Switch controllers can be weird but that’s probably just because I always try to remap them to Xbox layout and certain games disagree

I think torrenting someone else’s copy of a game is still illegal regardless of if you own a copy yourself

I’m talking purely ethically, I don’t consider it to be any different where I paid for the game originally if I can no longer access it via that platform

Pretty sure roms are only legal if you rip them yourself from your own console.

I don’t think it’s legal for people to distribute them but torrenting makes that an unwinnable game of wack a mole to shut down so they don’t bother usually

So far I’ve had one hard drive fail and lose a bunch of my work from long ago (before I knew to use git), have physically lost memory sticks to similar effect

On the other hand I’ve still got everything in my Dropbox that I worked on as a child, everything on my old web server was still there until I pulled it down and cancelled it, all the contacts on my phone I have ever made, and I’ve never lost a steam game

I get not wanting to put your faith in big companies and I don’t like the idea but so far they’ve proven far more reliable than I am in looking after my stuff

(I also tend not to keep anything sensitive in there and open source all my code nowadays anyway so leaks and ai training don’t bother me that much)

What about when that HDD gets lost or dies, then I need a backup.

Without an automated system will be unreliable and a pain in the ass to maintain

If it’s automated and not just a hard drive I shove games on every now and then it requires a machine to run it and constant electricity

At which point what’s the point of even buying it if you’re going to torrent it later on anyway though

Would have just the same claim to ethically pirate it if I were to buy it there as if I bought it on steam

My concern with this and other platforms like gog is that I can be fairly confident valve isn’t going under anytime soon, and that they have no interest in taking games away from people

I don’t have nearly that same faith in a project that’s only just started and doesn’t have the amount of money behind it valve does

Sure, once you own these games you own them but that means having to store every single game I’ve bought somewhere incase they go under and it all vanishes

Shame it doesn’t support wayland

Systemctl hibernate/suspend not work?

Ahh perfect the desktop shortcut thing was what I was worried about, doesn’t seem like an ideal solution

Props to you for making it work with the launchers directly

That looks awesome I’ll have to give it a go

I guess it just launches the games via the shortcut the same way rofi normally works?

Ahh so it’s qualcomm themselves doing this? that’s awesome actually I thought it was just more people were interested in reverse engineering them now to get linux going on the new wave of laptops

Shame gaming on arm kinda sucks at the moment as a whole though

Is this in part due to everyone wanting to put Linux on those new “copilot pcs”?

I’d love to have a linux’d one of those that battery life from what I’ve heard is insane

Honestly creating your own binds is so big

Hyprland has permanently changed the way I use a computer, pretty much everything I need on speed dial and opens/closes almost instantly

Also wrote a script to cycle through my audio devices and bound that to a button because I used to forever be fucking around with the gui every time I wanted to show someone a video on speaker or something

Just wish I could so the same on android

You can also click the touchpads to select the keys

I found steam controller is the pinnacle for remote controlling a PC/TV. Typing with the dual touchpads once you get used to it is amazingly fast and easy

They’re hard to get nowadays though

Most of the time if I see a game has a native port I force it to use the windows version under proton anyway

I’ve found proton generally works a lot better than the half-assed native port most companies put out

Is anyone still trying to play the game on 32 bit?

Winget unfortunately is very convenient

I wish Nvidia was the same story

Same problem though where do you get a trustworthy hash

I can demonstrate a case where there are weird proton specific bugs

Had my player model just not render in in human fall flat under a specific proton version the other day, all you could see was the shorts (which was admittedly very funny)

But fair enough if just doing it for fun, just strikes me as something they could end up being an issue

I’d be wary, it’s possible there’s an arbitrary code execution exploit in EAC right now

It is if everyone’s too scared of getting sued to host it publically

There’ll always be a way to get hold of the source but I’m not sure I’d trust some rando on some hidden back alley of the internet not to have messed with it somehow

How would yuzu being closed source have prevented it getting nintendo’d?

Would runs on games running in proton be valid anyway? I imagine it would be classified as an emulator by speed running sites and there’s the possibility for bugs to be introduced only in the proton version

Is that caused by the update though? It works fine when I downgrade my driver

Is that what that is? I had to downgrade my driver to stop the flicker

Fair enough. I find usually at the point I notice I’m on a Linux build I end up switching because there’s always something that just doesn’t quite work properly

Garry’s mod, tabletop simulator, oxygen not included and prob some others

They mostly run fine, there’s just one little thing that annoys me usually

True, I usually find proton works better than native ports anyway though

Also you can run epic games from Linux using heroic launcher

Doesn’t steamos have its own user system to separate game files?

On my steam deck I’ve got my steam account and my partner’s and we both have separate saves

You know it’s not really an actual survey right? It can get all the info it needs on its own it just asks for permission

Fair enough, each try their own

I don’t mind anonymous data going out that will serve to potentially improve my experience gaming on Linux

The problem in my eyes is the non anonymous data that goes out that is used to design horrible addiction machines

I’m not sure, on one hand Linux users are quite privacy oriented but on the other hand “I use arch btw”

I’m really hoping this is the problem I’ve been having gaming on this driver can be unpleasant

Suppose I could always revert it but that’s a pain

Could’ve sworn half life already ran on a deck

Black Mesa does at least

On everything but the steam deck people are running their own choice of distro. You can’t even install steamos on a non steam deck right now

All I’m saying is when it comes to valve I think the best thing is just to sit right and see, they might not even release it

I don’t think deckard is confirmed to be anything yet is it? All just theorising afaik

Don’t valve release 3D models of all their parts to make it easier to swap them out/make your own?