Quoting: WYWLooking at the Steam reviews it looks like Apex is dying. It's been getting massive negative reviews since July, 43% positive reviews in the last 30 days. And 33% positive reviews so far today since this news dropped.

Looks like they are panicking and trying to find any easy solution to their bad image, but they just created more bad press in doing so.

Lifetime ratings are now at 68% which is "mixed" and will be turning off new players looking for a new game.

Outside of ratings (which can be often ignored), the stats on SteamDB paint a pretty clear steep downwards trend for the game. Still a 24 hour peak of 139,866 people though, and this is just on Steam - they will no doubt have a lot of console players too keep in mind.

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Quoting: BeemerThey should put up stats. I want to see:

• Total Linux user count pre-block


• Total of Windows user count


• Pre-block count of users allegedly cheating


• Post-block count of users allegedly cheating

The statements of "we've identified Linux OS as being a path for a variety of impactful exploits and cheats" and "this will impact a small number of Apex players," seemed a bit at odds. If it's such a small number, how are the hacks "impactful".

They install a cheat into your system to prevent cheating. It honestly should be illegal to do that.

They have all the metrics they need on their end to kick users or ban them. This is exactly what A.I. expert systems are for.

This type of comment *always* seems to appear, and I'm seeing a lot of it across social media in reply to this news. I'm really surprised people don't understand, so here's it in simple terms.

There's a difference between counted players, and cheaters when these situations appear.

The number of Linux players will be (in percentage terms) low. The statements aren't at odds at all. Even a small number of cheaters can cause huge problems for the whole of the player-base, of which is mostly not-Linux.

You could have 100 Linux players, 1000,000,000 Windows players and 2 people on Linux doing cheats that affect everyone. That's what they mean. We've seen this info repeated by various developers, that Linux enables the cheats because it's harder for devs to block.

Hope people get that now.

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Quoting: whizse

QuoteWe have spent an enormous amount of effort ensuring that everything runs smoothly on the Steam Deck

The person responsible for testing Proton compatibility having waaay too much fun with the Deck and having to justify the time somehow

Can't blame them, that's my excuse too for all my gaming to cover on here ;)

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Quoting: geekeningbit weird to ask people who come to a site called gaming on Linux to just don't read the windows devices articles

I've covered all sorts of hardware for years, regardless of what they come with. The beauty of Linux is how we can and do stick it on anything. If you take a device, and put Linux on it and you're able to play a game = that's gaming on Linux.

It's no different than buying a laptop (most vendors preload Windows) and putting Linux on it. I will continue to cover lots of different types of hardware. If you don't want it, don't click on it like an adult. You control your mouse clicks :)

Bazzite exists, ChimeraOS, HoloISO and so on and so on for handhelds. I'm not going to ignore a huge part of the industry because a few people don't want to be kept up to date with different types of devices and decide to moan about it in comments.

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Quoting: emphy

Quoting: RavenWingsNot a fan of this fake-hype-BS. Usually its not sign of anything good to come.
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For all the fakeness, they got this upcoming product on gamingonlinux's front page.

Again.

While being known for delivering all their x86 handhelds with windows pre-installed.

Feel free not to read or block the AYANEO tag if you don’t want to see it 👍

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Quoting: JustinWoodI've been a fan of Siri and Mechanism (Deckmate originally) since he put out the add on of the same name a couple years ago. Such a handy accessory, and the CableMate is lovely too. While I don't plan to pick this one up for a good bit, I can wholeheartedly recommend the Inventory Sling Bag for anyone who wants an upgrade to the baseline Steam Deck case. If nothing else if you're looking for a laugh feel free to take a look around the Mechanism site, they have a habit of including at least one gag with every item.

Like the video of smacking himself in the face with the Gaming Pillow to show it’s soft 🤭😂

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Okay okay, you funny people, party's over.

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Quoting: tarmo888Steam Linux Runtime 1.0 (scout) isn't exactly "newer", it's the most compatible.
https://gitlab.steamos.cloud/steamrt/steam-runtime-tools/-/blob/main/docs/container-runtime.md

Poor wording on my part, amended. Yes it's an older one, but how they now use it is newer (in terms of desktop anyway).

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Quoting: melkemindIf people want to keep SteamOS and all the offshoots like Bazzite alive, it's important to keep buying products that ship with Linux on them. While it's great that people can install Linux on other devices, the continued financial support of projects like Proton depends on our purchases.

In other words, get a Steam Deck first. If you want to get secondary Windows devices and install Linux, go for it, but please support Linux devices first.

However, the Steam Deck isn’t for everyone. Getting this, slapping Linux on it and buying games on Steam still clearly shows Valve it’s Linux.

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Quoting: suchIt'll get to Steam eventually. GOG doesn't have the coffers for anything other than a timed exclusive, and not a long one at that, I'm betting.

Not necessarily if GOG have done any kind of funding on it, plus GOG have various other classics not available elsewhere.

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