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@PetulantBandicoot @bdonvr It’s more advanced than a “Steam Big Picture Wrapper thing”. When you’re in gaming mode it runs it’s own gamescope window manager, etc. In desktop mode it’s full plasma with KWin. I’d expect it would boot into gaming mode first, with desktop as something you can switch to.
@Lemonparty
Collabora Office, tied into an instance of nextcloud. So essentially like the Google office suite but self hosted. Then Libre office if I need to do anything offline.
@umbrella
@theshatterstone54
Those assholes…
@Fizz
@theshatterstone54 @Fizz I’ve bought a physical copy of every switch game I’ve ever played on Yuzu on my Steam Deck… It was just nice having to only carry one portable about, and a superior overall gaming experience. I’ll never do business with Nintendo again over this…
@bionicjoey @sirsquid They’ve had a lot of patreon money being funnelled in for years now…
@Templa @JustEnoughDucks Yup, it’s on Linux.
@Chadus_Maximus @_Sprite Personally I go the opposite way… If a game stops working on Linux, I stop playing it… There are too many enjoyable games in the world to stick to just one 😅
@Gork @mr_MADAFAKA The deck and all these handhelds just drive game sales on Steam, which is where Valve makes all it’s money… Competition between handhelds doesn’t bother them!
@sugar_in_your_tea @fossisfun It’s also just straight-up more daunting to update an application running inside a container, and a lot harder to troubleshoot when it goes wrong.
@beesterman @lightnsfw What?!? I run games using proton on an NTFS partition just fine…
If you do this it’s safer to use lowntfs-3g so everything is forced to lower case… And yes using a proper linux filesystem is way safer.
@alwaysconfused @Peafield Can always use NixOS if you need a reproducable system that you reinstall frequently?
@Jean_le_Flambeur @andruid It’s dumb, but sorely needed in some games… Cheating is rife in simulated racing games (such as iRacing, F1 2023, Assetto Corsa) and those games are highly competitive. Memory hacks to increase grip or power levels for cars is commonplace. And the only place you can catch those cheats is at the kernel level… As long as people cheat, low level anti-cheat is the only possible solution :(
@jannem @Simplesyrup It doesn’t seem to show up in the lemmy thread on the lemmy instance though… Weird behavior…
@Simplesyrup Hmmm, it appears Lemmy doesn’t pull images from Mastodon, there’s meant to be a screenshot there…
@Simplesyrup Steam client?
@jannem @hydroel It’s a good starting point… I’ve never been a huge fan of the Ubuntu Desktop environment. Snaps can behave a little weirdly at times (I had issues getting a VR Headset working with the snap version of Steam). I’m not sure what their GPU driver situation is these days, I know they were providing older drivers in their repositories a few years ago. POP_OS! is a nice ubuntu based option too…
@hydroel Two biggest drawbacks are certain games with anti-cheat not running (however some do), and peripheral support (my Thrustmaster racing wheel doesn’t get force feedback).
Some games (Like Factorio) have a better native Linux version than the Native Windows version.
I use Arch Linux, but wouldn’t recommend it to a novice. If you’re only gaming ChimeraOS is a good place to start. If you’re really new to Linux and scared to break things, an immutable OS like Vanilla may be better suited.
@mouse @Zaphodquixote I dual boot with Windows 11 and very rarely find myself not using Linux… It plays every game I’ve thrown at it in the last 6 months. The only time I end up using Windows is because I want to use a specific peripheral, like my steering wheel for racing games, rather than because Linux won’t run the game! Lutris is great for non-steam games. Runs Overwatch 2, Diablo IV, Guildwars 2, and League of Legends perfectly for me. GloriousEggroll is worth looking at too 🙂
@DarkDarkHouse @Robin Geforce now is for streaming games running in the “cloud”, not for configuring a local GPU.