Same as you friend, in fact the Deck helped me to realise that the vast majority of my games play fine on Linux doing nothing but enabling Steam Play for all other titles in Settings. That’s literally all I had to do.
I know it’s definitely not the same experience for others but I’m glad I could make the 100% jump to Linux. Especially with Cosmic on the way for PopOS!
It’s a great portable device if you have a good use case for it. I could even see it as a fairly capable primary device with some peripherals. But I’m sure you’ve heard and seen all of that before! :-)
I use it to play in bed. Last year, my split was 75% Linux, 25% Steam Deck, and this year it’s 25% Linux, 75% Steam Deck. So it grew on me quite a bit, and it’s now my primary gaming device.
Yes, in bed is the perfect spot for it! I often use it on the couch or on the back porch as well. And it’s a game changer for when I’m in bed sick too. When I’m feeling half decent I can just grab it for a bit and chase away the boredom, and then put it down just as quickly.
I don’t think I’ll be using as my primary device anytime soon, but there’s always that possibility! I like high resolution monitors and high graphics settings too well on some games!
I honestly don’t care much for graphics settings, and I mostly play older AAAs and indies anyway. Gaming isn’t the primary purpose of my computer, so my GPU is just good enough to make that pleasant (6650XT), and i can usually get decent frames on my 1440p monitor.
So yeah, the Deck is perfect for my use case, especially since I usually play with a controller on PC anyway. I still use my PC for certain games (strategy games, RDR2, and certain shooters), but it’s just really hard to beat the thing sitting on my nightstand.
It does sound like it’s perfect! I enjoy seeing what all people do with their Deck, it’s sometimes pretty impressive. I’ve definitely used mine for retro gaming before, it’s great how capable they can be.
I still haven’t gotten into emulators because there are enough other games to keep me well stocked with fun stuff to play. Maybe I’ll play with it over Christmas break.
It can be very enjoyable if you like some of the older games. I’ve always liked a lot of the SNES games for some reason, and I’m too young to be nostalgic for it! I have myself one of the original consoles and a small game collection, but sometimes it’s nice to use emulation as well.
I love older games. I only played like two games for SNES (borrowed from a friend), but we had an old NES and Sega Genesis that I have a ton of nostalgia for. I actually have a RetroPie system set up in my house (on my TV in my bedroom).
I just haven’t gotten around to configuring emulators on the Deck. I’m sure it’s not hard, I’m just incredibly lazy since I have so many other games that already work OOTB on the Deck (hundreds I haven’t played).
It’s not too hard, but it sounds like you might have some overlap with your current setup at that point. I certainly understand the too many games situation though! We’re very spoiled for choice on that.
Last year I was about 75 linux / 25 deck but this years its 100% deck. In my case the deck is much better than my laptop for gaming but its also so easy to pick up and jump into a game.
My desktop is quite a bit better than the Deck, but the Deck is good enough and more convenient, so it wins. I still play strategy games and other KB+m heavy games on the Deck, hence the 25%.
I was very confused because this chart didn’t show up for me… then I realized that I’m 100% Linux and showing it would’ve been pointless.
Still, I’m very proud of it. Barring some games with arbitrary rootkit restrictions (suck my ass, Tim) and Adobe products (but Adobe can burn and die, so whatever), I’ve been able to completely transition to Linux.
They don’t anymore unfortunately. The best solution I’ve seen is using winapps for Linux, but even that relies on a Windows VM. Worth looking into though still imo, it’s how I use the latest version of Excel for my work.
According to the commit, they enabled loop unrolling? Im not that experienced with reading this stuff, but if I had to guess, I’d say that’d be what did it
inb4 weasely little nvidia sneaks up and shows benevolence by enabling frame gen for older rtx cards too because fsr3 kind of circumvented their dumb paywall anyways
Instead of asking for Linux support maybe we should be asking companies for wine/proton support, since that works for Mac and Linux. Not ideal but probably more realistic and that would solve issues for all the non-windows desktops. I would also imagine it’s less work for the company to just ensure it works on wine, than it is to compile a seperate client for Linux. I don’t know about anti cheat stuff but personally I wouldn’t run a game that wanted that level of access to my system.
Bait post aside, I never really understood why people make a big deal of “switching” to Linux or back to Windows.
An OS install is like 60 GiB. If you’re a pro hacker gamer you probably have over a TiB of fast storage. Just keep the Windows install around and dual boot into it when/if you need it.
Pains me to see people saying “I permanently switched to Linux and deleted my Windows install”, when you can keep it around for emergencies or modding.
I have only booted into my Windows install like 2-3 times in the past 5-10 years or so. But I still have it, it just lives on a separate SSD and I just forget it exists. I’ve only booted in to set up Minecraft Bedrock (kids wanted cross play, but their friends flaked), one time to run updates (was going to upgrade to Win 11, but it hated my processor; maybe my new one works), and to test a couple things in Windows. That’s it.
When Microsoft EOLs Win 10, I might go through the trouble of upgrading it again. I don’t see much value in it, but it costs me nothing to keep it around. I’m not even sure if it still works after I upgraded the CPU and GPU, but I guess I’ll find out the next time I try to boot it.
If i use both, that will give me less incentive to be on linux , because windows even though it is annoying with microsoft bloat, everything just works and i will stay there because life is easier.
If the current state it’s in is the final state of the game at release, I’d have a couple weeks of good fun then get bored of it. But the core feel of Tribes is there, with enough TLC put in then I could imagine it being a fun mainstay and worthy successor to the series.
I left feedback suggestions for the devs to allow custom third-party servers and a custom mode creator (Halo Forge-like; I remember there being something like that in Ascend) for the best chance at longevity of this game.
Definitely threw me back to the days I played Ascend. Having to lead your shots and stuff.
Awesome to see it. At first I had some reservations about infusions of capital with investors expecting to see returns at the cost of Godot, but considering W4 and OSS have leading Godot developers in their ranks I’m quite relieved.
I do think that commercial free (as in freedom) open source software can exist, it levels the playing field and makes creating value available to anyone, not just those with access to proprietary software tools. Blender has a healthy ecosystem of free and paid assets and toolchains.
Agreed. In this case too it’s good to know that W4 Games and their Godot work is primarily related to porting Godot to consoles, since the open nature of Godot prohibits them from integrating proprietary SDKs without a third party like W4.
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