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These are just awful placeholder graphics, imho.

I think the art style is great!

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Sorry, devs, please hire a skilled artist.

Heh, I was sure some people would hate the style. I don't actually mind the doodles.

Going on my endless wishlist.

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Aww, I really would like to see more good games like these, M&M4/5, M&M6-8 or Wizardry 6-8...
But, sorry, these placeholder graphics are absolutely awful, its not even some kind of artistic direction or a question of style. These are just awful placeholder graphics, imho.

Sorry, devs, please hire a skilled artist.

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another community proton version that could be added is wine-tkg(which besides the title does have a proton version)

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The similar petition for people in EU: https://eci.ec.europa.eu/045/public/#/screen/home
The Accursed Farms video about it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHGfqef-IqQ
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Nice!.. To those talking about heroic, Yes it does have cloudsaves and there is a comet option but its all "experimental" though..

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I feel it's pretty safe to compare Ross to The Terminator at this point.

I'm not sure the films would have the same atmosphere if, every time the T-800 came into shot, it had the same "deer caught in the headlights" look that Ross starts all his live videos with.

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I feel it's pretty safe to compare Ross to The Terminator at this point.

"Ross would never stop. It would never leave gaming. It would never hurt gaming, never shout at gaming, or get drunk and hit gaming, or say it was too busy to spend time with gaming. It would always be there. And it would die to protect gaming. Of all the would-be gamers who came and went over the years, this thing, this Ross was the only one that measured up. In an insane world, it was the sanest choice."

See? It works.

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Doesn't heroic or comet have an option for cloud saves

Yes, recent versions of heroic use the new comet component to sync savegames if the game supports it.
Keep in mind that the linux native versions don't support cloudsync at this point in time.

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@kadac00

Thanks for the link. That's got to be one of the best examples of "stream of consciousness" writing I've ever encountered. He was just all over the place. So many buzzwords and acronyms too. Pity he wasn't able to write it in plain language. That being said, the quote you provided was about as clear as the author could get.

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Thanks to everyone for their responses. If I've understood correctly, Cloud Native has more to do with the installation (or delivery of the installer) than the day-to-day use of the o/s. It sounds like it might even allow for setting up your own custom installation, which is kind of cool.

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I feel like it'd be neat if you could use gyro with that.

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I use heroic for my current ones but not having cloud saving is a bummer.

Doesn't heroic or comet have an option for cloud saves

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@akselmo

Well, that's confusing. I haven't used Heroic Launcher much (and I don't do cloud saves myself) but it's my understanding that Heroic has supported GOG cloud saves for a while now.

Heroic Games Launcher v2.4.0 is out with GOG Cloud Save support

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Bonus points for adding how to change non steam games icons.

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I'd love to buy more games on GOG if they had GOG galaxy on linux. Sure I use heroic for my current ones but not having cloud saving is a bummer.

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I also recommend the Fabulously Optimised modpack, which dramatically boosts your performance completely free of charge.

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Great article title and very interesting!

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For a more detailed discussion of Bazzite and what Cloud Native means ...

WTF is Cloud Native and what is all this
https://universal-blue.discourse.group/t/wtf-is-cloud-native-and-what-is-all-this/5147

"This is the simplest definition of cloud native: One common way to linux, based around container technology. Server on any cloud provider, bare metal, a desktop, an HTPC, a handheld, and your gaming rig. It’s all the same thing, Linux."

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I mean, sure... but when was the last time you had a game crash? I play a LOT of games, and an actual game crash, or worse, freeze? It's like once a year if that.

Hunt: Showdown regularly crashes, and sometimes takes the whole system with it

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Hm, just thinking if this D3D9 shader validation issue fix might solve this constant redownload of the shaders for the games.

This has nothing to do with that at all, Steam's shader download are orthogonal to anything Proton-related anyway, from a DXVK point of view we don't even know it exists.

The shader validation API is just a (mostly undocumented) part of D3D9 that some games rely on in one way or another, and in this case a bug caused a game to not load its assets properly.

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Controlify Is a really solid mod, and it feels like the game was built for gamepads when you are playing to the point you forget this game only supports officially mouse+keyboard.

The auto detection of gamepads works fine, and I've been able to test it on the Desktop with a "Switch Pro Controller", on the Steam Deck, and my nephew plays with both Xbox One and PS4 controllers on Windows using Prism Launcher.

Really awesome pieces of software(Prism and Controlify).

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Thank you! That may be the last excuse gone to not buy Minecraft :D

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nicely done!

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Hm, just thinking if this D3D9 shader validation issue fix might solve this constant redownload of the shaders for the games.

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@Caldathras

The short answer is: they use Containers technology (which is used in Cloud) locally/offline (aka Native).

When you actually get down to it, their build process is remarkably similar to (if not basically IS) docker image/container build process. Then you as user just pull that image to run offline - or maybe build on top of it, like any Docker/Podman container. It's super cool stuff.

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SteamOS will never have a Bazzite Portal (`yafti`) and its accompanying `just` CLI backend. That alone will make it so that Bazzite will always have a place as the "more convenient SteamOS" if not also "more up-to-date SteamOS" as well as "more customizable SteamOS" with how deep you can go with rpm-ostree/bootc and ublue-os/BlueBuild github template.

Even when SteamOS is out, I'll still recommend people to try out Bazzite because if nothing else, you can get stuff like Waydroid, key-remapper, OpenRGB, and others - things that people might not even know exist - to be installed quickly during the setup process. That's big.

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Something trying to imitate external(Windows) behavior still runs in the kernel.
Something will try to access an edge case and render the entire thing catatonic.

That applies to everything in the kernel and therefore every piece of software. There's a reason why these patches take so long to be accepted in the mainline kernel.

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Bloodstained is amazing. It's one of the few games I kickstarted

Unless I'm mistaken, it's on the list of shame for promising Linux support as part of the campaign, then dropping it.

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@F.Ultra
Something trying to imitate external(Windows) behavior still runs in the kernel.
Something will try to access an edge case and render the entire thing catatonic.

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@d3Xt3r I should have phrased it better, what I meant was PHYSICS stuttering - game runs smooth on my i7 9700 3060Ti as well but cars would just stop for quarter of a second which totally ruins the game for me.

Iirc it happened on my Deck as well

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