Very nice!! I never finished the original homeworld when it first came out. Might be a good chance to try it again!

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Quoting: GraminiI'm curious. IIRC these Proton files are the virtual Windows "environment" (eg. the simulated C: drive). That means that the files in there would also be present on a Windows system. But Windows doesn't allow colons in file names. So how exactly were those files created in the first place?

Likely by the system. Easiest example would be "C:". I'd figure the files are used by the system while not directly by the windows program that's trying to run.

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Quoting: NezchanI'd try playing this, but I fear I don't have nearly enough brain.

Not especially good at optimization or efficiency either, so that's another strike against me.

Me neither! But I really enjoy it! It's one of very few games I've played through multiple times (twice). The second time involved some tutorials and online resources, lol

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Quoting: gradyvuckovic20% off the 512GB Steam Deck is a hell of a deal. That thing was already well worth the price at it's normal price, but 20% off? If you don't have one I'd snap that up.

So .. it's cheaper to buy the cheapest one and upgrade the SSD yourself... But the higher end one has the "Premium anti glare etched glass"... Is that worth the extra $70USD?? I've seen anti glare protectors from Jsax for as low at 14$USD... I'm kinda curious as to the difference.

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Quoting: Mohandevir

Quoting: Salvatos> you usually only get the survey on one machine.
Not in my experience. I had it on two different desktops one week apart just last spring and I've had it on my laptop as well.

Got it on my Steam Deck, my laptop and my PC, this month. I decided to distro hop on my PCs and it triggered the survey for each fresh install (wasn't a fresh install for my Steam Deck).

Just to add, The survey on the Deck is probably pointless anyway. It's a known fairly fixed configuration on their own hardware. Survey or not, their numbers are prolly near 100% accurate for the Deck as it's phoning home to Valve anyway.

Either way, it's not like they can't tell you have multiple machines when they get different hardware from the same account / IP address.

Quoting: mahagrAfter the last update, for me Steam is now totally broken in my computer, fonts are huge and menus do not fit into the space they are given.

Is your computer "older"? I noticed on my older laptop (2015), Steam has gotten very sluggish this year. It takes almost 3-5 min to start (and that's with a new SSD and memory). I tend to game on my laptop, streaming from my desktop, so maybe this is their way of telling me I need to upgrade, lol.

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Quoting: lukas333Steam Deck 64 + NVME is the way to go imo.

Come to think of it, how's the dock? Or is it better to still get a 3rd party one?

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The steam deck discount looks nice. $360 for the basic one.

One can buy a quality 512Gb NVME drive for, what $100 or less.

So you get the $650 one for the price of $450!

Not bad!!

Although I'd have to justify gaming enough to buy one, lol 😆🤣😆

And System Shock is 20% off! That's a buy for me!

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Crap... and I just started Skyrim for the first time, lol.... Although I'm not finding it very compelling. I'll have to try it some more, maybe it gets better!!

But starfield looks interesting. I love the scifi setting and it looks like a more fleshed out version of Elite or No Man's Sky, which would be awesome!!

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Quoting: elmapulinst that one of the first games to have linux support?

The original had Linux support in 2003 after it was released. It was the prolly the first commercial Linux game I played.

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyFrankly, this kind of sounds like their buyouts were leveraged from the start

Well yeah, that's how, was far as I know, almost every industry works... On credit.

When I worked in construction, our company owner would joke "The entire industry would freeze if any one actually tried to collect their bills!!"

Even small business do the same. A deli owner friend of mine remarked how he didn't turn a profit for his first 5 years and how that was the average for his industry/region. That's 5 years with everything on credit and even if he did make some profit, the debt is still there.

I'm some cases, paying off debts is considered a waste of money as you get higher yields investing that money vs the savings from paying early (or at all), especially in during our past decade where interest rates were low.

Of course, that can bite people and companies when expected investments fall apart, as it seems to have done here.

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