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I'm a little confused. Is ZOOM Platform Media separate and distinct from the ZOOM Platform storefront? Or, does the storefront sell Steam keys? I'd be somewhat surprised if a non-Steam, DRM-free version from the storefront included Steam achievements...

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Online co-op and offline single player.

I like that the devs explicitly state this!

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Quoting: Luca

Quoting: Purple Library GuyI'll switch when Mint does; I'm vaguely hoping that will be soon, but I haven't had any problems with X11.

The only thing I really miss on Mint is actually Plasma 6.

Lol. I get that. Still, I've been pretty happy with the Cinnamon edition. I find the DE to be pretty robust and flexible, with a lot of modern features. I only wish I could find a decent, stable tray applet for displaying CPU and GPU temperatures. XFCE has an excellent one.

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Funny timing, a few weeks ago I scored 3 perfect 10s in a row in the Ring Of Fire and was surprised when there was no achievement.

Flat Out 2 is a great Steam Deck game, The Career Mode map circuits can be a little redundant, and some of the stunt modes like the High Jump seem almost impossible to score #1 on, but it runs great and is a lot of fun.

That video intro though, it's a PITA you can't skip like 2 minuets of startup video on Steam Deck launch.

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Quoting: tohurLutris is pretty much a dead project.

There is activity on the dev channel but they are very slow to release on the stable channel.

I like Lutris. I am going to give Heroic a serious look, however. Some of my Lutris prefixes have been inexplicably corrupting after months (if not years) of working fine. Since I have to reinstall them anyway, I figure I might as well give Heroic a go.

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Quoting: tuubiHopefully you'll find time to do it before Mint 23 comes out in half a year or so.

Wouldn't be the first time I've completely jumped a version!

But, in all seriousness, I won't be able to do that using the Mint upgrade tool so I guess I better get around to it soon...

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As usual with every new tech, I will be waiting a year after release to see how well the Steam Frame performs before purchasing, especially with the state of SteamVR on Linux right now (at least in the stable branch).

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Steam Deck → PC graphics note. If you play on Steam Deck and then jump back to PC, your graphics settings may be set to Low automatically. You can raise them again from the settings menu on your PC. We know this is inconvenient and will work to solve it as soon as we can.

I swear it isn't that hard to decouple the settings from your save file.

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Not that I don't trust Pocketpair, but I'm not comfortable with many games coming under a single publisher. Call it pattern recognition or deja vu, I just have a bad feeling about it.

I really hope that it doesn't become anything more than a feeling.

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Quoting: JarmerNot really into platformers but man the art style aesthetic they have going here is amazing.

Welp, I came here to say this!

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I need to want this, and I want to need this... Want! Need!

Want and Need sitting in a corpse tree, h-e-a-d-b-a-n-g-i-n-g

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I humbly object to using xorg/X11 anything and "fresh" in the same sentence.

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyI'll switch when Mint does; I'm vaguely hoping that will be soon, but I haven't had any problems with X11.

The only thing I really miss on Mint is actually Plasma 6.

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I'll switch when Mint does; I'm vaguely hoping that will be soon, but I haven't had any problems with X11.

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I haven't noticed any problems personally but I'm using an AMD GPU. I see zero reasons to switch to Wayland, so won't be for the foreseeable future.

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It's the feel of being part of something, and potentially giving an extra bonus to games you especially enjoyed.

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I stopped voting in these a while back. I just don't see why it matters. Why does anyone care what the game of the year is? Whats the incentive? I'd rather spend my time playing the games than care about who gets what award.

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Quoting: LoftyThis is potentially actually amazing in so many ways if things hook up correctly. And i think Valve has possibly checkmated the entire industry here including mobile if im reading the room right, and i mean both Apple and Google.

So correct my if im wrong but the Frame uses Arch Linux ARM64-based operating system running on essentially a mobile chipset Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 (ARM64 architecture), the same high-end chip found in flagship Android smartphones..

So in theory, we just about wrangled ourselves away from Andriod / IOS and have a clear path way to a Linux Smart Phone. ( that can run PC games ). All it takes is for someone to get the Qualcomm firmware / cellular modem module loaded under Arch and fit a dongle or integrate it into a chassis with battery.

In fact i can just see a cool Grey smart phone with the embedded Valve logo on the back in black. fully running Arch with steam installed (of course).


*edit i wonder if this is why Google just did a full 180 on not allowing users to side load APK's or 3rd party stores. It might not have been for the 'community' after all, they saw what valve were doing.

No.
Android's dominant position doesn't come from any of this.
Many Linux phones can do this, those sanctioned Huawei phones can do this.

Their dominant position comes from Google play services(android equivalent to the windows api), Google play and modem-support and is enforced by device attestation and Widevine drm.

On cellular modem support. It's easy to underestimate the walls of that garden.
Let me put it this way. The IPhone was a gigantic upgrade in openness from the walls around the garden of providers.
This is the kind of place where spies sit at the negotiation table, everything is patented, encryption starts to become illegal, publishing code can be treason and merely running tests requires several different licenses and you have to get them par jurisdiction.

For google play services there is microg, but Huawei failed to effectively utilize that.

On your edit: Google always hated standard installing, they kept throwing around graphs about how clearly all viruses came from it, they added all kind of steps to avoid you doing it and they added it to their attestation program. They just couldn't go too far, because of regulators, the gpl and fear for consumer reaction. Also carriers have been testing apple like restraints and people haven't reacted too badly. It's just the next step nothing 180.

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oh wow! I had completely forgot about these legends! Thanks for the mention :)

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Not really into platformers but man the art style aesthetic they have going here is amazing.

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Quoting: ScottCarammell

Quoting: legluondunetIs wayland mature today for a day by day use and for a gamer config?

Alien: Isolation crashes on startup

I played Alien: Isolation start to finish on Wayland last year. Could be something else youre facing, or a recent regression.

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Quoting: legluondunetIs wayland mature today for a day by day use and for a gamer config?

Very select games have problems (Alien: Isolation crashes on startup; X4: Foundations doesn't display its cursor when using controller due to Wayland's broken virtual cursor functionality), but by and large the vast, VAST majority of games work, and games using Proton are always functionally identical on Wayland

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Quoting: hardpenguinTechnically we ALL use xorg to run games without "native" Wayland compatibility, right?

How so? Can you explain this further?

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Ugh I wish my copies I had purchased from GOG had transferred over back when they were doing that library share thing with Steam. They're $1.49 and $1.99 right now on Steam though so I went ahead and re-purchased them there.

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What will you be voting for?

The Drifter

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1170570/The_Drifter/

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I'm still using Xorg because:

- XFCE is not yet compatible with Wayland, will be compatible in next version
- I need a stable gaming experience

Is wayland mature today for a day by day use and for a gamer config?

I'm using a AMD GPU.

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For those of you still rocking xorg rather than Wayland

Technically we ALL use xorg to run games without "native" Wayland compatibility, right?

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That's quite unexpected! Pretty good games too ☺️.

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What will you be voting for?

I actually had to make a couple shots in the dark because I have not played that many games from 2025 😅

2024 and 2023 though? Very good 😙👌

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So no real changes, just reverts of the previous "fixes" that caused bugs (because nobody really tested them before merging). *sigh*

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