QuoteThere's been times recently it felt like I woke up in a different world, when sites like PC Gamer told people to stick with SteamOS and not Windows and even LinusTT thought SteamOS did better overall.

The biggest shock for me has been seeing the comments sections go from 3 to 4 people mentioning Linux and being booed out of the room by Windows users, to the exact opposite happening. This almost overnight change in perception of Linux, from being that weird choice to being the obvious one for Steam Deck and even recommended for games like Elden Ring by casual Windows gamers, has been absolutely mindblowing for me.

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Thanks for writing this. It was annoying me as well, that outlets weren't quite getting what the deal was; now we can all just point them at this article :)

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In my experience, as long as one stays away from the bells-n-whistles DEs like Gnome/KDE/Plasma, it's extremely rare for things to break on Arch. The main DEs always end up breaking eventually on every distro I've used, but a bspwm/dwm/i3 desktop is generally completely unaffected due to there being so few moving parts. In the rare case that one part breaks, it's just that one thing to deal with (downgrade, say, "polybar" and be done with it).

The only issue I've had recently was switching from NVIDIA to AMD - which was mostly due to unfamiliarity with the modern Vulkan setup - and an occasional bug with Flatpak where xdg-desktop-portal starts a memory-leak massacre of my system (so, I'm not sold on Flatpak yet).

I would definitely not recommend such a setup for the average user though, but for me, it's more stable than a standard Fedora or Pop!_OS install.

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I really want to like the Kitsune games, but every time someone talks, I get anime-dub flashbacks :(

Quoting: FifteenthPenHahahahahahaha! This is why when you come up with a name for something, you google it before going ahead with it.

"Kitsune" means fox and is fairly well known as a name for the Japanese folklore of shapeshifting foxes. What exactly comes up in your search?

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I don't know if it's already possible, but it would be cool if games could indicate which theme they would like (with a user-toggle, of course). The "pumpkin" theme would probably go quite well with Deus Ex: HR for example. Fully game-themeable is another option, but that's probably overkill.

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Wait, "The Witcher"? That game is 15 years old!

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Quoting: TermyI really loved this back in the day...and judging by the screenshots it aged way better than other games of that aera ^^

Quoting: CybolicWorth noting is that it's "free" if you're subscribed to "EA Play" on Steam.

But you still need origin for that, right? Or does that work seamless with proton nowadays?

I just tried it and it downloaded and launched directly into the game; didn't notice any Origin process starting.

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Worth noting is that it's "free" if you're subscribed to "EA Play" on Steam.

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Ha! The "Digital" keyboard even has a flicker effect!
I'm just playing around with the interface on my desktop PC, but I can imagine this looking really good on the real device.

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Quoting: rustybroomhandleSeems to be here, but with Experimental bleeding-edge it does not seem to load Steam Input and the Overlay and my controller is not recognised.

I've heard as much for Experimental, but controller support seems pretty solid (for me) on GE. At least my dualsense (PS5) controller works perfectly.

Which GE version are you running? I have a PS5 DualSense as well and so far it has failed to work at all with Experimental beta, Experimental, 7.0-1, 7-5-GE and 7.3-GE-1.

It's been a few days, but it was GE-Proton-7.3 (NOT Proton-GE) at the time I think. 7.4 is out now. But you have activate the controller in Steam/Settings/Controllers/Profiles before it's recognised.

Hmm, I just tried with GE-Proton-7.3 and got the same result. I'm not sure what you mean by `Steam/Settings/Controllers/Profiles`? I don't have `Profiles` under the main Steam settings nor in BPM. I have tried selecting a custom mapping for the game, and togging forcing Steam Input on/off but neither did anything.
I should mention that the controller is working beautifully in BPM and Horizon Zero Dawn.

EDIT: Also, I'm trying it out on Pop!_OS, just like you. Very weird stuff.
EDIT 2: I just tried the Windows trick of disconnecting everything but the controller and launching from BPM, still no-go.

Go to Steam/Settings, click Controller, then Desktop Configuration, then at the bottom of the new window, click "Browse Configs", go to "Templates" and choose "Gamepad".

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Thanks :) I didn't get to try your fix because I found out that if I rebind the controller buttons to the matching keyboard keys, it works. It's very odd, but Elden Ring apparently reads all the analogue inputs fine, just not the buttons.
Apparently, I'm not the only one with that issue as I found a fully mapped community profile that does the same thing.

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