Quoting: Craggles086Yeah, gotta work out if I get this one or wait for Steam Deck 2 now

AFAIK Valve developers commented that their intended Steam Deck release cycle would be (estimated no less than 4 years intervals, certainly not following the gpu trend of 1 or 2 years) -- this presents fewer targets for game developers and allows purchasers to enjoy their handheld consoles longer instead of be obsoleted every year or two.

Quoting: Craggles086Meanwhile New Zealand must be fuming as no mention of it in the release notes..

My NZ friends notoriously would fly for years to Aussy if they needed new gear (eg: Apple), so I've just been under the impression that 'It's a kiwi thang'.

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Quoting: EikeSo Half-Life is on Linux for more than half of its live!?!

Half-Life may have started in the future natively on Linux and then been sent back in time for pre-release only to be re-released in the past on Linux in the year 2013 just in time for it's re-release in it's 20th form in the present in 2024.

The question is, when does Half-Life release in the future?

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I recently set a Half-Life 2 wallpaper on one of my gaming computers -- I can see that they have a bunch of 4k wallpapers at the bottom -- fantastic timing.

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These titles are so old they should license the code as open source and dump it on the net. It would do well for their legacy and reputation to immortalize their roots.

Then of course it could get the Doom and HL treatment and get RTX ray-tracing and other QOL improvements and kinder a modder community and cult following.

It's funny to think that their business partner's core values of chinese ideology are more in line with freely sharing inventions and not hoarding ideas or likeness.

It's great that people are free to play however I feel like the hole in the genre has been filled & replaced by GPL'd https://xonotic.org

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Quoting: hummer010I'd just like to see Valve move into the 2010's and make the Steam client 64-bit.

I'll second that. I think Steam is probably the only thing keeping 32-bit multilib around for me. It would be nice to see it go for organization and cleanliness.

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It would be nice if they could fix AMD Linux Desktop video streaming to Steam Deck. Sometimes it works, other times it doesn't (to be more specifically under Wayland aka Sway.)

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Quoting: WYW[...] Would have been cool if they went with Source 2 [...] Love it or hate it UE5 is a beast of an engine.

I'm just going to draw conclusions that in terms of 'Human Resources' there are more developers that already know Unreal -- so if you need to learn how to do something chances are someone around you has that special knowledge you need. So from that vector it should speed development up a lot.

My excitement meter could be through the roof right now, but I think I'll dial it back and be cautiously optimistic.

4-player Co-op FPS is pretty music __EXACTLY__ what I'm looking for with the completion of my Linux Gaming LAN Room.

In any case though, deal-breakers could be __Linux support being trash__ or __Ridiculous DRM or Anti-cheat__

I've got money to blow, but if I have to waste time fiddling with anti-consumer crap on Linux It's gonna kill the good vibe and I might as well just play Halo MCC, CS2 or something else -- so if the developers are listening in please avoid those and I'm sure it'll be a home run.

Crowbar Collective is one of the few developers that really have good faith and a awesome reputation, my fingers are crossed hard on this one.

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@Mohandevir -- Correct, No Smart TVs, thanks for being my sounding board to bounce ideas off of -- in hindsight it seems so obvious that a TV Set Box or TV stick or something like that might do the trick, thanks :)

@MayeulC -- I think Moonlight & Sunshine are great ideas -- (I also recall reading somewhere recently that you can create Headless Sway Outputs for streaming) -- I guess I could make a really basic Sway-Steam config too.

I didn't realize that SteamLink had a FlatHub ( https://flathub.org/apps/com.valvesoftware.SteamLink ) or even Steam ( https://flathub.org/apps/com.valvesoftware.Steam )

I wonder what the best compact cheapest Linux mini would be (I really do like coreboot and libreboot) ( I see https://system76.com/desktops/meerkat/ and https://puri.sm/products/librem-mini/ )

I dunno if there are any good 3rd or 4th options

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Quoting: Mohandevir[...] Nvidia GameStream which was (because Nvidia stopped offering it) the equivalent of the Steam Link app.

Since Steam Link has entered the conversation -- what's the best way to Steam Steam within the LAN without any smart tvs? I need to 2x Steam Streams @ 4k.

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Quoting: CZiNTrPTIn my country real organ donorship is opt-out and that's right approach as well

Which country is that? Sounds like human rights violation to me.

I can't believe he made a false equivilancy and compared the gathering of some machine statistics to the state butchering people alive.

This is a topic where being ignorant and opting-in have serious reprecussions.

There is a difference between the date on a death certificate, and the reality. And strictly speaking from a cold truth & surgical perspective -- the organs are optimal for successful use when they are not harvested post-death.

With that in mind take for example this recent news article from just 3 weeks ago

QuoteNatasha Miller says she was getting ready to do her job preserving donated organs for transplantation when the nurses wheeled the donor into the operating room.

She quickly realized something wasn’t right. Though the donor had been declared dead, he seemed to her very much alive.

“He was moving around — kind of thrashing. Like, moving, thrashing around on the bed,” Miller told NPR in an interview. “And then when we went over there, you could see he had tears coming down. He was crying visibly.”

The donor’s condition alarmed everyone in the operating room at Baptist Health hospital in Richmond, Ky., including the two doctors, who refused to participate in the organ retrieval, she says.

https://npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2024/10/16/nx-s1-5113976/organ-transplantion-mistake-brain-dead-surgery-still-alive

Denial is a powerful drug. Truth is sobering. If anyone thinks opting in is still a good idea after considering the facts -- best of luck.

Quoting: CZiNTrPTIn my country [...] and that's right approach as well

Also, could we just not do the "My country is better than you & your country thing" -- if you have to do the "Go My Team" thing, stick to the Platform Wars, or Software or something else that is not divisive if you would kindly.

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