Thanks for your conscientious work Liam! :heart:
It's a ray of clean, uncorrupted, sunshine in the Internet.

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My concern is that this kind of thing is a slippery slope, how long before any e.g. wolfenstein game will have to be so censored because it touches on topics that are uncomfortable for some. There are a few videos on Youtube where the video avoids naming its primary context to avoid automatic and contextless bot censorship.

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I just tried it in Steam and it shows the banner, then crashes.
This is on the Steam Linux runtime 3.0, so it should provide a sane set of system libraries.

Running it directly on my Fedora system results in a segfault :-(

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I just remember how they almost aggressively avoided supporting Linux for years giving away a growing market to Steam.
They were so well suited towards Linux people too with their DRM-Free stance too. Sigh.

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I must have been in the wrong friendgroup or something. Not me nor any of my friends ever played gears of war.

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The Z2 A really looks like the Deck's cpu. Was there some kind of exclusivity agreement that expired, did they over-anticipate demand, or was this an acknowledgement that this is the most power-optimized design?

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Honestly a standard interface to do this kind of things on a notebook would be very useful already.
On my FW16 I have to use one tool to set cpu power profile or a cap on the clocks, a different tool if I want to adjust the cpu tdp or battery charge modes with any granularity, and a third tool to manage the dgpu power limits.

I have many more tunables than on the Deck, but my ability to control the power usage is worse as it's just too confusing.

If we had a standard application layer that could be even used by e.g. the desktop to expose just a little more control for power modes I could make it so that the different power modes affect the system in a way I find sensible.

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What can we do to help you pick one up for review?

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This looks promising. The concerning thing is they make it sound like they haven't spoken to Valve yet.

But yeah, much of Manjaro's bad reputation comes from failing to do some essential basics like keeping their keys updated, repeatedly. So I suspect Bazzite will still be a superior experience.

Re the "Steam Deck 2" thing, the hardware is overpowered in CPU, and underpowered in memory bandwidth. In theory it would be nearly 3x the performance in GPU but memory bandwidth will need a significant increase, and the CPU is too wide so won't operate as efficiently in a handheld platform.

e.g. If this had a 192-bit memory bus and was limited to only 8x efficiency cores it would probably give a superior gaming experience in handheld form factor.

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Wow, 10 years!

I remember having to help debug issues in anv to get this game rendering on a skylake igpu notebook. Then finished the game at sub 20fps on lowest settings. And I still enjoyed it.

But it was a few years old at that time already.

It really is a very well done game.

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