I expect they have a supply from any models returned during the distance selling cool-off of the respective countries and/or returns from warranty replacements. Not a bad idea.

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Tried it out on my Arch desktop system:

OS: Arch Linux x86_64
Kernel: 6.2.7-arch1-1
Uptime: 3 days, 2 hours, 1 min
Packages: 2133 (pacman)
Shell: zsh 5.9
Resolution: 1920x1080, 2560x1080
DE: Plasma 5.27.3
WM: KWin
WM Theme: Breeze
Theme: [Plasma], Breeze [GTK2/3]
Icons: [Plasma], breeze-dark [GTK2/3]
Terminal: kitty
CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 2700X (16) @ 3.700GHz
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB
Memory: 9179MiB / 15921MiB

And it ran flawlessly as far as I can tell. I still have to try it on my Steam Deck.

I need to RTFM a bit but so far I like it a lot!

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Ooh this looks like it might be right in my wheelhouse. Downloading the Linux build now. If this will be 100% Deck playable then it may well be the game that finally dislodges FTL as my goto game (currently 2350hrs played).

I will post any feedback I have when I get a chance to test it out.

Looking at the video it also has some flavours of another favourite of mine - Duskers - due to keyboard reliance I haven't really been able to play it lately since the Deck became my main game PC.

This looks like a classic in the making.

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Quoting: TorqachuMy favorite remains GameHub (https://tkashkin.tk/projects/gamehub/), I'm too stupid to use Lutris.

I can't recall if I tried out GameHub or not - I think the GTK deps may have put me off. I will try to get a look soon though.

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Wow - now this looks awesome!

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I gave this a try (fairly recently) and it looks polished but didn't find anything except Steam stuff and only seemed to offer the fullscreen/big picture style interface where I like to have access to a more "desktop" application interface, at least as an option if not the default. I have looked around but I am still working with a compromise of Lutris and RetroArch for launching games.

More front ends or game launchers are good in the GNU/Linux FOSS world because of choice and innovation. The problem is that virtually none of them live up to the promise of a "universal game launcher" because no-one seems to be implementing discovery for anything but Steam (which already has a DB on your computer to read) and occasionally some of the others like GOG.

I was initially very excited by Lutris because of the promise of universality but almost all the focus (user driven - I am not knocking the Devs for this) has moved towards making it a Wine launcher. You *can* add all your classic stuff like DOS Box, LibRetro etc but the tedious effort of adding one game at a time means that I more often than not just go straight to RetroArch for classic stuff and Lutris for Modern stuff. I am also becoming less enamoured with Lutris due to it's heavy GTKness, especially the practice of including widgets which should be left to the window manager (close, maximise etc.) in the application itself.

I will keep an eye on Pegasus and others in the future but for now it seems mostly another cosmetic approach without the foundational structure for my needs.

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