Every game works on my Steam Deck so far.

I always check ProtonDB before buying a game, but I might stop as everything without special anticheat works out of the box.

I just have to add that I’m not into multiplayer games so it might be why everything works easily.

It’s true that I forgot that you can just uninstall them if you don’t plan on replaying them😅

Steam Deck:

• Steam for most games because of ease of use on the Deck and what they provide to the Linux world
• GOG for old games with no achievments (I’d buy more from them if they were more Linux oriented, but I also understand they can’t do everything)

Playstation 5:

• physical except for a few exceptions as I want to be able to resell games I don’t like. I buy new physical games when I know I’m gonna love a game and used when I ain’t sure

I agree about the fact that having digital games is great for just launching them without leaving your chair, but managing your digital storage space can be a bigger hassle in some cases

It’s a really good topic as I was also wondering if installing deckyloader would be worth it and if it would affect my Deck’s performance.

I’m not gonna spoil anything bit I didn’t enjoy the story.

Maybe it’s just me and I would play it again if it was a 20 hours game, but it’s too long for me to give it another chance.

I loved the ambiance and gameplay though. I think I enjoyed the first one more because the story wasn’t bad, but it has been ages…

Agreed. I’m really happy with my combo of a used LCD Steam Deck and a Surface Go with Fedora hooked to a screen.

Although I still need my Playstation 5 for demanding games.

I tried running Frostpunk 1 on the MacBook Pro 2012 (upgraded with an SSD and 16gb of Ram) and it wouldn’t boot despite the fact that it’s an old game and that I tried some special settings and commands.

I guess you can still play some games on ot, but many are out of reach, even some of the ones you’d think would be playable…

That is what I’m using on a 2012 MacBook Pro with some upgrades.

It works really well except for when there is an update to the wifi broadcom drivers. Then I have to use my phone to provide internet through USB.

Otherwise it’s a beast but gaming is out of the question.

Thanks, I might try it some day then👍

It’s just a shame that apparently you can’t link the resolution and fps to the TDP profile you’re using.

Oh that’s interesting.

Sounds complicated but doable. Have you ever used it?

I guess most people would not only want to easily reinstall all their apps, but also the settings related to them.

Sadly that’s the difficult part.

When I see how much time it takes me to have all my calendar and settings in Thunderbird.

Luckily for Thunderbird you can save your profile if everything takes less than 2gb, but it’s still a hassle to find a way to backup every program.

Yes I heard about it but apparently NixOS is quite complex and not accessible to someone like me who considers himself as an eternal Linux newbie.

I’ve never tried an immutable OS, but I’d love if the ability to do system backups and redeploy to another computer was just part of any OS.

Especially when Linux encourages you to distro hopp.

Clonezilla is great but it already happened to me that one backup wasn’t deployable on another (really old) computer

I’m looking forward to getting an old ARM computer and installing Linux without any worry one day🤞

Sadly I don’t think you have these in gaming mode.

Maybe in desktop mode though since Steam OS uses KDE.

Agreed, but carrying two phones, charging them and paying for them would be too annoying and wasteful.

But I know that my employer could see a lot of my infos if he wanted to. Luckily I trust my employer way more than all these companies like Apple or Google who already have acces to our data.

Yeah and let’s not forget that depending on your job it’s doable.

My employer is giving me an iphone so I can’t use anything else except if I had a second phone, which would be really annoying for me.

• kDrive for cloud storage
• Tidal for music
• PeerTube/Odysee/Youtube (trying to get rid of the last one but it’s almost impossible) for videos
• Proton pass for password management
• Anytime player for podcasts

Apple is bad, but still probably better than Google when it comes to privacy.

Good news even if it might not help with the usershare👍