Being rude doesn’t get you too far in OSS.
NonSteamLaunchers gets booted from Steam Deck plugin store Decky Loader
Submitted 4 weeks ago by RmDebArc_5@sh.itjust.works to steamdeck@sopuli.xyz
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5714@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 weeks ago
Seasm0ke@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
But uh… Linus is kinda rude NGL. Part of his charm no?
JackbyDev@programming.dev 4 weeks ago
No, it’s not. It’s tolerated because of his importance.
TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Being thelcreator of the most successful open source project in history gives you a bit of leeway.
Besides, Linus had a major personality change years ago and has since endeavoured to be a lot more polite to people, and it certainly shows.
5714@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 weeks ago
BDFL privilege…
Cherry picking, but one could argue that rudeness is a lazy general term and Linus’ rudeness is about not including BS while NSL wanted the inverse of including something others did to show off. Not an apology for either of those blokes
Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz 4 weeks ago
Yeah, a lot of long term projects have rude maintainers it seems.
Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz 4 weeks ago
So I’ve been reading through the deck homebrew discord trying to figure that out. A user claimed he was racist, and got him banned/kicked out of Decky over it. However as far as I can tell, no evidence of him being racist was ever posted, and the user that got him banned left the server afterwards.
It does sound like he was quick to get into arguments with some other users, but that’s not officially what he was banned over.
There may be better evidence I’m missing, there are a lot of messages discussing it in the server, but I see several people there claiming that banning him without evidence was an overreaction, so I’m assuming there isn’t anything concrete that I’ve missed.
My personal opinion from what I’ve seen is that I think the ban should be reversed, it seems like a shame to deprive the entire deck community from a useful tool unless there’s something more concrete I’m not seeing.
x00za@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 weeks ago
Ah yes, cancel culture.
Holyginz@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Grow up
x00za@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 weeks ago
People nowadays should, yes.
5714@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 weeks ago
decky.xyz Policies/CoC:
Contributor Covenant Code of Conduct:
We pledge to act and interact in ways that contribute to an open, welcoming, diverse, inclusive, and healthy community.
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 4 weeks ago
cope and seethe
Laser@feddit.org 4 weeks ago
so much for the tolerant left
utubas@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
It’s not cancel if it’s the good guys (they/them
SuzyQ@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
Does anyone know of a similar alternative? Junk Store only covers Epic unless you donate. I know I could use Lutris and/or Heroic and manually add the non steam games that way. I do like the ability to see them in the non steam tab on my deck in gaming mode.
RmDebArc_5@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
Heroic has the option to automatically add games to steam. Also it works quite well in game mode if you add it as a non steam game and can then be controlled entirely with a controller. That’s the most convenient option I found.
SuzyQ@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
Thanks! I guess I missed that bit when I initially set it up. I’ll try this out. :)
GBU_28@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
So, what was actually said?
million@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
It feels like a real low bar to cross for an article on the subject, especially given that comments were public
Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz 4 weeks ago
Were they public? I’ve been trying to find them on the homebrew server, and all I’ve seen is that someone joined the server, accused him, got him banned, and then left. I haven’t actually found any examples of what he got banned over yet.
Thcdenton@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Is decky any good? I never really saw the benefits of it and the update notifications annoyed me so I got rid of it.
Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz 4 weeks ago
Yeah it’s got some great additions in my opinion. It’s not as necessary as it used to be thanks to valve slowly adding in many decky plugins into standard SteamOS.
Some nice plugins for usability:
- autoflatpaks: update flatpaks from game mode
- battery tracker: track average power usage of games over time. Good for getting an actual average power use for games with a wide range of battery drains
- Junk store: install epic (and GOG if you spend $6) games from game mode
- KDE connect: get notifications from your phone, use your phone keyboard to type on the deck
- MagicBlack: turn off screen on the OLED version for saving power during downloads/etc
- Pausegames: lets you pause any game, freeing up resources without closing it. Lets you pause games that can’t be paused, run multiple games at once, and can fix audio issues when suspending
- Playtime: tracks playtime per game and per day
- protonDB lets you see what games will run on the deck, even if they’re not steam verified/etc
- powertools: lets you adjust cpu cores/clock speed etc. Lets you get super low power usage in some games (down to 3.5w or so), and fixes some games with bugged cpu speeds
- shotty: moves steam screenshots in pictures folder to make them easy to find in desktop mode
- steamback: makes backup saves of your games everytime you open or close a game.
- volume mixer: change volume balance between programs. Very helpful if you’re using discord/etc while playing.
There’s also a ton of nice customization ones, which I can share if you’re interested.
BlindFrog@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Adding to this, tunneldeck, helps me connect to my vpn service without having to jump to the desktop
stardust@lemmy.ca 4 weeks ago
Pause games is a essential plugin that solved the sound issues I had with suspending games.
gofsckyourself@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
FYI - the owner of this site, gamingonlinux, was a mod on the !linux_gaming@lemmy.ml community until they were caught abusing their moderator powers. Then they deleted their account and complained on mastodon that it’s stupid design that mod logs are public. [Screenshot]
JackbyDev@programming.dev 4 weeks ago
I’m always pointing out that public modlogs are good because they help prevent abusive mods.
Gestrid@lemmy.ca 4 weeks ago
Maybe they should’ve, you know, looked at the site for 2 minutes before signing up. The modlog is linked at the bottom of every page.
webghost0101@sopuli.xyz 4 weeks ago
TIL, that is amazing!
mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
And nothing of value was lost
secret300@lemmy.sdf.org 4 weeks ago
That’s insane, honestly didn’t expect that. How did he abuse his mod powers?