CS has a healthy playerbase, dont know if it has it because or despite it’s slow changing nature but the game is still doing well in every sense of the word. what i dont get is: why does a specific game has to change if there are shiny new ones released everyday? CS existing does not take away your ability to try the new hotness, but changing CS into something new would take the ability away to enjoy CS as it was.

i understand your point, i just don’t agree with it. I don’t need Counter-Strike to change the sameway i don’t need a specific boardgame to change. the fact that counter-strike is pretty much unchaged for over 20 years is what allowed it to develop the depth it has as a competitive game, that’s what makes solid tactics and individual skill important because i can’t abuse a new poorly understood mechanic, that only exists for a month. CS core is so solid that we could even play the same unchaged maps for another 20 years and would gradually play them differently year over year. i know this, because we did.

change for the sake of change is the biggest issue of live service games, if you ignore the stupid monetization schemes, sooner or later they all devolve into a barely recognizable mess.

counter-strike at this point is pretty much it’s very own thing, if you change the game to much it won’t be counter-strike and a lot of people don’t play counter-strike to play a multiplayer shooter, they play it because its counter-strike, this makes it a pretty much ideal candidate to “just sell mtx with” and change the map pool a bit to keep the casual crowd happy.

cs itself evolved for a long time without any input by valve at all, the same way chess or modern soccer evolved without drastic changes.

I am playing almost exclusively in linux since 2012 (diablo3 came out, it worked on Linux, i sank an ungodly amount of hours into it.) the only thing that made me reinstall windows was to play counter-strike go on faceit, because their client did not work on linux.

proton made so much, so much easier that it almost became frictionless to play on linux. wine made huge strides before, but it never was so smooth before proton.

what often was a problem where laptops with dedicated and integraded graphics cards, or nvidia cards on rolling release distribution often having issues after kernel updates, which is why i was on fedora for a long time, because there the akmod stuff worked better in my experience.

overall: when it works on the deck its almost guranteed that it runs just as easy on other linux distributions, maybe don’t pick a rolling release distro if you have an nvidia card, and most of the time you can forget about the fact, that you are gaming on linux.

libreELEC, but that’s just a distribution shipping kodi.

you might be able to utilize steam big picture/steamOS with different browser shortcuts and applications added as non-steam games to open streaming services in kiosk mode or other mediaplayers , that way you’d have good controller support, if you create control schemes for various things.

currently trying the gamepad bindings, but i am not a fan of the auto aim that comes with, so i’ll probably switch to using keyboard bindings and use the trackpad for aiming spells and a mouse region bind on the left stick for walking.

had a similar setup with the steam controller before my old laptop decided to die on me.

• Brotato
• Diablo 1 via devilutionx, i do a run through of normal difficulty atleast once a year
• tainted grail fall of avalon, don’t get how this is verified, fps often dips into low 20s. game itself seems fun though
• will probably start clair obscur.

yes, i totally abandoned playing soul reaver, because i kept playing other games :D

the script makes various assumptions about the system ranging from

/home/deck is the users home dir, to kde plasma is the used desktop environment or can be launched from gamemode.

so probably not without tweaks ;)

put path of exile 2 on hold for a while, found it suprisingly playable until i’ve started doing the delirium and breach endgame-mechanics in high tier maps. might try to atleast defeat the citadel bosses and the boss that grants me entrance to before 0.2.0 hits, but probably not.

actually started playing the soul reaver remake, and thats still a great game, but a lemmy thread mentioned pokemon unbound which lead me to replaying that, so soul reaver might have to wait a bit longer :D

yep, story is so-so, but gameplay wise it is the best pokemon i’ve played.

gyms, league and some story fights where actually tough and required bringing different pokemons without being unfair, the port of newer mechanics like raid dens and special evolutions are well done…

i should try the pokemon randomizer mode :D

does authentik offer an option to preview a jwt for a given user? might be as simple as that the claim is not named “ocisAdmin” or is not a toplevel entry in the jwt.

not an authentik user, but after skimming their docs i think you have to:

1. create a role “ocisAdmin” via authentiks admin interface
2. give this role to a group in the admin interface or create one.
3. assign a user thats supposed to be an owncloud admin to the group

it might be that you also have to define somekind of mapper to include this in the informations owncloud receives from authentik, but as i said i only skimmed the docs and would personally just try it without the mapper.

oh, thats good to know, forgejo seems way nicer for self hosting than the limited gitlab open source core.

https://distribution.github.io/distribution/

is an opensource implementation of a registry.

you could also self host something like gitlab, which bundles this or sonatype nexus which can serve as a repository for several kinds of artifacts including container images.

i have a 7 in 1 usb c hub from anker which is use with the deck and a hdmi monitor the deck lies flat on the table if i use the hub.

I don’t know if it’s more or less toxic than the dota2 games.

bring your decks into the same WLAN-network to play games that don’t rely on online servers.

a possible game could be “Alien Swarm: reactive drop”, a so called twin stick shooter , the top down perspective helps too keep your orientation and the stressful sequences are often telegraphed.

“towerfall ascension” is a 2d action game that can be played in coop, which is easy to pickup (but it does get difficult)

played through it on release, act 1 and act 2 were fine, occasional dips below 30fps.

act 3 had a lot off texture pop in and walls that would only appear after some seconds, but the game received performance patches after i finished it, so probably better now.

vulkan renderer, everything on low, fsr, no dynamic resolution.

i am playing a grenade throwing merc, framerate was mostly stable @ 30fps but i can see how a summoner build or some of thos crazy walking firework simulators people turn there chars into might be to much for the deck.

higher tier maps might also be tough as they contain more rare monster, with more effects, but i don’t know how many people even interact with that kind of content, iam certainly far away from it playing without trading.

path of exile 2, campaign and maps up to tier 5 ran fine so far :)

also bought the soul reaver remake, but path of exile 2 ran fine so far…

i am torn on hl2, on my first play through it really felt like the best game ever, and iam sure people who pick it up today will have a great time, but replaying it… definitely lot’s of stuff that was really cool the first time around, that loses it’s impact after that.