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Valve reveals Steam Deck OLED for November 16th
10 November 2023 at 6:11 pm UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: MohandevirWow! Awesome!

Can we expect the ram speed boost to give a couple of additional fps?

Yes, just a couple. Digital Foundry did a review of the unit and confirmed this.

ARK: Survival Ascended out now and enabled BattlEye for Steam Deck
27 October 2023 at 11:01 pm UTC

If BattleEye is enabled for the Steam Deck, does it mean it's also enabled for other Linux distros, or is BattleEye locked to a certain distro/hardware?

Modern text adventure [I] doesn’t exist is out now
16 October 2023 at 7:37 pm UTC Likes: 2

May I suggest changing the title into "Modern text adventure [I] doesn’t exist exists now"?

Valve dropped Counter-Strike 2 support on macOS and older hardware
11 October 2023 at 6:58 pm UTC

It looks like Apple's switch to ARM affected the viability of Macs as a gaming platform.

After over 80 weeks the Steam Deck leaves the top 10 global sellers on Steam
10 October 2023 at 5:54 pm UTC Likes: 5

Keep in mind that "globally" doesn't actually mean globally since the Steam Deck isn't selling in every territory, with big markets still left out.

Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart gets FSR 2.2 and Ray Tracing for AMD GPUs on Linux
7 September 2023 at 6:19 pm UTC Likes: 1

I have played this on PS5. So much fun. Highly recommended.
Glad to see it work well on the Deck.

Linux continues rising above 3% desktop user share on Statcounter
7 September 2023 at 11:24 am UTC

Quoting: mad_mesa
Quoting: mitcoesIt will be 6.52% Linux soon, as Chrome OS is going to switch to Wayland
Since when has using Wayland 100% of the time been a requirement to be a Linux distribution? If we went by that standard SteamOS, or a lot of people still using X wouldn't count as "Linux" either.

ChromeOS is already a Linux distribution, all that is happening is it modernizing and moving closer to the rest of the ecosystem. We need to stop splitting Linux apart over relatively minor differences.

Since, forever? To be a GNU/Linux distro the distro would need to support the stacks that Linux binaries would require to run. This includes either X11 or Wayland. Chrome OS currently uses neither of these two, which is why Linux apps in ChromeOS run via a VM and cannot run natively. If ChromeOS does indeed switch from Freon (the currently used display server/protocol) to Wayland it means we should be able to run Linux binaries natively on ChromeOS. Additionally, if ChromeOS switches to Wayland it means it'll have to rebuild it's Android compatibility layer work with Wayland, which hopefully means we can probably get that running on other distros.