I think this is a global feature that can be used outside of Proton too.

It’s KDE Linux now: https://linux.kde.org/

They replaced Neon, because KDE Neon didn’t make much sense. Because only KDE was updated, but the rest of the system was like an LTS. The main purpose was to test the newest KDE version for developers; it wasn’t meant to be used by end users. It was a weird Frankenstein’s Monster style mix. Now, KDE Linux on the other hand is a more normal and harmonized distribution, that also aims to be used by end users. It’s a real showcase of standard KDE in a real operating system, not just a test environment for developers.

You can access the numbers directly on https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/ at any time. If you click the Linux icon, then only Linux related stats are displayed:

On the note of the /s, I learned my lesson from previous jokes and sarcasm. There are people who will downvote you for. Besides that, if you think about it, the /s itself is almost an /s, because its actually that obvious. :D

Poor Alphabet. I hate seeing small indie companies like Alphabet losing money. Especially the producers and directors are those who lose the most. /s

Greed.

Steam and itchio are not curated (or only minimal). So naturally those places will also attract junk. The tradeoff is the free and open market without any organization telling what is allowed and what not (at least for the most part). Similar to Apple vs Google store, I prefer the Google store with more freedom over Apple. The price is more junk, but I want to decide.

If you have security concerns, then its probably a good idea not even to run the code. But if you really really want to, one could use Virtual Machines with CPU and graphics cards passthrough. In case of Linux, even the Kernel on your machine is reused in the Virtual Machine and the filesystem is nowadays very good optimized too. All of this gives you near native performance. The little bit performance hit I think is acceptable, given that security is high priority here.

I personally wanted to set this up, but honestly I’m too lazy. BTW Flatpak is not a good container, if security is a high priority.

Why does everyone want to fuck Sam Altman?

The point is not to buy more RAM, but reuse the existing one and buy a new CPU.

CPUs have still a good price on the market, I don’t know about Motherboards. So you could eventually buy a new board that supports modern CPUs, but still support DDR4. Then just reuse the RAM. Everything else could be reused. That’s the only way forward I guess, if you don’t want spent too much money, but still want a modern CPU.

I was using a 1070 just a few years ago. I also felt the performance lack, but it wasn’t just the card. The entire PC was old, with old CPU and DDR-3. I wonder how the 1070 would hold up on my current DDR-5 based computer. I would have swapped out for testing purposes, but I don’t want to install and setup Nvidia driver. I’m on Linux and the modern Open Source drivers only support starting with RTX 20xx series.

Those Pascal series was the best graphics card I ever had.

There goes, my hopes and dreams for 2027.

I’m not arguing that (and know about the Palworld case off course). What I argue is, that most companies big or small want to avoid going to court, and fight (possibly years) over patents. Or avoid getting sued if they use patented mechanics. Just like with the situation of emulators, it doesn’t matter if the developers are right or wrong, they fear going to court against Nintendo.

Now in case of Palword I have to say, bravo. Wish more had the courage (and money!) to fight Nintendo. It would make gaming better, because I hate game mechanics being patented.

That is more plausible, agreed.

Exactly why this is still a problem. There are patents of game mechanics that prevented other devs to implement them, because they do not want to go to court or fear they could lose in a court. The Nemesis system is such an example often brought up in discussions like these. Or the ability to catch a Pokemon with the Pokeball in the way Nintendo does, and riding/flying with a monster are also patented. And on that note, I think Nintendo lost the case with the riding or with the catch mechanic, I don’t remember details.

Game mechanics being patented is enforceable as far as I know, but only if the patent is in that country and is valid (validity can change even after it was granted, but that is not common). The point is, if valid or not, most companies just stop using those game mechanics out of fear. And that still holding back innovation.

game mechanics cannot be copyrighted

But patented.

The game companies probably paid them to block.

RPCS3 on Steam Deck isn’t as bad, as it should be, given what we emulate. It depends on the games off course, I don’t expect the most complex 3D games to run well. However this is just from what I read, I’m personally too scared to try it out.

I can’t wait to try Playstation 5 emulation on Steam Deck. Hol’ on, what? Well the PS5 is x86 too and the emulators aren’t emulating the entire CPU. Obviously GTA 6 won’t run well, if any, but there will be more simple games that will work.

For Switch 2, maybe simple games. The system has enough problems running Switch 1 games.

Thanks for the patience to explain. The example with the book was quiet illustrative and simple to understand as well.