That might help to a small extent. I’d be somewhat worried about this feature discouraging people from engaging with smaller communities, but I imagine the active members count does this already.

Looks like some of these could be helpful, along with the Lemmy411 community itself. Thanks!

N64 controllers with this layout always annoy me, because you can’t use them to play Goldeneye or Perfect Dark with the d-pad under your left thumb, and the analog stick under your right thumb. 1.2 Solitaire layout with the left grip on a standard controller is my preferred way to play these games.

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?

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Proton’s a little more recent than that. I still remember the bad old days of Steam on Linux from 2013-2017 where Proton didn’t exist yet, and running the Windows version of Steam through WINE was a PITA. Heck, Proton didn’t really start to get good until about 2021.

Most indie games work fine on Linux, thanks to Proton. MacOS is just an exceptionally poor platform for gaming.

Consoles are the rich man’s platform these days. If you have a bit of technical know-how, it’s not hard to find a cheap old PC and get some games running on it.

GNOME Disks is awesome. It’s the one GNOME app I use regularly, and it amazes me just how good it is given who develops it.

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Limited Run

I’ll pass.

I would possibly upvote this if it were just a GNOME customization guide, and if it didn’t try to insist that “GNOME is good, actually.”

TIL at least one German computer magazine still ships cover discs.

Irresponsible Hate Anthem, although I think he was specifically implying that everyone is something someone else hates.

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

“Unfortunately we’re ALL “someone else” to someone else.”

So true.

Title is clickbait. All that’s been confirmed so far is FRL.

That applies to PC gaming in general, really. PC games haven’t had useful physical editions in about 20 years. Once Half-Life 2 started mandating online activation through Steam, all bets were off.

It goes even further back than this when you factor in CD keys. Big-name titles started requiring keys as far back as the late 90s, and some games even required them before this. Contrast this with console games, where 99% of loose copies were playable prior to 8th gen.

Not just Core Isolation (aka Memory Protection), Driver Signature Enforcement as well.