this year is Monster Train, with an honourable mention to Aliens Fireteam Elite.

But the best game that actually came out this year is probably Stolen Realm. Multiple honourable memtions to Brotato, Trials of Fire, Soulstone Survivors, Spellbook Demonslayers and Wandering Village.

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Quoting: Guestno insert key.
no scroll lock key
no pause/break key

Funnily enough these are the same three keys on my keyboard that I hate myself for accidentally touching. Their existence (to me) feels like a dinosaur marching through a modern city. I'm genuinely amazed that anyone would miss them!

Early in my career, I'd often get support calls from confused staff using Excel when they'd accidentally hit the scrlk key. I don't know of good uses for any of these!

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