It may be part of a marketing stunt to promote the next doom title. I hadn't really heard of it, but Doom: the Dark Ages looks slick :)

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3017860/DOOM_The_Dark_Ages/ [External Link]

edit: can't figure out the links. It's not Markdown, BBCode or HTML :/

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That's fun! I was wondering what would happen below zero as well :)

At least, you have a relatively accurate way to predict what the price will be in the future, and plan your purchase accordingly.

283.05°K

they should lose the "°" symbol and use a non breaking space according to SI.

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Didn't Weston advise against forking it at some point? I would have imagined going with wlroots.

Anyways, that sounds interesting, I am curious about multiseat. Is it multi-cursor/keyboard, which works relatively well in apps that support it (easy to do with wlroots compositors)? Or multiple independent screens?

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Ah, interesting, I wonder whether they will publish it on Flathub or on Steam (or possibly elsewhere).

The fact that they mention HDR is also interesting. As far as I know, only Wayland is capable of it. And then, only some Wayland compositor implement the (WIP) Wayland protocols, including Gamescope. Therefore this hints that they are aiming to get their app launched in "Gaming mode". As opposed to desktop mode (unless they are privy to some future SteamOS updates). And it may not be extremely compatible cross-distribution.

Luckily, last time I had a look, the HDR protocols seemed to have matured quite well, so hopefully this will lead to widespread compatibility.

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Quoting: rcritIt also adds "Earn even more Steam Sale trading cards by crafting game badges." but I have no idea what that means. Craft them out of what exactly?

In addition to the previous comment, I'd like to point out that if you "craft" badges during events such as this one, you get an event card in addition to your badge. This is also why I typically craft my badges during events.

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I'll wait for the benchmarks, but I'm tempted. My desktop could use an upgrade. My server could use some AV1 HW encoding if they make a low profile version.

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Flatpak :)

Beyond that, it doesn't matter too much if you have a relatively recent kernel, and it may be worth asking another set of questions to customize the answer:

• Are you new to Linux? Picking a distribution with a lot of documentation can help: Ubuntu usually, but the Arch Wiki is very good too if you are more technical, and depending on the other questions.


• Do you have specific hardware or needs?


• How much do you enjoy tweaking things? On a spectrum from Gnome->KDE->i3/sway, or Silverblue->Ubuntu->Arch


• How far are you willing to go for a but more perf? Clear Linux, Catchy OS, Gentoo, etc

I am personally quite curious about immutable distributions such as Silver blue/Kionite/etc, but still on regular Arch for now.

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Looks good to me, if only reminiscent of the "The Duke" Xbox controller :)

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Quoting: ElectricPrism

Quoting: Mohandevir[...] Nvidia GameStream which was (because Nvidia stopped offering it) the equivalent of the Steam Link app.

Since Steam Link has entered the conversation -- what's the best way to Steam Steam within the LAN without any smart tvs? I need to 2x Steam Streams @ 4k.

Well, you could use Moonlight/Sunshine, which is an open source reimplementation of the aforementioned GameStream tech (respectively client and server). You can also download the Steam link app, it is on flathub and the Android play store.

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Quoting: IrisNebula

Quoting: Eike

Quoting: chickenb00I wish Valve would incorporate AMD Chill into SteamOS: when I stop providing inputs, after a second or two drop my fps to my target minimum. When input occurs immediately ramp up fps to my target max.

I never heard of that one?!?
(And I didn't meet it. I'm usually playing stuff like point and click, but I did run some benchmarks, which should suffer from the same problem?)

It's not an issue that you'd come across, rather a feature that you intentionally activate to preserve battery life. I would hate it for most games personally, but in a few genres like puzzle games where I might look at a mostly static screen for a long time trying to figure out a solution, it makes sense.

Looking at the feature description, it doesn't seem related to user input (which would be hard to intercept for a graphics driver, anyway), but rather depend on the output. Raise target FPS when the output changes quickly, lower it when it doesn't. In theory this is sound. In practice, without the game cooperating, it may mean a bit more latency. I also imagine this works much better with a variable refresh rate screen.

https://www.amd.com/en/products/software/adrenalin/radeon-software-chill.html [External Link]

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