Grimpen @ Grimpen @lemmy.ca

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I've used Lutris and Heroic. They're pretty good.

I'm thinking GoG should just support one of those projects to add functionality.

I'd really like to see a CBC official Mastodon instance.

No captcha's for any of my banking services. I don't know how effective captcha's are anyways. I suspect slow cooldowns are probably more secure.

Love that about GoG. It's been my preferred store for years.

My wife got her PG++ at Best Buy in Canada for $75 CA, IIRC.

Maybe Queen Romana Didulo I should step up and give them some of her currency…

I still can't really survive the first week. Even a couple of days is too much for me usually.

For sure. The rate of development has skyrocketed the last month or so, and letting Lemmy mature a bit, as well as all the apps under development isn't a bad thing. I still think it's a little technical, and I don't want to sacrifice any of the utility provided by separate instances and federation, so letting things mature a bit should help make things less fiddly for less technically inclined people.

In the meantime, a self-sustaining, engaged, and quality community is better than a large community.

I find Top - Day to be my favourite sort, even though Hot is much better. I've also subscribed to enough communities that my default is Subscribed + Top - Day or Subscribed + Hot. I'll often dip over to Local, but rarely All. Only downside of the Top sorts is that the shorter the time span, the higher the ratio of cute animal pics. Scratch that, it's not a downside.

Point being, that once you have enough active communities subscribed, that seems to be the best. Local is good if you are on an instance that meshes well with your interests.

BTW, I'm on Lemmy.ca, so Local will show me news from across Canada usually.

I suspect a good portion of the people who would be fooled, are already PP supporters.

I suppose it might make a slight bump, and with FPTP, sometimes that's all you need, but still seems like window-dressing, because it is.

That's because the Mozilla Foundation is a non-profit. They don't need to maximize value for their shareholders™.

Thank you Netscape for setting Navigator free!

The Enshitification cycle is a feature of for profit corporations, Google was always going to turn evil at some point.

I've had mixed success, but probably mostly as a result of it just being fussier to use Heroic and Lutris. Expect to go look up the game on ProtonDB and pay with settings.

Also, the downloading is less robust. I know with Cyberpunk 2077 from GoG, it took several tries before it downloaded successfully.

Overall, the experience of playing a Deck verified Steam game vs. the same game from GoG is like day and… dusk. It works, sometimes with little intervention, but expect to fiddle more.

As an aside, GoG should just support Heroic or Lutris development, and get them to have some streamlined "Community Settings" feature, letting Heroic or Lutris pull and apply an automated settings file.

Not a dumb question at all. I see it's already answered, but I'll add a little detail.

It's functionality that is readily accessed, but Steam doesn't really advertise it. Desktop mode is very useful, and accessing it is a first step to unlocking lots of the Deck's potential. Assuming you (or anyone who finds this later) have never used the Desktop mode, I'll give a brief overview.

I recommend having a USB-C hub/dock so you can connect to an external keyboard and mouse, but it's not necessary. The right track pad along with the trigger switches will work as a mouse, and the Steam + X will still bring up an on-screen keyboard.

To switch to desktop mode:

1. Press the "Steam" button, select "Power", select "Switch to Desktop", wait while the Deck reboots into desktop mode.
2. You will be presented with a fairly typical (Linux) desktop environment. In the lower left the Steam Deck icon opens a "Start"-like launcher menu. Next to the launcher icon, there should be Firefox, System Settings, Discover, and Dolphin shortcuts.
3. Using a mouse or the right trackpad, click the Discover icon, this will launch the Discover application, which is kind of like the software store. You can search for Heroic and Lutris using the search field in the upper left.

With desktop mode, you can also install LibreOffice and use that keyboard and mouse to get some work done. Heck, install an IDE, graphics editing software, whatever.

You will need to return to desktop mode and Discover to update the software installed with Discover (unless you use AutoFlatpaks with Decky loader).

Looks very cool, but I also like the keyboard!

I've got a TKL mechanical keyboard that supports Bluetooth, but it is a bit bulkier. I have a cheaper Bluetooth keyboard, but it's rubbish.

Most of the time, I'm just plugging in a spare keyboard into a hub, but I'd like something Bluetooth, portable, and decent enough.

I will do cluster munitions. I used to, but I will, too.

Just need to image-meme up a picture of Master-Stragetarian Putin.

I remember an old HP driver that would just take up all the unused RAM, until it was needed. Then it usually used enough less RAM to let whatever happen. This is some time ago, but I wonder if some Windows application is "reserving" RAM.

I'd recommend a more detailed look at per app and per process RAM usage. Maybe look at Process Explorer? See how RAM usage changes under load?

This is the quality post that I love getting these discussions. Thanks for the info!

Too cute!

I'm trying to stop forwarding cute animal pics, no fair!

Knoppix was my gateway as well. I'd checked out Linux before, but I used Knoppix to help out regularly for a while, which led to dual booting my laptop with Ubuntu 6.06, ending with Linux being my main OS.

Back in the days of Vista, I had been dual-booting and using Knoppix (Live CD) as needed for a while. My main daily use outside of games was all open source that was available on Windows and Linux, OpenOffice (would recommend LibreOffice now), Firefox, Thunderbird, etc.

Windows used to get dreadfully slow, unless you reinstalled. Or maybe I was fixing something. Reformatted the hard drive, set up the Linux partition (Ubuntu 6.06 IIRC), Synaptic, tick all my usuals, apply. Come back a little bit later, fully up to date, do some logins, Linux is fully usable. Even installed Battle for Wesnoth in case.

Boot over to Windows, update, reboot, update, reboot, install drivers, more reboots. More drivers, more installables, more updates, more reboots

It was bedtime, off finish off later, and I ended up using Ubuntu as my main for a week.

After that week, I found I only booted to Windows for games. Never looked back. That week is the week I flipped from 60%/40% Windows/Linux to 60%/40% Linux/Windows. Since then Linux only gets better, and I use Windows less and less.