Latest 30 Comments

Epic games what?

View this comment - View article - View full comments - Report this comment

@brokkr

I have looked at the product site and I'm unable to figure out if the latter can provide power to the Steam Deck (or PD-capable laptop). Am I missing something or is unclear from the info available?

There's this:

One type-c cable can realize various USB C equipment connection, can transmit signal and charge at the same time.

So, you can charge devices from the usb-c port, but I can't find any power output specs even in the manual. Should be enough for a mobile device, possibly the deck, but I don't know if it can provide enough power for a laptop.

View this comment - View article - View full comments - Report this comment

Streets of Rage 4 has a native Linux port, so wonder why they chose that as an example? I have the game but can't remember the load times.

What the Wine devs are after are test cases that indicate an issue with Wine's implementation. Fixing the implementation, while a good goal in itself, will likely also help many other applications. It doesn't matter what the test case application actually is, as long as it shows some repeatable thing to test against.

View this comment - View article - View full comments - Report this comment

So two USB-C. One for power, one for input. I have looked at the product site and I'm unable to figure out if the latter can provide power to the Steam Deck (or PD-capable laptop). Am I missing something or is unclear from the info available?

If not and I occasionally have to unplug everything to get power to the Deck (or use some weird dongle arrangement) it looses a lot of it's appeal.

View this comment - View article - View full comments - Report this comment

Streets of Rage 4 has a native Linux port, so wonder why they chose that as an example? I have the game but can't remember the load times.

View this comment - View article - View full comments - Report this comment

also the patch similar to this one was in Proton for years and is not known to introduce problems (before UFFD support was added in kernel 6.7 there was similar mechanism introduced with a custom patch in SteamOS and some custom kernels which Proton was using).

From how I'm reading the commit message, similar functionality seems to already exist in Proton.

View this comment - View article - View full comments - Report this comment

This sounds really awesome. I hope Proton backports this patch, because Once Human suffers sometimes from extreme loading on Proton and they use .NET too. However, this game has a lot of other issues too.

View this comment - View article - View full comments - Report this comment

​This wine version work in my case using mesa 25.2-dev


Scarlet Nexus

https://i.imgur.com/3LisQx9.png


Tales of Arise

https://i.imgur.com/B4zPT30.png

https://i.imgur.com/YuI2IrK.png


Almost forget something more related paul gofman patch:

https://gitlab.winehq.org/wine/wine/-/merge_requests/7871

UFFD supports the functionality similar to Windows write watches starting from kernel 6.7.

View this comment - View article - View full comments - Report this comment

I think that most people are waiting for Bethesda games to be supported, but honestly, I'm just happy that Linux finally gets an official mod manager for once that hasn't stopped development out of nowhere. Outside of NSFW content, I'm not sure what kind of mods Cyberpunk 2077 players recommend, but I'm glad that another game is being supported.

View this comment - View article - View full comments - Report this comment

Good to see that Valve are at least letting the community update TF2. Honestly, how they've treated this game is disgusting, but I'm hoping that the SDK will breathe new life into it.

View this comment - View article - View full comments - Report this comment

Interesting not to see fedora on there ... this is apparently what comes from protondb:

https://boilingsteam.com/linux-distros-in-march-2025-a-new-challenger-emerges/

which is mostly similar, but with the notable difference of fedora?

speaking of this site, i was reading the article :
https://boilingsteam.com/the-steam-deck-is-back-in-stock-in-japan/

and the end of the article:

These are machines you are supposed to play with, but the level of incompetence of the staff is abysmal. The ROG Ally X had no games that you could run - it was basically a useless brick in demonstration. The Steam Deck had at least several games playable, but it was turned off (or in sleep mode) and did not react until you pressed the power button. I doubt that most visitors would know how to operate it if it was their first time.

looks like valve and the other companies need to step up their game, puting an product at an store is not enough, sure many people know what windows is and what it does, but they cant know how powerfull an device gonna be to play an game with an good performance just looking at specs and the desktop enviroment that is awful to navigate on this device.

and steam deck being in sleep mode, sigh.

View this comment - View article - View full comments - Report this comment

Nice. Most of these fixes seem fairly minor*, but I bet this is a pilot for Valve incorporating community fixes going forward. And even a bunch of small fixes are great! Can't wait to see where this goes.

*With 'seem' and 'fairly' doing some heavy lifting there, and not to disparage anyone's effort in making them.

View this comment - View article - View full comments - Report this comment

The survey doesn't only come up in desktop mode.

Really? I have been running Steam primarily in Big Picture mode for something like 7 years now, and I have only ever seen the survey pop-up when I switched to desktop mode.

View this comment - View article - View full comments - Report this comment

I have no interest in buying from EGS, but if they are eliminating the six month exclusivity deals, I'm definitely in favor of that. I'm also in favor of their lawsuit against Apple, and glad it's been getting results.

View this comment - View article - View full comments - Report this comment

As far as China goes or any other country. We need all of the support we can get. If say a larger market like Japan were to take a serious look at Linux and be counted this would help tremendously!

Makes no difference where someone is from in the IT world. The more users the better! Count them all!

View this comment - View article - View full comments - Report this comment

You are paying for the convenience in having a portable monitor that fits in a bag. Probably worth it for people in the market for this.

View this comment - View article - View full comments - Report this comment

The survey doesn't only come up in desktop mode.

View this comment - View article - View full comments - Report this comment

Survey sounds nice though I don't mind having (anonymized) telemetry ON by default (in full)… It really helps developing software if one knows the usage…

View this comment - View article - View full comments - Report this comment

> and more gamers to actually purchase things.

uhm... I couldn't care less about Epic save for the freebies... which I can't even run in a sane manner because they don't care about linux, so there's that.

Besides, their "shop experience" is beyond awful. One of the reasons I'm willing to get games on Steam (instead of GOG) is that I see Valve is doing a lot of (subjectively) good things like improving linux support...

View this comment - View article - View full comments - Report this comment

So you're paying more for less.

View this comment - View article - View full comments - Report this comment

I do wonder how are they sampling Steam OS stats? I would imagine most Steam Decks are in Big Picture mode basically all the time, and the survey only pops up in Desktop mode. Wouldn't that skew it heavily against a Steam Deck ever being included in the survey?

View this comment - View article - View full comments - Report this comment

@eggrole - "More competition and options are generally a good thing."
"So let the anti-competitive store succeed."

Riiiight.

View this comment - View article - View full comments - Report this comment

I sorta enjoyed BD3.
BUT PLEASE NO MORE TINA, I AM SICK AND TIRED OF HER.
She was fun in second BL, but 3rd - she was there for no good reason. Adult woman who had 0 charm and behaved like an idiot child.
Lets see, I feel bad about buying Tiny Tina's Castle. Don't kill the franchise please.

View this comment - View article - View full comments - Report this comment

Because this is portable and not 27 inches? You can fit this is your bag.

View this comment - View article - View full comments - Report this comment

I've dabbled with other desktop environments over the years, but I always come back to KDE. For me, it is the easiest to use while still having plenty of "power user" options that only us Linux nerds care about.

View this comment - View article - View full comments - Report this comment

I'm not seeing the value here. Even on sale, that's more than I paid for my Asus 27-inch QHD monitor. I know OLED has some small advantages over QHD, but it's not enough to justify the price difference.

View this comment - View article - View full comments - Report this comment

@eggroll

More competition can be a good thing as long as it's the right kind of competition. GoG is good competition for Steam because it has some unique advantages, namely the lack of DRM and the ability to download and archive full games. Epic, on the other hand, offers few if any advantages over Steam or GoG and has the big disadvantage that they are, in fact, anti-competitive and try to lock publishers into their ecosystem with exclusivity deals. So within that context, I want to see GoG succeed and Epic fail.

View this comment - View article - View full comments - Report this comment

@eggrole - "More competition and options are generally a good thing."

Epic is "competition" to Steam in the same way that a Moped is competition with a Luxary Car.

Statistically Consumers prefer Luxary Cars to Mopeds.

Their business model is cart before horse ass-backwards.

The consumers have the money.

Paying developers to fuck over consumers with exclusives just pissed everybody off royal. That strat might have worked on Consoles, but not on PC.

PC Gamers __REALLY__ don't like to be emotionally blackmailed and disrespected as if we were farm animals to be slaughtered for cash.

View this comment - View article - View full comments - Report this comment

Man, they really are desperate aren't they? I don't think this will ultimately work either, so I guess they will be out of options after this other than maybe trying to sue Valve. I will never use the epic game store.

View this comment - View article - View full comments - Report this comment

I'm not using kde anylonger, but these changes all sound really good to me. I hope they do follow through with the two release cycle.

View this comment - View article - View full comments - Report this comment