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Quoting: geckofish52Just to add another voice here...

I'm happy to see responsiveness to the community and what seems to be a measured middle ground. I've been a happy Firefox user for a long time and will continue to do so.

Syncing my browser data across devices and powerful extensions on Linux + Android, love it.

This, very much this. For better or for worse AI is here to stay with us so adding it here and there is not "the end of the world", especially now with global killswitch.

It seems that there is no pleasing of some but Mozilla/Firefox has to care about a broader audience than a tiny yet super vocal minority.

Also: all those Firefox "forks" would probably cease to exist once Firefox is gone so keep that in mind…

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"Connect Your Steam Account

To purchase Steam game collections, you need to connect your Steam account for verification purposes."

Seriously?

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I don't think I would be gaming on Linux without the SteamDeck. Not only that Have 4+ Linux desktop systems in the house. Happy birthday. fingers crossed they can get the younger sibling out this year at a decent price.

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At this point it's a standard QOL feature for Square ports. Ideally, you flip that on to avoid excessive encounters, but leave it off otherwise. Hacky, but does the job.

Suikoden had a very elegant solution for this back in the day: if you moved in a perfectly straight line (i.e. "I know exactly where I'm going") you'd get fewer encounters along the way. I think the rate lowered further the longer you stuck to that straight line. It's basically been a solved, but widely ignored problem since the 90s.

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Been playing mine pretty much nonstop since I got it on the sale last year

It really is a fantastic little device, now I really want an oled model lol

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Quoting: StellaI'm looking forward to 6.6.6😆

We need to start a petition for a 2026-06-06 release date! 😈

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Happy Linux Gaming Day everybody! 🥰

Established in 2022:

Quoting: Liam DaweI'm also putting a flag down into February 25 (the Steam Deck release date) as Linux Gaming Day every year.

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2022/04/2022-is-officially-the-year-of-linux-gaming/

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I own Steam Deck LCD and it is great, but I prefer PC mode. I buy Vampire Survivors and Hollow Knight: Silk Song lately and try to find time to play.

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On Polish WWW there are information, that RAM prices are get smaller now.

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Best gaming device since the original Switch (that I actually sold after purchasing the Deck)

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I'm looking forward to 6.6.6😆

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Quoting: ItsRainingSomewhere

There's fixes for the Discover software centre with Flatpaks

I've come across random weird issues with this on my Fedora KDE boxes. Sometimes the Flathub source is listed under Settings, sometimes its not, sometimes its not listed and packages still update normally. It's hit or miss. Noticed it first on 6.5, but seems to be better/normal/fixed now on 6.6.

What distro are you on? The issue I had with any distro that wasn't Arch-based was that Plasma was typically at least one major version out of date! Even Siduction, which is based on Debian Sid, tended to be months behind the release schedule.

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I like the idea of no having random encounters... but how are the story event battles adapting to user level? Or do you level per story event battle and go from 5 to 15 in one go all of a sudden?

As for the crappy port Square Enix has done... What a shame, really.

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Valve has played a huge service in bringing Linux validity into the consumer mind... love to see it!

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I think we might see an ARM based Steam Deck 2. No need for 64gb of ram when it's baked into the cpu and, thus 10x faster. As an example, the Snapdragon 8 nails it quite well, from what I've seen. I wonder what Valve could do with a custom chip, if they decide to follow the Apple path.

Still, there is the storage issue.

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I started off with Lutris for my GOG needs. For the most part it worked fine but I would have issues with certain games failing to install due to the install scripts that get used. I eventually tried Heroic and have had no issues, both on my Steam Deck and on my Fedora KDE machines.

I'm glad there is the choice of both for folks but Heroic gets my vote for a reliable and simple GOG installer.

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Quoting: BrokattMan the comment section on GamingOnLinux is one of the few places in the internet were I don't regret scrolling down. Amazing that we can still be civil even if we disagree.

OT: I think Mozilla did themselves a disservice calling it "On-Device AI" features. I think few people have an issue with local machine learning features. Calling them 'AI' just associate them with something completely different in my view.

Yeah, it's definitely an underhanded way of making the AI haters look more unhinged for opposing translation and accessibility features.

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There's fixes for the Discover software centre with Flatpaks

I've come across random weird issues with this on my Fedora KDE boxes. Sometimes the Flathub source is listed under Settings, sometimes its not, sometimes its not listed and packages still update normally. It's hit or miss. Noticed it first on 6.5, but seems to be better/normal/fixed now on 6.6.

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I didn't even had issues with 6.6.0. But also I've been using it for like 3 days until today. 🤷‍♂️

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I took a gamble and pre-ordered the 256 GB model, way back when. It's paid off better even than I had hoped. Between me and the family, it's played every single day.

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This D7VK version solve various issues case black squares around character on divine divinity in my case



Also testing 3DMark 2000 (with some patches like normal patch, 3DMark2000mmxcheckswitch and 3DM2kRyzenFix for run on wine, this patches stay on vogons: https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?t=33579)









Results are impressive around 50% more performance than wined3d in my case

😀

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You have said it all. Amen to all of this and:
Happy Birthday, Steam Deck!

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Tomb Raider IV-VI Remastered does not seem to be in that bundle – I am getting Radiolight shown instead.

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I have it till it was released and it's still my #1 gaming device. Happy anniversary, Steam Deck! And soon you will get more siblings :-)

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Quoting: ChrisznixDeath Stranding was crazy. I really liked the setting, but i never found out how to battle the BTs, so i chose to abandon it. It ran without issues on the deck, though.

Until you get on the boat to leave the tutorial area your options are limited. You get plenty of means to deal with them as the game progresses.

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At least the native Linux version, which is the one I tried for already half an hour, has some bugs of game freezing likes (there's a thread on the discussion forum on Steam), however, saving frequently temporarily "fixes" that, and since the devs answered, I would bet they will work on solving the problem.
The game seems very good IMO, some may seem it's a basic CRPG, and it probably is, but it's also _very fun_ if you like turn based combat; there are plenty of secrets (classic NewBlood), the weapons feel good, the difficult balance it's actually really good, with a smooth curve... I only played others CRPG like Vaporum and MarySkelter, and Dungeons of Dusk it's more basic but at least the same fun as those.

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Hmm... on handhelds also 16 GB of RAM? As that's shared with the GPU and mostly about 12 GB... but as they have a preset for handhelds I guess it'll work ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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Man the comment section on GamingOnLinux is one of the few places in the internet were I don't regret scrolling down. Amazing that we can still be civil even if we disagree.

OT: I think Mozilla did themselves a disservice calling it "On-Device AI" features. I think few people have an issue with local machine learning features. Calling them 'AI' just associate them with something completely different in my view.

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Death Stranding was crazy. I really liked the setting, but i never found out how to battle the BTs, so i chose to abandon it. It ran without issues on the deck, though.

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Quoting: TheSHEEEP

Quoting: LampWe already have ID verification sorted out digitally in Sweden without ever giving the service our ID, we rely on a thing called "BankID" that is like a 2 step verification with an app on our phone
First we have our identity verified at the bank with a valid ID like a drivers license, passport etc, get a BankID token connected to our person verified by the bank and the state, this has been a thing for many years now

Using this for discord would sort of work like this: Discord could ask for you to verify your age using the BankID api, I scan the QR code with my phone, use my secret code on the app to verify that I am who I say I am, the BankID system verifies my the token on my phone and identity in their system in conjunction with the code I typed in, and then tells Discord that yes, this person is an adult and who they say they are through a trusted system
Discord never needs to see my ID, they never get any more info than needed, only that yes, I am of adult age, let me use the system

At least that is how I think it would work

Exactly this.
I fully expect that ultimately something like that is what it will come down to. Same in in Finland, btw, just with a different name. And confirmation can be done with banks, but also mobile providers, etc.

They'll probably try the ID thing, fail (after another leak scandal or two) and then over time change to something closer to what you described here.

EU is rolling out something alike:
https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/de/policies/eu-age-verification

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