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Quoting: PlayingOnLinuxphone

Quoting: elmapulnon gaming pcs dont matter for the gaming market.

It matters, because someone working with Linux is more likely to adopt Linux on private PC, too. And someone who already owns a Linux PC is more likely to try out games on Linux instead of dual-booting all the day along.

Absolutely agree. My experience mirrors the one you've described.

I moved to Linux (Mint's Mate Edition) on my daily driver after my hard drive failed and I couldn't reinstall Windows. At first, I used it mostly for Web surfing, Office tools and digital music file management. As I grew more comfortable, I learned about this Wine thing and started playing around with running games in Linux. Once I got a laptop with an Nvidia dGPU, it was only natural to try Linux there as well. I still maintain a dual-boot with Windows for the odd game that has issues running in Linux, but most of my games are played in Linux these days.

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Nice. Now fans of purchasing from GOG can have their asses handed to them DRM free

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the Steam version technically doesn't require a Bethesda account either, all you need to do is enable Steam Offline mode before launching (can be disabled again afterwards) and the game will be playable just fine

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Quoting: CaldathrasWell, I'll concede that that's entirely possible. Although, my T580 is on Mint XFCE 21.3 and it does not detect the WiFi printers. Perhaps the applet is not activated by default in XFCE?

I don't know, but it works fine on my work laptop (T14 Gen 6) with Mint Xfce 22.3. Check that "Discovered printers" is enabled in the View menu of your printer configuration panel (system-config-printer).

Thanks. I'll check that the next time my T580 has WiFi access.

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Quoting: spacemonkeyOr could this be people joining Linus' (LTT Linus) Linux Challenge?

That was last year was it not?

Which failed IIRC.

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If only that stupid carrying around that hostages would come to a graceful end. How much fun it was when the hostages that "followed" you just got stuck at a random crate, and you forgot to have a peek behind you while rescuing.

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Quoting: pbPurchasing power rate is great, but milti-variable is way higher that both of them, for whatever reason. And it's not only for PLN, same goes for euro and GBP prices. It's almost like one of the "multi variables" was greed. 🤔

It's not really. Don't forget that $ prices don't include VAT. It says $100 is €85 and 100/85 = 1.176, so it accounts for 17.6% VAT, which is lower than most (if not all) of the eurozone.

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Hoping they add Marathon since Destiny 2 is already there.

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I can remember back a LONG time ago when I had a bunch of downloads to do, and I was thinking "where is the download all button" just not even comprehending the concept that there might not be one, I was just thinking I couldn't find it. Spent a good few minutes hunting then searched the web and was flabbergasted. Still to this continue to be amazed every time I go click every single title one after another.

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I hope devs (and especially publishers) warm to the Purchasing Power Conversion method, it's the only fair pricing really.
I also hope that it won't be abused by the users, unfortunately I have little faith in that...

[edit] I took a peek at https://partner.steamgames.com/pricing/explorer and multi-variable conversion is totally broken as of now. Exchange rate is fair (basically it's back to pre-2022 prices for PLN), Purchasing power rate is great, but milti-variable is way higher that both of them, for whatever reason. And it's not only for PLN, same goes for euro and GBP prices. It's almost like one of the "multi variables" was greed. 🤔

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I love Chiaki.

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Yeah, this is something I've been stung by a number of times. We (PL) get some of the highest prices on Steam, often on par with Switzerland, even though we're not even remotely as well-off as people Western-European countries.

I get developers/publishers would have no clue about all those different currencies and just put in whatever Valve suggests, so I put the blame firmly on them.

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Quoting: PyronickThis new remote download feature in the Steam Beta looks incredibly useful, but it honestly just makes me wish we could do the exact same thing directly through steamcmd remotely.

Being able to manage this on a TTY via SSH, or through a web interface like Cockpit, would be a game-changer. Even better would be an accessible CLI structure so we could easily wrap our own DIY bash/Python scripts or a custom web dashboard around it.

I don't recall how exactly but I can start downloads on steam's website

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Quoting: Liam DaweI really doubt that is the actual real reason, because it's a bit silly if so considering you can just drag them all into the Up Next like I do.

The automated scheduling is intentional, the vast majority of people might have games installed they aren't immediately playing every day, and for the ones they do there is an option to avoid having to drag it at all.

Just to make sure you know about it, right-click on a game and go to its properties. Go to "Updates" then "Automatic Updates", you can select "Immediately download updates" for that title.

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This new remote download feature in the Steam Beta looks incredibly useful, but it honestly just makes me wish we could do the exact same thing directly through steamcmd remotely.

Being able to manage this on a TTY via SSH, or through a web interface like Cockpit, would be a game-changer. Even better would be an accessible CLI structure so we could easily wrap our own DIY bash/Python scripts or a custom web dashboard around it.

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Quoting: Drawing PixelsThe lack of a download all is simply that they want to spread the load on their servers over the whole 24 hours, most people download in the evening after work.

They do provide an option to set specific games to high priority with immediate download, but for the rest of your collection they'd rather schedule those downloads during low traffic periods.

I really doubt that is the actual real reason, because it's a bit silly if so considering you can just drag them all into the Up Next like I do.

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The lack of a download all is simply that they want to spread the load on their servers over the whole 24 hours, most people download in the evening after work.

They do provide an option to set specific games to high priority with immediate download, but for the rest of your collection they'd rather schedule those downloads during low traffic periods.

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Quoting: gaboverstaI still remember many years ago when I bought Age of Empires 3 with both DLC on physical disc. Somewhere on the box it said that the ESO game servers needed for online play would be running until at least 2030.

Has been shut down in 2024, if Google serves well?

Well now I am angry.

You didn't play anymore, but now you're angry you couldn't? I can relate! Didn't mean to make you angry. :)

There are still multiple years during which I might want to play again and was promised that I could. Also microsoft grrrr, of course.

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Quoting: gaboverstaI still remember many years ago when I bought Age of Empires 3 with both DLC on physical disc. Somewhere on the box it said that the ESO game servers needed for online play would be running until at least 2030.

Has been shut down in 2024, if Google serves well?

Well now I am angry.

You didn't play anymore, but now you're angry you couldn't? I can relate! Didn't mean to make you angry. :)

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Quoting: Eike

Quoting: gaboverstaI still remember many years ago when I bought Age of Empires 3 with both DLC on physical disc. Somewhere on the box it said that the ESO game servers needed for online play would be running until at least 2030.

Has been shut down in 2024, if Google serves well?

Well now I am angry.

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I recall a time period where people endorsed Stadia out of necessity, and the negative implications of Google and their goals (certainly not improve Linux gaming) were sidelined, and I thought "Linux gaming is growing, Google's involvement will do more harm than good". Fast forward to now, I dont believe Stadia games, that had a somewhat functional Linux basis were released as ports. Developers who signed exclusivity did release their games on Steam though. Key point is that endorsing a gaming platform by a company who would introduce (more of) things like drm, ads and data collection is a unfortunate to put it mildly. And if you need more on why Google is untrustworthy, and their platform closing was for the better, here..
https://keepandroidopen.org/

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Very strange..i must be the weirdo then. For me the text in the middle of the screen makes my eyes hurt more because i have to watch only one point of the screen consantly without moving my eyes that much.
and yeah i agree that having line of text from one end 16:9 sceeen to another is not ideal either but at least double the current squished size would be good.

anyway i guess people are different

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Quoting: Gerarderloperold game restoration? survivability? dammit forgot the word

Preservation?

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyI guess the patent office isn't allowed to just say "No, this is stupid!"

They kind of are? Besides prior art, they can also reject it for being "obvious".

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Quoting: PoliticsOfStarvingIs it even an accurate way to measure Linux gaming? For the last two years or so, I don't even bother installing steam, I just go straight to heroic.

I don't think that matters much. There are Linux gamers outside of Steam, but there are also Windows gamers outside of Steam (e.g. my grandkids who only play Roblox) . . . and actually a disproportionate number of Mac gamers outside of Steam, because they probably use the Mac app store. I don't think we have any evidence that would support the idea that the percentage of Linux gamers on Steam is misleading because there are disproportionate numbers of non-Steam Linux gamers.
Plus, frankly the majority of Linux gamers are on Steam. I think you're an outlier.

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Last time I played through Wolfenstein: The New Order, which is OpenGL only, I had some (rare) stability issues, despite RadeonSI being very mature and stable in general.

Switching to Zink got rid of the crashes, so I guess even today with quite recent games it can prove very useful.

After all, having all and every API translating to Vulkan is an ideal situation (at leat from my point of view)

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9th booster here next month btw 🥰

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Too bad this was released on 4/1, but if true, it's meant to allow fullscreen direct scanout in HDR mode for better input latency in Plasma.

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I'm moved to a Intel Arc NUC miniPC from a BEAST system as I'm traveling far soon, forever and well NUC is a good middle ground.

Anyway it has a OCULINK port that is rated at PCIe4.0 X4 so about PCIe3.0 8x speeds. HOPEFULLY as GPU's advance they'll need less bandwidth (because nobody is going to be able to afford a 32GB GPU)

Apparently 8x vs x16 is like %1-3 performance loss. AND we have AMD, NVIDIA and Intel working on better VRAM compression, heck even the new PS6/XBOXwhatever is going to have these techs BAKED IN and ON BY DEFAULT which means future game vram usage on PC should be quite reasonable. (about time too)

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When all the performance and compatibility issues can be dealt with in a single layer, it certainly does make old game restoration? survivability? dammit forgot the word, anyway it makes that thing better for when we are all living in the desert wastelands of the future with no internet!

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