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Steam Deck OLED: Limited Edition White and Steam Deck Australia have launched
19 November 2024 at 3:57 am UTC Likes: 2

Quoting: Craggles086Yeah, gotta work out if I get this one or wait for Steam Deck 2 now, meanwhile New Zealand must be fuming as no mention of it in the release notes..
Don't expect a Deck 2 any time soon. If you wait you'll miss out on a couple of years of Deck gaming.

Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy – The Definitive Edition gets updated, needs a fix on Steam Deck
14 November 2024 at 12:31 am UTC Likes: 1

Quote%command% -dx12

Correct me if I'm wrong, but my understanding is that arguments are assumed to be appended, so if, as here, you're just sticking something on the end, you don't need the %command%. That's for when you (potentially also) have things at the front, so the client can parse which bits go where.

Valve dev details more on the work behind making Steam for Linux more stable
13 November 2024 at 4:23 am UTC

Quoting: Vortex_AcheronticYet I am surprised it works in flatpak at all. Especially the Steam Runtimes which kinda are their own flatpaks inside flatpak.
It didn't work, specifically because of that issue with nested bubblewrap. They made changes to both the Steam client and flatpak so that the client can negotiate to run things with flatpak's bubblewrap. And now it works.

Blood On The Thames is a Victorian London murder mystery now available for Linux
11 November 2024 at 6:21 am UTC Likes: 2

Quoting: robvvLooks quite appealing and has quite a unique art style. The Linux system requirements show 32GB RAM, whereas Windows requires '4 GB RAM MB RAM', whatever that is!

Even better, the requirements are "Memory: 32 GB RAM
Storage: 4 MB available space"

That's a hell of a lot of compression if the tiny 4 MB file can balloon up to 32 GB when you try to use it.

Kojima Productions now fully controls the DEATH STRANDING IP, also now on Amazon Luna+
8 November 2024 at 5:24 pm UTC

Quoting: Mountain Man
Quoting: rcritEvery time I think I want to play this I look at reviews that call it a backpack management simulator. I don't know what to believe.
It's a backpack management simulator in the same sense that a role playing game is a dialog simulator.
And in the sense that Ico is a game that's entirely escort mission, Shadow of the Colossus is a game that's entirely boss fight, and Minecraft is a game about moving blocks. As in, reductive to the point of uselessness.

In common with those games Death Stranding is a game that's focused on the experience for the player rather than solely on the gameplay loop.

Whether rcrit would enjoy it is impossible to say (and if they're swayed against it by random reviews by numpties I'd suspect not) since it really needs a significant time and emotional investment from the player - the tutorial is longer than most games at about 10 hours.

Steam Deck SteamOS 3.6.20 update released for everyone
4 November 2024 at 6:58 pm UTC Likes: 2

QuoteAre you currently having issues you want to see solved?
The notification bell popping up for things that you've said you don't want to be notified about is still super annoying, and has been super annoying since they introduced the notification bell.

Linux hits exactly 2% user share on the October 2024 Steam Survey
2 November 2024 at 5:13 pm UTC Likes: 2

Quoting: lucinosActually something is very wrong with the GPUs. They add up to more than 100%.
They've also all grown this month rather than some growing and some shrinking. Very peculiar.

Linux hits exactly 2% user share on the October 2024 Steam Survey
2 November 2024 at 2:06 pm UTC Likes: 4

Quoting: _wojtekI wonder... couldn't Valve just collect the stats without the "survey prompt" to get saner results?

They're collecting information about their users and publishing it for any third party that wants to use it for any reason. Whether or not permission is strictly legally required for that, it's better to err on the side of getting the permission than not.

They likely also have very detailed moment-to-moment internal data about exactly who's using their network & services, but they aren't sharing that.

Portal fans may want to try the demo for Total Reload
28 October 2024 at 5:30 pm UTC Likes: 1

Getting Talos Principle and Qube vibes from it, both of which the little one loved. So I've wishlisted it & I'll check out the demo when I get a chance.

Set comfort level to maximum with the Mechanism Gaming Pillow for handhelds
28 October 2024 at 5:25 pm UTC Likes: 11

QuoteYou're still going to look a fair bit silly with it though but who really cares when you're the master of comfort.

I don't think I can really visualise this; I think we're going to need pictures.

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