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Quoting: XpanderPeople still pre-order games?

It really makes no sense anymore. There aren't logistics involved with manufacturing or delivery with digital games, obviously...and the companies offering pre-orders are all huge legacy publishers that have consistently burned their reputation over the course of decades now.

People get hyped, it's an IP they know, they saw a cool trailer, whatever.
Even if we ignored every previous outcome, the big publishers and studios have only continued to decline in working conditions, continued the mass-layoffs, and now chances are, they're doing AI stuff.

It's endlessly frustrating that all of that is just reinforced as everyone rushes out to throw their money at a game like this again.

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Quoting: Liam DaweAgain, it's my job to inform people about gaming on Linux. That is why we exist. That includes times where a potentially massive game will not work.
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And it's very much appreciated, thank you! Genuinely needed that reminder because I forgot how hostile Bungie is and still continues to be towards Linux.

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I'd be more happy if the KDE team had finished remote desktop support (RDP etc) on Wayland, so there would be a way to login to session, not access one that is already running.

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Quoting: XpanderPeople still pre-order games?
That's quite a shame tbh to give money without having a product for couple of months. You will not be able to refund then afaik.

Refunds for preorders can be made after the product is available, the 2 week after purchase / 2 hour playtime rule works a bit differently for preorders.

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It's probably just going to be yet another live-service flop from Playstation.
We're not going to be loosing on anything relevant even if that game isn't available on Linux.

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People still pre-order games?
That's quite a shame tbh to give money without having a product for couple of months. You will not be able to refund then afaik.

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This is absolutely my jam for a Deck game! Sounds wonderful, thanks for the rec!

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Nobody from the Bungie glory days are still around. The suits are running the show, and when this doesn't get instahit status, which it won't, they'll shut it down.

Nothing to see here, just a shambling corpse. Safe to move on.

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Quoting: Liam DaweWhat's odd about it?

It's an article informing readers about a title that could be the next big popular multiplayer game, and how it will likely not work.

Again, it's my job to inform people about gaming on Linux. That is why we exist. That includes times where a potentially massive game will not work. For all the people reading, emailing, searching on Google and asking about it across social media and everywhere else. This is normal stuff for us. There is nothing odd about it. This is what we do.

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Quoting: Liam DaweWhat's odd about it?

It's an article informing readers about a title that could be the next big popular multiplayer game, and how it will likely not work.

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Quoting: pbWhat an odd piece of information to publish on GamingOnLinux.

What's odd about it? It's an article informing readers about a title that could be the next big popular multiplayer game, and how it will likely not work. This is pretty standard stuff for us.

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What an odd piece of information to publish on GamingOnLinux.

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it's a bummer, i enjoyed the last test and i'm actually quite looking forward to it, but i genuinely don't know if it's gonna be worth the rigamarole of booting into windows. seems vanishingly unlikely that it runs on linux though as you point out. 💔

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Absolutely cannot WAIT to try this out on the Frame!! God I'm stoked for that Frame 😭 could not come sooner.

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Quoting: WMan22Absolutely love to see it. Virtual desktops and overlay applications are a highly under-represented and underrated feature of VR, back when I was on windows, I would often pick one of the coziest spots I could find in VRChat to watch a movie. Hell, I watched Serial Experiments Lain in a room modeled after Lain's room.

Some would call this a novelty, I disagree, it would increase immersion like 10 fold if it weren't for the weight of my valve index on my face, so I'd often settle for 5 fold instead. Still an upgrade in overall mood and atmosphere of whatever I was watching.

Size & weight is still one of the biggest drawbacks of mainstream VR. It has got better but it's still designed (imo) primarily for standing & shorter play sessions with regular break intervals. It's not really great for chill sessions, it's workable but not ideal. If it were AR glasses sized but with full VR capability then that would suit the kind of thing your talking about a lot better, leaving the larger headsets for that more intense standing + flappy arm gameplay style.

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Insanely useful feature, means the one downside of using Vesktop over regular Discord is gone now. Hope there's toggle functionality and also "push to mute" functionality where the mic has default behavior of being always on except when you're holding a button.

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Absolutely love to see it. Virtual desktops and overlay applications are a highly under-represented and underrated feature of VR, back when I was on windows, I would often pick one of the coziest spots I could find in VRChat to watch a movie. Hell, I watched Serial Experiments Lain in a room modeled after Lain's room.

Some would call this a novelty, I disagree, it would increase immersion like 10 fold if it weren't for the weight of my valve index on my face, so I'd often settle for 5 fold instead. Still an upgrade in overall mood and atmosphere of whatever I was watching.

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Nice to see! sadly they still refuse to fix the slideshow wallpaper memory leak on Nvidia (X11 and Wayland)... and it's not nVidia's fault since it doesn't happen on Gnome.

Too much focus on novelty, too less on fixing.

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Quoting: EikeSorry, no.

The way Mario jumps is art.

The process of putting that in code...
Well, I'd call it engineering.
(I am professional software developer, if that plays a role.)

PS: The quote button is back!

The game design is directly influenced by the limitation of the implementation.

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Compiz was one of the things that made me love linux, now with VR and AR, we finally can make this concept useful instead of just an cool gimick!

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Quoting: CatKiller

Quoting: CaldathrasYet, I am not sure this is entirely GOG's fault. Oftentimes, it seems like the developer is slower to update their Linux packages on GOG than they are on Steam.

It's still GOG's fault. Other platforms got to use the Galaxy SDK to handle uploads and updates; Linux builds they had to use manual FTP and wait for it to be approved on GOG's side. They improved the process somewhat after a number of years, but it's still not as good publishing Linux builds as for other platforms.

Steam just has the same build and update pipeline for all platforms.

You would know better than I would. I see your point...

I understand, and agree, with CatKiller's point, it's like GOG provides a "boring" way to do it for Linux builds...
But still, there really are devs that don't give a single damn, and not just about the Linux builds but GOG as a whole sometimes. And that's not acceptable whatsoever.
GOG should really do something about this issue...

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Quoting: Doktor-MandrakeLooking at that 'Odyssey Mario's Moveset' it does seem to require manual building for native linux, the precompiled version is windows/wine only

Yeah, I just ran it with Proton(Thru Faugus Launcher) because I had it downloaded anyway. Hopefully alot of the additions in the two I posted get ported over to this new release.

Quoting: lqe5433How to apply the https://evilgames.eu/texture-packs/sm64-reloaded.htm pack?

Looks like you get it from this repo, going by the info on the page you linked.
https://github.com/GhostlyDark/SM64-Reloaded-GS/releases/tag/2026-01-18

Quoting: LoftyWould be cool to have a flatpak (or appimage) with all that stuff built in and accessible via in game menu.

Yeah, will be nice if they can port those big mods over to this new version. Wonder if the recomp launcher could add all the HarbourMasters releases and become a more general perpose tool.
https://github.com/SirDiabo/N64RecompLauncher

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If META could make a Quest-3 with OLED and Eyetracking, and near to the same price, it be the ticket.

BUT given the way PC hardware is going, seems its all going to inflate in price and further cripple fringe industries like VR/MR.

I have a Q3 that I don't use much (too busy with other stuff), and really the BIGGEST turn off for me is the terrible LCD that just BLEEDS backlight everywhere, there are NO BLACKS, its all just grey and you can see the lamp behind the LCD.

The issue with this is basically ANY game that isn't NEON PASTEL color palette looks terrible. There are areas in games like HLA where you can't see anything because the backlight bleed washes out the finite dark room detail.

So many Dungeon crawling games I'd love to play but can't see crap and turning brightness up just ruins it so much. Black Crush!

Steam-Frame is likely to have the same issue so I think; I'll just sell off my VR stuff along with most stuff I own at this point. Need to enter ultra-conservative spending and asset ownership during these tough times. lol

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Quoting: YasriThe best two versions of super mario 64 ported to PC, that I know about are. Neither require compiling unless you want too.

Odyssey Mario's Moveset by PeachyPeach
https://github.com/PeachyPeachSM64/sm64ex-omm

This is the best if you want single player only. Has tons of ingame options to tweak how you want it to play, including just vanilla 64.

Has ports of a few big mods, including...
Super Mario 64 Moonshine
Super Mario 74 + Extreme Edition
Super Mario Star Road
Super Mario 64: The Green Stars
Render96

SM64 CO-OP DX
https://github.com/coop-deluxe/sm64coopdx

Still actively being updated and has a huge amount of mods on their website.
https://mods.sm64coopdx.com/mods/
PeachyPeach even ported alot of there custom stuff over.
https://mods.sm64coopdx.com/mods/odyssey-marios-moveset-rebirth.125/

Would be cool to have a flatpak (or appimage) with all that stuff built in and accessible via in game menu.

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Quoting: DrakkerA new release is usually slight tweaks to the package selection that's installed by default. They also update the Welcome app and other small things. But yeah, Endeavour is just a quick installer for Arch. In 5 minutes you have an up and running Arch system with a decent selection of pre-installed packages and a desktop manager of your choice from a short list they offer.

Huge Endeavour fan here. Every device in our household for every family member has it installed (minus one daughter's high school who, for her arts and design classes, mandates an Apple laptop... Grrrrr....).

For those thinking of using it, it's a bit more than just an installer. There are some ideological tweaks that make it into the install. For example, packages to allow the DE's to auto index files for search is off by default (in at least KDE and Gnome) and the same for linking the DE up to Google services should you want to do that (which my wife wanted in her case, which is how I found out some more packages were needed). Other distros have these on by default or installed at baseline. That's the biggest difference I've found.

Just a PSA.

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Grumble, grumble, stupidsassafrassinrissarassin...

'Course, given that I only used it for Stardew Valley so far, I did a quick search and found [Stardrop](https://github.com/Floogen/Stardrop). Seems to be reasonably well supported and mature.

The dev also has a page for it on NexusMods itself.

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Even aside from the silliness of the setting it looks like it could be fun! There's not all that many good rock crawlers out there. So what if this one comes with mattresses!

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How to apply the https://evilgames.eu/texture-packs/sm64-reloaded.htm pack?

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This looks like a lot of fun to watch other people get very frustrated by. 😆

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Looking at that 'Odyssey Mario's Moveset' it does seem to require manual building for native linux, the precompiled version is windows/wine only

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