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Quoting: vertigoHas anyone played it? I'm looking for more games in the vein of Talos Principle and Portal.

It's got a demo, so you can try it for free (using Proton).
I don't think it's the same league as those two though. Not really the same (sub) genre either.

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What I'm curious about ia why Manjaro over [Garuda Dr460nized Gaming](https://garudalinux.org/editions)? Garuda too bloated and targeted towards a desktop install? I haven't used that in a long time -- since I got my Deck. lol

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*growls angrily*

I've been waiting years for things like an official FreeBSD or GNU+Linux distro, or ports to these OSes. It seems obvious to be that it would be fairly easy as [PS runs on a fork of FreeBSD](https://www.generationamiga.com/2026/02/04/inside-the-playstation-os-how-bsd-changed-sonys-consoles-forever/)!

It would be awesome if they... not exactly followed Valve's path but, took a hint from the hackers who made GNU/Linux run on the older PlayStations. Clearly, this is something people want so build it in as smoothly as SteamOS and market it to "content creators".

Imagine being a student or any other average person these days with limited space and money with a desire to have a social life. lol. It'd be great to buy a powerful console that doubles as a powerful and (semi-)open source PC. Start selling docks and branded mechanical keyboards and everything else. I mean, Sony is already a conglomerate that makes all sorts of electronics. Put together bundles that would be a gaming streamer or tuber's entire computer set up. That seems a much less gross way to make money than lock in and alienate.

Instead of being threatened by the Deck and other handhelds, they could go back to having their own that can double as a BSD laptop. It can't be that hard to finese a flavour of desktop environment.

I remember trying out one BSD or another about two decades ago. It was fine back then. I didn't muck around too much. Felt mostly the same as GNU/Linux -- yes, adding the "GNU" matters as that is the other part to make a full OS, whereas BSD is the full stack. I am sure these days desktop BSD is smoother than ever with good software support and they'd still have a great deal of control as they make the hardware and can tweak the software as desired. They'd just have to share GPL code.

For the record, I had the original PlayStation. I woke up one day to my Sega Genesis missing... It got traded in. 😭 Never touched a PS later than the fat PS2. lol So, no idea what they're up to these days besides what I've read here. 😗🎶

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Quoting: CarollyThere's a reason that products sold in my country don't carry Prop 65 labels, and there's a reason that most products sold in America don't, either.

Perhaps "most" is technically true, but I see plenty of superfluous Prop 65 labels on things here in Hawaii. (I don't know if it's because those things come from California, or if it's just easier for a company to slap a label on something and sell one version throughout the US rather than make a separate version solely for California.)

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a good time to be excited again for this thing:

[Godot as an map editor for Battlefield](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_aws2evvRVw)

[edit] i got an message of invalid security token, so i updated the page and im trying to post again, sorry for the moderation if you receive this twice, im not sure if the first atempt was sent.

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Quoting: sarmadWhy would someone play CSGO when we have CS2? Is there anything that CSGO provides and CS2 doesn't?

a huge archive of old maps that are not compatible with cs2. also more game mods.

Also better performance for lower-end computers, more game modes, in-game tutorial.

Too bad Danger Zone mode isn't playable. I hope they fix that, so at least it can be played in community servers.

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Bloomberg cites "those familiar with Sony's thinking", which is just another way of saying the writer pulled it out of his backside.

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Quoting: gbudnyCan you play Quake: The Offering using quake.x11 or squake with GeForce2 MX 400?

Sure, and it runs just the same, as it is in software mode on the CPU.

Quoting: gbudnySurprisingly, more modern GeForce cards had issues with Quake: The Offering for Linux.

Can you elaborate on this? Was it an issue with the GeForce cards specifically or was it a conflict with using a later distro for the newer cards?

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I have a feeling the backlash to the PSN accounts is a big factor to this. I suspect getting people into their ecosystem was more important to them than the games themselves.

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Quoting: vertigoHas anyone played it? I'm looking for more games in the vein of Talos Principle and Portal.

Have you tried the Witness?

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Quoting: hardpenguinNice, I would like to be able to play Battlefield and EA Sports FC on my Linux computer

So long as you're not interested in multiplayer FUT stuff, you can play the career mode with FC Live Editor which disables Javelin.

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Quoting: VreidicusPlaystation never released anything on steam i wanted to play so fine by me, bye bye Playstation..

I can't name you too many of their games I bought either, but I liked Horizon Zero Dawn / Forbidden West.

Never played but glad you found something you liked. :) Sure it do exist some titles i would have bought, like the Medievil remake and a old remaster of the ps2 gods of war games but that never released on pc. most likely, the will be crawling back at some later point, steam are to important to ignore.

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Quoting: PikoloIf the law actually allows applications to rely on an OS supplied age instead of forcing application authors to try to steal identity documents or face scans, this could be a privacy improvement.

Think of all the data breaches with Discord being forced by the UK government to ask for user IDs - if they could rely on a device API, that could be avoided

I don't disagree, but realistically it won't differ much from the user setting their date of birth when entering the website (like on Steam right now). It just won't have any real value for age verification. If they don't realise it now, they will soon - and inevitably come up with some more restrictions.

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Quoting: VreidicusPlaystation never released anything on steam i wanted to play so fine by me, bye bye Playstation..

I can't name you too many of their games I bought either, but I liked Horizon Zero Dawn / Forbidden West.

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Quoting: Linux_RocksYay for America making things worse yet again!

The UK started it ALL.. thank them.. all because UK parents do not know how to parent their children and want the government to do so

Yay for England making things worse yet again!

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Quoting: Linux_RocksYay for America making things worse yet again!

The UK started it ALL.. thank them.. all because UK parents do not know how to parent their children and want the government to do so

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LOL its almost as if they don't want money

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Playstation never released anything on steam i wanted to play so fine by me, bye bye Playstation..

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Microsoft's Rog Xbox Ally can play Steam games, that also means PS PC ports. I know Sony don't like that idea. Their games on a MS console....nope! 😁

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Quoting: pete910It will be to run game servers, Not client. Don't get ya hopes up people !

Why would they want servers ran through a compatibility layer? This method has always been unsupported among games, and it makes absolutely no sense for EA to hire someone to do this.

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Yay for America making things worse yet again!

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Given enough time, every single PS game will be playable on PC trough emulation. Resistance is futile. PC assimilates everything.

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Taking this decision in the middle of the generation is clearly not a good idea.
It's too late for me to buy a PS5 now, especially with the price of the hardware going up.

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Before I buy a locked-down/dumbed-down console, hell will freeze over at least five times. PC port, or no money from me. Easy as that.

Hilariously, Capcom today reported that 50% of its sales are now from PC (I will refrain from posting the external link, just google it). It's safe to assume that the number is similar for Sony's PC ports. Not sure why Sony thinks that half of its total customer-base can be bullied into buying a console.

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Quoting: vertigoHas anyone played it? I'm looking for more games in the vein of Talos Principle and Portal.

Haven't played this one, but going of seeing a bit of the previous one, it's more like the "The Room" series of games. Which are actually quite good. However, if I read between the lines on the reviews and dev responses, they kind of rushed the second half of the game and it's not really good. So it was in need of an update.

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I can see that this would make sense if they're trying to keep their brand somewhat more exclusive and avoid some of the mistakes that Microsoft has made.

What doesn't make sense is that they didn't really manage to keep up their unique selling point of great single player games in the PS5 era anyway. And I can't really see them going back to a PS3/PS4 cadence of great, exclusive single player games. Just doesn't seem to be in their business plan anymore. So who knows how many classics we are really going to lose if this pans out.

If the same would have happened during the PS4 era it would have been quite a bummer. But these days we get so many great games of all sizes and shapes on PC, not really sure Sony really matters in that space in the grand scheme of things.

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Bought tons of PS titles over the years for the Deck. They’re going to lose some money for sure. And like someone said above I won’t be buying a console, as it seems like consoles are slowly dying. Xbox doing the opposite of them, and it seems like they have the better plan. This seems for sure knee jerk reaction to Xbox and their possible PC alignment.

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Apparently Canonical is proposing changes that would force ALL Linux users to verify their age during setup, too... I did post a link to a video discussing this last night; but it needed to be approved by Liam and from what I can see, it doesn't look like he's approved it.

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Quoting: pete910It will be to run game servers, Not client. Don't get ya hopes up people !

Why would they mention proton if it is going to run on the servers? They have their own anti-cheat that would run on servers which do not need kernel level access.

Chart a path for EA Javelin Anticheat to support additional OS and hardware in the future, such as Linux and Proton.

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