chronicledmonocle
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- Comment on 6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux? 1 week ago:
Cheers mate
- Comment on 6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux? 1 week ago:
If you want to run VR on Linux with your Quest headset, WiVRn works absolutely flawlessly. Been running VR with my Quest 2 for a while with it.
Not sure if jailbreaks exist for the Quest 3, but I’ve considered jailbreaking my Quest 2 in order to run it without a Meta account.
- Comment on 6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux? 1 week ago:
You installed KDE on Mint? Why not just install Debian with KDE?
- Comment on 6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux? 1 week ago:
Start with something simple like Linux Mint. You can run it in a VM, if you want to “try before you buy”.
- Comment on 6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux? 1 week ago:
Cough MassGavel Activation Scripts Cough
- Comment on 6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux? 1 week ago:
Valve made a compatibility layer for the Steam Deck and Linux called Proton. It uses a lot of technologies, including WINE, dxvk, and more to make Windows games run well on Linux. It basically takes Windows API calls and translates them to Linux with little to no performance penalty.
Steam also has native builds for Windows, macOS, ChromeOS, and Linux how, so you can just install it. Most Linux distros have Steam right in their software manager now.
Typically, unless the game has blocked Linux with something like kernel-level anticheat, it’ll “just work” on Linux now. There is a community database called ProtonDB that has a list of games and how well they do or don’t work.
Hope this helps and feel free to ask any questions.
- Comment on 6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux? 1 week ago:
Check Proton DB. If the games you enjoy work fine on Linux, which is the case for most games these days thanks to Proton, you should be good. The big exception is games with kernel-level anticheat.
If not, you can always dual boot for the few games that don’t.
I made the switch to pure Linux gaming when I got my Steam Deck two years ago. Been loving it ever since. Even SteamVR games work great streaming to my Quest headset.
- Comment on Anon orders food 1 week ago:
“If I wasn’t a lesbian, I’d 100% date you”
Normally, I’d write this off as someone “letting me down easy”, but this was my best friend in High school that I knew for years, so I know the sentiment was genuine.
- Comment on Half Life: Alyx is Five Years Old Today 3 weeks ago:
Wow never heard of this application. I’ll have to give it a try.
- Comment on Half Life: Alyx is Five Years Old Today 3 weeks ago:
If you have a Quest headset, ALVR allows you to stream SteamVR to it.
I believe the Valve Index allows for Linux usage, but I’ve never owned one.
- Comment on Nintendo has sent a DMCA notice to Ryujinx forks 1 month ago:
Emulation isn’t piracy and you’re allowed to back up physical games you own. That’s legally your right.
- Comment on William Shatner Confirms Talks for Star Trek Return at 93 Years Old 1 month ago:
Please no. Look…I am glad you played Kirk, man…but your story is DONE. Picard’s story didn’t need its own show either.
Stop making rehashes FFS. Stop leveraging nostalgia and then disappointing us.
Lower Decks and Strange New Worlds: Do more of that (I know SNW is a prequel, but it explores characters that barely saw the light of day).
Fucking Orville did Star Trek better than modern Star Trek.
- Comment on Need for Speed is effectively on hold while Criterion musters entirely around Battlefield, but EA assures players the racer will return in 'new and interesting ways' 2 months ago:
new and interesting ways
$80 and more micro transactions.
- Comment on Geforce Now brings AAA gaming to Meta Quest 3 2 months ago:
This is a VR app for streaming 2D games on a virtual screen, AFAIK. Not for actual VR games.
- Comment on Assassin's Creed Shadows delayed again to March 20 3 months ago:
It’s a Ubisoft game. It was doomed to begin with.
- Comment on Disgusting money driven mindset 3 months ago:
Sounds like all of those MLM ladies putting titles like that on their LinkedIn.
- Comment on Disgusting money driven mindset 3 months ago:
Not surprising for entitled CEOs, though.
- Comment on Disgusting money driven mindset 3 months ago:
Sounds like someone who got lowballed, said “no thank you”, and a CEO with a chip on their shoulder got butthurt.
- Comment on What are some video game quotes that is stuck in your head? 4 months ago:
“Had to be me. Someone else might have gotten it wrong”
- Comment on Preview: The Cerritos Crew Starts A New Comic Book Adventure In First Issue Of ‘Star Trek: Lower Decks’ 5 months ago:
Didn’t know there was to be a comic series. This is exciting.
- Comment on How many Nintendo Switches do I need for a family of gamers? 5 months ago:
OP doesn’t say how old their kids are. Could be teens with plenty of aptitude, but if they’re younger…the switch may be the better option.
As for emulation, I was more just was saying it’s possible. For single player games it’s fine, if done legally.
- Comment on How many Nintendo Switches do I need for a family of gamers? 5 months ago:
Yes this is true. I’ll edit my original post.
- Comment on How many Nintendo Switches do I need for a family of gamers? 5 months ago:
There is no “TV version”. The switch docks to a docking station to make it output to a TV. You just need a docking station and controllers to make a single Switch into a shared screen experience in the living room. Anyone’s Switch can use the dock.
Physical games are sharable, but only one device can use that game at a time, because they’re physical cartridges.
Personally, I’d go with a Steam Deck over a Switch, unless your family specifically is looking to play Switch games that are exclusive to it (which technically with emulation the Steam Deck can also play, but that’s not legal unless you own a switch and the game). The nice thing about Steam games is that Steam’s Families feature lets you share the entire game library digitally to 5 family members, so unless they want to play the same game at once, you only buy games once and they can all play them. There are also some games that let you own one copy and let multiple people play multiplayer at once on it, too.
Plus, games on Steam are cheaper than Switch games and the Steam Deck is only a bit more money upfront than a Switch is, especially on sale, which I expect it to be on sale for Black Friday coming up.
- Comment on I just finish to see all TNG movies. 7 months ago:
I honestly think Generations gets hated on more than it should because the Enterprise D is destroyed. People love that ship.
- Comment on Kotaku being Kotaku 7 months ago:
There are plenty of “kids” movies and TV that are excellent for adults, too.
Listing a few:
- Bluey
- Most of Pixar
- Adventure Time (after Season 1)
- Star Wars Rebels/Clone Wars (again, after Season 1)
- Shrek
- Star Trek: Prodigy
This is not an exhaustive list, but you get the point.
- Comment on Kotaku being Kotaku 7 months ago:
Yes they do.
- Comment on Who had it worse: Enterprise-D or Voyager? 7 months ago:
Voyager. Hands down.
“The Borg, Macroviruses, telepathic pitcher plants…the Delta Quadrant is a death trap” -Janeway-
When even the captain acknowledges it, it’s bad. At least Picard had Starfleet support at his back.
- Comment on Gearbox CEO Randy Pitchford says his hopes on Epic Store were 'overly optimistic or misplaced' 7 months ago:
To be fair, Rocket League runs fine in Proton.
Also, to be fair…agreed. Fuck Epic.
- Comment on Can you trust Valve? Honest criticism of Steam. 7 months ago:
I don’t trust any corporation. However, Valve has treated customers with respect and doesn’t try to bend us over. For that, I’ll keep buying from them.
However, I fear for the day Gabe Newell is no longer running the show.
- Comment on Deadlock (Valve's Unannounced Title) Passes 12k Peak Players in Closed Alpha 8 months ago:
Same here. I’d love to see what Valve have been up to.