I've had my eye on this one for months now. This might just tip me over the edge and convince me to buy it at last!

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I notice that Cheeseness is also involved in Capes, which give me a positive vibe for the overall quality (no pressure, Cheese!). Fingers crossed for this. Hope it launches soon!

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Quoting: sfjuocekrAre you also going to write an article everytime Blizzard breaks their launcher?

Currently the launcher simply doesn't start if you don't install the Tahoma font and doing so leads to a peculiar bug that Windows users already had to deal with for a long time...

Everytime my character now flaps on its mount, the nameplate increases in size... same happens when people jump.

This never happened with the fallback font...

That's a weird one, sure enough. But I doubt articles about Blizzard are worthy of coverage unless Blizzard themselves announce that they're going to support Linux (or wine/proton). Valve offer a packaged, "turn-key" solution to play Windows games on Linux/Deck - Steam. So if a Steam-launched game that was working stops working, I think that's big news (as in, literally, I'm directly affected - I bought the game to play on Linux and now it doesn't work).

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Well, as of midnight in the UK, Wed evening / Thu morning, it's working again. A new Proton experimental just landed and I've just tested it - all good again. But seriously, Ubi... what a joke they are.

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I'm still so, so surprised that so many top-end games are on there. I only use my SteamDeck for card-battlers, horde-survival and so on. 2D games with slick presentation - that's my bag on the Deck. For anything vaguely powerful, I'm at my desk, beefy GPU, and mouse/kbd.

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The ONE time I bought an Ubisoft title, they do this. With their resources, not a single person at Ubi thought to QA this on a Deck?? It beggars belief. They are utterly inept. Beneath contempt. No more money from me, likely ever.

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Quoting: legluondunetThis tool does not permit to install GE-Proton v7-48 for Lutris?

Lutris has its own management system for Proton versions. I think there's a special Lutris version of GE-Proton too? There used to be at any rate, because Proton in a non-Steam environment causes issues.

EDIT - Yep, it still exists. Latest version is Wine-GE-Proton7-36, released a few hours ago.

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I get that we all hate launchers, but please be mindful of the forum rules when expressing your (entirely understandable) anger/frustration. Thanks all.

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He obviously has some kind of "vision" for what his little app will be, but as with any such pet project, it'll narrow the usefulness for anyone else. Nice he put it on github, I suppose, but it's not a tool for other people to use, clearly. And yes, after five months of ignoring the ticket outright, this was just a handy way for him to close it down cleanly.

What a waste. Thankfully, steamdeck-ui is still going strong. I only tried Boatswain at all because streamdeck-ui needs to be built in a venv environment right now due to incompatibilities with Python 3.11. Hopefully that'll get fixed in the coming months though.

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Quoting: PhiladelphusFollow-up article about your personal experience trying out Boatswain, or maybe a comparison between the two?

That's a great idea. I feel like it might be a little unfair, given that Boatswain is only three weeks old (not even a teenager!) and I'll be testing on Plasma, not Gnome, but in terms of how fiddly it is to get streamdeck-ui working, it would make for a nice short comparison.

I'll keep the idea in mind!

Quoting myself to add - although I'm probably not going to write a whole article on streamdeck-ui vs Boatswain as suggested above, I did get around to trying out Boatswain a couple of weeks ago. It's easily installed via Flathub and detected my v2 Streamdeck with no issues. But, there's this - you can't run custom commands using Boatswain. You can only do what the app lets you do - which is a decent amount, but I have two or three scripts which I trigger with a keypress, and you just can't do that with Boatswain.

It's a real shame. The author of the app doesn't want to add it, and there's been no movement on the ticket I linked since that refusal, five months ago. As a result, I won't be using Boatswain.

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