Popular PS2 emulator PCSX2 drops support for Wayland, Linux continues to outperform OSX, Windows 11 gets shrunk for handhelds, and OLED Decks are huge in japan.
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Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
00:47 In the nose
03:50 IKEA gaming
06:02 Pedro peddles art
08:30 Canadian change
STEAM NEWS
09:00 Steam hardware Nov survey
11:25 Linux users love AMD CPUs
13:17 Linux still beating MAC
13:47 Steam client fixer overlay issues
14:48 NACON Revolution 5 Pro
18:18 OLED Decks sell out in Japan
21:18 A Quest for Steam VR
23:25 Good VR Games?
NEW GAMES
24:45 Coffee Brakes
26:48 All about the TFLOPS
27:46 Console players talk tech
GAME UPDATES
28:39 Warfork 2.13 Steam integration
NEWS
32:22 Redhat kills X11
37:36 XFCE on Wayland
39:12 PS2 emulator drops Wayland support
43:16 Game Off 2023 results
45:37 Heroic Launcher gets categories
48:03 Windows handheld mode
49:44 Windows 8 got it right
51:36 Will Microsoft release a handheld?
HATE MAIL
57:12 RAR VM
Colour key – Venn Jordan Pedro
Steam: News
Linux finished over MAC in November with almost 2%.
NGL, I was expecting higher.
AMD Custom GPU 0405 is dominating with 42% of the GPU market on Linux.
Steam deck leading the charge on that linux usage growth.
Thats what we were hoping to see
Flatpak steam is seeing a small drop in popularity
Despite the official driver being EOL, Vega 8 is still showing strong.
People want them APUs
CPU Share is very interesting on Linux these days.
70% AMD, 30% Intel
How the turns table
Granted about 43% of that is Steam Deck, but still.
Couple of fixes for overlay rendering issues.
RIP macOS 10.14. And 32-bit games.
Support for the NACON Revolution 5 Pro.
Jayzus, that’s a pricey boi.
That;s one playstation portal there
Uses hall effect joysticks though, so no drift.
Linux is all about those overlay fixes.
OLED decks sold right the hell out.
Still available in the States.
The first gen deck was pretty successful as far as products go, so it makes sense that folks are champing at the bit to get the newer, better one.
The Deck is probably the best chance a PC manufacturer has to make a dent in Japan’s heavily console based market.
Having over 12K confirmed Playable or Verified titles is also a bigger library than any of the mainstream consoles up to this point.
At least according to MobyGames: https://www.mobygames.com/platform/
Although, their Linux count is a little off.
On Steam alone there are 13’163 Linux Games.
That Windows 10 or newer specifically doesn’t list Linux.
I might have to borrow the Quest 2 again.
Doesn’t seem like it supports Linux at this time, at least according to the random people in the comments
Steam: New Games
Shouldn’t it be “breaks”?
I do get the two confused because they sound the same.
Your resolutions settings are borked.
At least once you stick it in windowed mode its’ drag your own resolution
Office Chair jousting with a couple different game modes
Steam: Game Updates
That’s what it was called!
I was looking for the Warsow Steam release last week, but couldn’t remember the name and searching for Warsow proper didn’t seem to work.
Looking for people to help with their Steam integration efforts.
Discord integration is now a thing, how modern.
Requires Debian 9.0+.
It’s good to see some folks keeping it up to date with some modern QOL features
News:
2032 year of the Wayland desktop.
XFCE should be ready around that time.
Article says this won’t apply to fedora.
According to them, for most of their enterprise use cases wayland is good enough.
If you need X, stay on RHEL 9 until EOL
So NVidia is going to be building for RHEL 9 until they can’t justify it anymore?
Wayland can be both viable, and broken.
Same goes for X11.
I would be lying if I said I didn’t appreciate the “KDE is passable, GNOME is just broken” comments.
As the post here says, Xwayland still works fine so you can still keep playing PS2 games on Wayland
Now that Nvidia has better Xwayland support, relying on it may not be as dicey a proposition anymore for those who don’t want to bother and are using a standard desktop feature set
The theme this year was “Scale”
There’s quite a few takes on the theme
Voting for finalists will go on for about another month
Custom categories are on the menu.
No more doom scrolling when looking for your fav horror FPS RPG racing sim.
Some mac improvements because mac gamers deserve love too
But only a little
The xbox app now has a “compact” mode which is a little more screen real estate friendly.
That’s it. That’s the update
I wonder if this is the start of a trend though?
Tablet/touch screen support is baked into every DE these days. Is gamepad managed desktop going to be the new hotness?
As it turns out, the moment a reasonably priced handheld came along with proper support, etc., etc., it became quite popular.
If they had only stuck with Windows 8 this would be a solved problem.
Trying to shove a big chunky desktop version of Windows on a handheld is never going to be a good experience.
Hell, they figured that out with the Xboxes.
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