Maybe they are just playing Counterstrike, but with real weapons?

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyGalactic Civilizations

This is such a shame, because I remember when Stardock was a cool company, producing OS/2 games. Now they are just yet another boring Windows shop.

I ditched Windows long before Steam for Linux. I remember, my only concern back in 2005 was, if WoW would work. It did in wine just fine :D

When I heard the first rumors, that Steam might come to Linux (in a Phoronix article, IIRC) I was curious. Installed it as soon as I could get my hands on it. First game I bought just to support their effort with my wallet. It was Serious Sam 3 BFE, btw.

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Well, things are moving in the right direction.
Btw, I was wondering, if Linux is not already the most successful gaming platform. If you count Android, it might already be. Does anybody have numbers on the market share for gaming devices?

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Quoting: sergeI tried a Mac vm once, but usb wasn't working (don't know if it is still the case now) so you can't test your app on a real device, and you are left with emulation and a significant loss of performance from the vm.

A real machine is indeed needed. But it would be sufficient for the most part to have one or two machines lying around for testing and fixing purposes. No need to use them as a daily driver though

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Quoting: sergeIf you need to develop and compile applications for iOS, you can only do it with Xcode which is Mac only, by doing this they force peoples to buy Mac :(

That is true, but for the most part, you can develop on Linux and test on a mac sitting somewhere, connecting with some remote desktop. For mobile, I highly recommend Flutter ;-)
Then you only need a mac for iOS specific issues.

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Quoting: ExpandingManWhere I work I'm seemingly the only one who uses linux, and frankly if they told me I couldn't anymore I'd probably immediately quit. Life is too short to spend 8 hours a day dealing with apple's shit.

I my corporation it is the same. A few of us used Linux for years, but were forced to use Windows since 2019 (at least we got VMs with Linux locally or on Citrix, otherwise I would have quit back then)
Now IT was forced to also support macOS (because the younglings seem to like that crap), and me and another colleague were to test, if macbooks could replace our Windows boxes with Linux VMs. I gave it a fair shot. I didn't know how good or bad it was, and I thought it couldn't be that bad. The hardware at least is fantastic (M1).
But boy was I surprised, when I got my finger on that machine. It drove me insane. The hardware support is abyssal (the macBook is the only machine, that wont work on my HP docking station at home). 2K monitors look like shit, because scaling does only work on 4K monitors. And lets not talk about macOS, its ridiculously bad, when you come from a KDE background
Now I am at the point to quit my job, because I have doubts, that policies will change any time soon. Luckily, there are plenty of companies out there, that are not so stupid.

But to counter your point: I'm actually surprised, that so many are using Linux professionally, considering, that most corporate IT departments are Microsoft sycophants

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Assume, the only thing I have is a Steam Deck. What difference would it make for me, if a game is exclusive to that thing? None!
OTOH, if I have a PC and a Steam game comes out exclusively for the Deck, I would be pissed. But ofc, Valve could add extra features in a non-exclusive, that only work on a Deck. I'd be fine with that.

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Quoting: ExpandingManCan't you just use grub to boot back into the old kernel? I assume steamdeck uses grub?

I assume you can, but I needed a web browser anyway, to help me find the solution to the problem

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Quoting: ExpandingManJust booted into 6.1 (actually it's an RC because the repos don't have latest yet) with no problems.

I tend to forget how incredibly easy Manjaro makes it to switch kernels.

I just did the same on my Manjaro install on the Steam Deck, after Manjaro complained about the 5.19 kernel. I installed the 6.1, rebooted, and X would not start
I had to connect to the machine with ssh, because the console screen is the steam deck monitor flipped on the side and very tiny :-)
After uninstalling the linux61 package and running mkinitcpio -P it worked again

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Quoting: TheSHEEEPWith these, I always wish Valve would give out absolute numbers instead of percentages.

Now that we know that there are more than a million Steam Decks sold, you can calculate the absolute numbers. Its something about 5.8 million Linux users and a total number of 450 million users (according to my math)

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