As someone who already has a Deck, I’m more keen on this. The Index was very expensive and only had a limited run. Mind you, the Index is expensive in general and I hope they aim for Quest level prices this time around.

The NoDerivatives part is concerning. Is he trying to prevent forks?

No official Linux support, which means no Steam Deck support as well. Yes, there’s Legendary but I shouldn’t have to jump through those hoops.

The public keys are stored on the server (by necessity) but not the private keys. The actual connection is directly between two of your own machines, or routed through a DERP server (encrypted end-to-end) in rare cases.

But if you’re concerned, you can instead self host headscale or netbird.

four- or five-episode series.

It was six episodes. That’s how much was needed to cover how much of a piece of shit Vince is.

Correct - FSR already applies CAS. I don’t think applying another CAS pass on top of that will work out too well.

True. I was assuming sharpening was disabled altogether, but if it’s just set not strong enough, that’s a different matter.

this is for a non-native Proton game with FSR support built in

In that case, the game itself should expose the feature. You don’t mention the exact game, but you could try PCGW.

Alternatively, you could use vkBasalt to layer CAS on top, which from memory is pretty much what FSR sharpening is.

It’s pretty useful for systems you want to be reliable but don’t need too many customisations (like Bazzite on gaming machines).

Although if we’re counting NixOS, it’s the declarative config aspect that is the main selling point for me, with atomic updates just being part of it.

If you want to use with mpv, try this:

ENABLE_HDR_WSI=1 mpv --vo=gpu-next --target-colorspace-hint --gpu-api=vulkan --gpu-context=waylandvk

Although I’m surprised you didn’t get a HDR monitor prompt just from enabling the option on the desktop.

Nope, those converters do not allow the HDMI 2.1 spec.

They exist now, although I don’t think there is a working DP 2.0 -> HDMI 2.1 converter yet, so you have to use DSC (visually lossless compression).

Are you using a DP -> HDMI converter? I know they can be temperamental.

You can try switching VTs back and forth (CTRL-ALT-F1 <-> CTRL-ALT-F7), and maybe switching resolution back and forth could help.

Make sure you have the latest kernel and try the latest Plasma 6. If all of that fails, you can try Steam with gamescope running in KMS mode (easiest way to test this would probably be Bazzite or Nobara if your distribution doesn’t support it), but it’s also a bit temperamental with enabling HDR.

No, that’s the first I’ve heard of it too. That forum looks to be pretty active so maybe some insight can be gained there.

Thing is, the colors on my HDR display are all washed out on the desktop if I enable HDR.

Sometimes this can be a bug and HDR isn’t properly enabled. Do you get any sort of HDR notification on your display (i.e. from the monitor/tv UI)?

Steam Controller, although both of the ones I’ve owned have developed hardware problems. I’m dreading the day they kick the bucket and I have to switch back to a conventional controller.

The only kinda irritating thing is the game mode update changelog displays the steamos notes and not bazzite notes

And you have to do a Bazzite update to make it go away, which is slightly annoying. I’m not sure if you can do it from the Steam UI either, although I can always SSH in.

It is definitely relevant if you buy new hardware when it’s initially released, although Mesa devs seem to be getting better at having it mostly ready by that point. I know historically there were times where you really had to be at the very bleeding edge, and updating to the very latest kernel and firmware was necessary.

It’s kind of vague, but presumably it supports sd cards and/or a USB drive. The Wii is pretty easy to mod for digital “backups” from what I recall, and there were plenty of official digitally supported games (although I don’t think that still works today).

It’s basically a compositor, on top or your main compositor. So games aren’t aware of the outer compositor (which will be Gnome or KDE or whatever) and just see a display with whatever dimensions you give to it.

They couldn’t go “well we don’t support piracy,” because their actions proved otherwise.

They could make the argument they were working on it so it would be ready by release, but yeah, taking money for it makes them a more obvious target. That and they necessarily had to have access to the game in order to work on it (or at least others had to have access to it in order to receive bug reports on it).