I kinda liked the Windows 7 UI, but Win 10 is unbelievably ugly. I have seen only a handful of screenshots of Win 11 so far, but it seems to be only marginally better than 10. Not sure why anybody would want to pay to make Linux as ugly as Windows. If you want Linux to look and behave like Windows, there is always KDE, I guess?

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I do not care what makes a game run on Linux as long as it runs on Linux and isn't called Stadia.

I share the one concern about Proton not guaranteeing that a Windows game currently running on Linux will continue to run after the next patch (I am looking at you, Origin!), but as far as I am concerned, that's the ONLY downside of Proton compared to porting.
WINE/Proton has become incredibly good. What was barely able to run some legacy games on Linux only a few years back (and with a lot of tinkering) has become an almost invisible compatibility layer that makes even AAA Windows games run out of the box more often than not.
A tool that runs (almost) any Windows game on Linux in a way that's indistinguishable from a native client is just as good as any port, and Proton gives us (almost) that. They're still working on the "almost" part, and with anti-cheat issues soon to be a thing of the past: Who needs Linux ports of years old games anyway, if Proton allows you to play the Windows version from day 1? The last point actually makes Proton -better- than ports.

In the end, while I am grateful for Feral's past contribution to Linux gaming, I am not going to miss them much. Linux gaming has moved on.

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Will I buy one? Perhaps. I dunno. Console gaming normally isn't for me. The types of games I play typically cannot reasonably be played with a controller. I don't play platformers, racing games or shooters, so there is that. I also don't commute (thankfully!), or travel all that much, and if I do, it's mostly the odd car trip, so I am in no desperate need for mobile gaming. But maybe I will get one just because.

Otherwise?

Fantastic news, particularly the anti-cheat stuff, which has been a pain in our penguin butts forever. If this becomes a thing, and there is no reason to believe it won't - it's a MUCH better choice than the Switch, unless you love Super Mario really that much - developers will finally have incentive to prefer Vulkan over DX12, and actually test their stuff on Linux. This device might as well give us the push Steam Machines were meant to give us back then.

PS: Yes, it will force Linux gaming even more on Steam than it already is, but let's be honest: It never really happened anywhere outsides of Steam even without the Deck.

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Quoting: Liam DaweAbsolutely, well aware of this, doesn't mean I can't want to see more lower end models for Linux users on the market :). I like what Star Labs do with their Star Lite Mk III, which has been tempting...

Dell has been offering a few more reasonably priced options with preinstalled Linux for a while here. Not sure if that offer is available in Europe, though.

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Other than Crusader Kings III, this was the Paradox title I was most looking forward to in the recent years. I am a sucker for Ancient Rome. It's one of history's most interesting settings, IMHO.

Shame to see it die. :(

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Quoting: Akonady

Quoting: KimyrielleThe point of Linux to me is that it's not controlled by a single corporation who can dictate me what to do with my system, and if I wanted an Appstore-like monopoly in my ecosystem, I might as well buy a Mac.

I think you like fragmentation (that holds Linux back) and no optimization whatsoever.

And yet we're here, obviously considering that fragmented world that is Linux to be better than it's corporate-controlled alternatives. Can it be that the free competition of ideas, approaches and different implementations tends to produce better results in the end?

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Quoting: BielFPsI hope Wayland become default to the next Ubuntu LTS version too. In my opinion this would help developers to realize that wayland is now the standard and start to port their apps to it, since Ubuntu is still the "main" distro for those entering the Linux world.

Well, the right way to do it would be getting major applications to run flawlessly in Wayland -before- declaring it standard, and breaking all things that aren't yet ready for it. Not the other way around. You don't push stuff to production systems before they aren't absolutely ready for it, and I am not convinced that Wayland has reached that state yet.

Anyway, I am probably going to jump ship soon anyway. I have been a long-time Ubuntu user, but their push towards Snap is a dealbreaker for me. The point of Linux to me is that it's not controlled by a single corporation who can dictate me what to do with my system, and if I wanted an Appstore-like monopoly in my ecosystem, I might as well buy a Mac.

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Quoting: PangaeaAnd yet they have fuckscrewed every single of those game they have 'released'. They should be deeply ashamed of themselves. I look forward to the day they go out of business. If there is any talent in that shack, they'll find other jobs. Maybe they'll make something worth a damn too then.

You're either a complete troll or have zero clue what you're talking about. Probably both. I played all these games when they were a new thing. I played all these games now. The enhanced editions do about as good a job as possible in capturing what these games were about and making it possible to play them on newer machines. Some people really need to shut up and get a clue before spitting rude nonsense into the world.

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May it be a lesson to the industry that there are limits to how much you can milk people with shady monetization schemes. It might work for a long time, but eventually people are going to notice that they're getting nickeled and dimed.

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Amazing that they still call this an Alpha. Code Red would have released it already!

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