Can you use single player without PSN?

We don’t need native Linux ports. Valve already created Linux compatible DRM anti-cheat and I’d be surprised if they weren’t pressuring publishers to use it at all.

I really don’t know what more they can do, other than refusing to sell games that don’t work on Linux, which would obviously hurt them very badly, considering that makes up ~2% of their customers.

Is there a Smoked UMAF?

Because those launchers are bloated pieces of crap and HGL can access them with a better, lighter interface, and with more options.

All of those companies are cancers on the gaming industry and no one should be buying them, much less going out of their way to make them available on more platforms.

…did you have a question?

Yes

Oh thanks for that additional context. I don’t use anything but Steam and GoG but that’s good to know.

Really wish people would stop adding support for EA, Ubisoft, Rockstar, etc. but I appreciate the effort regardless.

Do not use this. Do not install EGS or GOG on your device.

Use Heroic Games Launcher.

They do. There are plenty of indie Devs.

Exactly. In fact, there are so many indie Devs that it’s nigh-impossible to break through the massive numbers of them. Occasionally there are breakthroughs like Stardew Valley, Hades, Vampires, etc.

On the other hand, you partner with a company like Microsoft or Sony and you’re basically guaranteed success. They put up all the capital to make sure you make it to release (albeit probably a rushed, half-baked one that you just fix later because why not). Even if your game blows ass and is completely broken, full of DRM, microtransactions and ads, gamers still buy that shit up.

what’s holding back gamedevs from banding together to either unionize or start their own companies

Same thing as any other business: money.

HTPC OS

I think there is a correct and perfectly fine way to advertise but it certainly less effective.

I didn’t recommend Ubuntu. I recommended Ubuntu-based distros.

I’m not looking for tutorials. I was making the point that you don’t need to learn to use it. You just double click the file and you’re done.

Yeah, the point is I don’t want to watch the tutorial. Even if I did, it’d probably all be gibberish to me.

On Debian I just click the file and Bob’s your Uncle.

There’s no need to run a distro because you need an app that’s only available there.

None except that you have to figure how the fuck to use distrobox.

Bazzite is great but gaming is also great on any distro.

Alternatively there are lots of gaming focused distros. Garuda, Chimera, Nobara, etc.

The difference between them will mostly be the “out of box experience”, what software comes pre-installed, and what package manager is used.

I recommended Debian or Ubuntu based distros if you plan to use anything else, as if the dev releases software outside of Flatpak, it’s usually a .deb file.

Make sure you have GearLever for appimages.

Where would you find a (presumably used, not new) laptop for 50 whatevers?

didnt they work on a desktop version for steam os?

Yes they launched SteamOS as a downloadable originally alongside Steam Machines. But alas the current official Steam version is not available for anything other than Steam Deck.

Wouldnt it help with getting people to switch from windows to linux?

I’d certainly think so, much in the way that Android did.

It became what it is currently the Steam Deck OS

That’s still called SteamOS.

The whole point of SteamOS is the controller-first interface. If you’re not interested then it’s not for you.

Sure, Gamescope is the big one. But part of SteamOS is that all of that comes configured out of the box.

Nvidia is probably the problem.

Gamescope is a graphical compositor. It gives you all those neat side menus on Steam Deck.

SteamOS is not for desktops. It’s intended to make your PC into a controller-friendly console for the couch.

No I want a steam deck and a dock that lets me also slot in a discrete gpu

That GPU would be stupidly expensive and also still hamstrung by the relatively weak AMD APU and associated thermals.

Personally, I just like to install Debian or Ubuntu as the OS, and then install the Steam launcher:

Then you don’t get Gamescope, which is kind of a big deal.

And less importantly the direct-launch into Big Picture Mode.

While an official release would be appreciated, I’d probably just continue using ChimeraOS/Bazzite/whatever

You could do that, but you could get significantly more performance per dollar by creating a new class of hardware that doesn’t have to be concerned with form factor, efficiency or battery, so it can be larger and more performant, and also does not need to include an OLED display or a controller or a battery…

I mean there are certainly benefits…

I would argue modern games are much more fun when their publishers aren’t trying to explore new ways to fuck you (which seems to be always).

There is just a huge number of softwares for this task.

Works perfectly via HGL. Full screen and all. Same goes for Xbox Cloud.

I just went to download it. All it is is a script that downloads Google Chrome Flatpak and adds a shortcut to Steam.

I’ve already done this with Heroic Launcher. And I have no interest in Chrome.

Nvidia supports Linux!

I’m seeing a lot of bad reviews of F40. I’d probably wait

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Probably based on how the OS defined itself. Steam is able to gather information like this easily.

Can you use GNOME and KDE with Mint?

LosslessCut will work great for that.

What do you mean by “hide”?

You can cut sections without re-encoding using LosslessCut

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