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Steam Deck Tips and Tricks Part 2
31 August 2022 at 5:29 pm UTC
Hey Liam, can you check Maui Apps on Steam Deck? They are supposed to be more touch friendly and convergent. They also work on Android. You can find latest Appimages and Apks here
Sorry Arch (EndeavourOS), it's not working out any more and hello Fedora
8 April 2022 at 12:00 pm UTC Likes: 2
Nobara Project looks interesting. Did anyone try it?
GOG attempt to bring customers back with a revival of Good Old Games
6 April 2022 at 4:25 pm UTC Likes: 1
Quoting: Guest
Quoting: Sputnik_tr_02
Quoting: Guest
Quoting: damarrinIf they wanted to stay relevant with the Linux crowd. Which they don't.

Focusing on old games, as the name "good old games" suggests, you're absolutely correct. There's really no point: relatively few of those older games having native versions, with wine or dosbox taking care of the bulk of the titles. With software such as Lutris, there's really no reason for GOG to actually bother with GNU/Linux: the market share is too small, and everything needed for GNU/Linux users is basically already taken care of. For older games, of course (and I daresay for most newer titles too).
Ironically, I suspect it's easier to get the older games running on GNU/Linux thanks to wine and dosbox, than it is to provide interface libraries and have the games run on Windows.

Why bother with all of those?

Steam provides tools for both. Steam Linux Runtime for native and Proton for others. An they have first class Linux support, Regional pricing, alternative payment options and countless other features via their Native Linux Client. So there is no reason for me to bother with gog.

Turns out that my distro provides all of those tools for free, outside of a proprietary games management client, and integrated with the distro itself.

Yea G.O.G Good old gatekeeping.
GOG attempt to bring customers back with a revival of Good Old Games
6 April 2022 at 4:20 pm UTC Likes: 2
Quoting: Guest
Quoting: damarrinIf they wanted to stay relevant with the Linux crowd. Which they don't.

Focusing on old games, as the name "good old games" suggests, you're absolutely correct. There's really no point: relatively few of those older games having native versions, with wine or dosbox taking care of the bulk of the titles. With software such as Lutris, there's really no reason for GOG to actually bother with GNU/Linux: the market share is too small, and everything needed for GNU/Linux users is basically already taken care of. For older games, of course (and I daresay for most newer titles too).
Ironically, I suspect it's easier to get the older games running on GNU/Linux thanks to wine and dosbox, than it is to provide interface libraries and have the games run on Windows.

Why bother with all of those?

Steam provides tools for both. Steam Linux Runtime for native and Proton for others. An they have first class Linux support, Regional pricing, alternative payment options and countless other features via their Native Linux Client. So there is no reason for me to bother with gog.
KDE finally gets root operations in Dolphin, big 2022 plans for Wayland
6 January 2022 at 8:23 am UTC Likes: 1
Quoting: LoftyIs it possible with Wayland to create virtual monitors ? and therefore custom resolutions / aspect-ratios for games to see and utilize ?

Maybe Gamescope is what you are looking for?
November marked 7 months of Linux rising on Steam & 5 months above 1%
2 December 2021 at 7:29 pm UTC
Quoting: mr-victory
Quoting: Sputnik_tr_02I think it's a good time for Valve to push the Steam on Chrome Os officially.
Why do you think that ChromeOS support will help linux? ChromeOS is mostly used for education and managed by schools, which means that most users would not be able to install Steam if it was officially available. Also someone who really wants to play on a Chromebook would install Linux (or Windows) right away.

Why wouldn't it? It will be the Linux Steam client running on them.
November marked 7 months of Linux rising on Steam & 5 months above 1%
2 December 2021 at 2:38 pm UTC
I think it's a good time for Valve to push the Steam on Chrome Os officially. There was a rumor about it long ago. With that and Steam Deck we may finally break the cycle.
Wine 6.19 is out new with more joystick work, more modules converted to PE
9 October 2021 at 1:42 pm UTC
Does anyone know why Arch Linux no longer updates wine and wine-staging anymore? They are stuck at version 6.16.
I look forward to all the improvements KDE Plasma will get with the Steam Deck
10 August 2021 at 12:53 pm UTC Likes: 1
KDE Plasma is awesome, it was actually one of the reasons that I switch to Linux back in the day.
Valve continues to improve Linux Vulkan Shader Pre-Caching
31 May 2020 at 6:30 pm UTC
Quoting: Leopard
Quoting: ShmerlDo they cache it for each existing GPU architecture?

Foz pipelines are gpu and driver agnostic , which client utilize them to build shaders.


I am using an optimus laptop with prime render offload (Which means my desktop and Steam runs on intel gpu but games run on Nvidia), does that mean my system will benefit from this as well?
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