Holy fucking shit, it’s about time. I would’ve loved to see this 10 years ago, but better late than never.

Maybe I’ll start digging into more of my GOG library once this is out. Yes, I’m aware Heroic exists, but I’ve never been a huge fan of it.

They don’t like it when you ask them for parts lists. They also don’t like it when you tell them you don’t like tempered glass case panels because you worry about them breaking. :P

It pains me that people are like that. Working with computer hardware really isn’t that scary unless you’re cracking open a CRT monitor or a power supply for whatever reason.

I’d like to think that more people would be able to work with computer hardware if they simply set aside their fears and preconceptions and were willing to learn a few things, but like I said before, there are plenty of people who see computers as “magic boxes”.

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The people downvoting this don’t understand how intimidating building and upgrading PCs is to the average person. Like seriously, there’s a reason prebuilts exist. Building a PC may seem easy if you’re used to doing it, but most people aren’t.

A lot of people see a PC as this magic box that runs games and other programs, and they don’t dare open it up for fear of breaking something. Heck, a lot of people don’t even understand that an operating system is just a piece of software that can be swapped out for other software, and not an integral part of the system they’re using.

I wouldn’t suggest Boxes for gaming. Even if it could do a GPU passthrough, I don’t think current anticheat games, like what OP wants to run, play well with that.

580 is the latest Nvidia driver branch that still supports 10-series cards, IIRC.

If Nvidia hadn’t headhunted Nouveau’s main developer to work on the open source drivers for their later cards, maybe we wouldn’t be in this mess…

Are you using SteamInput for the desktop controller input? (In steam, go to Settings -> Controller -> scroll to the bottom to Non-Game Controller Layouts, and enable SteamInput for Desktop Layout)?

I believe so, but in my case it’s Settings -> Controller -> Show Advanced Settings, then under Non-Game Controller Layouts I have the Desktop Layout.

I don’t see an option to enable or disable Steam Input. This is the same path regardless of whether I open Steam’s settings in Desktop Mode or in Gaming Mode.

Since it’s supposed to switch when you launch a game, I assume that only applies to Steam games? Would I be able to have this trigger for non-Steam games if I added them to my Steam library?

So I’m guessing that if I launch a game through desktop mode, my binds will conflict unless I do something to prevent them from conflicting, like setting a modifier that needs to be triggered to use my binds?

Could be, key word “could.” I’ll believe it when I see it.

Fear, uncertainty, and doubt. Old Slashdot term.

It’s really undeserved, especially since the dev went out of their way to write a detailed install procedure for Bazzite. I just gave them an upvote on that comment, but I wish I gave them one sooner.

I see. I wonder, does any of this have issues on Wayland? I try to use it wherever I can for its security benefits, though I know it’s not as flexible as X11 in some cases.

Also, I don’t know where that downvote came from, but it wasn’t me. I gave you an updoot to bring you back above 0.

Is it theoretically possible for an on-screen keyboard to not need raw device access?

I’ve been wanting a better on-screen keyboard for my TV gaming box. The Steam on-screen keyboard gets cut off at the edges of the screen when I run KDE at 1.25x DPI scale.

Is there any chance that this would work as a Flatpak? The machine I want to use this on runs Bazzite, though it’d be helpful for running it on other distros too.

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I wish there were a Linux equivalent for what the Windows world had before Windows 7 went EOL, where you could have an older, stable base OS that was mostly forward-compatible with newer software.

You can sort of achieve this with Debian Stable and Flatpak, but it’s not as seamless as the forward compatibility old versions of Windows had.

Ubuntu 20.04 was the last good version. I wish it still got security updates, because I’d likely use it occasionally if it did.

I never understood why people love Lutris so much. I’ve always found it extremely overrated, even before they started vibecoding it.

IMO, Lutris was already an overrated pile of junk before genAI became popular. It tracks that they’re vibecoding it now.