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I do love Plasma but I am thinking of switching to Cinnamon the next time the opportunity arises. The reason for this is that while I can live without Qt applications, I cannot live without GTK applications. Lutris, SC Controller, and Firefox just do not adhere to the selected window decorations. They always look off. That bothers me.

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Are there still new Blender short movies like the one with the rabbit or with the dragon?
And I think there was one with a younger and older man.

Are there more of this kind?

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Calling this "interoperable and fair" feels pretty disingenuous when Epic has leaned so hard on exclusives and the same tactics every wannabe monopolist uses. It might be interesting for Fortnite fans, but who is really going to install Fortnite just to play something like Hollow Knight through it - that's a gimmick, like if Steam had only ever existed inside Team Fortress. What actually matters to players is solid controller support, broad OS support (including Linux), and all the quality-of-life features Steam already provides. A real metaverse would connect existing universes instead of locking them behind Fortnite’s walls; honestly, even Minecraft would be a better fit, and even there it would still just be a gimmick. Sweeney clearly has talent, but his metaverse ambitions seem to reach far beyond what Epic is actually delivering. Cross-play is pretty much the only real technical contribution Epic has made - and even that was ultimately driven by their own self-interest.

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The "working" version of the metaverse likely will be UGC, with strong emphasis on mobile, similar to Roblox. Some Steam Machines will be just a grain of sand in the universe in comparison. Maybe not in our perception, but in the market as a whole.
Also, anti-cheat is getting more and more restrictive throughout the industry, and Valve said they are not interested in supporting kernel anti-cheat. Once the Supreme Court has likely rejected Apple's appeal, the only connection between Epic and Valve I can think of would be another lawsuit, this time against Valve's 30% cut.

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I'm also running Fedora KDE for my gaming rig, but with the CachyOS kernel/settings via Copr. It's a joy to use!

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Just random selection of games into arbitrary categories and pick the winner doesn't really chime with me.

In recent years, I haven't played a single nominated game in all but maybe one category. So voting it's definitely random for me because I'm a sucker and want the badge.

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I tried the demo once. Shortly after startup the display went black, the system froze, and the graphics card's fans whined like crazy. Even resetting the system didn't fix it, I had to forcefully power down the computer and boot it up again. That was a first in many many years for that to happen. Haven't dared to touch the game since then.

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whipped €5 their way. wild, the leaps and bounds in the past few years.

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It's (as its always been) just a popularity contest. I liken it to a high school play production or something. The cool kids get the acting role but the real people doing the actual work putting on the show are behind the scenes getting no recognition.

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Blender is incredible. I've created models for a game only touching a fraction of the possibilities available. It can be very complex but you can get stuff done without being an expert. Obviously, the more you know the easier it will be.

It's also a lot of fun learning to use it. There are a ton of useful tutorials online.

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Oooh! I see that Playnite successfully does the one thing I really miss from Steam: showing me what the game is.
With a large library full of random things gotten from various bundles, it can be really time-consuming just figuring out what kind of game something in my Steam library is. Steam's game page only shows things that are useful for when I already know what the game is, but nothing to help me remember why I would want to play it.

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Yeah, I can't deny this might be a success.
A lot still needs to be proven, but it could work.
Affordable VR is starting to hit the market.
Fortnite is a very stable engagement driver.
Many industry players would love to depose of Steam.
It must be clear to them all that they will be trading one overlord for another, but to some it might be worth the gamble.

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Meh, just doesn't look interesting at all. Not into super heroes either. I'll pass.

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So now, windows stuff runs on Valve's hardware/software, android stuff runs on Valve's hardware/software, x86 runs on arm, which ecosystem would be next.

Based on technological maturity and (gaming) market size I would point to Nintendo, but I don't think Valve would sail these treacherous legal waters.

They could go after Apple, but they've little to gain from it and it would be lots of hard work.
The Darling project isn't nearly mature or legally stable enough right now.

TeslaOS can, but that would cost their protection as Tesla games monopolist, also that market is embarrassingly small.

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Sorry, but does anyone even care about Game Awards really?

I've been calling it The Game Advertisements for years, since that's the vast majority of the presentation anyway. Most of the awards are just a little sidebar saying who won, and then back to the ads! The recognition is so fleeting, you've got to really be paying attention to see it at all.

Plus Imagine Dragons, of course.

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Lmao I'm glad I'm not the only one that does stuff like this! I think my latest one was when I couldn't figure out why cachyos was suddenly compiling OpenSSL from the AUR, and ended up breaking enough stuff that it was easier to just pick a different distro.

Currently running steamOS on my desktop to celebrate the new steam machine announcement, and fedora kinoite on the laptop with the nvidia graphics, because it kinda reminds me of steamOS. Until the next distro hop!

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Strange that still no Windows arm64 support. So Windows developers can't ship arm64 builds on Steam to run without FEX on Frame or other future arm devices.

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Damn, i have to get it then... i noticed three members of the critical role show in there (Matt Mercer, Travis Willingham and Laura Bailey) while playing the demo. So many games... no time. I'll end up like the "old" guy in this game. :)

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Hmm, that is interesting. I thought that some of the hytale devs are now working on Vintage Story.

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I, too, think that it is a mistake. If that is the desired criterion for the Debut category, it is practically impossible to find (and confirm) suitable candidates. I assume that most of the other games would face the same issue – it is practically impossible to be able to sell the first game or any piece of software made without prior experience.

A bit different here since because since launch people have speculated that this is DaniDev (with a reversed name), a youtuber that has made several games on Steam. If that is true, then it would be a bit too problematic for the future.

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Sorry, but does anyone even care about Game Awards really?
The real award for the developers is when their game is enjoyed by people.

Just random selection of games into arbitrary categories and pick the winner doesn't really chime with me.
I never understood the awards thing tbh. Might be just me problem ofc.

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I, too, think that it is a mistake. If that is the desired criterion for the Debut category, it is practically impossible to find (and confirm) suitable candidates. I assume that most of the other games would face the same issue – it is practically impossible to be able to sell the first game or any piece of software made without prior experience.

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It is probably going to be a self-contained product, with no wires. Built-in battery, and a microcontroller with wifi (Esp32?), so it can connect to the Steam Machine or the internet, to display SM status, weather forecast or something like that.

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It should definitely still get some nominations for other categories. The game is a more entertaining Vampire Survivors.

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it's so funny, I updated my deck yesterday and went looking for this feature but couldn't find it. Now today here it is! Love these updates :)

Maybe you didn't restarted after the update.

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I'm thinking maybe access to an internal usb header? If so, it's possibly USB2, so too slow for a proper high-res LCD display.

Worst case you'd need to mod the case and route a cable through to the back so you can plug into something there.

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JSAUX please come to Mastodon, some of your target audience is there

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I’m curious how this plugs into the box’s power and systems. Is there an internal usb connector dedicated to the front panel?

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The Frame is an interesting frankenstein. With Proton + FEX + whatever compatibility layer they are using for Android (like Waidroid or similar, I suppose).

Tech is just stacking building blocks on each other. This case specifically is made possible thanks to the power of open source ❤️

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The Frame is an interesting frankenstein. With Proton + FEX + whatever compatibility layer they are using for Android (like Waidroid or similar, I suppose).

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