Steam will soon use the desktop portal file picker.
In practice, it means Steam will use your native desktop method for selecting and saving files, resulting in better user experience and desktop integration.
This is one of many things Flatpak and GNOME pioneered that improves the Linux desktop for everyone.
After a full month with my #Steam OS console, I can safely say that it's the best gaming experience I've ever had: start a game on the TV and pick it up later on the #SteamDeck, amazing performance + all the commodities of Steam OS!
And yet, I'd say it's not worth it for most people to build something like this, compared to a #Playstation5 for example.
So, let's see what I picked, the issues I encountered, and the general experience!
Ethan Lee has been keeping your favorite indie games running for years by porting them to Linux. Now he wants developers to start thinking about “maintenance” instead of “remasters.”
I wish to share something amazing about #linuxgaming.
On Windows Nvidia dominates gaming. Gamers keep bragging about how they use DLSS, ray-tracing, ray-reconstruction, frame generation...
Then we have YT channels such as DigitalFoundry who are perhaps honest geeks, but the effect they have on gamers is amazingly toxic and not at all in the spirit of gaming as I grew up with.
On Linux, gaming is so simple. We are happy when games work and we love every single one of them.
As of November 22nd 2023, my experience with #Wayland#KDEPlasma on #Nvidia GPU is still atrocious, while on #AMD is almost flawless ... Seriously thinking swapping my RTX 3060 in my secondary PC with RX 6600 despite expecting slightly worse game performance ... Screw Nvidia ...
Anyone knows how to properly start a multiseat wayland with a desktop environment or window manager running?
I just need simple stuff such as profile initialization of the user and if it's possible to just share the same discrete GPU across multiple seats?
The end result? I want to isolate my current user space from the gaming space where I can just connect using moonlight/sunshine. I want it all headless.
Meet the Guy Preserving the New History of PC Games, One Linux Port at a Time (www.404media.co)
Ethan Lee has been keeping your favorite indie games running for years by porting them to Linux. Now he wants developers to start thinking about “maintenance” instead of “remasters.”