Oh. That makes sense, I play mainly on SteamDeck, but I’ve been thinking of getting a Steam Controller for my PC, since the majority of what I’ve bought in the last year has been “SteamDeck Verified”.
It’s been tickling my brain that “SteamDeck Verified” badge also makes it a lot easier to tell how a game will act with a controller on PC.
I got tired of the Ubuntu crap, and was delighted to find that plain Debian stable is fantastic now.
Simplest answer would be to launch Fish as the last step in your bash profile.
I imagine the SteamOS update process probably needs the default system shell to be bash, (if they’re changing it with each update) but that won’t stop you from getting the benefits of Fish during your login terminal sessions.
Source: I don’t like bash much, but have encountered other cases where changing the default shell was too invasive. It’s about an 80% solution, and the next 15% is covered well enough by invoking my preferred shell before invoking my script written for my preferred shell.
I’m at a very “play for couples minutes when and where I have time” phase of life. So my gaming is almost 100% on my SteamDeck.
That difference seems far lower than I would have guessed.
Oh. The “verified” status accounts for the difference. That’s fair.
My initial mental math was including unverified Indie games I already bought for my PC, most of which happen to work perfectly.
I expect that difference to go up fast over the next few years as more indie devs discover that they don’t actually need to change many of their old games to get verified.
Wow. Sweet! Now I’m definitely getting one.
Cool! That moves getting a Pi5 up my wishlist a bit. Thanks!
I haven’t, personally, had good luck running Docker/podman on Raspberry Pi. I haven’t tried on a Pi 5, though.
Previous Pi models didn’t seem to have enough mulicore power to get responsive docker/podman runs, for what I was trying.
I don’t recall that I was trying anything too crazy, but arguably my baseline weekend project is a bit crazy, so your mileage may vary.
It’s been awhile, but I feel like I ended up running Podman, instead of Docker, for some esoteric reason of my own. It was probably easier to build for the ARM processor.
But again, it’s been awhile, and my memory is famously bad about these things.
How dumb does one have to be to intentionally drop support for the hottest game console of the year?!
It boggles my mind.
Also, as a non-pirate (by laziness, not by conviction), I feel like I’m being offered an eye patch, a hook and a parrot every time I interact with a AAA game publisher.
Edit: I keep half expecting EA or Capcom to publish a press release outlining their favorite ways to obtain their games without paying, in order to work-around their own bullshit DRM. It’s bizarre that they really think this crap is helping them.
I like that. If they add that, I’ll spend more money with them in games I’m currently waiting to buy because I don’t trust the publisher.
When I was learning programming, free software for schools wasn’t (officially) a thing yet.
Lots of folks pointedly looked the other way so I could have a home copy of the development environment I was learning.
Great game!
Except Debian is neither interesting nor innovative.
How dare you!? /s
Yeah. Good point.
It’s really hard to go wrong with Debian.
That’s my safe answer.
If you share more about your interests, hobbies, I might have other ideas.
I suppose, when in doubt, there’s always Linux From Scratch. It’s a very interesting experience.
Ditto on the Tic-80 recommendation. It’s pretty sweet.
Also, you may want to check out Pyxel which is extremely similar, and also free, but the games are coded in Python.
Pirating dev tools in 2024 sounds like a misstep to me. Most of us (professional developers) gave up paid software about a decade ago.
There’s so much competition for developer eyeballs, we (professional developers) have become accustomed to there being a good-enough free version of every good tool.
Usually the paid version just adds enterprise bullshit that only managers of developers (such as myself) want.
If you’re worried that the “community edition” of the dev tool you want to try is under-powered, most aren’t. To be sure, you might ask over in one of the programming Lemmy’s.
Edit: And to be clear, I pirated the hell out of the developer tools I learned on, as a kid. I highly approve, and most developers do, of pirating dev tools to learn. But due to that community value, the free versions of great dev tools are almost always fully featured, today (finally).
Yeah. That’s why I run the Steam client on Ubuntu. Which works a treat, thanks to the popularity of the SteamDeck.
I’m not sure about GameScope,I didn’t even realize I was missing out on it.
Big picture is the full screen controller friendly interface, in case you don’t want to connect a mouse and keyboard.
Good points!
I use my current one as a PC as much as for gaming.
I’ll keep that in mind when I build my next dedicated game rig, though!
Today I learned that. It never came up for me since I do most of my game shopping on my phone. That could be really helpful later.
Thank you!