Also no Roblox, if you were still on the fence.
Actually you can play Roblox on Linux. There’s Sober.
I know it’s probably named in reference to wine, but I like the idea of a Linux Roblox program (emulator? I don’t know Linux or video games) as someone’s manic sobriety project*.
/* I don’t know if this is an identified thing, but most of the large number of recovering addicts I know sort of displace that manic type of love for the substance or behavior into one or more hobbies of some sort at first (examples include: repairing an old boat or classic car, building a house or cabin, making furniture or art, a bunch of types of exercise, joining a club, building furniture or bikes, or cooking) and gradually learn moderation afterwards.
Stop, I can only get so erect!
Like 80% of the games I already play are random indie stuff. I buy maybe 1-2 new big studio games a year, and even those aren’t exactly AAA. Right now, feels like big studios aren’t trying hard to produce actually interesting games, just more franchise slop.
Steam machine got a solid “Oooooooo! Can’t afford one right now but I’m sure keeping an eye on this one!” out of me.
Honestly the whole “modern tech style” thing is making me feel feel off.
The controller looks nice tho. Supports linux and would go well with retroarch to emulate old games on thinkpad.
Hell maybe a raspberry pi connected to the TV monitor.
Did you want it to come in a Beige Box?
I personally like wood exterior or utilitarian sheet metal with no lights.
https://www.digitalfoundry.net/features/hands-on-with-steam-machine-valves-new-pcconsole-hybrid
The front panel comes off, you can have a steam machine with a wood exterior if you really want
We love wood grain around here
Those Steam Machines are just normal PCs. There should be no reason why you couldn’t dualboot windows to play those few games that do not work on Linux.
The reason is, I don’t wanna.
There isn’t any game I want to play bad enough to install malware on my device.
I have heard that Windows tends to ‘nuke’ the EFI boot partition if it’s shared with Linux. I’m not sure if it’s valid to have two EFI partitions on the same disk, but if the box can handle a second EFI boot partition, that would be a safer option.
There is also the issue that normal windows shutdown does not mean shutdown, but “hibernate”. In this state, touching any of the partitions the windows was previously using could corrupt them if mounted in Linux. (The same applies in reverse, and would be even more dangerous.) This doesn’t prevent dual-booting, but some care should be taken that the swiched-from-OS was actually shutdown.
If I recall that was a bug. Generally windows does not randomly start rewriting boot partitions unless maybe you put it into repair mode from the boot menu and you have both partitions on the same disk.
Windows is like the selfish little kid that won’t play well with others if they aren’t picked first.
Quote from a HN thread
My main game console right now is one of those little gaming boxes you can buy on Amazon for about $400, where I have installed NixOS + Jovian to get the “SteamOS” interface.
I really like it. It really does feel like a “game console”; usually when I’ve made my own console using Linux, it always feels kind of janky. For example, RetroPie on the Raspberry Pi is pretty cool, but it doesn’t feel like a proper commercial product, it feels like a developer made a GUI to launch games.
I have like 750 games on Steam that I have hoarded over the years, in addition to the Epic Games Store and GOG, which can be installed with Heroic, and the fact that I can play them on a “console” instead of a computer makes it much easier to play in my living room or bedroom. It even works fine with the Xbox One controllers; I use the official Microsoft USB dongle to minimize latency, it works great.
I think there actually is a chance that Valve could really be a real competitor, if not a winner.
I have one of the higher-end beelinks. Super small, quiet, doesn’t get hot and I can play modern AAA titles on it, driving my huge screen TV in my living room.
Can you quantify this? Which Beelink? Are you powering a 4K TV? When you talk about playing modern AAA games, which ones, and what settings do you run at?
Fortnite, Cyberpunk, Starfield, probably others I’m forgetting I believe the TV is 4K, yeah. It’s the Beelink SER9 AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 12core/24thread AI PC Turbo Freq 5.1GHz
No League as well.
No League, no Valorant, no GTA Online, no Battlefield 6, no Rainbow Six Siege
So not much of value is lost
I once tried Valorant, recommended by a friend. I liked it but the community didn’t like me (since I suck), so I didn’t play more.
Trying to uninstall it was such a mess that I think the kernel level anti cheat was in my windows install until I got rid of said windows install
GTA V Online is not working - too bad! I play a lot of single player mode without any issues.
I’m already buying it, you don’t have to sell it to me.
I’ve never understood these memes. If you don’t want to play whatever game, don’t play it. How do you somehow convince yourself that you’re superior to others due to your inability to run certain programs?
Issa joke. Making fun at the expense of AAA games :)
I understand that it’s a joke, but the humor isn’t making sense to me, and I especially don’t see how it’s at the expense of AAA games
The joke is just “Call of Duty and Fortnite are shit / overrated” which you can disagree with
I guess it comes from a point where Linux gamers have been neglected by major studios for so long and now that there are enough other options they don’t have any power on them.
it’s associative, the negative associations with Call of Duty players cannot be transferred to a console that doesn’t support that game, so for people who want to avoid those associations it’s a plus
There’s definitely something to this. Like I’m often scared to be part of any group because inevitably someone in that group will be an asshole. I have played video games for a long time but I refuse to refer to myself as a “gamer” because of the associations.
joke is that not being able to play things you don’t like are a bonus. it’s a joke about how much you dislike that. now if you excuse me, I have a frog to dissect
Technically there is Call of Duty, just the older ones, which do still have people playing, and you can get bots for them, etc.
One has to be careful when going online on “old” CoDs, because most of them have an RCE exploit and won’t get (at least officially) patched
Jesus, I wasnt going to buy it… But this just sold me on it lol Day one purchase for me now!
Linux gaming is best gaming.
Fortnite can’t be played on Linux?
The CEO has a wierd hate boner for Linux. Like it would be one thing if it was just anti cheat but he like personally hates Linux. It’s weird.
That’s dumb. Steam needs competition.
wdym? fortnite is owned by epic games. that is steam’s competition
Probably because of anti cheat.
It’s because the CEO is a weird corporate ghoul
Ok but those Call of Duty games for the DS were always so interesting to me. The attempt to take such a bombastic console experience and squeeze it onto a handheld often produced janky results, but it was a charming kind of jank
I was on a forum, back in the day, focused on weird, or otherwise niche DS ports, and those games were easily the most popular.
They even had tournaments with the Developers, which was neat
The online multiplayer for the original version of Modern Warfare and other older games still works fine on Linux and even has community modded maps and modes.
You can already get a decent generic brand mini gaming PC for like $380 with a Ryzen 7 7840HS, which has a 780M that is twice as powerful as the Steam Deck’s GPU and a significantly faster CPU. I have my doubts that Valve can pull off making a mini PC 2x as powerful as that for like $500. I’m guessing it’ll probably be more like $700-$800.
I like the idea of the Steam Machine, but it won’t be worth it to me at that price for a HTPC and PC games I’d be playing on the couch. A cheaper mini PC sounds like a better fit.
Steam machines are not aimed toward pc gamers… they are aimed to convert console peasants.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯ they’re cutting themselves out of a potential market, while I still have ton of other games to play.
You couldn’t pay me to play cod or fortnite.
That’s a you thing
Obviously. But apparently not only a me thing.
Sure we’re on Lemmy, but this isn’t that true to outside world people. Most of them play a few games at best, and most of them are made by companies with a lot of money
Looking at the recent success rate of indie games I’d say quite a few people are less than happy with the development of AAA titles in the last couple of years.
Its the game cube 2, finally I waited so long.
