Ah, that makes way more sense. Nearly 6% of the gaming Linux market for such a new distro, and rapidly growing, sounds much more like where I would’ve expected Bazzite to place, based on my own experience and the tune of most recommendation threads here.

I’m surprised Bazzite isn’t higher on the list, here, it really seems like the OS I hear about whenever Linux gaming comes up.

No kidding, it’s intense. I like the channel well enough, and find they’ve handled their various scandals to my satisfaction, at least. And yes, it’s 100% more entertainment than deep technical content I’m gonna learn from, but whatever, guilty pleasures aren’t some horrible sin, and it’s a better use of my time than reality TV. Being such a large channel does also get them access to some really worthwhile stuff now and again, like major factory tours, or Linus Torvalds, and that is stuff that’s really worth my time.

All of that said, I assume there’s lots of people here like myself, but it just ain’t worth jumping out of the woodwork for the guy. I like him, but not nearly enough to cast myself against this much vitriol for his sake.

This is the coolest video they’ve done in ages, and Linus Torvalds seems like such an excellent, genuine guy. He gives really thoughtful answers to even some of the silly joke questions, and it’s great. I super appreciate his perspective, and he interviews excellently.

Me personally I am not very interested in the performance comparison between Linux and Windows.

Very fair, it’s not really the reason I made the jump either. I would like to see that tackled at some point though, perhaps with some external recording setup to eliminate the apple/orange comparison issues between benchmarking tools.

I switched about a year ago, and was remarkably impressed to see performance gains or only minor decreases in everything I compared, when running my own benchmarks. I’d love to see that result more widely reported, and also academically to see it validated better than I can, across more hardware and games and with better methodology.

Even if not though, really glad to see Gamer’s Nexus taking it seriously and giving us some of the same access to information as we would have comparing hardware for a Windows config. Definitely wishing them the best as they explore automation and even more tooling to make this better.

We’ve done it. The worst job on earth. Being an “AI” meeting transcriber for corporate random meetings all day long sounds like true hell on earth.

I’m so absurdly hyped for Steam Frame. Been interested in VR for years, and the right thing has never come along.

• Google Cardboard VR made me nauseous, with a cheap headset and too low a framerate.
• I didn’t have a PC for a while. PSVR looked great, but I had an Xbox, and no equivalent ever came.
• Once I did get a powerful PC, Index looked great, but was expensive, and setting up base stations in my living room always felt impractical.
• Giving Meta a half dozen cameras in my home was never gonna happen.

And now this. High quality, PC VR. Super stable low-latency streaming with foveated encoding and a dedicated Wi-Fi 6 dongle. A company I actually trust not to spy on me. Guaranteed Linux and Steam support, given it’s designed to work with Steam Machine. Quality inside-out tracking with no fuss. And supports standalone VR as a bonus, not to mention can essentially function as a Steam Deck.

Dang, that’s incredibly cool. Hadn’t heard of this!

Very nice! Was looking at the exact same frames after doing some more research, a 10 inch frame for about as cheap as some empty frames I’ve seen, with documentation on the process provided by Immich Frame themselves.

Your private mesh network is an elegant addition to it as well, I may consider something similar. As mentioned in the post, Immich Frame doesn’t recommend being exposed to the Internet, and just has support for a simple single password system. I still feel better about that than being in Frameo’s database I know nothing about and would be paying suspiciously little for, but it’s not exactly ironclad either.

Definitely let me know how it goes if you tackle it in the next week or so!

Correct! This would be going out to family that doesn’t just live close enough to see her and take their own pictures, so being able to add more remotely is the whole point!

Silksong achieved this for me personally, as in Acts 1 and 2, the only references to Hollow Knight are vague allusions to Hornet’s origins, lines like “I’ve seen such things before”, or characters referring to her as a “higher being”.

Act 3, which takes some pretty diehard completionist play to access, goes further and gives us some direct new information on the lore of Hollow Knight, and I’d say only the true ending would have anything that’s inscrutable to a totally new player.

It strikes a good balance, IMO, and I’d feel comfortable recommending Silksong without playing Hollow Knight, if I thought they could handle the difficulty without the skills developed by playing Hollow Knight. I’d be very happy with future games following this formula.

Man… tough choices.

I’m saving Dark Souls 1. It’s a beautiful game, great replay value I’ve barely begun to tap into, and really cool multiplayer features. Also a game I’d love to introduce more people to.

I’m also saving Hollow Knight. Trying to beat Pantheon of Hallownest, or Steel Soul mode, may just keep me busy until I die single-handedly.

I’m also saving Silksong. Screw it, same reasons as Hollow Knight, selfishly I want em both. I would go just Silksong, but it lacks the updates and endgame content that Hollow Knight has been fleshed out with.

Mario Odyssey? I got really into speedrunning this for a while, and it was a blast. I could get back into that, and push it a lot further with all the free time I’d have now that I’m not playing much else.

There really should be a multiplayer game on this list… I’m tempted by UFO 50, but that feels like cheating, so… Mario Kart World? The online is kinda trash, because they push the intermission courses too hard, but local multiplayer isn’t so affected, and mechanically the rail and wall grinding is deep mechanically, and I could sink a lot more solo playtime time into mastering all the time trials, which I loved dabbling with.

Really, this whole list is defined by games I could speedrun and otherwise try to get thousands of hours of playtime and challenges out of them.

Honestly, I don’t hate the feature, it somewhat helps with the (YT created) problem of clickbait-y titles. But it hilariously has no understanding of satire that isn’t spelled out clearly, exactly as you’d expect.

I’ve particularly enjoyed it summarizing some of Dunkey’s videos, thinking games like “Piglet’s Big Game” are proper horror titles. The feature would probably be better with community-driven descriptions, like twitter’s community notes. Which would admittedly be even more sarcastic about Dunkey’s videos, but at least the author would be in on the gag.

Oh hell yes. Playnite was easily the biggest loss for me in switching my home theatre PC to Linux.

Steam Big Picture mode is solid, and I’ve adjusted to it, but I definitely miss the ease of integration for other launchers and emulators, and some of the more powerful scripting options, easy art adjustments, etc.

I would definitely take a look at this and consider switching back, and it’ll make it easier to recommend Linux to my friends who still use Playnite on Windows.

Haha, I found myself thinking the same thing, and then caught myself, realizing all the other LLMs on this page had lowered the bar immensely for what I’m considering impressive.

This just makes me want to try to get it to hallucinate a Bible verse that doesn’t exist… but it’s not worth giving them the traffic to try.

Damn, I hate how often I look at a situation like that and just think… what a waste. Some morons came in and ruined the message most of us were trying to send to EA by making them the “Worst Company in America”. Now these gross bigots get a “win”, and EA gets to sidestep all the legitimate anti-consumer issues most people were railing against. What a waste. And it feels like that’s everything these days, someone gross is always “on your side” looking to claim your victories for their own narratives.

Very nice! Been keeping an eye on this one for the last year or so, and I’m pleased to see it’s still improving in large strides. It’s probably more than good enough for me to have a great, pseudo-remastered Bloodborne experience by now, but… every little bit I wait it seems to get just that much better.

Eh, if they’re doing it for Half Life Alyx, it’ll likely work like Proton, where Steam will automatically install a native version if it’s available, and you can “force a compatibility tool” if you’d prefer to run the original version through FEX. Presumably any dev would be able to upload a native ARM version for Steam Frame/a hypothetical Steam Deck 2, but I imagine very few will.

Edit: Valve engineers pretty much confirmed this to Gamer’s Nexus, as they described Steam automatically installing the best version for your device, and that you can manually override that.

Looking through their history, gotta agree. Second one of these ChatGPT-posters I’ve blocked in two days, and this one even commented on the other post where I ended up blocking the OP.

Really hoping this doesn’t become a recurring trend on Lemmy.

Been using the 8BitDo TMR sticks for a while, and they’re great so far. There’s no super long-term usage yet, the technology just isn’t old enough yet for anyone to have 10+ years of real world usage, but it’s fantastic hardware thus far, and I have faith in it to last as long as I’ll want to use the controllers for, unlike say, my Switch Pro Controllers (which I promptly replaced with 8BitDo controllers with TMR after discovering how bad the drift was on my OG ones).