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Latest Comments by Phlebiac
Humble Choice for April 2025 has a quality list of games
3 Apr 2025 at 7:18 am UTC

after Humble trying their hand at adding in more EA App games
Hopefully enough of us skipped those for them to have learned to stop!

Linux shoots back up the Steam Survey for March 2025 with Simplified Chinese dropping
3 Apr 2025 at 6:55 am UTC

I'm astonished that PopOS is still that high
PopOS and Ubuntu are both on the decline; see also:
https://boilingsteam.com/linux-distros-in-march-2025-a-new-challenger-emerges/ [External Link]

Marvel's Spider-Man 2 has lost its Steam Deck Verified rating
1 Apr 2025 at 4:41 am UTC

<cynicism>So that means Valve allows a two month window to get elevated sales on big releases before applying a more honest evaluation?</cynicism>

Neverwinter Nights 2 Enhanced Edition hasn't been announced yet but it just got a Steam Deck Playable rating
27 Mar 2025 at 4:22 am UTC Likes: 1

When it comes to Linux builds, it appears both Apsyr and Beamdog have deserted us, sadly.

HP are interested in making a SteamOS handheld as the Windows experience sucks
26 Mar 2025 at 3:55 am UTC

Between the decision to do it and something usable emerging would be quite a long story
Well, they've had two years now:
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/04/microsoft-experiments-handheld-windows-11-for-steam-deck/

Proton Experimental adds fixes for GTA V Enhanced and more for Linux / Steam Deck
21 Mar 2025 at 5:27 pm UTC

as an owner of the "classic" one is there a way to get the enhanced update without re-buying the game
You should have gotten it for free automatically on Steam?

Palworld cross-play has arrived along with a new cosmetic system and Pal transfers between worlds
20 Mar 2025 at 5:08 am UTC

find out what happens with that Nintendo lawsuit.
With any luck, they get spanked and a new precedent is set that makes it harder for similar lawsuits in the future.

Steam Beta improves download speed of Steam Client updates on Linux / Steam Deck and other fixes
20 Mar 2025 at 5:02 am UTC Likes: 1

On an unrelated note...

Fixed Update News window being covered by Steam Client window at startup.
... that's been an (admittedly minor) annoyance for quite a long time now!

Steam Beta improves download speed of Steam Client updates on Linux / Steam Deck and other fixes
20 Mar 2025 at 5:00 am UTC

If they fixed the Linux filter in the library so that it works (shows native games) with the "all other titles" setting enabled, then the setting becomes even less useful than it is today. But the filter is useful 0% of the time otherwise.