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Marvel's Midnight Suns and Two Point Campus headline Humble Choice for January 2024
15 January 2024 at 1:06 pm UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: Expalphalog*except for using "Glorious Eggroll" - I still have absolutely no idea what that is, how to get it, or how to use it.
Glorious Eggroll is a maintainer of a custom proton fork, he is using Valve's Proton and applies updates, patches and fixes. It can be installed additionally to Valve's Proton and then be selected manually when clicking on Properties, Compatibility and then check "Force the use of a specific Steam Play compatiblity tool".
An easy way to install Proton-GE (GE for the initials, since Proton 8 it's called GE-Proton even) is to use a program called ProtonUp-QT.

There are many videos on youtube how to get this done, here's the one from Liam: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6doaQNnHR60

Imho Proton Experimental is the best choice in general, as it's officially supported by Valve and reported issues should be based on their versions. GE-Proton is suited best, when specific fixes are needed, e.g. video playback with the media foundation codecs. Valve cannot include these codecs and transcoding the videos takes time.

Proton Experimental brings more HDR + Steam Overlay hack for Easy Anti-Cheat from EOS
20 December 2023 at 11:26 pm UTC Likes: 5

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  • Fixed intermittent crash in Beat Saber.
That one is interesting. Just today I tried VR on Linux again, and Beat Saber crashed. I thought it would be related to my 20.04 LTS Ubuntu install, so I upgraded to 22.04 today. And the crash didn't happen again, looks like the new Proton Experimental version helped, and not my Ubuntu upgrade

Unfortunately latest Beat Saber version is still borked and you have to select 1.29 legacy from the beta branch.

Check out your 2023 Year In Review on Steam
19 December 2023 at 3:52 pm UTC Likes: 3

For me it's 50% of my playtime on Steam Deck!
Unfortunately the VR situation is currently not in a good state for me (maybe due to nvidia), so I have 1% of playtime on that other OS... I know, what a shame! But I really enjoy playing VR and as it barely ran recently on Linux, I've chosen to enjoy it at least a little bit. Man, last year it was all running so well, and today so many things are borked with VR on Linux. I have hope Valve, nVidia and Unity will get together and fix those issues... and maybe that Deckard project will improve things... but I also heard that the new Steam Link VR App doesn't work on Linux. So, I'm afraid it'll be borked for a bit longer.

Fortnite on Linux / Steam Deck? Not until 'tens of millions of users'
13 December 2023 at 4:14 pm UTC Likes: 3

Not commenting on Fortnite. but on the bright side, though delisted on Steam: Fall Guys is now a click-install-and-play experience. They added the Proton EasyAntiCheat Runtime dependency and the game already works (with less and less extra hassle) on Steam Deck and Linux for quite a while.

Imho it could become now a verified title for the Steam Deck. With Heroic it's still a bit more effort, but works as well once the extra steps for getting Epic Online Services installed are done. But if you prefer a simple solution, you can still get Fall Guys Steam keys online.

Steam Deck global top seller again thanks to cheaper LCDs and the Steam Deck OLED
29 November 2023 at 12:39 pm UTC Likes: 2

I got my OLED Deck on Monday... played Fall Guys (Steam version could now become verified, as they added Proton Easy Anti-Cheat to the additional dependencies) and The Witness on it so far.

The LCD Deck is of course still awesome, but being able to directly compare both devices OLED vs LCD next to each other, I can see and feel the improvements. Buttons less squishy, trackpads have sigificantly improved, the slight decrease in weight, the longer battery life... and yes the screen of course. Just little improvements, but really well done over all.

Even though I also tested the ROG Ally and the Legion Go, I'd still recommend a Steam Deck. At least for the gaming aspect. Price is unbeaten (though the ROG Ally recently got a price drop) and though even the other two devices do have their unique selling points, regarding the complete package, Steam Deck is imho still the best option.

Increcible how these little PC gaming handheld devices have changed my gaming habits. I'm way less at my desktop now. I even learnt to manage how to play shooters (not in a skilled way though) with gamepad controls, where I thought I'd never be able to play them without keyboard (or MoveMaster for me) or mouse.

Hunt: Showdown is broken on Steam Deck / Linux due to Easy Anti-Cheat
20 November 2023 at 7:18 pm UTC Likes: 1

Aw, dang. Just played it recently for the first time. Hopefully it can be resolved soon.

SteamVR 2.0 Beta continues improving on Linux
5 November 2023 at 5:46 pm UTC

Quoting: Steven-Knepper
Quoting: CorbenFor me 2.0.10 gives error 497: "Failed to connect to window manager"
"Stable" 2.0.8 still works though.

I solved that issue by installing the OVR advanced settings.

I'm on Mint 21.2
I got OVRAS installed already, but I heard 2.0.11 should fix the 497 error, need to re-test.

SteamVR 2.0 Beta continues improving on Linux
2 November 2023 at 10:58 pm UTC

For me 2.0.10 gives error 497: "Failed to connect to window manager"
"Stable" 2.0.8 still works though.

Valve released big new Steam desktop, Steam Deck and SteamVR 2.0 updates
26 October 2023 at 11:46 am UTC

As it's still not working for me, despite that special fix related to Ubuntu/Debian systems... my VR is on Linux now completely unusable.

Chilly survival-adventure Kona II: Brume is out now
19 October 2023 at 12:55 pm UTC

Does it run for anybody with the native Linux version?
Works on Deck with native Linux (no Proton needed or shown), but on Desktop Linux, I have to use Proton, otherwise I get a missing executable error.