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- Comment on 7 hours ago:
Steamdb lets you filter out games with less than x reviews which I’ve made liberal use of over the years.
- Comment on What are some lower size games that work well on linux handhelds? 1 day ago:
I’d just take a look at the Steam Deck Verified pages as that’ll give you a good idea about a game (at least though Proton).
- Comment on I support this 1 week ago:
It’s like saying thank you to someone for flushing the toilet.
- Comment on After Apple originally announced the first version of Halo in 1999, Xbox apparently called Bungie and said "'Steve Jobs can't have that. We're going to buy you.'" 1 week ago:
Apple already has the Game Porting Toolkit which is made by CodeWeavers - D3DMetal can run a lot of Windows games like Proton’s DXVK/VKD3D. MoltenVK is a little behind to fully empower VKD3D on macOS; it’s not as smooth sailing as Proton.
The biggest issue is that Apple are still hoping developers spend the time to work on converting shaders to Metal, implement Game Center, UI and Accessibility features etc so the game feels like a native app.
Which is dumb. As was Metal (they should have just made Metal as a Vulkan abstraction layer).
Valve took the smart route and while they love developers using the Steam SDK, at least with the Steam Overlay they can still offer a native-like feeling experience.
Here’s hoping Steam Machine etc is incredibly disruptive as if it’s a decent workstation too, there’s a dwindling number of reasons to not use Linux (Adobe / Affinity / Office / AutoCAD / MinecraftBE / Fortnite).
- Comment on Fuck Microsoft 2 weeks ago:
Nah practically every office uses TempleOS and Lotus720.
Come on, dude. You’re in lemmyshitpost.
- Comment on What is your favorite Metroidvania? 3 weeks ago:
I’d say the second one was even harder too.
- Comment on Can someone please identify this plant ?? 3 weeks ago:
Looks like it could be a Bushwillow. Combretum malabaricum / Malabar Madhu Malati ?
- Comment on While we eagerly await the second coming of Steam Machines, it's worth remembering what a gloriously awful mess Valve got itself in over a decade ago 4 weeks ago:
Really well articulated.
Valve have enabled a critical mass of “target platforms” that enables both the community and developers to get things working on Linux, which all other distros are about to benefit from.
I’m likely going to buy all the new Valve hardware out of principle. The Deck is incredible, but I still have my beefy gaming rig. But my living room wouldn’t mind a Steam Machine (and my girlfriend is definitely after both a Steam Frame and Controller 2.
I’m taking time off work in a couple of weeks and I’m moving over to Linux completely - I too have felt the inertia of dual booting and find myself in Windows far too often.
- Comment on Today is the birthday of His Majesty the King 4 weeks ago:
If he wanted me to celebrate, he’d have made the day a public holiday.
- Comment on While we eagerly await the second coming of Steam Machines, it's worth remembering what a gloriously awful mess Valve got itself in over a decade ago 4 weeks ago:
The failure of the Steam Machine is why Valve hosted Khronos group at their office to kick off Vulkan and funded LunarG etc in the early days to get things moving quickly.
Valve took their time but this new hardware range is based on years of learning and solving the problems from their original foray into hardware and Linux for gaming.
And I’m so thankful for it!
- Comment on Our first look at the Steam Machine, Valve’s ambitious new game console 4 weeks ago:
And while the Link hardware was cancelled, they still put out updates for it. I think the last update was only a month or two ago.
Steam Controller 1 also got cancelled but they’re still shipping updates and showing that device too.
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
GCompris or TuxPaint are great for younger kids. They’re free/open source and have versions available for Windows, macOS, and Linux.
- Comment on Ridiculous 1 month ago:
You need to turn it upside down and look at it in a mirror to get the full effect.
- Comment on Necesse Version 1.0 | Launch Trailer 1 month ago:
Is it any good?
- Comment on Xbox: "Price Increases Are Never Fun For Anybody" 2 months ago:
The very definition of enshittification:
Here is how platforms die: first, they are good to their users; then they abuse their users to make things better for their business customers; finally, they abuse those business customers to claw back all the value for themselves. Then, they die. I call this enshittification, and it is a seemingly inevitable consequence arising from the combination of the ease of changing how a platform allocates value, combined with the nature of a “two-sided market”, where a platform sits between buyers and sellers, hold each hostage to the other, raking off an ever-larger share of the value that passes between them.
- Comment on Sony trying to warn the player they're settling for a lesser horse 2 months ago:
What game?
- Comment on OpenMW 0.50.0 for Morrowind has a first Release Candidate with gamepad support and a gamepad UI 2 months ago:
Hopefully a full release will mean the TES3MP project picks up steam again. I don’t think there’s been an update for a year now.
- Comment on Steam's latest beta lets you easily check if you have Secure Boot enabled before firing up Battlefield 6 or Call of Duty 2 months ago:
I was doing that until Microsoft pushed an update that fucked it up. I can’t be bothered paying attention to Windows updates to know when they’re patching a Secure Boot club vulnerability that’ll bork my machine so I’ve had it off since.
I’m being lazy but I’m looking forward to Windows 10 support ending so I can get off my ass and switch over to Linux fully. An old Windows 10 image can sit in a dusty VM with GPU pass through for the odd game that doesn’t work though Proton or natively.
- Comment on Steam's latest beta lets you easily check if you have Secure Boot enabled before firing up Battlefield 6 or Call of Duty 2 months ago:
Please drink verification can.
Imma sit out this game. Zero interest in secure boot since I can’t dual boot with it enabled.
Honestly, if Overwatch doesn’t need this shit, I don’t see why Call of Battlefield needs it either.
- Comment on Brickshelf 2 months ago:
None of the classics like Lime or Slate. Pathetic.
- Comment on Borderlands 4 gets a new PC patch to fix crashes, progression blockers and GPU-related problems 2 months ago:
That’s the one (darn autocorrect). It’s an indie game made by a small team so there’s a little bit of jank / rough edges but the overall experience is really special. Hope you enjoy!
- Comment on Borderlands 4 gets a new PC patch to fix crashes, progression blockers and GPU-related problems 2 months ago:
Currently jumping between Planet Crater (planet terraforming survival crater) and Rimworld (colony sim / Dwarf Fortress on an alien planet).
- Comment on Borderlands 4 gets a new PC patch to fix crashes, progression blockers and GPU-related problems 2 months ago:
I’ve already voted with my wallet. I won’t be picking up this game because I’m not a “true gamer” or whatever.
- Comment on Fata Deum, a god game where you have convert citizen living across an island to your faith, released in early access on Steam. 2 months ago:
Where’s the giant creature? If I can’t have a 100ft tiger throw its faeces at villagers, I’m not interested.
- Comment on Massive Gaming Crossover: Among Us Teams Up with Popular RPG 2 months ago:
It’s Genshin Impact.
- Comment on UK’s last local currency axed due to rise of digital and card payments 3 months ago:
- Comment on Vampire Survivors - Open beta test for Online mode, with free roaming! 3 months ago:
Your question mark key seems to be sticking.
The only part that makes it somewhat clear what the mode is is the part they explain the differences between local co-op and online mode.
This is a list of gameplay changes compared to a standard local co-op run:
They could have been a little more explicit and called it “online co-op mode” or something, and had a paragraph explaining what it is not just how it’s different to something else.
- Comment on Google will throttle your Pixel 10's battery, and there's nothing you can do about it 3 months ago:
You can literally turn off the throttling in the Settings > Battery > Battery Health (option shows up when your battery has degraded).
- Comment on 7 years later, Valve's Proton has been an incredible game-changer for Linux 3 months ago:
Yeah I’ve run the gauntlet of distros too (including setting up distcc across several boxes so I could run Gentoo everywhere (which is far too much of my life I can never get back).
Arch is the best of Gentoo/Slack with the ease of Ubuntu/Debian.
Also sounds like I need to buy a new card as I’m nvidia too right now.
- Comment on 7 years later, Valve's Proton has been an incredible game-changer for Linux 3 months ago:
No I didn’t. I think the public source was a nightmare to build and get working (never tried, friends did though) and I wasn’t going to pay for it when the Wine project was publicly annoyed by the proprietary forks not contributing upstream (didn’t Wine relicense because of Cedega?).
I payed for CrossOver over the years as they had Office working pretty well and as much as I use FOSS office suites for personal use, inevitably someone sends me something that wouldn’t open and I’d have to use MS Office.
My biggest gripe with using Linux for gaming over the years was drivers and needing to switch between them since some would be good for compositors (typically the FOSS ones), others for gaming (typically the proprietary blob ones). Then there was the regular breakages etc.
I wish I had switched to Arch sooner as I’ve had so few issues with that distro given the core packages are so minimal, there’s less opinionated cruft that other distros have.