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Check out your 2023 Year In Review on Steam
21 December 2023 at 11:06 am UTC

Not too much gaming for me this year: https://s.team/y23/dtnncdn?l=english

few games are not on steam also.. like warhammer online which i played quite a bit, but not as much as previous years...

Feral GameMode v1.8 out now with CPU core pinning and parking
7 December 2023 at 10:59 am UTC

Quoting: hardpenguinMy decade old CPU still needs it lol. And since GameMode is a one-fits-all solution, all those settings are turned on regardless of the hardware.

Ahh that makes sense i guess for older CPUs as they cant use amd_pstate=active afaik?

Feral GameMode v1.8 out now with CPU core pinning and parking
7 December 2023 at 8:36 am UTC Likes: 4

Is this still even needed? The cpu governors used to be an issue like 6-7 years ago, but these days amd has amd_pstate and intel has its intel_pstate which are boosting correctly on the default governor so i dont really know whats the point of this.
I haven't noticed any difference when benchmarking stuff with this on or off at least.
Cyberpunk 2077 benchmark and Unigine Superposition.

Cyberpunk 2077 gets another big upgrade with a Metro System, new Accessibility options
5 December 2023 at 8:13 pm UTC Likes: 1

Just played around 3 hours session. No regressions noted. Runs and plays as good as always.
Finally i can listen to the radio while driving on a bike or take a walk.

Xorg is dead, long live Wayland - Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) dropping Xorg
30 November 2023 at 9:24 am UTC Likes: 3

Few times i have tested wayland with KDE and Gnome.. its been a horrible unstable mess.
Since i use MATE as my Desktop Environment, i dont really have a choice currently either, so i dont really pay attention to the hypetrains going on with wayland. Everything i use/need works perfectly on X11 so far so no rush with that.

Will see again in 2 years

Apex Legends Ignite Update broke anti-cheat on Steam Deck / Linux
2 November 2023 at 8:17 am UTC Likes: 1

So its almost 2 days now, they had a small update yesterday but i dont see the .so file still.
People playing with the old .so file just fine. How come its so hard for them to just fix that issue...

Apex Legends Ignite Update broke anti-cheat on Steam Deck / Linux
1 November 2023 at 10:32 am UTC

Quoting: benstor214I wish I could do business with you. Your money seems to be accessible enough.

In my opinion, the fact that this happens repeatedly is even more reason to loose the green check mark.
But of course apologists of giant corporations see it different: it’s completely okay for me to sell you a product that frequently stops working, because I couldn’t care less about you. Can I sell you a car that just stops running randomly because I “forgot” to click a button again? I mean… it would just be a simple mistake, right?

I wish I had a business where I could scam naïve apologists all day long. With customers like you it’s easy to afford a third yacht.

I didn't try to defend the devs/publisher at all. I was just saying that those things happen in software world.
It's still shitty thing to happen and that the fix is still not applied.

edit: it was more aimed at the comments like

"Yeah, they intentionally removed the file"

Apex Legends Ignite Update broke anti-cheat on Steam Deck / Linux
1 November 2023 at 8:23 am UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: NullsinFound the fix here:
https://www.reddit.com/r/linux_gaming/comments/te2i42/apex_legends_eac_is_kicking_linux_users_out_of/

Worked for me.

you found a fix from 2 years old reddit thread? the .so file was updated in february and since then it has had thesame sha256sum

i made a backup of the file before update
$ sha256sum ./easyanticheat_x64.so
d971d8d9b4f68021ef3330d500f1c9a2b7e91e484a0d26c0233ad63fe8ac2388  ./easyanticheat_x64.so


people claim it works fine with that sha256sum of the file. I will wait for official fix though, but if anyone is in need of that file.. ask.

Apex Legends Ignite Update broke anti-cheat on Steam Deck / Linux
1 November 2023 at 8:05 am UTC Likes: 2

People are so fast to talk shit about it imo.
Games break on windows also with updates. Devs forget things, push wrong builds etc. It isn't the first time. taking the verified badge away just for a mistake is kinda weird imo. They are in progress of fixing it.. Taking long time though for a simple file being missing, but shit happens i guess.