it seemed to regularly get better or worse with proton versions. last I checked it was supposedly OK with content manager but I CBA to check

yeah I’ve seen mixed responses regarding performance but sometimes proton even helps with that; Elden Ring ran way nicer on Linux for the first few weeks of its release

Box64 is amazing. We genuinely might be able to use RISCV desktops within the next few years with a similar performance to leading x86 chips.

They’re definitely some of the best wallpapers. I love the artistic liberties they took with it.

Personally though I use the GPU Shader wallpapers in KDE which work a treat (and aren’t very taxing at all depending on the one you pick!). That or Simon Stalenhag whose art is featured as one of the slideshow sources for the dynamic wallpaper plugin inside KDE.

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I think underwear and socks are some of the worst culprits for poor quality nowadays. socks especially seem to get threadbare so quickly

I’ve installed W11 for gf and I sorta see the appeal but they clearly had no idea what to do with the whitespace in the bottom left caused by moving the start button and instead filled it with a nonsense button that’ll inevitably get clicked billions of times by people expecting it to be the start button.

I use it, and it works fine. OpenOffice had a massive following before the LibreOffice fork so realistically most people moved there as a default option. Doesn’t mean Only office is bad, just that many FOSS users are more likely to use its competitors.

Even the stuff in the “immutable” section isn’t necessarily wiped, it’s more that there is a strong chance changes may be overwritten. I’d definitely make no guarantees to anything stored on the immutable sections of SteamOS.

It boots into Game scope (as others said, it’s not “big picture mode” it’s a compositor stack tailored for high gaming performance) but it’s nothing more than an immutable arch distribution (and immutability can be disabled for tweaking) so you could definitely swap the defaults if someone has documented how.

Would be a nice feature to have once SteamOS becomes independent of the deck.

It’s the right thing to do. Windows isn’t nearly as stable or reproducible as a testing platform anymore and I imagine it’s a PITA to handle for benchmarking dozens of not hundreds of hardware configs.

Of course they’ll still do those Windows tests, not suggesting they won’t, but Linux may become a more useful benchmarking platform for reviewers thanks to the control and automation it provides.

A whole host of configurations can be quickly booted and tested on a benchmark suite to confirm performance of older hardware and provide context, whilst newer products can get a bespoke review on all platforms. If a new benchmark game comes out, it’ll be way easier to insert into the Linux setups than Windows.

Deadlock! At least until I inevitably remind myself that multiplayer games are all bullshit and go back to enjoying SP games again.

One day we’ll have Switch 2 Devs working from somewhere like Russia so Nintendo can’t send Pinkertons to their front door to enforce the plumber’s demands

Nintendo’s legal argument is that the encryption that is reverse-engineered to circumvent copy-protection is protected intellectual property.

Anyone can copy the contents of a switch ROM (more of a glorified SD card anyway) but the million-dollar question is whether their proprietary encryption can be broken legally.

The same kernel software cryptography could certainly be marketed for single player games and proprietary applications as a solution to piracy.

Don’t like kernel anti cheat in your multiplayer games? here’s kernel anticheat for your single player games!

A locked down Windows “gaming OS” is probably what Xbox wants to go towards in some respects. It gives Microsoft the walled garden that they want, can lock out Valve as much as they fancy, and will likely be paired with some new APIs to set back Proton/WINE a few years. Hell, they could even still release XBOX hardware for that niche.

Self moderation has been way more effective at controlling cheaters than automated systems. Counterstrike did some good with overwatch and phone verification but I’ve always enjoyed manual server moderation if it’s maintained.

I got battlefield 5 and explicitly rebought it for Steam to play on the Deck. Like a year later they rugpulled Linux support because 2042 has done so badly that they had to start maintaining their old games again.

Not Windows centric enough. Visual Basic and Excel macros.

The problem with EA is that they never bothered to moderate their games. In the end you get spinbotters and shit whilst legit players have to deal with rootkits because they’re too stingy to pay for someone to review reports and develop moderation tools.

the Overwatch system in Counterstrike (and a bunch of other tools and policies in tandem with VAC) have been way more effective; I was always more certain that a blatant or suspected cheated would be dealt with in CS than in battlefield.