reminds me of the iphone 4 (or was it 5?):

After months/years of hard development we are proud to present the most amazing feature there has ever been - we now sell it also in white!

and of course it costs more...

sales must be going pretty bad lately if they have to come up with such stuff to get attention again...

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Quoting: Geppeto35Do you know if there is a "creative" mode, where we can set the room shape and size, and try combinations of furnitures to see how it results?

if you want complete freedom, why not try SweetHome3D? it's also free and part of many distros...

Quoting: razing32Remember when we had video games fantasizing about dragons and spaceships.
Now we seem to be fantasizing about home ownership :dizzy:

looked at prices for houses recently? for many of us owning one is just something we can dream of...
but I agree, some action and a "real" story would be much nicer... doesn't have to include dragons...

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Quoting: Philadelphus

Proton is closing in on its 5 year anniversary soon too!

Is it really just that recently? I remember several years of my early Linux adoption (2014) passing over things that didn't have a Linux version, but it feels like forever since I pretty much stopped bothering to check what platforms were supported because most things just work now. :happy:

If you count only in proton years, yes. But proton is not a project of its own, it's based on / a fork of Wine, which is a lot older and they still exchange patches.. so, what is proton? a branch of wine which gets merges from wine from time to time or the other way around... rather both... so this stuff is actually older than steam... from wikipedia: first version of wine appeared juli, 4th 1993!!!!
so this stuff just celebrated it's 30th aniversary!
GOL's 14th birthday recently was more important though :wink: :grin::tongue:

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Thumbs down for this one...
On Linux desktop I have a hard time even starting the steam-client, it just shows the check for updates window and then it's gone... in shell you can see that it crashes...
when i reboot and start the client immediatly after that it sometimes works... but that's horrible quality...
i thought they base their own steamos on archlinux, so i assumed they'd test their desktop client on arch-based distros as well? or has manjaro deviated that much from arch?
one of the worst updates i've ever seen....
nvidia-driver is 530.41.03, so it shouldn't be the problem mentioned here:

Quoting: Soulprayer.... i downgraded them to 530.41.03 and it worked again.

anyone else having such issues?

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Quoting: Vankog

Quoting: stormtuxI have some questions about how this stores work:
How buying bundles on stores like HumbleBundle or Fanatical is supporting Linux?

This one I can answer:
Haven't you noticed that the bundle link is an affiliate link?
Go to the checkout and have a look at the "charity" settings and you will see, that you support gamingonlinux quite literally. ;-)
(and with a decent share that is...)

but you can also customize those settings, i.e. nothing for charity and all to GOL :grin: or everything to the publisher and nothing for the rest of them... only the humble store has a minimum share they get

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Quoting: stormtux

Quoting: Liam Dawe

Quoting: peta77

Quoting: PixelDropCall of the Sea = free on EPIC right now
Control = Has been free on EPIC twice
Hellblade = Has been part of MANY bundles in the past.

Then I have 2 others from other rarer bundles.

If you have been collecting EPIC games, it's an okay-ish bundle not great but okay.
If you have been collecting EPIC + Most all good value bundles for a while then you're almost paying sale prices for the stuff your missing. Which the issue with paying near sale prices on bundled games is you can not return them if you don't like them, so unless you know you're going to like them you're better off just paying the couple extra dollars for return protection. Actually taking the time to returning 1 or 2 games out of 4 during a big normal sale can literally save you more money than buying a bundle where you're only save a few dollars per game.

Or you want the games, pay "sales prices" for them and support some charity organizations with a bundle!

Because that's what these are about. If you're just looking for the cheapest prices, you're not the targeted audience.

That and grabbing free games on Epic, does absolutely nothing to support Linux and Steam Deck gaming. Additionally, there's no doubt many like me not really paying much attention at all to free games from Epic. While the Heroic Launcher is great, much prefer to stick with Steam and get bundles like this.

I have some questions about how this stores work:
How buying bundles on stores like HumbleBundle or Fanatical is supporting Linux?
- installing and playing a game in steam from Linux will raise the sales statistics the developers/publishers have access to? Are we sure "activated games" are handled the same way as "bought games"?
- will Valve get a percent of the cost of the keys in the bundle? You know, bandwidth, infrastructure etc.

The last thing I heard on that was:
it's counted for the platform on which you played most during the first 2 weeks or so?
but that's a while ago and it could have changed...
i mean: they also have statistics that take into account the platform on which you add something to your wishlist... so they may as well consider the platform you bought the game on...

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Quoting: PixelDropCall of the Sea = free on EPIC right now
Control = Has been free on EPIC twice
Hellblade = Has been part of MANY bundles in the past.

Then I have 2 others from other rarer bundles.

If you have been collecting EPIC games, it's an okay-ish bundle not great but okay.
If you have been collecting EPIC + Most all good value bundles for a while then you're almost paying sale prices for the stuff your missing. Which the issue with paying near sale prices on bundled games is you can not return them if you don't like them, so unless you know you're going to like them you're better off just paying the couple extra dollars for return protection. Actually taking the time to returning 1 or 2 games out of 4 during a big normal sale can literally save you more money than buying a bundle where you're only save a few dollars per game.

Or you want the games, pay "sales prices" for them and support some charity organizations with a bundle!

Because that's what these are about. If you're just looking for the cheapest prices, you're not the targeted audience.

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Nice to see a demo being published before the game release. Looks very good, but - as they also mention in the disclaimer - it still needs some optimization. Framerates, even on low settings, are in the 20s, sometimes scratching 30, @4K for me. But the rest works quite good. Tried it on desktop only, not on the deck.

Does anyone know if there's a notification when you finished everything there's to do in the demo? I'm stuck

Spoiler, click me

after managing to bring the couple together and finding the key on the bench. But I can't find any place to use it or other items / fires where there's something to do.

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Quoting: toivopThis did miss miss last week or so since I've spent a lot off time on Oxygen not Included

What? Even though it says: Steam Replay takes data between January 1st and December 14th 2022... ???

You should instantly report this as a serious bug :wink: :grin:

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For me it only lists Linux desktop & Steam Deck. VR is missing. Or was it too little compared to other stuff? Didn't play it in offline mode, so should've been tracked...

But I'm not sure I like all that tracking stuff....

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