For those interested, it works very well on the Steam Deck at a locked 40FPS with SSR turned off (it's very distracting on anyway). EDIT: Not quite locked at all, see below.

I'm not sold on the game itself though, the turning is weird and hitting the side of the track sends you bouncing to the other side and with about 3-4 hits to the wall being enough to crash your vehicle it's quite easy to quickly end up in a sort of wall-stun-lock.

I want to like it though, so if anyone has any tips... ;)

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Quoting: elmapulloved the music on the trailer, couldnt figure out the lang

Seeing as it's written and performed by Laura Shigihara [External Link], I'd venture a guess and say it's Japanese. I don't speak Japanese though, so I could be wrong.

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Worth noting is that on Steam Deck, as well as on the Switch, it uses a "handheld" UI so there shouldn't be any eye strain, something that worried me a bit when initially watching the trailer.

EDIT: Announcement here [External Link].

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Quoting: Ehvis[...] That made me start playing The Coma, which is a perfect fit for the deck even though it is still untested.

Oooh, great! Thanks for the suggestion! It's been in my library for a while, but this is a great nudge to try it out now that I'm looking for games that play well on the Steam Deck (it finally came in the mail this week).

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There's been times recently it felt like I woke up in a different world, when sites like PC Gamer told people to stick with SteamOS and not Windows and even LinusTT thought SteamOS did better overall.

The biggest shock for me has been seeing the comments sections go from 3 to 4 people mentioning Linux and being booed out of the room by Windows users, to the exact opposite happening. This almost overnight change in perception of Linux, from being that weird choice to being the obvious one for Steam Deck and even recommended for games like Elden Ring by casual Windows gamers, has been absolutely mindblowing for me.

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Thanks for writing this. It was annoying me as well, that outlets weren't quite getting what the deal was; now we can all just point them at this article :)

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In my experience, as long as one stays away from the bells-n-whistles DEs like Gnome/KDE/Plasma, it's extremely rare for things to break on Arch. The main DEs always end up breaking eventually on every distro I've used, but a bspwm/dwm/i3 desktop is generally completely unaffected due to there being so few moving parts. In the rare case that one part breaks, it's just that one thing to deal with (downgrade, say, "polybar" and be done with it).

The only issue I've had recently was switching from NVIDIA to AMD - which was mostly due to unfamiliarity with the modern Vulkan setup - and an occasional bug with Flatpak where xdg-desktop-portal starts a memory-leak massacre of my system (so, I'm not sold on Flatpak yet).

I would definitely not recommend such a setup for the average user though, but for me, it's more stable than a standard Fedora or Pop!_OS install.

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I really want to like the Kitsune games, but every time someone talks, I get anime-dub flashbacks :(

Quoting: FifteenthPenHahahahahahaha! This is why when you come up with a name for something, you google it before going ahead with it.

"Kitsune" means fox and is fairly well known as a name for the Japanese folklore of shapeshifting foxes. What exactly comes up in your search?

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I don't know if it's already possible, but it would be cool if games could indicate which theme they would like (with a user-toggle, of course). The "pumpkin" theme would probably go quite well with Deus Ex: HR for example. Fully game-themeable is another option, but that's probably overkill.

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Wait, "The Witcher"? That game is 15 years old! :grin:

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