Quoting: Guestinb4 someone wishes that 2024 will be the year of the Linux desktop xD

That's every year, at least for those with desktops and taste. ;)

Happy holidays, everyone! Hope everyone has a good time, and has a happy and healthy 2024!

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Looks like there's only three Linux games in the whole lineup of Steam Awards candidates. None of them are in the 'Best on Deck' category. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Bleh. Oh well.

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https://s.team/y23/tvqnkg?l=english

Oh wow, you can see the ~5 month gap where I was replaying Zelda: BotW+DLC and then TotK on Switch almost exclusively. Haha.

8% of playtime on Steam Deck sounds about right, I mostly use mine as a VLC client for my minidlna server.

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That's pretty big news -- Bethesda hates Linux.

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Still not sure what advantages this gives over PulseAudio, but it seems to be pretty embedded in the Arch package ecosystem (it's been present on my system as an unconfigured dependency for something else since mid-2018):

$ pactree -rs pipewire | wc -l  
2409
$ pactree -rs pulseaudio | wc -l
105

Guess it's time to take a look and see what all the excitement is about.

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Thanks for posting this write up! I picked this game up on the back of this article and I'm having a lot of fun so far. I'm still not sure I understand how the social standing thing works, but I'm slowly building my business empire, starting with a corral raising ducks, then buying a plot of land and building a butchers to process the carcasses. I'm currently trying to befriend another resident who owns both of the woodcutter buildings in the village, so I can buy one from them and maybe monopolise enough wood to build a nice house on another plot of land I bought, so I have a nice place for myself, my wife, and our four girls to live in. I'm still fairly young, but maybe I'll try out for one of the order positions once I'm of that age, in the meantime I'm happy playing the markets, slowly building my income, and building the foundations of a successful business that my children will inherit and continue my legacy!

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FYI there's a neat easter egg on the anniversary page if you pick up the crowbar at the bottom and use it in a certain way... :D

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I just had to pay a hefty vets bill, so I'll not be picking this up just yet. Might just wait six months for Valve to bring out the next revision anyway.

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Wrong time of year to be asking, but which would be better for using in direct sunlight? The biggest problem with the LCD Deck is it's almost impossible to use when I'm sat out in the garden at the height of summer (which, to be fair, is about two weeks at the start of August in the UK). It's better than the original Switch, but I've heard tell that the OLED Switch is even worse in direct sunlight, so I've not bothered upgrading (that and beyond TOTK, I've had nothing much to play on the Switch for years...)

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I haven't bought a Razer mouse since 2013, shame to hear they're still just as poorly made as they were back then.

I used to use Roccat up until Stefan stopped updating roccat-tools (unofficial Linux userspace tools), I guess Roccat themselves didn't want to pick up maintaining them (or else didn't want to commit to first-party support), but I jumped ship to Corsair (using ckb-next) in 2019. Not had any complaints.

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