I think it was Verbatim, but I’m not sure. Yes there was a “scandal” or “drama”. I don’t know the details. But just because one company decided to go that route does not mean the entire format is bad. There are other companies too.

M-Disc format is probably the best form of archiving data long term. But the discs are not cheap and you need a “burner” for it too (and a reader everywhere you want to read it) Edit: Correction, these discs should be readable by normal DVD and BlueRay players, but not all. There are DVDs and BlueRay discs with this format. If price is not the biggest issue and if you don’t want to archive often terabytes of data, this could be a solution to long term archival of important data.

A quick look in Amazon (Germany) the cheapest option has a 6 x BlueRay spindle with each 100gb for about 54 Euros (at a discount). Just to give an idea; usually this stuff is more expensive.

I don’t know the exact definition of what vibe coding means, other than using Ai. This project exist since 2 years (if not longer) and I use it since a long time now (not regularly, just here and there). It’s an amazing tool and by far the best of its type (terminal filemanager) in my opinion. You can look into the code and judge yourself if that is of bad Ai quality. I personally don’t care how many emojis they use on their README or website. Using the program itself, I don’t see any emojis.

I don’t know the exact process, but I think its still based on the original, with the changes and additions on top of it. So it depends on the FreeTube team to keep up. I imagine its similar how the Firefox forks work, that still depend on the original Firefox.

You could suggest it to the new fork. Maybe he implements it.

How is that a paradox? It’s like saying its a paradox that cameras on phone made it much easier to photograph and as a result, people make more photos. That isn’t a paradox, that is natural. Same for writing software.

So its more a general question how to backup (with versioning) these files. I just always wondered what “manage” in this context meant. I don’t handle them differently than any other file to backup.

I don’t understand what to manage about dotfiles. You mean backups?

I don’t know if they said it, but if so, I can imagine they had some trouble with the publisher. And now the original developers maybe recommend not to purchase it. Just my guess if it is true.

I would have suggested too, but it requires Origin client and it must run in the background while playing. And requires an EA account on top of it. The game is rated Steam Deck Playable, so not really the best experience on the Deck.

Which is a shame, because the single player campaign is so nice. I don’t know if the online component still works.

The Winter Sale goes 8 days still, so you have plenty of time. Some games in example from EA and Ubisoft require additional launcher or an account to play them. I usually avoid them.

Steam Deck Verified: 5 games including Cyberpunk for total $47,8

• Cyberpunk: $ 21
• Ace Combat 7: $4.80
• Resident Evil 2: $10
• Subnautica: $8
• Disco Elysium - The Final Cut: $4

More interesting Steam Deck Verified games

• Hollow Knight: $7.50
• Stardew Valley: $9
• Maneater: $4
• Divinity Original Sin Enhanced Edition: $4

Also have a look at games that require additional account or launcher:

• Red Dead Redemption 2: $ 15 (Steam Deck Playable, Requires 3rd-Party Account: Rockstar Games)
• Halo Master Chief Collection: $10 (Steam Deck Verified, Requires 3rd-Party Account: Xbox Live)

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That’s why I don’t like closed source proprietary. They decide to stop the support.

“Brodie” mentioned. To be fair on the Arch side, they are clear the system could break with an update and you should always read the Arch news in case of manual intervention. You can’t fault Archlinux for users not following the instructions. This is pretty much what Arch stands for.

I understand the issue here. I just wanted make my intentions crystal clear, as you was not entirely sure. Although, I do not entirely agree. Why? Because it is in the right of not caring other what affects you. Unless someone goes out of the way trying to stop the “optimization” for low end hardware, its totally fine if someone says “I don’t care, it doesn’t affect me”.

I am against elitism too. In example on a different subject, but similar reasoning is emulation vs real hardware enthusiasts. Those people don’t like how easy we have access to expensive games and hardware (for free) and therefore they are against it. This is the definition of elitism. And this is a different issue than people with high end hardware not caring about low end hardware, because it does not affect them. Not caring is okay to me.

I don’t know how you can even get to this conclusion from what I said.

It depends on the optimization for low-end systems that is being done, if it will have an effect to high-end systems. All I say is, that optimizing a game for Steam Deck does not mean it will have an effect to high end machines (btw my system isn’t even high end…, I’m not an elitist). In other replies I tried to give a few examples of what I mean.

A very simple example would be having low quality textures added to a game, to make it run with the constraints of the Steam Deck (or other low end machines). If the game was already running well at 60 fps with high quality textures, then it will not benefit from option to set low quality textures. And just to make it clear: I am not against optimizations for low end hardware. In fact I own a Steam Deck and love it and my PC is not even high end, some may even say low… (at least the GPU).

Doesn’t seem like a controller friendly game at first glance, but it’s so well optimized that I cannot go back to PC with it.

Why don’t you use a controller on PC?

I might cheat a bit here, but for me its emulation with RetroArch since launch! I love the additional trackpads that give me features not possible on a regular gamepad. I setup my own menus and functionality. Can’t wait for the official Steam Controller (2) to launch, so I can use this on my PC too.

Well, you can try a Live CD for first contact. Or even a virtual machine, with a complete install of the operating system and desktop environment, without touching your actual system.

This shouldn’t be a thing of luck, if you are prepared.