Pretty cool, do they have a beta branch that follows the daily builds?

You can check on ProtonDB if it’s just you: https://www.protondb.com/

Most Souls-likes are slow and methodical, if that’s not your thing you probably won’t have fun with any of these except Sekiro. I would not call the official ones (Dark Souls, Elden Ring, …) clunky but many of the “copies” certainly can be.

but it felt like Sekiro was wasting my time in comparison because I had to GET to the boss again for each attempt. The grunts didn’t pose enough of a challenge to be interesting, just enough to slow me down.

You can rush past most enemies on your way to the boss and the difficult ones usually have a respawn point close but this is a problem with many From games. I bounced off Dark Souls 1 and Sekiro for similar reasons the first time I played them.

If you enjoy the boss fights you might enjoy Kannagi Usagi? It’s essentially a carbon copy of the Sekiro bosses in a boss rush mode and with an anime skin. I have seen even the biggest Sekiro haters enjoy that one. Also, it’s free and short. https://store.steampowered.com/app/2551500/__KANNAGI_USAGI/

Would be a shame to drop Sekiro. Definitely one of the hardest souls games but very redeeming once you get the hang of it.

Code Vein is very rough around the edges but has a cool art style and interesting boss designs. Also has a banger soundtrack by Go Shiina, best known for Demon Slayer. Some of the boss themes go really hard. Pretty good in coop but probably wouldn’t have finished it alone.

Did not enjoy The Surge and did not play Steel Rising.

So what are the 4 Souls-likes in your backlog?

linux-image-oem-24.04b contains newer firmware. It’s quite possible that firmware for your wireless adapter was not included in the latest Linux Mint version.

The 4070 Super is more than new enough that it should work just fine with the official Nvidia driver.

If you are willing to give this another go, it might be worth booting a distro with newer packages and pre-installed Nvidia drivers just to test. You should keep your current Windows installation in case things don’t work out.

Here are two distros that are fairly recent and come with Nvidia drivers pre-installed:

• Nobara (make sure to use the Nvidia version)
• Bazzite (choose Desktop / Nvidia / KDE / No in the dropdowns)

Everything should work out of the box with one of these without having to install anything extra or dropping to command line.

Hope that helps!

What’s your hardware? Specifically your wireless chip(s) and graphics card.

It’s now possible to pre-authorize apps for remote desktop access, so you don’t have to wait for them to pop up an interactive permission dialog. Preliminary documentation can be found here. (Harald Sitter, 6.3.0. Link)

Awesome, that’s a feature I have been waiting for.

If Monster Hunter Wilds plays nice on Steam Deck, I doubt I’ll be able to resist.

The first beta had issues with crashing on Proton but it seems like they figured out the reason.

Also, there is a second beta upcoming so you can test it before release: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/2246340/view/547849766230294535

I assume people do not want to run an OS that has “testing” or “unstable” in its name.

If you don’t need the latest packages, Debian is the way to go but if you do need the latest packages, you are much better off with a distro that is primarily made for that.

Yes, I’m on CoreELEC with an Odroid N2+ but I only play content without DRM. If you’re streaming DRM protected content you will have an easier time using Android.

Try KOReader, it can rotate itself any way you want. I also use a plugin for it which automatically rotates depending on the aspect ratio of the page. Can also change the font size on the fly, zoom in and out and it’s available as Flatpak on the Deck.

The UI is made for e-ink displays so don’t expect a beautiful UI with it but the reader is one of the best. I recommend reading the manual which opens on first start, it’s mostly controlled by gestures.

I recently got a PineNote and have been reading my first manga (Berserk) non-stop since christmas in KOReader. I’m almost done with Berserk now.

This: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pMrssIrKcY

Great to see the shader wizard working in Godot from now on.

It’s a shame that they deleted their data after their evaluation.

Should have checksummed the e-mail addresses and put a haveibeenpwned-like website up where car owners can check if they are affected.

Feeling pretty good about not getting a Boox e-ink tablet now.

Now I‘ll just wait for Monster Hunter Wilds which is easily my most anticipated game at the moment and probably the first triple-A game I‘ll be getting on launch since Elden Ring.

Same here.

FYI, Monster Hunter Wilds is available on Green Man Gaming and Fanatical for -18%, taking its price down to a normal triple A price of 57€.

I read that Pathologic 2 is a sequel and a remaster at the same time somehow and you should still play both? Would you recommend starting with 1 or 2 for a newcomer?

Will I enjoy Persona 5 if I didn’t like all the grinding in Persona 4? I liked the cutscenes, the characters, the gameplay, the music but at some point you just keep doing the same dungeon over and over again and I just quit there.

Bought part 1 and 2 recently. Didn’t have a chance to play it yet but heard good things about it.