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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I've had a pretty crazy month for games.

Elder Scrolls Online [External Link] - bought in a bundle. Deeply disappointing. Already un-installed.
Monster Train 2 [External Link] - absolutely loving this. It's taken over from Noita right now as my "fill an hour" game.
Biped [External Link] - silly two player co-op where each thumbstick on your gamepad controls your robot's leg. Quite fun. Hard.
Gloomhaven [External Link] - slow-paced adaptation of the tabletop version. Incredibly buggy, but quite fun.
Path of Exile 2 [External Link] - with the new Abyssal League starting last month, I started a new character. Amazing game.
Cataclismo [External Link] - bought it on recommendation from friends, but really isn't my cup of tea. City builder / tower defence.
Abiotic Factor [External Link] - bought in the hope my friends would buy. But didn't recommend it, not their cup of tea. Not sure what the fuss is about on this one.
Unrailed [External Link] - ancient co-op about building a railway through various biomes. Really hard, lots of fun!
Orcs Must Die: Deathtrap [External Link] - basically a remake of Dungeon Defenders. It's great, 4-player co-op. Love it.

I've also got Rage 2 [External Link] and Quake 4 [External Link] waiting in the wings from an earlier bundle I bought. And I managed to spend more time with Moonsigil Atlas Demo [External Link], but not as much as I'd like.

All of this bought on sale, and in bundles, and still spent over £100 this month. Oof.

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Looks like Luxtorpedia has already updated its references/tags to UZDoom too.

https://luxtorpeda-dev.github.io/packages [External Link]

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When I first tried this, I was hoping it would act like a kind of voice-changers. Gimme a "Darth Vader" preset, or a "Chipmunk" preset. Sadly, it's more like a graphic equaliser. It's focus is mainly in bass boosting, or maybe noise-gating your microsphone.

It's cool, but I'm already pretty happy with my mic/speakers, so I never ended up using it. If it ever grants more fun/silly effects, I'll be giving it another go. It certainly seems like it has the potential for that kind of stuff, but doesn't seem to be leaning into that in any way.

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I'd like these to have way more information in a drill-down fashion, yeah. Like maybe mesa is "too much" for the top level, but if I click on my graphics card, it would appear?

Same with block devices - list the total, but click to see the individual drives, then click again to see the partitions, and even the UUIDs.

Why do I want to see the UUID? Well, about the only manual bit of set up I need to do after installing a new O/S on my main PC is allow read/write access to my second drive. It drives me absolutely nuts that every single distro in existence will only mount it read-only, as if a second drive in MY OWN PC is somehow off-limits to me, until I find it's UUID, and enter its details in /etc/fstab. It's a weird relic in Linux that's never seen any kind of enhancement over the years.

Maybe this is one of those cases where I shouldn't be asking for the UUIDs... I shouldn't care about the UUIDs, because Linux should just mount my internal, second drive in a more sane way. That way I don't have to remember the LSBLK command.

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Good grief, the quality on show is incredible! Loving how far Godot has come in just a few years. I understand they have a process for consoles now, too, which is great, hopefully more improvements there over time, to help more developers make the smart choice.

I'm pretty blown away by that demo reel.

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I thought that trailer was quite cool!

I wonder how (if) they're re-imbursing previous purchasers/subscribers??

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Probably the only game I'd play on this is Destiny 2, but it's not worth my money, and I'm not a fan of the concept of cloud gaming, so it's a pass from me.

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Fixed an issue where PlayStation controller light bar settings did not stick when exiting the controller calibration page.

You can change lightbar settings for PS controllers in Steam?!? I had no idea. I've been using dualsensectl for that all this time.

I recently discovered that when you click into bluetooth settings in the notification tray, and disconnect your DualSense controller there, it automatically turns off the controller! That's pretty cool. I wish my bluetooth headphones would do that.

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