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Half-Life 2 free to keep until November 18th, Episodes One & Two now included with a huge update
19 November 2024 at 2:50 pm UTC

HL2 has to be pretty much my all time face game, that or Elite :P

Generally have a play through once a year or so - deffo overdue this years! It's looking better than ever as well, was the game that had me install steam for windows and the fiurst game I played when I moved to Linux free stuff excepted!

Kudo to Valve!

NVIDIA 535.154.05 for Linux brings a few bug fixes
20 January 2024 at 11:03 am UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: MangojuicedrinkerIs Starfield fixed for nvidia users on Linux yet?

Yep, played it last night. :)

NVIDIA Beta driver 545.23.06 released for Linux, plenty of new features
17 October 2023 at 5:06 pm UTC

Quoting: CatKiller
QuoteNote that when an nvidia-drm framebuffer console is enabled, unloading nvidia-drm will cause the screen to turn off.
I wonder if that's the cause of the upgrade bug that's been present for each driver on the 535 branch, where upgrading the driver turns the screen off?

Are you on duel monitors? I had this until I switched my second screen off before rebooting...

KDE Plasma 6 to launch in February 2024
8 September 2023 at 7:52 pm UTC Likes: 2

I'm a recent convert to KDE - 10 + years on Ubuntu and on whim installed kbuntu last week, have to say overall am loving it! Very different from when I first saw KDE have to say!

83 of the top 100 most played Steam games work on Steam Deck
8 August 2023 at 6:06 pm UTC Likes: 3

Seems like anti-cheat the main reason for non playable, good times!

Steam Summer Sale 2023 is live with the Steam Deck up to 20% off
29 June 2023 at 7:13 pm UTC

I'm trying to be good (again) so we'll have to see if there's something I can't resist... :P

edit - looking at a PC upgrade so need to be careful!

Atari announce another 80s classic revival with Caverns of Mars: Recharged
27 January 2023 at 6:58 pm UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: slaapliedjeThey need to work with Frontier to develop a new Star Raiders...

This!

343 working on Halo: The Master Chief Collection anti-cheat for Steam Deck / Linux
22 September 2022 at 6:50 pm UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: MayeulC
Quoting: SlackdogWas broken here for a while - guess I know why now, lol! Tried it last night and it's working fine, can even connected with EAC enabled (it doesn't work but allows me to play campaign etc.. so there's that.

Ooh, can you get achievements (or access the exchange) without the EAC workaround this way?

I just started it up, I'll fire it up again tomorrow and play a while and let you know!

343 working on Halo: The Master Chief Collection anti-cheat for Steam Deck / Linux
17 September 2022 at 8:03 pm UTC Likes: 2

Was broken here for a while - guess I know why now, lol! Tried it last night and it's working fine, can even connected with EAC enabled (it doesn't work but allows me to play campaign etc.. so there's that.

Retro racer Horizon Chase Turbo gets a big free Adventures game mode
12 August 2022 at 7:09 pm UTC Likes: 2

Native linux, runs and plays great! Had a lot of fun with this one.

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