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A couple of years ago, I might have still checked protondb for Linux compatibility before making a purchase, but it seems a waste of time now. Everything that I've bought through Steam, or bought on GoG / claimed for free on Epic through Heroic has Just Worked, and has done for years. I think it got better when the Steam Deck was released; put a lot of visibility on Linux compatibility.

If you aren't in to AAA, and even then only the competitive multiplayer with intrusive anticheat, then Linux is all you need.

Lots of options and you'll need to spend some time RTFM. But if you already know how you want to partition your disks, then the basic installation (with a network controller!) takes about two minutes.

Then you can restart into the cli, and the real questions - what else am I going to install? - can begin.

Oh, what was that thing called, ndiswrapper or similar, where you downloaded the windows versions of the drivers and then wrapped them up and hoped they worked, and good luck with power saving or resume from sleep.

Don't get me wrong; amazing that it worked even as well as it did, but glad we've got native drivers now. A small step forward every day and soon you'll have gone a long way.

I've found that the real problem is having a television to plug them in to. Still got my old NES and SNES from when I was a kid. But no modern TV has the RF input to connect them to, they're all digital only. Emulation is much easier.

True, although the ones I know did have the medical qualifications and associated title of 'doctor' and then renounced it when they qualified as surgeons, since it's traditional for them.

Are you the person at my work that keeps raising pull requests with all the code stuffed into AbstractWidgetReaderWriterManagerImplHelperV2 classes consisting purely of static methods with fourteen parameters each? :shakes fist angrily:

Aww, it's got these as well:

Some dwarves like rats for their friendliness, their playfulness, their curiosity and their intelligence.

Bless. Used to have pet rats and couldn't describe them better. We've got pet cats now, and I don't think it would be a good idea to have both - cats might disagree, tho.

Not arguing that you can get slightly better performance for a slightly lower price, but that's a substantially larger machine. The Steam Machine is little bigger than its controller in any dimension and easy to hide on a shelf; that Q300L is definitely a small desktop. It has niceties like HDMI CEC, so that it can wake your TV when you start it up from its controller. And it's whisper-quiet.

$70 extra for a really living-room ready games machine does not seem at all unreasonable to me, plus it turns up ready-assembled. If I had to replace my gaming desktop, it doesn't seem unreasonable. Replacing my gaming desktop would cost about twice what I originally paid for the damned thing as well, but that's a different matter.

PC version is incredibly hard to get working on modern computers, fwiw. SecuROM servers are all closed down; I've got the SKIDROW patches but have never managed to get them to start up. Emulating the 360 or PS3 might be easier...?

Zero remote exploits since it was released. That's what divinely-inspired coding looks like, everyone.

Fill up a jerry can or two with petrol next time you fill up your car, and save the vodka for making martinis.

He dereferenced a pointer to the 1970s and retrieved the shirt that way.