Probably cool for non-Australians :)

Quote21 years of Steam huh? Wow. What's your favourite Steam related memory?

I've been using Steam for more than a decade, but I don't really have one.

Does playing Muv-Luv Alternative for the first time count? That is a Steam game.

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Quoting: EagleDeltaThere are publishers who have removed a game from Steam and also removed it to download. It's rare, but it does happen.

Which one? So far I've only seen removed depots and I haven't checked whether they could be extracted from older manifests.

I only know of one instance of this, when Driver: San Francisco was delisted entirely.

This game is the only reason I still keep my Xbox 360 around.

Incidentally, Siege is the only reason I keep Windows around. It's always Ubisoft games, isn't it...

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Quoting: XvR103Does he really need the money so badly?

Opportunities to be paid to work on open source are rare. Opportunities in a space you're interested in are vanishingly rare.

No matter what happens with Playtron, all of us will hopefully get some interesting software out of it to hack on. The bits of it that are open source, anyway.

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QuoteIt is once again using Windows

And I have already stopped caring.

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The only thing I'm hoping to come out of this is some sort of anti-cheat solution/agreement that will translate over to desktop Linux being able to play more multiplayer games, but I'm not holding my breath.

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KDE has its problems, but it has a promising future and their mature Wayland session is evidence enough of that. I'm more excited about COSMIC, but if this funding finally allows them to fix the multi-monitor workspace issue both KDE and GNOME have (just in different flavors), that would be awesome. It's the number one thing that annoys me about KDE. And proper focus follows mouse would be great. Everything else is minor.

Oh, and I donated several months ago for Plasma 6 already.

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Quoting: AederProton will forever be an incomplete solution that you should only rely on for single player games, abandonware, or indie games.

Any popular game with PvP will always end up needing an anticheat at some point.

They're not mutually exclusive. Anti-cheat can theoretically be 100% compatible with Proton.

The chances of Riot Games doing that are essentially zero. But hey, there was zero chance these developers were going to make native Linux versions of these games anyway.

If it doesn't work in Proton because of anti-cheat, there is zero chance of the game working any other way on Linux. That doesn't seem like a knock on Proton; there's literally nothing more to be done except convince the company to support Linux.

And it's not like having a native Linux version is a guarantee it will work on Linux forever. See Rocket League, for example.

You can't play every game ever made in Proton, that's true. But you sure can play a lot of them. A much larger percentage than every console ever released, and macOS. It's second only to Windows.

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QuoteAnd the number of developers with multiplayer games that just refuse to enable their anti-cheat. I really hope over the next year as the Steam Deck continues to sell really well that developers will reconsider that.

I've been observing the opposite trend... I checked areweanticheatyet.com at the beginning of the year and it was at around 60% supported/playable, and now it's at 54% supported/playable. Kind of sad, really.

I'd love to see a report from a developer who had it enabled and then disabled it, saying, "yes, Linux really did cause all these problems we were afraid of, and we're glad to get rid of Linux support!" I'm only seeing companies not wanting to take the risk.

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When Apex Legends gets EA anticheat, everything will come to a head. Kind of interested to see what happens.

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That's quite an intense origin story for Yamato. Whimsical touches like writing the entire backstory in Japanese because the character is Japanese is fantastic.

I didn't even know GOL had Direct Messages, actually.

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