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He must be smoking some good stuff. The only proven way to preserve games is to release the source code to the community. Training an AI to mimic the game is just stupid on so many levels !

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Looking at [Playtron GitHub](https://github.com/playtron-os) , they're mostly contributing to launcher stuff (Heroic game launcher, and they hire the guy behind Lutris), they seem to have repos to interact with other store (like steam, gog) and they have RPM stuff for playtron-os.

The dev who seems to contribute to playtron OS also seems to contribute to open-source project. (mostly launcher stuff)

playtron-os (I guess gameos, but it's call playtron-os on GitHub), seems to be base on Fedora, use ostree, and is mostly compatibility tools for linux.

To give them credit where it's due, If I had to make a gaming base distro, and had some money to invest in it, I guess I would use the same strategies. (but use an Arch base distro because I use Arch BTW).

I would have love to see them contribute to mesa, wine and Linux kernel, but I guess it's not something easy to do for a small company, and maybe if they grow bigger they will contribute more to those projects.

The marketing and w3m stuff are kind of a turn-off though, but maybe they just take money from peoples willing to give them, and are really trying to make a good Linux-base distro for handheld.

Maybe the project is a scam, but they give money to open-source dev to improve Linux compatibility with launcher, and this is still a good thing.

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Hello Kitty Island Adventure looks like a genuinely fun game.

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Can confirm it works again with Proton Hotfix (not experimental, but probably bleeding edge? idk I'm using the regular one) with 7900 XT, Kubuntu 24 LTS

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Thanks for the input, guys. Even though it turned out to be three very different takes... not sure what to expect now xD

I´m pretty amazed on a technical level how well the first two games run and look. Smooth transitions from high-speed roof-level gameplay to walking on crowded, highly detailed streets with rarely any noticable pop-ins, and then again in and out of indoor-locations... high-detail cutscenes filled with complex lighting and effects... but at no point did I have the urge to cheer on my deck (come on boy, you can do it... I now you can!) like I sometimes feel with other demanding games.

...and I dont know what coding-magic went into realising all those fine patterns of clothings, Spider-Mans eyes etc. almost without any moireing (is that a word?) even on the Deck´s low resolution.

The games seem to be incredibly well optimised and its really sad if the new one falls short there.

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man i wish the support for Corsair stuff would be better. i mean there is ckb-next but the progress on that seems slow.
there is, for example, a pull request for the Scimitar Elite Wireless that barely gets any work done for over a year.
i have to use that pull request do use my mouse..

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A matter of time before Liam posts an update saying: "Valve sent a patch to correct the mesa bug in Indiana Jones..."? Something along those lines?

It's probably really easy to fix driver side, but it's just such an embarrassing mistake ngl. I through even people new to vulkan wouldn't make such a mistake lol

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I never even imagined Amazon Prime Gaming as a competitor to Steam. I guess that shows how clueless Amazon management was.

Now I realize Amazon Prime Gaming never includes any Steam game keys in their weekly drops.

If Amazon Prime Gaming could include Linux native games, that would be in the right direction at a minimum.

At least you can get GoG game key and just download Linux-native game if GoG has them, since the GoG game key is for the game license, not the specific platform it can run on, just the same as Steam.

Epic games can be installed using legendary without requiring wine, then run from heroic with wine.

Direct Amazon-provided games can be installed using nile without requiring wine, then run using wine. I shudder the days when Amazon Game App running in wine would frequently freeze and fail downloads, but no more.

The only games Amazon Prime Gaming provide that cannot be installed is Microsoft Store based ones, since they require Xbox App in MS Windows, and last time I tried, it failed in Linux. I still register the game keys just in case Microsoft decides to allow Linux to install their games in the future. You never know, I can still register the keys from Linux web browser.

Then there is Legacy Games, and its App works quite well under wine, so no complaints there.

I have not seen any other online store-based games that Amazon Prime Gaming gives out, but we'll see. Maybe once they realize they can never beat Steam, they could negotiate with Steam to include Steam games?

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Booker, catch!
https://www.deviantart.com/iamarg/art/CATCH-365529809

[edit] really? no links or pictures allowed, either?

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A new Proton Hotfix is up and it makes the game run again.

I see no option for FSR on Steam Deck, though. Just TAA (like before) and XeSS. The latter improves things, but comes with problems all its own (shimmering opalising effect on textures). I remember this well from Robocop...

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Nice to see the new hardware compatibility being added. I'm very tempted to get something from the Basilisk line to see how they stack up against the G502.

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No reason to build and maintain a total separate repo.

Great idea. And now you can go to Ubuntu / Linux Mint / any other Ubuntu fork & tell them to stop developing their systems, because they can simply use & work with Debian.

This is not the first incident with Fedora Flatpak shipping broken applications

The RPM package was broken, too because OBS is broken with newer Qt versions. Other distributions (e.g. Arch Linux) should be affected, too.

I still think that long term Fedora needs a better story to why Fedora Flatpaks are needed at all.

Because they want to provide their applications in their atomic systems. That's reason enough. Flatpak is their secondary package manager & obviously their systems will install any additional software from their source, the same way their RPM systems install from their RPM repository.

To me this is the sort of duplicate work and "not invetened here mentality" that drains resources the Linux community don't have.

The Fedora flatpaks get created from the Fedora RPM packages, there is not that much duplicate work.

I'm using both Fedora variants (Workstation & Silverblue) and don't care much about Fedora's Flatpaks (I've completely removed from my system). But it's still the purpose of a Linux distribution to provide their builds. Just because Flathub exits doesn't change this.

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Despite being patched 3 times, this game still doesn't work with a RTX 3080 10GB under Windows 11 at the moment ;-(

As long as it's super buggy under Windows, as it is currently, there's little hope of getting good Linux compatibility via Proton...

Probably, but not a guarantee... Remember Elden Ring performance issues, at launch? Valve was able to mitigate the Windows issues with the use of Proton.

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However still have issues:

https://github.com/PCSX2/pcsx2/pull/12333#issuecomment-2673460544

https://github.com/PCSX2/pcsx2/pull/12333#issuecomment-2674116555

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Despite being patched 3 times, this game still doesn't work with a RTX 3080 10GB under Windows 11 at the moment ;-(

As long as it's super buggy under Windows, as it is currently, there's little hope of getting good Linux compatibility via Proton...

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I'd put money on Wayland maturing over time, the PCSX2 devs weren't wrong about it being a mess in a lot of ways.

I saw similar news in another popular linux site/forum, which... frankly is known for rather toxic forums, rag on the PCSX2 devs like how dare they have a reasoned opinion and then do the ridiculous thing like update their opinions as time passes and issues resolve.

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Someone in the freedesktop bug says they reported this to Bethesda and got back "This issue is likely occurring due to Indiana Jones and the Great Circle not officially being supported on the Steam Deck. We understand this answer is disappointing and apologize for the inconvenience."

So, yeah, it's all on Valve as usual.

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Also, the developer of the game must have the source code, so they can simply port it to different platforms. That's not a big task these days.

Source code seems to have gone more often than you'd think.

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I want to see how much NVK has improved since the last minor release.

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This game is a hot mess, whether or not you're on Steam Deck. And that's without the bugs and crashing.

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@dpanter

GameOS... definitely one of the names of all time.
The more I hear about this totally-not-a-scam project, the less I wish I heard about it.

BUT ... BUT ... IT HAS CRYPTO BRO. Listen, this device is going to train state-of-the-art algorithms, build cognitive frameworks, predict algorithmic tensor transformations, and absolutely dominate the market with blockchain integration at the NFT level with gen ai frameworks.

If you'll excuse me, I have to return to my sewer, so I'll just leave you with our investment opportunities form and bertcoin payment link. See ya bro!

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Glad to hear that, considering that they disabled it last year (I think?) due to issues with Wayland. Seems like Wayland's matured enough or the GUI library they're using has finally fixed up their problems.

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You preserve games by releasing them DRM free. Where is Freelancer?

Currently on the GOG.com dreamlist: https://www.gog.com/dreamlist/game/freelancer . While the dreamlist is a nice idea, I don't think the dreamlist will actually accomplish anything, if its current track record is anything to go by. On top of that, developers and publishers will have to agree to the terms set by GOG, which means none of that Denuvo crap that these craporations love so much.

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A matter of time before Liam posts an update saying: "Valve sent a patch to correct the mesa bug in Indiana Jones..."? Something along those lines?

Let's cross our fingers, but it seems a common pattern in cases like that.

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Remember that a basic job of the OS is to isolate processes. So an infected non-root app may be able to access your home, but it can't access other processes (like your browser, or the service that provides your keyring). With root privileges, that isolation is gone.

But I can replace the browser (Use The Source, Luke! ;) ) or password manager and send whatever they get from the inside. Not only what happens to be in memory, but everything stored.
I don't check on a daily basis what my Firefox start button actually starts...
You can also change the PATH variable and put the binaries there, so it would work from command line as well.

I give you that root access makes things less visible, but this attack would be good enough to spy on me at least.

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GameOS... definitely one of the names of all time.
The more I hear about this totally-not-a-scam project, the less I wish I heard about it.

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If I recall correctly, this is based on Bazzite or at least the Universal Blue infrastructure right? From a quick look at the website, they are Fedora-based and do use rpm-ostree but I can't confirm more than that.

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We already have emulators that take care of the issue, accurate at machine level, we have MAME that even emulates original slowdowns and original game issues.

Isn't that enough? NO! Trash it, Lets consume some MegaWatt more to train IAs to do everything from the beginnin, probably in a worst way, with funky things appearing here and there.

These people seem to really lose the contact with reality.
I've the impression that their minds are so inside their work that they think everything orbits around it.
This is an optimistic and good-natured take on the issue.

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The lack of upscaling aside from DLSS was baffling to say the least.
Here, have this game with mandatory raytracing and most settings only affecting VRAM usage. But offer enough upscaling solutions? Nah.

Also, XESS 1.4? Did I miss something? When did that happen? There isn't even a release on the Github page.

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oh no! i was so looking forward to checking out the new RT Options looks like I will need to wait until this is fixed.

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