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- Comment on SteamOS 3.6 Is Now Released With Performance Improvements, Mura Compensation, and Much More - Steam Deck HQ 3 weeks ago:
Always porting not-yet-upstreamed patches to new release kernels is additional work to the upstreaming work towards the latest development tree. The Valve engineers interviewed around the very first Steam Deck announcement said their goal with moving from Debian to Arch was to minimize the patchset maintenance burden. Their approach surely has that goal in mind. There are only two variants of Steam Deck with minor differences between them. If backporting patches from newer kernels is less work than forward porting their patches, they just stay with that version for a while. Updates to drivers for hardware they don’t use and filesystems they don’t use aren’t relevant to them anyway.
- [News] Steam developers can now select which Steam for Linux runtime to use for native titlesstore.steampowered.com ↗Submitted 4 weeks ago to steamdeck@sopuli.xyz | 0 comments
- Comment on Proton is the Future of PC gaming. But how does it work? [Gardiner Bryant, YouTube] 1 month ago:
When a normal person talks about a topic, they don’t have to continuously clarify that they still talk about the same topic, it’s assumed.
It’s a new statement in a new paragraph.
Oh, now we interpret according to the intent of the author?
Accept that you misunderstood and move on.
- Comment on Proton is the Future of PC gaming. But how does it work? [Gardiner Bryant, YouTube] 1 month ago:
The guy said he bought games, and those don’t work as well natively.
No, he didn’t say “those”. He made a statement about commercial Linux games in general.
if he didn’t buy them it won’t change his experience.
Shouldn’t make a generalized statement like that then.
Yeah, fuck those Linux users! Only sell those games to Windows users!
No idea how you get to that from my statement that’s advocating to make unmaintained games free. 🤷
- Comment on Proton is the Future of PC gaming. But how does it work? [Gardiner Bryant, YouTube] 1 month ago:
- Comment on Proton is the Future of PC gaming. But how does it work? [Gardiner Bryant, YouTube] 1 month ago:
Proton is the gateway drug to us getting more Linux native games.
It’s not when Win32 apologists keep making insane claims how stable Proton is… “Proton is great, it just runs all the Windows games” is the mess that got us to the place where games we buy just start crashing suddenly because nobody of those developers realizes that each major release of Proton must be treated like its own OS with proper QA targeting that. Proton works great for old games because these old games no longer change. For modern games that still get updates Proton is a gamble because a reverse engineered version of the Windows API just isn’t stable.
- Comment on Proton is the Future of PC gaming. But how does it work? [Gardiner Bryant, YouTube] 1 month ago:
Linux is a total pain in the behind to write applications for, because of API and ABI instability.
Flatpak
- Comment on Proton is the Future of PC gaming. But how does it work? [Gardiner Bryant, YouTube] 1 month ago:
Not a single commercial game runs as well natively as it does through Proton.
It’s funny when people like you make such statements because someone needs to literally name just a one commercial game and you’re already being proven a liar. OK, I start: Selaco.
But the sad reality is that it costs money to maintain software.
So what? They should stop taking money for unmaintained games then.
- Comment on Proton is the Future of PC gaming. But how does it work? [Gardiner Bryant, YouTube] 1 month ago:
Win32 has somehow become the most stable Linux API.
Windows is a moving target. Wine/Proton is a reverse engineering chase of a moving target. WINDOWS GAMES ON PROTON BREAK ALL THE TIME! Stop making stuff. It’s great that Proton exists but it’s not like Java. What does not break? Flatpak Runtimes and Steam Linux Runtime.
- Comment on Valve Snuck In Three New Game-Themed Steam Deck Startup Movies Based on God of War, The Last of Us, and Harry Potter Quidditch 1 month ago:
I know that I can (I did with another one) but that’s not what being a paying customer is about.
- Comment on Valve Snuck In Three New Game-Themed Steam Deck Startup Movies Based on God of War, The Last of Us, and Harry Potter Quidditch 1 month ago:
The God of War one is the boot video with the most obnoxious sound I’ve ever encountered. Too bad Valve still didn’t care to add a mute option for boot videos.
- Comment on New Steam Agreement gets rid of forced arbitration and waivers for class action lawsuits 1 month ago:
I am almost certain that steam keys are actually free to developers, which is the whole reason for the policy.
Yes, they are. That’s what many of the Kinguin etc. keys are. People/bots pretend to be game reviewers/streamers and ask for free keys. I have a “Game Press” license for a game because back then I didn’t know of that method. I was under the impression those were keys sold by the developer in foreign markets for adjusted prices. Now I know better.
- Comment on Windows is Now Officially Supported on OLED Steam Deck 2 months ago:
Weird that the drivers are that dramatically different for the OLED version.
The WiFi and BT modules are completely different (the OLED’s product page says this since the announcement), hence new drivers required.
- Comment on Waydroid installer for SteamOS, lets you run Android apps on Deck 3 months ago:
I’m convinced that is about bringing Oculus/Meta Quest VR games to the next Valve VR headset which is rumored to be stand alone and run SteamOS.
- Comment on [Help] I get beta client updates but I'm on the stable update channel 4 months ago:
I’ll try that, thanks
- Comment on [Help] I get beta client updates but I'm on the stable update channel 4 months ago:
Only regular SteamOS.
- Submitted 4 months ago to steamdeck@sopuli.xyz | 5 comments
- Comment on Steam deck for a TV party game emulation machine? 4 months ago:
The ONLY problem I have had with this, is the controller on the system itself defaults as controller 1, so SOME games it takes a little fiddling to use different controllers. But I have done this and it works great.
I don’t know if you’re talking about in-game fiddling or Steam Input but to clarify for others here: Steam allows to reorder the controllers, so the thing I usually do at the beginning of game party is to move the Deck’s integrated inputs to the last place.
- Comment on Has anyone tried Hellblade 2 on the deck yet? 5 months ago:
Weren’t they among the first to support anti cheat on the Deck with Halo?
There surely are some decisions that on the ground developers can just make without running them by management but as a general policy by Microsoft towards all of its gaming studios to support Steam Deck: no.
- Comment on Has anyone tried Hellblade 2 on the deck yet? 5 months ago:
that’s unfortunate.
Can’t expect Steam Deck Verified games from Microsoft.
- Comment on Has anyone tried Hellblade 2 on the deck yet? 5 months ago:
- Comment on EA SPORTS WRC will be adding EA anticheat, game will not playable any more. On ProtonDB game is rated Platinum 5 months ago:
They probably analysed it and thought it wasn’t worth the effort. Companies like to make money after all.
If all the economic news from the games industry from the last year or so should have taught you anything: No. Shortsighted whims of shareholders are not proper financial analysis. The same people who also concluded years ago that leaving Steam and going exclusively to Origin was a good idea are definitively not the sharpest tools in the shed.
- Comment on EA SPORTS WRC will be adding EA anticheat, game will not playable any more. On ProtonDB game is rated Platinum 5 months ago:
Really spoiled the online stages
And now this change spoils single player.
- Comment on EA SPORTS WRC will be adding EA anticheat, game will not playable any more. On ProtonDB game is rated Platinum 5 months ago:
I think it’s hilarious with the market for Linux handhelds this hot that these companies are still like “ew no thanks”
I don’t think the technical details reach the people making the decisions. They may have heard “Steam Deck works with PC games” (because there is no distinction between PC and Windows for them) and then don’t allocate resources for a proper port to Steam Deck.
- Comment on EA SPORTS WRC will be adding EA anticheat, game will not playable any more. On ProtonDB game is rated Platinum 5 months ago:
Instead, he bitches about Linux instead of the problem root.
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Game company funds through Kickstarter.
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Game company reaches goal from taking money from Linux users.
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Game company releases a shoddy port that crashes
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Sales data shows that customers don’t wanna buy a separate SKU of a game that crashes all the time
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*LInUx bAd!!!*
Also this is a Steam Deck community. It should be obvious that all discussion around native games centers around stable Steam Deck hardware specs, SteamOS, and the Steam Linux Runtime container solution for games released on Steam, not some buggy game from a literal decade ago released as tar.gz file into the wild.
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- Comment on EA SPORTS WRC will be adding EA anticheat, game will not playable any more. On ProtonDB game is rated Platinum 5 months ago:
- Comment on EA SPORTS WRC will be adding EA anticheat, game will not playable any more. On ProtonDB game is rated Platinum 5 months ago:
But to think it is free is just incorrect.
Did anybody say that making Linux ports is free? I certainly didn’t. I said that native Linux ports lead to a better consumer experience which cannot be denied as seen with the submitted story about the Rally game.
