Quoting: whizse

Quoting: AussieEeveeWhat I am expecting from Valve is an easy way to install these other game stores. Yes, they are competitors but Valve promised me that I could.

Where?

https://www.steamdeck.com/en/hardware

QuoteYou can also install and use PC software, of course. Browse the web, watch streaming video, do your normal productivity stuff, install some other game stores, whatever.

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Nice to see Valve responding quickly on this.

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This could be good, if it's done well. Z-level mechanics can really make a game shine. Take Dwarf Fortress for example -- it was a good game when you could interact with only one z-level, but adding the ability to dig down to the magma sea (and, uh, beyond really opened up the possibilities. Here's hoping it's done like that, and not say modern XCOM base-building mechanics.

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Quoting: slaapliedjeProbably because I didn't notice until I had told it to restart the computer because I was going to do something in Debian, and it compiles to a temp dir.

In that case, either set PKGDEST (see 'man makepkg.conf'), or stop compiling in tmpdirs.

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Quoting: slaapliedje2) it took so long to compile still, and I was doing other things, that it then prompted me for the sudo password, as enough time had gone by where it'd need to be re-authenticated. Problem was, I didn't notice it prompting for a while, and it gave up. Guess what that means? I get to recompile Librewolf again...

Why on earth would you have to recompile it again just because the sudo prompt timed out? Just install the built package with `pacman -U`.

Incidentally, consider setting `passwd_timeout` in your sudoer defaults if you find the default 5m timeout too short. A value of 0 disables the timeout.

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Time files when you're having fun. :D

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Oh boy, I can't wait to see how long it takes for their new flagship features to be exploited in the wild and subsequently throttled by microcode/kernel updates.

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Nice. Been a while since I played this, but it got a bit boring only dealing with dragons and vikings. This update should give things a good shake up.

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Quoting: F.Ultra

Quoting: PublicNuisanceI don't have a horse in the race but here is an article worth reading as devil's advocate.

https://flatkill.org/2020/

Yes this "next generation" packaging is really the stone age packaging while rpm/apt is the real next-generation. That said, for games the security issues are basically zero (basically but not to 100%) since few games have open external ports or handle random files/data that you feed it like it is for applications.

lol, I've never seen rpm/deb described as 'next-generation'. I can kind of see it with rpm, but deb is something that deserves to be consigned to history as a terrible mistake that future generations should learn from.

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Good news for EAC users. However, given Garry's open hostility towards Linux historically, I won't be buying Rust again even if it works flawlessly with Proton.

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