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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"X (Twitter)" reads the same as ex-Twitter, which is exactly what it is, so I find this to be an optimal way to name it and shame it :grin:

i wonder why Valve devs / spokespersons are so much more active on 3rd-party social media platforms than on steam discussions forums... obviously not enough time to juggle all of them, probably just habit making them choose social media, but maybe also something more deliberate about catching people's attentions outside the current customer base?

in any case i'd love them to at least reply once or twice in hot steam discussions threads like the hundreds-posts-long one about the Deck's wifi (currently on a sour tone because the OLED version also has wifi issues, sigh)

and just to be clear, I do love what they've been bringing to the table (quite literally in the Deck's case, despite the wifi debacle), and their online presence on social media is totally welcome (and needed, since official Valve statements are so rare)

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Quoting: TactikalKittyOpenSuse removed the 535 driver which worked perfect.

"perfect" is a strong word...
535 was actually a mess for steam proton games
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/08/recent-nvidia-drivers-are-causing-issues-for-proton/

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"Limited Edition: only 1 per physical person, at most 7 billion units" :grin:

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i live in a country they aren't yet selling the Deck directly to, and despite the untapped market, 3rd-party announcements are nigh inexistant after more than a year

IMHO that's a sign they have been majorly successful at keeping scalpers at bay with regards to the LCD version

I would love if they could just get around to selling it here before i gather enough idle money and tire of waiting... resorting to scalpers for a unit is not my favourite prospect at all, even if I manage to find a reliable one (which is a feat unto itself)

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Quoting: ShmerlStarting on Wayland is good, but judging by how long it took KDE Plasma to get to decent state, it will probably be a long road. Still nice to see some progress.

Clem said something like 2 years somewhere on the post or the comments.

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[quote=Purple Library Guy]

Quoting: Shmerlit's going to gloss over far too few details!

LOL! :grin:

https://xkcd.com/2163/ [External Link]
(see the alt text)

you know how on a color picker on any app the colors are described in RGB as a number between 0 and 256 for each of the three colors (Red, Green, Blue)?

imagine if instead you can use a number between 0 and 1024

then you know how a powerpoint slide that's painted full black (RGB: 0, 0, 0) is actually looking dark gray on your monitor or TV?

imagine if instead that shows as actual pitch black

good honest HDR monitors can handle those better details, if software learns how to ask nice (what this article is about)...

...though most "HDR" monitors will just say "sure!" when asked nice, and present the same dull shite color and brightness range as they always did when their previous incarnation wasn't called HDR yet

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Quoting: dziadulewiczThis is very late and should already be hurried IMO. To put all possible resources to get Wayland's going fine on Linux Mint. Until it works, Linux Mint is certainly not an alternative to much more modern Ubuntu ecosystem by default..

They are an Ubuntu derivate, Cinnamon is a Gnome derivate, and Muffin is a Mutter derivate.

They waited for upstream to do enough work for things to look like they're working there.

Then recently they did a big Muffin rebase over a fresh version of Mutter, which captured most of the wayland work done there by Gnome devs (and severely reduced the amount of custom things done in Muffin differently from Mutter, making it easier to do new rebasing moves).

And then this announcement shows they got to work on Cinnamon.

And a comment on the announcement from a user says only a few X-apps need extra work making them run as expected u der wayland... like just four of them... the restis probably running over Xwayland, but if they do run fine that way that's enough to be a non-issue for their i initialmigration effort.

Then Clem replied noting that a lot of work left to do is on taskbar, menu, control panel, etc, which makes sense.

Anyway, as long as Ubuntu and Debian don't suddenly remove x.org from repos then Mint should be fine, but I agree this is high priority and have commented on their new article to that effect.

Ubuntu's modernity doesn't mean much for usual Mint users. Unless being on X.org becomes a tangible issue they'll wait around until the work is done and migration happens without pain, which is Mint's way of doing things.

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