imho relentless virtual protests in nintendo's virtual world squares (now that all games are MMOs) would be cheaper (zero cost for nintendo users, which are the primary interested parties) and would hit nintendo's fanbase (closer to their pocket) more directly

gaming news outlets would probably pick up on that event and if it was big enough, traditional and business news outlets might even mention it, all for no cost

...although my favorite protesters are The Yes Men, and what they would say is not anti, but pro-absurd (the same thing the suits from their protest target are saying, but in a less veiled way so the suits can believe they genuinely agree while everyone else can see it's absurd) + a dash of ludicrous

"we hate nintendo for suing their fans"
>>
"we love nintendo so much we totally agree they should keep suing us fans for any work we do that uses parts of their IP to show our love of nintendo games... in fact they should sue us all, more often, and ruin our lives harder, because we're all BDSM and it feels great to be enslaved by our mistress and her lawyers"

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Remote Play from linux to steam deck has been flaky at best for quite a while for several users, not just since the previous release

I hope whatever they did to fix the recent issue has also fixed the older issues... i might spread the news in the old threads about it and watch out for the reactions...

In any case, the Steam Link app has notoriously worked fine on the Steam Deck, and is available from FlatHub... it's also implemented differently from the Remote Play client feature in steam itself, so i often suggested it to people who couldn't see remote games in the deck's library or had issues actually playing them that way

ps:
I think Valve devs don't test for regressions in feature A while working in feature B... i suspect they don't have any automated testing suite for proper CI/CD pipelines where the Steam app itself is concerned, so testing everything for every update is probably prohibitively laborious (steam has a *ton* of features!)

hopefully they do get that sorted out for other components (especially FOSS ones they contribute upstream) and end up developing a taste for it and eventually doing the same for in-house proprietary software development

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what happens if i get an amd gpu that supports hdmi 2.1, an hdmi 2.1 cable, and an hdmi 2.1 monitor and plug them together, then boot up linux?

"no signal"? black screen? or does this setup fallback to an hdmi 2.0 featureset and i'm just limited some feature or another?

what does hdmi 2.1 do that hdmi 2.0 doesn't?

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can a user on a linux pc pass

SteamDeck=1 %command%

to fake being on a steam deck too?

that's probably going to cause more harm than help, but curiosity is king...

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nvidia driver 535 has a nasty bug which can make the directX setup for Proton prefixes run forever without finishing, so new proton prefixes never get built unless the user is aware of the bug and its workaround: killing the directx setup executable after waiting for a while
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/08/recent-nvidia-drivers-are-causing-issues-for-proton/

the bug is so insidious that it affects any system where driver 535 is installed, even if not being used (even with no nvidia gpu phulysically present!)

i don't have an nvidia gpu myself but i've been seeing quite a few affected users on the steam for linux discussions forum that had no clue why proton just didn't work for them for freshly installed games

i reeeealy hope this has been fixed now, or will ASAP

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all kernel versions shipped inside distro ISO files are outdated soon after (or even before) the ISO being released

this is not exclusive to Linux Mint, it's inherent to ISOs being statically built

if Mint shipped 6.6 (current stable version from kernel.org) it would at best ship 6.6.10 (released 2024-01-05), but soon kernel.org will release bug and security updates as 6.6.11 and 6.6.10 would still be what's cooked inside the ISO

that's why the first thing a user should do after i itial setup is updating everything

being 6.2.x or 6.5.x instead of 6.6.x is irrelevant for this

besides that, Linux Mint does not ship upstream kernels from kernel.org... it ships the HWE (hardware enablement) versions of Ubuntu Kernel from kernel.ubuntu.org... and those are always one or a few versions behind in numbering (ask Canonical why, not Mint team) while cherry-picking improvements from the latest stable and backporting security updates and bug fixes

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Valve should just hire Ryan to do his thing

Stupid simple highly relevant ("why wasn't this done before?!") lightweight crossplatform opensource libs for game development are his thing

I'm guessing game engines will be eager to add this feature (they all use SDL already afaik) so the right glyphs can be shown outside Steam too

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Quoting: emphyMy guess is that there'll be a well-adapted steamos/chimeraos/whatever-community-distro for deck-alikes before that happens.

Isn't ChimaeraOS the well-adapted SteamOS/ChimaeraOS/whatever for Deck-alikes?

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reading into the list it really hits home just how much Proton was *necessary* for Linux gaming to be seen as a viable alternative for windiws gamers wanting to move into linux or out of windows

it also hits home how much the indie scene is friendlier towards linux than AAA titles from bigger studios despite having less resources to keep a native linux version

and just what a colossus Stardew Valley became, still being a top list game for so much time :heart:

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Quoting: elmapul

Quoting: ElectricPrismEdit 2: I'm also looking for a good racer, LAN PvP -- unfortunately Garfield Kart and Super Indie Kart are not LAN AFAIR :(

maybe supertux kart? i cant remember if it support lan, but its open source so in the worst case scenario...

Steam games can become LAN-ready if you use this:
https://mr_goldberg.gitlab.io/goldberg_emulator/ [External Link]

This is a steam emulator that emulates steam online features on a LAN. It works on both Linux and Windows.

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