Nintendo has been actively taking down YouTube videos that feature its games being emulated or modded, which has sparked significant discussion and concern within the gaming community.

  • Pilgrim
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    -102 months ago

    I saw a review where it was said that you can only play steam games, but I just looked it up and apparently you can play all the other games as well by simply adding them or launching other launchers…

    Steam invest’s into the gaming community? Do you have any source for that so that I can read about that?

    • AwesomeLowlander
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      242 months ago

      They’re pretty much the entire reason gaming on Linux is as active as it is today.

      • Pilgrim
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        02 months ago

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        • @woelkchen
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          62 months ago

          Well I asked for a source

          I’m not AwesomeLowlander but you asked for something that can be googled in literally 5 to 10 seconds:

          • Pilgrim
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            -32 months ago

            Yes, maybe it just takes 5 seconds. But it’s not my turn to Google things people claim here, especially because I nicely asked for sources ( to inform myself about it ).

            Anyway, I’ll not respond here anymore

            • @woelkchen
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              52 months ago

              it’s not my turn to Google things

              It always it. That’s basic media savviness. Asking for things that take 5 secs to google is rude.

              • @JigglySackles
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                In the same stroke though the onus to supply backing to any given position or assertion is on the one claiming facts. Else one can go around claiming anything they want and just yell at others to “google it”.

                This one is easily found out through a simple search and all but burden of proof isn’t on the one asking for proof, it’s on the one making the assertion. If they want to verify the proof, then that’s on them of course.

    • @[email protected]
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      2 months ago

      Yeah, I have a Steam Deck, and it’s literally just a PC in the form factor of a Switch. It has a BIOS menu, you can install Windows on it (but you really shouldn’t), you can install a different flavor of Linux (I recommend Bazzite) – you can even install and play pirated Windows games through Proton, more or less fine, though you have to work for it a bit more.

      They developed Proton so that they could get Windows games working on the Deck, and the reason they didn’t make the Deck run Windows is they wanted greater control over the OS than Windows affords. Proton has benefited all gamers on Linux. More recently, they’ve officially partnered with Arch as of a few days ago (which is what SteamOS is built on): https://www.tomshardware.com/software/linux/the-arch-linux-team-is-now-working-directly-with-valve-steamos-and-arch-should-both-benefit-greatly

      and just to gush a bit more: the Deck is the only thing I can remember pre-ordering in the last 10 years and being genuinely happy that I did.

      • @[email protected]
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        62 months ago

        And add to that the story behind DXVK, which was the turning point around 2018 for Linux gaming. Valve hired the guy who created it, so they could develop it professionally instead of as a hobbyist. With it remaining open source and free.

        Yes, they do it because it helped them achieve what they wanted. But they don’t lock it down and they work with a lot of OSS which is then upstreamed.