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Apex Legends Ignite Update broke anti-cheat on Steam Deck / Linux
31 October 2023 at 6:44 pm UTC Likes: 3

They probably forgot it or maybe they switched to the new EOS-EAC which doesnt even require that file.

Here we go again i guess... made a backup of the .so file before game update, just in case

Discord for Linux gets Flathub Verified
30 October 2023 at 7:14 pm UTC Likes: 5

Quoting: PhiladelphusHmm, might have to switch over if the Flatpak version actually auto-updates. I'm sick and tired of having to manually download the .deb and `sudo dpkg` it every time there's a version update. "Must be your lucky day, there's a new update!"…no, that's not what's going through my head, Discord.

You can just use the ~/.config/discord/settings.json modifications with
"SKIP_HOST_UPDATE": true
and keep using it until the repo has an updated version.

Farlight 84 players reporting bans on Steam Deck / Linux
27 October 2023 at 6:45 am UTC Likes: 1

looks like the developers fixed it already, so people who play this game can try again:
https://steamcommunity.com/app/1928420/discussions/0/3844430784749033195/?ctp=3#c3880473533199704609

Farlight 84 players reporting bans on Steam Deck / Linux
26 October 2023 at 4:43 pm UTC Likes: 1

First time hearing about this game even.
Hopefully the issue will get resolved, like the Apex Legends ones have been so far.
Haven't heard of this happening with any other EAC proton enabled games. Just those 2 now.

Lutris game manager v0.5.14 adds EA App integration, expanded Flatpak support
20 October 2023 at 1:56 pm UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: hardpenguinHeroic does such as good job of managing even third-party games (with the automatic download of the cover art etc.), then I add those as non-Steam games directly from Heroic. And if any art is missing, I can easily add it with SteamGridDB SGDBoop app!

Nice. Lutris also gets the cover art automatically for 95% of cases. I usually install games manually there and if i give it the correct name it gets all the banners and stuff. I use the list view with icon and name though. Don't like the big banner stuff.

Only adding shortcuts to Steam when i need some game with steamcontroller use, but i rarely use controllers (just for some local coop couch gaming sometimes).
Keyboard+Mouse warrior!

Lutris game manager v0.5.14 adds EA App integration, expanded Flatpak support
20 October 2023 at 11:07 am UTC

Lutris for older stuff and GoG stuff, that doesn't require additional launchers.
Steam for everything in steam
Heroic for the few Games that i have grabbed free from Epic. Rarely even checking this

Chilly survival-adventure Kona II: Brume is out now
19 October 2023 at 12:50 pm UTC

Ohh neat. First game worked pretty much flawlessly for me on Linux back in the days. It had few performance drops in some areas from what i remember though, but overall was working well and i really liked the game.
Price is a bit steep for a kind of "walking simulator" though. Will wait for a sale before i grab it. Have pretty big backlog of games anyway.
Nice that they kept the native builds still around. Something different to all those UE4 copy-paste games also :)

Recent NVIDIA drivers are causing issues for Proton
19 August 2023 at 6:51 am UTC Likes: 3

Interesting. Haven't encountered this issue myself yet. Been happy with the latest 2 of the 535 drivers. Currently 535.98.
the older 535.54 had shader cache issues and some corruption in some vulkan and vkd3d-proton using games, but this has been fixed with the latest drivers.
Been super solid experience for me..but im on Ampere and i hear people have some issues on turing and below with cyberpunk hangs etc. I personally played cyberpunk 2077 (~65 hours) with zero issues.

Kingdom Come, The Ascent, Oblivion, Rain World + more in Fanatical's Platinum Collection
4 August 2023 at 6:10 am UTC

Quoting: slaapliedjeReminds me that I should play more of Kingdom Come: Deliverance. Fantastic RPG.
One of the Most immersive games out there. Combat is a bit weird at first, but once you get used to it, its pretty damn good. Theres ofc a lot of weird/funny jank in the game also, but still. I love the fact that NPCs have their own daily routines. Where they eat, where and what time they work, where they live etc etc. It makes it so immersive to just spectate people about their routines and then rob them clean lol.

Linux continues hitting above 3% desktop user share on Statcounter
4 August 2023 at 5:39 am UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: KlaasI've got an OT question – are you from Estonia and what languages do you speak? I was recently reading about the differences in the demographics of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.

estonian, which is similar to finnish (Finno-Ugric)language in some ways. Latvian and lithuanian is completely different to our language, dont understand a word from those.