The Simpsons.

There’s something new to see every time! I’ve only just got back into watching the early seasons again recently.

There’s been a lot of work on different recompilation tools lately. XenomRecomp and N64Recomp being two big ones.

Obviously it still takes a lot of work to go from a re-compiled console rom to a fully working PC port. But some fans are just crazy dedicated like that.

As much of a Linux fanboy as I am, I just kinda hate platform exclusives in general when it comes to gaming.

Something fun could be Steam items you can only gain through playing the game on Linux, Like the promotional in-game items you got for playing TF2 on the launch of the Mac and Linux versions.

I mainly use my Deck for racing games and actually played a lot of MC3 using PCSX2.

Pretty much every PS2 era racing game can be emulated flawlessly nowadays.

A lot of them also got PC ports but getting them and running them takes some manual tinkering. But for the older Need for Speed games the PC version is the best way to go with all the community made fixes and mods.

I’ve also recently played through the PSP version of Midnight Club LA and it was pretty great, felt closer to MC3 than the main HD console version.

I’m pretty sure compatibility mode in Windows hasn’t actually done anything after Windows 7. There were a few games and programs I had running on Win7 using the XP compatibility mode, but using the same setting on Win10 did nothing.

Windows 10 also seemed to be the time many games started needing community made patches to run even if the game worked fine on 7.

I actually bind the top two as clones of the bumpers, Maybe I just have small hands and that’s why I’ve always liked PlayStation controllers more? But the bumpers on the Deck feel like a reach and not somewhere to comfortably rest your fingers on.

For the other two it’s normally duck & jump, or some button you have to regularly hold down while doing other things.

He did mention a handful of them “SteamOS like” distros at the start, and hopefully he covers Bazzite in the future.

But as I said before your average gamer wants a Valve backed up OS because they trust Valve more than open source devs they hardly know of.

I would like more people to try distros like Bazzite but just getting people to try any form of Linux is still a stepping stone imo.

Yeah I agree with you most the time.

I was gonna give him credit for talking positively about the Discover app store, but he also made the whole flatpak vs native package thing sound way more complicated than it really is…

Alright I watched the video and besides it being what you’d expect from a typical LTT video, I don’t see anything that’ll get me to raise a pitchfork.

He’s talking about SteamOS from the POV of the average gamer, who he calls “Joey Mainstream”. I’m starting to wonder how many people on this site regularly talk to none Linux users/gamers?

I also brought this up in another post a while back, Your average gamer doesn’t care about open-source, privacy, software, corporate overreach, etc. They just want software OS made by a corporation they trust. Most of these people probably only know of Linux from memes about needing a PHD to install a web browser.

Also should point out I personally do care about all the things I mentioned before. And I think mainline/non-SteamOS Linux is already great for gaming. I’m just pointing this out as the general consensus from most people I talk to who a line with the “average gamer”.

Since it separates Manjaro I’d assume it also does it for other Arch based distros with their own branding like Endeavour or Artix?

Steam on Linux has it’s own version of wine(proton) built in.

So you can launch Windows games through the Linux native Steam client.

I owned a white original model PSP and that thing never looked clean after the first week no matter what I did.

Honestly people who go all white on everything kinda terrify me…

A lot of newer big “gamer” brand peripherals are coming bundled with proprietary software you gotta run to get full functionality.

A friend of mine recently tried Linux and had his scroll wheel not work because it was tired to the software on Windows for some stupid reason…

I saw this trend starting nearly a decade ago when Razers software bricked my Win7 PC by booting before the login screen, I’ve avoided any devices with mandatory software since, but seems the issue has only grown lately.

This project has been around for a good while for multiple platforms. I used to play it on a jailbroken PSP!

Think last time I played it someone uploaded a version of it to my colleges shared network drive, Will have to try it again. :)

I use the same earphones I use on my phone, I would prefer to use overear headphones but the only ones I own require a dedicated amp to drive and I hate having dongles hanging off my stuff…

Nah they only sell monitor stands that “cheap”.

I told my friend when I got my Deck I wouldn’t just use it as an emulation device…yeah I mostly use it for PCSX2

Been playing through Midnight Club 3 Remix the last week

One of my Aussie mates has a theory them not getting the Steamdeck is payback for the Australian Government forcing Valve to offer refunds.

Also the Steamdeck has games worth playing.

If I was forced at gun point to switch back to console gaming I’d pick the latest Xbox just because of the backwards compatibility.

And god forbid we play games for fun…