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The Steam Deck app is a flatpak hosted on a Nvidia repository.

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Quoting: Cley_FayeWhen a friend came to me about PopOS telling me "now I can switch between the integrated GPU or the Nvidia one in one click!" I put my ubuntu laptop in his face, clicked on "nvidia-prime" in the menu, where I had that exact same feature.

tbh your attitude seemed a little condescending towards your enthusiastic friend. If they found a solution to a problem on linux no matter how inelegant it was then that's a good thing, because they are more likely to stay on linux.

That said i wonder in the past just how many excited newcomers got bummed out by the well known "smart ass know it all" linux user and went back to windows or migrated to Mac?

(or console if they were interested in linux gaming).

Thankfully a lot of that elitism has died down now.

That friend was already a linux user. He wasn't "dipping his toes" in linux through popOS as its first adventure, so I doubt I've driven him off.

Please don't think that internet memes and caricatures are that common. If anything, I'm happy to help. Showing someone that software and features aren't distribution specific does not sound like a bad thing to me, and if it was someone just trying to move away from windows/macos, my first reaction would not have been "YOU DID IT WRONG IDIOT". In fact, I would never say that. The point was comparing distributions, and the futility of specific distros that embed the *same* software with different settings.

But I guess rationale discussion between people is a thing of the past, and if I said something not utterly positive about their choice, I'm obviously mocking them and trying to push them down the pit of idiots that obviously exist, right?

Thankfully, neither he nor I reacted this way.

I stand by my point that *changing your whole OS* for a glittering title bar or a two-step process becoming a one-step process is not that interesting given the alternatives. If you think that's some elitist behavior, then so be it.

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I guess following the actual curator for Denuvo Watch is done from here:
https://store.steampowered.com/curator/26095454/

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Quoting: M@GOidThe hardware have potential, and their Windows drivers are getting attention.

But in Linux, their drivers are still very immature. They do fine on synthetic benchmarks, but in actual games they lag behind, like rear view mirror behind (right Pat?). It is clear they don't have dedicated developers for gaming, and everybody must have been allocated to the AI crazy efforts. And to make things worse, if memory is correct, they fired a couple developers from the Linux team last year.

So no, I would not get one of their new products until they get their shit together on the Linux front.

Agreed, Intel Linux drivers are absolute trash right now, I would not even consider an Intel GPU until they get this mess sorted. Although from what I've seen, it's unlikely to improve because they are bleeding Linux devs left and right. So that's that.

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Westwood was one my favorite victims of EA. 😭

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🎆🎉

Island maps can be surrounded by infinite water instead of void.

I feel like that it has been a long time since I first saw the related commits.

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I expect Mint is not the best gaming Linux. It is, however, about the best "general desktop" Linux, and has not caused me any real problems with gaming, so since I spend more time doing everything else than I do gaming I remain fairly pleased to use Mint.

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Quoting: eggroleMy question to those cheering for the mass adoption of linux boils down to: if I am right and linux gets watered down

What the hell does "watered down" even mean in this context, and why should I mind?

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Quoting: Johnologue

Quoting: zerodoggthe "denuvo watch" curator

Sounds useful, I'm looking for that now!

https://steamcommunity.com/groups/DenuvoWatch

Quoting: zerodoggI switched to the SteamDB extension instead of Augmented Steam when this was first pushed out.

I like/use both. This particular use of "AI" doesn't bother me much, although I agree with many of the arguments against it in general. In a similar vein, I hate that so much bot traffic makes the web worse for us humans, but I like being able to use bots that pull ProtonDB info or show where the cheapest price is into the Steam page for me.

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I think Valve should partner with Nvidia to have the app natively available in the SteamDeck. Since you need to own the actual games (e.g. on Steam), it might be a win-win situation and provide a solution for the Anti-Cheat issue (assuming the latency is decent enough for online play). But at the same time it gives access to GamePass which is definitely a loss of income for Valve.

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Quoting: Linux_RocksBaba is me? I'm not Baba, this is Baba:

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I have no proof you don't look like that.

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Quoting: scaineI also like the pop-up that overlays the entire game page if it uses AI.

Hrm. A bit ironic, that.

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Finally! It took time...

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Quoting: fenglengshunWill the full podcast be uploaded to YouTube as well? I only watch/listen to YouTube podcasts.

As noted in the article yes, the full episode should be on YouTube next week.

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Quoting: PenguinIt's ironic seeing the majority of votes being in favor of AI usage. Everything tech-related is getting prohibitively expensive because of it. I could sort of understand those that were pro generative AI / LLM before, but now it's nonsense to defend what is leading the tech industry to its doom (at least for the regular users)

It doesn't really matter what one thinks of the impact AI has. It is here and it will stay.
You won't be getting lower prices if you become a luddite trying to fight the direction the wind blows in.

The question is how do you adapt to it:
Not at all and fall by the wayside when it comes to job opportunities, productivity, etc. (at least in the sectors touched by AI, which is like 99% of tech).
Or look at it reasonably, and at least learn to be able to use it efficiently if not outright learning how to develop it.

The doom you are talking about will be similar to the dotcom bubble burst.
Was there an overwhelming hype about the internet and all things online, leading to absurd investments in turn leading to futility and all kinds of other negative effects? Sure.
But when the bubble burst, did the internet go away? Certainly not.

The same is going to happen with AI. Right now we see the bubble grow.
Rather soon (I hope) we'll see it pop.
And then we'll see regular adaptation of AI in ways that are a bit less "clueless managers jumping on bandwagons" and a bit more "ah, yes, this makes sense".

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Quoting: CloversheenDriving people away, contributers or community, or causing loss in morale, is a much bigger hit than losing a productive member.

It did drive me away. I reached conclusions too fast and decided Bazzite would no longer exist in the not so far future because antheas is one of the few members (the only perhaps?) doing kernel level work so they would stay, and other members would leave because of that. So I left their discord server and if I wasn't busy at the time, I would have moved to KDE Linux which aligns much better with my preferences: Arch based instead of Fedora with containers, all KDE / Qt instead of GTK + Qt mix, actively looking for contributors instead of established system, generic rather than gaming focused etc.

On the bright side, I used this opportunity to pull the trigger on discord, leaving almost all servers I was in. Including GoL. Now I have more time for myself. I no longer have to tell people to change the Wine version used by Lutris when installing Battle.net, last time I checked it still defaults to Wine-GE 8.26 which doesn't work!!

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Best distro for gaming is whatever works for the individual and what systems he values more than others.

I personally don't see the reason to switch to "hype" distros. I also hate reinstalls, so i keep rolling with my 2013 install. Ofc i have been a linux user since 2007, so i have way more experience than someone who recently switched or planning to switch.

$ grep -a -m1 filesystem /var/log/pacman.log 
[2013-01-21 17:45] installed filesystem (2012.12-1)

That being said, I honestly don't know what to suggest to new users these days.
We are in a mess of wayland transition also. Lots of edge cases where things are buggy on wayland when it comes to gaming and at the same time x11 has its own quirks. So we basically have 2 "broken" systems.

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My list.

Game of the Year: Kingdom Come Deliverance II
Most Innovative Gameplay: ARC Raiders
Labor of Love: Witchfire (Though its still in Early Access)
Best Soundtrack: Tainted Grail: The Fall Of Avalon

Haven't really played much new releases in 2025. Too much of backlog to play.

Jump Space and Deadzone:Rogue are in my wishlist, so probably will get around to play them this year.

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Quoting: vertigoMakes sense, it's feature complete and superseded by RTX Remix.

There is a RTX Remix? Always thought this only works on DirectX 9 titles as this is what nvidia made the remix studio for. Since OG Quake uses OpenGL as it's default engine I never expected a RTX Remix here.

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As I once used Bazzite I had an issue where after a fresh install and on Desktop Mode (nvidia system Steam Big Picture still isn't working right...) was that it at random complained about read-only file system for files I just created in my home directory a second before... But that was Bazzite 41 I guess. It's been a while and I assume they fixed it. Unfortunately as I was not very well able to proceed I never got to test it any further back then. Maybe give it another try.

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Quoting: scaineIs it me? No, it's the kids that are wrong.

There is no right or wrong (in this case). It's too subjective.

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Quoting: LoftySimilar to how Bazzite swapped out the software center without alerting the typical users of Bazzite to the new alternative. Sure there may have been a forum thread on it, in the their official discord too but a simple pop-up would have been appreciated by the type of ' new to linux user' who uses it rather than leaving them completely in the dark on how to install new software .. i mean its not 1995 anymore we don't tend to use CD's to install programs anymore.

Folks that use Bazzite as a gaming distro on their PC are probably not locked into the developmental nerd element of linux distro's .. i.e typical non techy gamers who want a 'gamer OS' who probably are moving away from windows, for whom Bazzite is primarily aimed at.

Are some distro's are more agenda driven than others ? I suppose each project has their own management team and their idealistic view of how their distro will operate. I tend to avoid those that stick to a more 'Apple like' philosophy, they tend to dislike constructive criticism and almost never backtrack on a bad idea.

Honestly, Bazaar isn't a bad idea. But the rushed implementation (while it has major issues) AND removal of the normal GUI app installer for the DEs just soured me on it. I reviewed the app on one of the ublue threads and I'll admit I'm more harsh on it because it is shoved in my mouth like that.

I will still recommend them for new users, but I'll always mention Nobara and CachyOS as well, while personally using NixOS. It just leaves a bad taste in my mouth as I left Windows due to them forcing stuff down my throat - yes, Bazzite and ublue isn't disgusting like Microsoft and Windows, but I left Windows out of spite and principle of "let me embrace new things when I want to." It's pretty much the same thing here.

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Would be wild to find out in 2026, Valve had the Steam Machine processors built with OnChip eDRAM. They could skip the whole AI-Memory-pocolypse. Wild, I know.

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Will the full podcast be uploaded to YouTube as well? I only watch/listen to YouTube podcasts.

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My main issue with Fedora is that, while the upgrade process is usually smooth, the same can't be said about their policy.

You are, of course, subject to the policy of the maintainer of your distro of choice, but with Fedora, they have a policy of marching to the beat of their own drums. They will adopt new technology before they're fully ready for many (sometimes it's not even ready for most of their users), or drop old technology before many are ready to migrate (with the worst example being how they almost dropped 32bit support before Steam for 64bit is ready - most subject don't get nearly the same backlash and no backtracks).

Personally, I think Nobara is the better middle-ground between normal Fedora, CachyOS (which is Arch-based and thus may require manual intervention sometimes), and Bazzite, to use on Desktop. GloriousEggroll having their hands on the pulse of Linux gaming, Red Hat, and ProtonGE makes me trust him better with maintainer policies.

I personally like full-blown CachyOS better, but I would put it as a second after Nobara - I outright think CachyOS is better, but that Arch-base carrying the "Arch manual intervention" caveat emptor makes it a rank down for recommendation for me.

Ofc, as can be seen from how I use Linux, I care a lot about what goes on in my machine. While I don't believe in Red Hat conspiracies, I have experienced the absolute annoyance when Fedora policy don't align with your preference, so that's why I prefer something less... Fedora, and really would rather people just use CachyOS, and maybe Nobara if they're wary of Arch, or Bazzite if they're completely new.

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The hardware have potential, and their Windows drivers are getting attention.

But in Linux, their drivers are still very immature. They do fine on synthetic benchmarks, but in actual games they lag behind, like rear view mirror behind (right Pat?). It is clear they don't have dedicated developers for gaming, and everybody must have been allocated to the AI crazy efforts. And to make things worse, if memory is correct, they fired a couple developers from the Linux team last year.

So no, I would not get one of their new products until they get their shit together on the Linux front.

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DOA.

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Quoting: Stellathe install trouble sounds very similar to my own Bazzite experience with the ROG Ally X, the Media Checker would get stuck at 4.8% and error out, and I could not do anything after that because it refused to let me use the iso because it was supposedly 'corrupted'. This is actually a known bug in the Fedora install media that's been present since at least 2016 (!!!) and it really caught me off guard. I had to connect a physical keyboard to be able to select the second GRUB option, that would skip the media check. Because of course the D-PAD did not work in GRUB. But after that, it went smoothly without a hitch.

This has been fixed since, the new live isos do not use media check, avoiding this problem altogether.

The D-Pad not working in GRUB sounds stupidly annoying. It's a real shame that it's not mapped to the arrow keys at all.

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Baba is me? I'm not Baba, this is Baba:

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I just use the SteamDB plug-in. The Augmented Steam one just seemed like overkill to me. I get the ITAD e-mails. Though that's mainly for the free shit. lol

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