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Flatpak Steam is crap, but I'm OK with people thinking otherwise.

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Perfect timing. The rightwing party of germany just claimed almost 20% in one of the lands...🤮

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I am not tech-savvy enough to understand exactly what this is about, but that screen shot of TA Kingdoms brought a warm and fuzzy feeling to my stomach.

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Quoting: Wolfgang RoseThese 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.

Props for the CachyOS and Vivaldi love: what Opera started Vivaldi very much has improved upon.

But your Us focus confused me; isn't Opera owned by the Chinese now? [Link to Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opera_(company)

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A number of VBScript compatibility fixes.

I'm interested in this one actually due to a very very old app

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I am beyond stoked that they're doing another Minecraft Dungeons. The first one was honestly a sleeper hit for me and became my favorite ARPG, right up there with Diablo 3. The "easy to learn, difficult to master" aspect of their loot and gearing made it so easy to fall into, and a lot of Minecraft mobs were suddenly a lot more terrifying in the context, especially Endermen.

Fingers crossed the second has that same sauce!

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Quoting: Eike

Quoting: praz01Why is this even being done? As someone else said in these comments Flatpak Steam already works brilliantly with marked improvements in performance over native. I'm reluctant to invest in another container implementation when I'm so heavily invested in Flatpak. Is this another Snaps? Why can't they tweak the existing flatpak implementation?

Why would anything run faster in Flatpak than outside?

As built/as tested! Unless you can match lib versions on your native OS with one tested by Steam/Lutris/Heroic or compiling wine/proton and fine tuning it, this is optimal. Most of the benchmarks out there are on Snap vs deb, but same holds for flatpak vs native.

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Weird, currently playing GoW: Ragnarok and have no PS-SDK issues with the earlier Proton-GE build.

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​This wine version use more space than 11.4, 11.5 once stay compiled use 4.1gb (around 32400 files) meanwhile 11.4 use 3.5gb (around 30100 files) in my case



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​this dxvk version in my case work with some old titles like this:

earthworm jim 3d







also this game need executable hex edit for fix font issue: in my case replace this value in hex E8 B3 0F 01 00 8B F4 6A FF for 66 90 89 E6 68 FF FF FF 00

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This is what i am really here fore. Linux has the potential to bring all the game eras together. I'm a huge fan of those little retro handhelds because they let you experience 40 year old games together with new ones with an interface that even my old mother would have understood.
Now, with GameNative and stuff, you can even use an 180 Eurodollar device as a mini steam deck, along with the old stuff. I've bought one of the cheapest android retrohandhelds that is feasible to do it on (the Anbernic RG 467H) and man is it cool to have a little steam deck in your pocket. It´s hit and miss on most games, but it is almost perfect for things like darkside detective, Ball X Pit and stuff like that.

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Nice light comedy series with no-nonsense adventuring gameplay. Glad to see the series thrive and develop

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Okay, the change with determining primary monitor is huge.

It was a huge pain in the back that Proton Wayland games did not respect my choice of a primary monitor. I guess that will no longer be the case.

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Quoting: praz01Why is this even being done? As someone else said in these comments Flatpak Steam already works brilliantly with marked improvements in performance over native. I'm reluctant to invest in another container implementation when I'm so heavily invested in Flatpak. Is this another Snaps? Why can't they tweak the existing flatpak implementation?

Why would anything run faster in Flatpak than outside?

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I had never heard of DORF but I love old school RTS. You always give the best recommendations Liam 😄❤️

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Quoting: shadowofwardThe last time i tried gnome i couldn't even make a short cut on the desktop has this been changed?

Oh... And suddenly, just like that, we have all forgotten, that there are GNOME Extensions and we can "extend" the functionality any way we like... 🤔
Like e.g. add the icons back to the desktop... 😁

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Why is this even being done? As someone else said in these comments Flatpak Steam already works brilliantly with marked improvements in performance over native. I'm reluctant to invest in another container implementation when I'm so heavily invested in Flatpak. Is this another Snaps? Why can't they tweak the existing flatpak implementation?

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Another comment about Age Attestation Laws - Fighting Back:

It is clear that Meta (Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp) has been lobbying politicians in numerous U.S. States to require Age Attestation be inserted into Operating Systems. Meta are doing this in a very sneaky way so that most people are unaware that it is coming from them. Meta wants to "pass the buck" onto the Operating Systems to perform Age Attestation of OS Users, rather than have to pay fines for any children found using their social media platforms.

So, this is Meta's fault. And Meta should be punished. And what more fitting way to punish Meta than to do this:

1) Call them out. Shout from the rooftops, blaming Meta for this. Make other people aware.

2) Leave Meta platforms. Stop using WhatsApp, stop using Instagram, stop using Facebook. Delete your Accounts. Hit them where it hurts - In their pockets. Tell Meta you are leaving because of their lobbying and the impact it is causing to society.

3) For good measure, delete your browser cookies. Use Adblocking technology like uBlock Origin and Ghostery. Make it *harder* for these data mining companies to collect data about you. If you don't use their products (e.g. Facebook) then they are less able to target you for adverts.

4) Switch over to using Mastodon, Signal and other privacy software (instead of Facebook and WhatsApp). Get your friends and family to switch too.

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I tried it.
Uses 25% CPU and 6GB of RAM, and crashes constantly.
Sent some crash reports, reverted back for now.

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Quoting: doragasuI hope SquareEnix continues the trend and removes Denuvo from the latest "Paranormasight" soon. I really enjoyed the first one and was surprised when I found out this has Denuvo (first one hadn't).

Quoting myself, guess what, SE has removed Denuvo from the latest Paranormasight! Time to buy!

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Yikes. This does not look like a game or story I want to play.

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Very sad to hear. I hope they can find a way forward.

I have Cachy on my main PC and couldn't be happier, but I have Manjaro installed on my (low-spec) laptop. That's only there because Cachy's installer kept noping out, and Manjaro was the first one that worked and I thought I may as well give it a go. But yeah, I never hear anything about Manjaro any more, and I guess this explains why.

May be time to revisit a Cachy install.

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hmm, wonder if its worth switching from cachyos handheld to this now on my ROG Ally?

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Hard to tell but it looks like their using some old school pixel art graphics as well in places? Neat.

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Quoting: tgurrYou probably still need to install 32bit graphics driver on your host for as long as you want to play 32bit native games. Maybe they could add an option like "Always run the windows version of the game (through Proton) for games which only have a 32bit native version" to be able to really get rid of the need to have to have 32bit libs installed. As (old) 32bit native games won't magically go away any time soon - if ever.

I always thought that when Wine/Proton finally reach the state when they're 64 bit but can run 32bit apps (which is supposed to be pretty close), you don't need multilib at all except for steam itself. But maybe I'm missing something.

edit: ahh I guess you mean linux native games. Then probably yes

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Didnt DORF Rts pixel art ? well it seems gameplay videos were in low resolution but rest of the youtube videos are in high quality. Lol. Well im waiting for it beyond "Dust RTS", Still my favorite rts is starcraft 2 but maybe this one changes my opinions especially with Linux native support.

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I wound up caving to my own pressure - picked up cassette beasts for the deck. UH OH THAT WAS PROBABLY A BAD IDEA. It's REALLY good. I played it way too long last night and now today is a mess lol. I'm normally not big on creature collectors (poke-a-like?) but this is just so cool. Plus the soundtrack - whoa.

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Quoting: Stella

Quoting: Claude_LibSadly, it also appears to break network completely, even connecting a smartphone over USB in tethering mode doesn't seem to work. Admittedly, I'm running it on a desktop, so nothing was guaranteed to work in the first place, but it's still sad. I created an issue on GitHub, hopefully they'll fix it.

hate to break it to you, but SteamOS isn't meant for your desktop, it's a niche console OS that only supports 2 devices right now. Anything outside of that, there are far better alternatives like Bazzite

I wouldn't complain about that if SteamOS hasn't been working perfectly fine with zero compatibility issues on my PC for two years at this point, making this an actual regression.

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Quoting: Claude_LibSadly, it also appears to break network completely, even connecting a smartphone over USB in tethering mode doesn't seem to work. Admittedly, I'm running it on a desktop, so nothing was guaranteed to work in the first place, but it's still sad. I created an issue on GitHub, hopefully they'll fix it.

hate to break it to you, but SteamOS isn't meant for your desktop, it's a niche console OS that only supports 2 devices right now. Anything outside of that, there are far better alternatives like Bazzite

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I tried SteamRT3 on a Steam Deck, and it messed up the night mode. The hue would either not change at all or become very rich red.

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