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and the latest release brings Native Linux support to improve performance on Steam Deck.

Valve, you crazy bastards, the plan is actually working

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Grabbed this off my wishlist as the update on Steam mentioned they'll be raising the price for their next update and that this is the best time to grab the game on sale before the price increase. Thanks for the coverage !

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It is so that while you're sitting in your gaming chair in front of your gaming computer, with all its illuminated gaming keyboard and gaming mouse and gaming mouse pad, sipping your gaming drink and wearing your gaming garb that you might desire to browse gaming information on the web.

And what better to do that than with a gaming browser!

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Remember when you had to pay for Opera back in the day and it was a worthy alternative? Pepperidge Farm remembers.

Remember when stupid gimmicky web browsers weren't everywhere either? Pepperidge Farm also remembers.

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Quoting: Eocene84Would never, ever trust a free vpn.

You should never trust ANY VPN. With all the censorship laws going on the books all over the world, it shouldn't come as a surprise that every single VPN will cave when the authorities come knocking.

It is one thing to use a VPN to hide your actuall illegal actions, but these days watching a video not available in your region or with the "wrong" content might land you in jail!

I expect most of the people here could instead spin up a VPS in a non-compliant country and run their own VPN for a couple dollars a month.

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Quoting: Wolfgang RoseIt looks impressive, but its NVIDIA... I'm on a 4070 at the moment and my upgrade cycle is 3-5 years away based on what I play. This will be my last NVIDIA card though, I'm not going to support a company that is actively trying to kill the pass-time I have had almost entire life.

Yep. I'm still on a 1060 and finally hitting the point where I need to upgrade soon. I've always been a GeForce guy, but not anymore. The build I start within the next few months will definitely contain a Radeon.

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Thank you for mentioning Danger Zone! I feel like I'm the only one hoping for it to come back 💔

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what if they made a linux port and nobody wanted it?

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So let's look a little closer. This update claims "privacy first". So it gives you a VPN of nebulous origin... which will be a middle man for all your actual data... uh huh. Next they are slapping an AI spy window over the whole browser window to middle man all your interactions... uh huh.

So where's the fucking privacy mozilla? I shouldn't feel more confident in my privacy using a chromium based browser like Vivaldi than I do in the "privacy first" flagship mozilla browser, yet here we are.

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Booo... BOOOO... I am NOT saying BOo-Urnnnns.. BOOOOO

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Quoting: Cyba.CowboyNah, I look forward to this - as long as it suits the particular game type! For example, it would make little sense to have such realism for say, Palworld... But it would be fantastic to see this implemented in The Last of Us.

Each to his own. I think I prefer to play a game, see a movie or listen to music the way the artists intended. Not have an AI interpret it for me. I'm not interested in having a Tiktok beauty filter over my games.

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I started my last Distro hop 11 months ago with Manjaro, I killed the system within two days. Then moved onto Bazzite briefly until I realised that was likely to be within the US Government control. Settled on CachyOS, which I broke after 3 months (that is a record for me!). Latest distrib of CachyOS is mightily impressive.

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It looks impressive, but its NVIDIA... I'm on a 4070 at the moment and my upgrade cycle is 3-5 years away based on what I play. This will be my last NVIDIA card though, I'm not going to support a company that is actively trying to kill the pass-time I have had almost entire life.

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These days I always checkout 'who owns' a particular software. I checked out 'Opera Norway' and noted that the company was floated on the NASDAQ, ergo it will have lots of American investors and will likely cater to US tastes and business norms. In my experience as a developer/tester/project manager, I know most US firms will make all the noises to comply with GDPR, but will often breech intentionally as 'part of business'. In contrast Vivaldi is still privately held (not floated) - so right now at least is still within GDPR.

I'm not being anti-US, I'm just taking precautions against a prevalent business culture that is actively hostile towards its customers. At the moment the only US tools I'm using are Steam (as I have such a large back-catalogue) and Lutris. I'd opt for Heroic Launcher instead, but it is just not as flexible as Lutris. I use CachyOS which is a Deutsch distribution based on Canadian Arch.

Still hoping to see GOG.com bring Galaxy to Linux, then I can remove Lutris from the equation.

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Would never, ever trust a free vpn. I use ExpressVPN and am very happy with it. Though I can understand why the expense would put people off.

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Some returns about this game? I kept good memories about the gameplay of Desert Strike being a child.
Is it repetitive?

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A "gaming" web browser? So is that like any other web browser but twice the price with some RGB LEDs built-in? 🤣

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eh I don't know. Personally, as the dad of two littluns, I honestly don't care whatsoever about any form of parental controls. Implement them, don't implement them, whatever.

In the end it doesn't matter. Smart kids will ALWAYS find a way to get around stuff like that.

For me, I'm much more concerned just about in-general parenting them to have screen time limits across all screens and devices and just doing it myself.

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Quoting: grigiI would love a clone of this parental controls to work with Plasma too.

Although my kids are actually very good at self policing themselves right now, so maybe it's not really needed for me?

I never used parental controls for mine, only good old talks. I can safely say that it worked. But I guess it depends on a lot of things that might or might not be different in other families, so YMMV.

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I would love a clone of this parental controls to work with Plasma too.

Although my kids are actually very good at self policing themselves right now, so maybe it's not really needed for me?

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These changes look awesome! Looks like slow and steady rolling out of good stuff.

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I can totally see myself using split view. Finally, a new browser feature that may actually be useful.
Hard to believe, but it is not even AI powered!

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If this had happened 3 years earlier, I would be using Opera GX.

I am no longer interested in Opera GX.

Sucks to suck.

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I wonder if there will be a paid version for more / unlimited data? Makes sense and I’ll happily pay it.
I wonder if this feature will come to mobile as well at some point?

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Quoting: Jarmerahhhhhh give me a moment to reminisce about the good ol days when Opera was actually its own competent thing using its own engine and features etc... ahhhhhh

The old Opera was absolutely amazing. Most innovative, useful swiss army knife of a web browser ever.

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It sure is flashy

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ahhhhhh give me a moment to reminisce about the good ol days when Opera was actually its own competent thing using its own engine and features etc... ahhhhhh

okay now back to reality. Aint nobody got time for this malware on their linux systems 🤣

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Quoting: wintermuteI recently stopped using regular Opera on EndeavourOS because video playback stopped working properly. Does the gaming version require the same codec workarounds?

If your distro supports snap packages the snap version of normal Opera comes with all the codecs built in so video playback has always worked

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One of the most idiotic changes I have seen for a game in a while.

The wall banging and "free" reloading has always been a staple.
People looking for realistic ammo simulation (or any kind of realism, honestly) are playing other games, not CS.
Completely uncalled for, wrong target audience.

I fully expect them to undo that change after the reviews have dragged the game down to the low 70s. Recent reviews already dropped by 5% in just a few hours 😂

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