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  • That’s what the “verified for deck” is for in steam. In my experience every game works that fulfills these criteria:

    A. Is not one of a few competitive multiplayer games that have decided to not allow Linux players to play. Among these are Destiny 2 and PUBG for example.

    B. Does not require mouse and keyboard (and even then the touchpads and steam input sometimes makes it work anyways)

    C. Is not VR (for obvious reasons)

    If you are unsure you can also check protondb which someone else linked.




  • That’s great but this does not account for the dynamics of a Discord server.

    Let’s say 8 people are hanging out in Discord, playing games or whatever. Should I then message all 8 of them a link to join a separate voice chat? The response would be “no, just join Discord of you want to talk”. That also requires me to know who are in the call (therefore already using Discord anyways), since if I just message one or two of them I would be splitting the party, which they won’t do.

    The whole “hanging out in Discord and whoever wants to join just joins” dynamic is difficult to replace with a zoom-type voice chat that requires you to initiate a call with a link.

    I have already tried switching people to signal from Facebook messenger. Didn’t work. All it takes is one person to not want to switch and the whole group will end up going back. And that’s just a messaging service. Discord is way more complicated to switch from since it is more of an all-in-one thing.




  • This gets posted like once per week and this is inaccurate as shit.

    “Wayland is bad, it can’t run xorg programs”

    Ok but there is an exact copy of the program that is made for Wayland. It’s the same argument that Windows users use to discredit Linux .

    “Linux is bad because it can’t run programs that were made for Windows”


  • My favorite part is where he admits to being mad without even knowing what Wayland is.

    Edit: When I wrote the above, I didn’t really realize what Wayland even was, I just noticed that some distributions (like Fedora) started pushing it onto me and things didn’t work properly there.




  • I had a surface pro 4 with Linux for several years. The install process is a bit annoying since you need to get the custom surface kernel but other than that it worked great. I had a lot of issues with the hardware (unrelated to Linux), but I’ve heard that it has gotten better with the newer versions