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I would welcome a post (or an edit) introducing https://modding-openmw.com/ and especially showing a setup that works well on Steam Deck.

Their scripts make modding really easy. But unfortunately the Total Overhaul seems to be too much for the Deck. Would be nice to see a configuration close to it which can be run on the Deck.

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I have had some games, notably Hitman WoA and Shadows of Doubt, get killed by the memory manager after they had consumed all VRAM (8 Gb) and subsequently all RAM (16 Gb) on my old desktop. So far the only fix has been to make a large swap partition - and play less of those games and for shorter time spans (probably a good idea anyway) Curious to see if this might help.

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Would this apply to AMD iGPUs too?

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Using Debian is the age verification! (cit.)

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Good to see some more love for VR on Linux - although of course i've sold my index in hopes of the frame in H1/26...damn AI bubble 😭

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Quoting: kaktuspalme

Quoting: Purple Library Guy11% for English speaking . . . that's insane. But, once again says to me that something needs to be done about China not doing Linux.

I still don't understand why asian countries and china especially adopt Linux slower then the rest of the world. One would think they would be happy not relying on US closed source Software.

A. It depends on the asian country. India is an Asian country and has an 18% overall Linux penetration in their market.
B. This's deliberate market strategy. Microsoft has put a lot of resources and some excellent ideas to Asian ecosystem construction. They were already big in western markets when Asia started to become realistic and they used this to obtain marketshare.
A two tricks Microsoft pulled:
- intentional piracy in Asian markets.
Asian markets tend to have pretty protectionist policies one of which is forced technology transfer, but policy only works through legal methods. Piracy and smuggling circumvent official policy.
- solid localisation: asian languages are very well supported in Windows

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No, I won't play RE from 1998

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15" AMD laptop with Thunderbolt 4 support would be amazing. Who am I kidding, it won't happen...

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Quoting: KoopaAlso some big studios dont care about this... I live in Argentina, latam-usd region and some AAA have exactly the same price as in the US. They didnt care about regional pricing before... I have doubts they will suddenly care.
Tbh what it looks from my end, is that regional pricing is falling apart, fewer studios do regional pricing by the day, to me Valve's move is kinda a desperate move because they dont want regional price to fall apart.

Indeed. Here in Brazil is the same thing. There are some "deluxe" special edition of some games that can reach a third of the Brazilian minimum wage. Most of the big AAA Studios like Activision, Sega or Konami, practically do strait US Dollar conversion rates.

What is sad is that Steam took a lot of people of the piracy scene here, but apparently big studios want those people to go back there ASAP.

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What do you think it will be?

A Framework Steam Machine 😉

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In an interview on the Dualboot Diaries podcast, the Framework CEO said that half of the computer they sell are Linux. So these guys are really surfing on the wave of Linux growth. Good for them.

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I would love to play MW3 in split screen on my Steam Deck docked. But the game is stuttering. I think I have to accept that the SD is not enough powerful to handle the game...

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Charging LED now changes color when charge limit is reached, rather than only at 100%

That's good. It's seemed like a massive oversight since they rolled out the charge limit feature.

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I do hope they have cleaned the stinky people from their big tent.

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^ Agreed. Doesn't make much sense. Cachy handles this so well, exactly as you say.

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Quoting: chr- when this work is finished: Wine (arm) itself can run outside FEX (and Wine would use FEX still for the x86 games)

Possibly/hopefully. This is all best guesses. I think the Android patches that went into this release was only to make it build again on modern platforms?

Would be fun if someone could interview the developer(s) and find out what their plans are!

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyOh, agreed. I don't mean to say the Deck hasn't had a huge impact. It's been an amazing catalyst. And even now, I notice game developers are often doing this or that that benefits Linux use because they're targeting the Deck, rather than desktop Linux. It looms large in people's imaginations.
Nonetheless, it's interesting to notice that the recent end of the 5-month-rolling shows desktop Linux at three times the size of Deck, and rising fast where Deck is fairly static.

For sure. The way I interpret the data is something like this:

Up to 2021, Linux gaming is basically a punchline for people that had never tried it.

July 2021, the Deck is revealed and everyone that tries it really likes it - especially the software. Lots of coverage.
"Isn't Linux gaming just a punchline?"
"Nuh uh."
Little bump.

2022, the Deck is released and the Linux total goes up by how fast Valve can make units. The now-acknowledged benefits of Linux gaming are still seen as just a Deck thing - "maybe when SteamOS is released for desktop PCs I'll consider switching." Desktop Linux stays pretty flat.

2023, the initial rush of purchases is over and Windows-based competitor devices start to be released. Deck growth slows down. Now people can directly compare the Linux experience with the Windows experience on the class of hardware that's still newsworthy. Linux smashes it. Desktop Linux starts to grow. "I guess Linux really is better than Windows."

2024 and the conversation has completely turned around for those touched by gaming-adjacent coverage. Linux is seen as the desirable option, and people consider the balance between the pain of switching and the pain of using Windows (the latter of which is widely viewed as considerable because of Microsoft choices). Desktop Linux usage explodes. Game devs and publishers appreciate the mainstream sentiment about the Deck and put in special effort even though the Deck is at the same "punchline" levels of usage as desktop Linux used to be. Something not being allowed to work on Linux now needs to be justified rather than being accepted as the natural order of things.

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Quoting: GerarderloperIs this Android Driver meant as a alternative to Valves FEX layer?

Quoting: GoEsrNo, it's meant for getting Windows games to run on Android. It uses FEX for ARM compatibility.

So do I understand correctly that:
- before: both games (x86) and Wine (x86) have to be run inside FEX
- when this work is finished: Wine (arm) itself can run outside FEX (and Wine would use FEX still for the x86 games)

And this would probably give greater stability and performance.

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Quoting: kaktuspalme

Quoting: Purple Library Guy11% for English speaking . . . that's insane. But, once again says to me that something needs to be done about China not doing Linux.

I still don't understand why asian countries and china especially adopt Linux slower then the rest of the world. One would think they would be happy not relying on US closed source Software.

Asians like gachas and all sorts of multiplayer titles and a lot of them doesn't work under Linux. Valorant? a BIG FAT NO! Hoyoverse titles? A BIG FAT NO!

And this is what M$ is clinging to, Kernel Anticheat games.

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I will never understand the "distros" that mostly change the default DE.
There should simply be a "Ubuntu Community Edition" or something, with a choice of DE at install.
No point in splitting resources over like 50 almost identical *buntu.

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Y'all are debating whether 3 terminal commands for Nvidia drivers disqualifies Fedora, it's like saying don't recommend Arch because you have to partition manually 🤦

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Quoting: CatKiller

Quoting: Purple Library GuyThanks for the graph. Man, the serious growth is actually desktop Linux not Deck, eh?
(side note: Looks like the Chinese don't use Mac a whole lot, either)

There's been such a difference in the conversation about Linux gaming from the gaming press, YouTubers, and general tech people since Valve released their high-profile Linux gaming demonstration device. Even if you've never held a Deck in your hands you know that Linux gaming is awesome - something that we've known for ages, but the wider population needed to be shown.

Oh, agreed. I don't mean to say the Deck hasn't had a huge impact. It's been an amazing catalyst. And even now, I notice game developers are often doing this or that that benefits Linux use because they're targeting the Deck, rather than desktop Linux. It looms large in people's imaginations.
Nonetheless, it's interesting to notice that the recent end of the 5-month-rolling shows desktop Linux at three times the size of Deck, and rising fast where Deck is fairly static.

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyThanks for the graph. Man, the serious growth is actually desktop Linux not Deck, eh?
(side note: Looks like the Chinese don't use Mac a whole lot, either)

There's been such a difference in the conversation about Linux gaming from the gaming press, YouTubers, and general tech people since Valve released their high-profile Linux gaming demonstration device. Even if you've never held a Deck in your hands you know that Linux gaming is awesome - something that we've known for ages, but the wider population needed to be shown.

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Thanks for the graph. Man, the serious growth is actually desktop Linux not Deck, eh?
(side note: Looks like the Chinese don't use Mac a whole lot, either)

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Now that I'm back near my computer, here's the usual graph breaking down the proportions between Deck and desktop Linux. Now with a five-month moving average to smooth out some of the noise.

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Thanks so much!
Your trick work!

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KwaXR-7fZE

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Hi, I have tested Subnautica on Epic Games with the Heroic Games Launcher with Wine 11.6 Staging i copeyed the files into the game folder and started the game BepInEx started without having to add the DLL overrides

Games that use BepInEx look like they will run out of the box without needing to manually add the DLL overrides

Release notes
The Wine development release 11.6 is now available.

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Really looking forward to the full release of Skull Horde on April 10th. Skull Horde is an insta-buy for me. I have been playing the demo on and off for about 10 months. The demo has been updated many times and just keeps getting better. I only had one issue. Due to my poor eyesight, I kept losing track of the "flying skull necromancer" on my LCD Steam Deck. When I looked in the options, there was a setting under Settings->Camera->Zoom that solved my problem.

I would say that 8BitSkull is one of my favorite Steam Deck game developers. I have spent may hours on BORE BLASTERS and Void Scrappers. They support Native Linux, the graphics/audio are great and the performance is fantastic on the Steam Deck.

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Quoting: Nickname

Quoting: kaktuspalme

Quoting: WORMI got asked to submit my specs 3 times this last month lmao

All different devices but all Linux

Whenever I get asked, I get asked on all the devices I have. To me it looks like they select random users, not random pcs.

I would say its on a per device basis, you probably get asked on all devices the same day by chance.
The survey gets automatically triggered if one year has passed, there is a counter in the .steam/steam/config/config.vdf file. (path can vary a bit by distro)

Maybe my memory is wrong, but as far as I remember I got asked on all devices at least the last 3 times. I also didn't install all my devices on the same day. In fact I installed CachyOS some weeks ago and got asked there as well.

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