Divinity: Original Sin 2? I suppose it looks a little bit gorey too, but nowhere near that high definition. Definitely no squirmers...

I would at the very least break their fingers if they touch my keyboard.

No hammer needed...

Because I have no other viable option.

Yesterday was the first time I got the survey on my Deck.

I got it on the desktop (as I often am during the day because I do all my work on it), and noticed that while it reported the device as Valve manufactured and the OS correctly, a whole bunch of other data was wrong, like it said the device didn't support touch, etc.

Should I have taken the survey on Game Mode? Is it even possible to get the survey in Game Mode?

It's the ol' "Valve can't count to three" meme

I want this to be a thing so much...

But I cannot overlook the fact that this "website" is composed entirely of images and none of the text is properly aligned.

Valve does a relatively good job with regional pricing. But after last year's readjustments price in India is at the very least 50% more expensive than it used to be.

No, our economy didn't improve to warrant this change, it's in fact tabled heavily, and disposable income has also shrunk but a lot. It'll get a lot worse too, as our policies become worse and worse.

There are other countries in similar situations where the prices were adjusted to be cheaper, but not in India, sadly.

So while Valve usually does a good job, they didn't this time. We can't expect individual developers to manually keep track of global economies and set their own prices, so it's very understandable for then to just say they trust Valve for this. I just hope more of them realize that Valve is not perfect in how they go about it.

The fix I wanted the most from the 3.5 changelog: charge LED staying off when done charging 🙌

I've uninstalled every kernel to free to space more than once...

I was kinda warming up to the totally unintended slightly inconsistent mineral based naming scheme tbh. But then, hadn't fully...

I only just heard about ULWGL from a nice Threadiverser a couple of days ago, and now TIL!

If an APU counts, pretty much everything these days. The Steam Deck, even with its now "old" APU just keeps on steaming ahead!

Caveats: HD or lower. Sometimes at 30fps for big fancy AAA games.

Tl;Dr: Proton GE has extra game specific performance and compatibility patches that Proton doesn't target for whatever reason.

Too long but I typed it out so might as well post it anyway: This is how I understand it goes like—

Now, we know Proton: a Valve-maintained fork of the venerable Wine project with many many gaming and game specific patches, made for Steam.

Proton can be used outside of Steam, of course, but it isn't really designed to be, there be quirks. Plus, Valve maintains what goes into Proton, so if anyone really wants to play a certain Windows game that doesn't quite run well enough on Proton and put in the work needed to make the necessary changes, it's probably not getting added to Proton just yet (I frankly don't know how or whether Valve accepts PRs at all). And Wine does not really want game specific patches in the runtime. Wine wants to be as generally compatible as possible.

That's why most Proton variants exist. A certain Glorious Eggroll maintains this one, which has quite a few patches for games that aren't targeted by Proton either at all or well enough, as well as making sure it can run outside of Steam (there are other variants of the patches for vanilla Wine or for use in Lutris as well, I think?)

@metaStatic Are you kidding, after the D&D OGL fiasco I totally believe WotC would do that.

I've been using it as my main (and only) machine for the whole year. Work included (dev, illustration, graphic design, cgi)

Could it be that Android is closing Firefox in the background like it often does?

I'm sure it'll get a Bazzite port within weeks.

And here I thought it was federated. An easy mistake to make I suppose...

Top to bottom, always. Whether putting one on or taking it off.

Dwarf Fortress.

Rimworld is also great, but I like building in 3D.