I've got a little 15-button Stream Deck and streamdeck-ui works really well, but it's a bit of a faff to get it all working. You have to install it through "python pip" which is fine, but then it installs into ~/.local/bin so you have to add that as a path by editing your .profile, or .bash_profile. Then you have sudoedit a bunch of udev lines to /etc/udev/rules.d. Then you have to create an auto-start entry in whatever DE you use so that your deck launches its config when you start your PC up.

Which is all fine, honestly, given that you only do all that faff once. But I bet it puts people off, so I'm really glad there's a driving force for a better app. Especially the bit about how the author managed to get Boatswain to use SystemD to bypass the need for udev changes... and the fact it'll be a Flathub install.

The StreamDeck-UI app itself is reasonably solid, but its biggest failing is probably a lack of paging - which might be coming to Boatswain (the author talks about "folders"). I'll keep an eye out. I don't mind adding a bunch of gnome libraries for stuff like this, if it's slick.

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Their next game looks amazing too: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1021210/Cyber_Knights_Flashpoint/ [External Link]

I wasn't too impressed by the first Star Traders game, but it's only a matter of time before I grab this one.

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Loving the new "Native Linux" tag. I can imagine that will come in handy, especially when combined with other tags (such as store tags, perhaps). Game looks interesting - I've seen Vampire Survivors streamed a couple of times and this is, as noted, a pretty clear cash-in. Looks decently well done though, although the slow run speed might end up annoying me!

Might check this one out.

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Quoting: drlambIf anything these articles save me from pressing "check for updates" every 15 seconds on my deck.

Aye, rub it in there, rub it in. :sad:

:grin:

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Scarlet Nexus looks superb. It has a vaguely Nier: Automata vibe to it. But since I have that game to finish, I guess I'll pass on it for now!

No idea what happened during the tutorial boss fight at the 10:30 mark though. Mangohud was still reporting 40+fps, but the video is a slideshow. Maybe just a recording blip?

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Quoting: Shmerl

Quoting: Purple Library GuyBut anyway, now the only people learning anything about Linux will be three guys at Google developing a compatibility layer. Game developers will just be targeting Windows as usual. So who gives a damn? And since they're inventing their own little wheel (again), they won't be contributing much upstream . . . maybe a bit to DXVK.

What feels even worse here, that they benefit from the work that already went into faudio, dxvk (I assume also vkd3d-proton, since I doubt they don't care about DX12 games) and other similar important projects. Yet they don't give their project back to FOSS at large and Linux gaming in particular. It's Google we are talking about with their money. When they act in parasitic manner while benefiting from open source projects, it just starts feeling disgusting.

Apple, in summary. So much potential to spend a tiny, tiny fraction of their resources for the betterment of everyone, but they won't, because they can't see a dollar in it for them.

I don't use Microsoft products. I don't use Apple products. Sadly, I do use Google still, but I only use their free products. Google have my data, but that's all they have. Even there, I'm slowly disengaging from their services.

Does a big company even exist that isn't inherently despicable?

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Quoting: PublicNuisanceA contributing editor to a Linux gaming website doesn't know how to support FOSS projects.

You know, putting aside the fact that this is the "Gaming On Linux" website, and not the "Support FOSS Games" website, you're just being rude now, since I gave many examples of where I did actually support FOSS games. What I said was that doing so needs to be better.

Your attitude is appalling, however, so I'm not arguing further.

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Man, I'd love to play Deathloop. I wish they'd hurry up and ditch Denuvo from that title. Weird that so many Arkane Studio games end up with that shit on them. Bethesda (/Microsoft) at least know quality when they see it. Just a shame they're also bought into the whole "but but but PIRACY!!" fallacy.

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Quoting: PublicNuisance

Quoting: Ehvis

Quoting: PublicNuisanceChicken and the egg. If gamers don't support FOSS games how will they ever get to be on par ?

I don't think that's even possible. FOSS works on timeless products that can be worked on (and used) for many years. Most games are very much a quick turn around thing with a limited lifespan. It requires a lot of effort in a relatively short time which can't reasonably be set up as a FOSS environment.

Well you can believe what you want but I believe one can either be part of the solution or part of the problem. If people are angry about a closed source game closing down it's servers but won't try to help support FOSS alternatives that wouldn't have that issue then I have zero sympathy when they whine about it. They continue to give money to the companies screwing them over and want to whine about how they continue to screw them over. Insansity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result.

Wow, your tone. So condescending. No-one is "whining" - not a single person on this thread could be considered to be whining. And what are you suggesting exactly - that we all stop buying proprietary games and only "buy" (presumably, offer support to) FOSS games?? No-one... not a single person... is going to do that.

Because nothing is ever as black or white as you're making out. I buy my Steam games, and I enjoy playing them. Ain't gonna stop doing that. But I'm also a patreon supporter of Godot Engine and Wine-Staging (and Wikimedia, and a handful of other good causes), and I've bought a few games on Steam that are free elsewhere, like Tales of Maj'Eyal.

But what really gets me with your attitude is that I don't even KNOW how to better support FOSS gaming and you've offered nothing specific. Liam maintains a list of free games on this very site, but none of them have particularly well established, obvious ways to support them. Some only want contributors, some might want money, but often don't have an easy way to take donations. Some simply want publicity. Even a super-star FOSS game like SuperTux doesn't take money on its steam page [External Link]. Pretty frustrating.

It would be great if these projects just spun up an Itch.io page and stuck their games under PWYW. But it doesn't look like many do, so in practical terms, how on earth does someone "support FOSS alternatives".

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Quoting: PublicNuisanceI notice you say unfair and not inaccurate. Not to mention that this is another example of why having servers run by players is better than by publishers. The cost would be on the players but the game would only die when the last of the players stop playing.

The best games have both, such as Grim Dawn, where there's a league of centrally managed servers providing progression and match-making, but you can also just host a game directly through Steam's multiplayer.

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