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  • Not directly relevant but if you have the 64gb deck and a big SD card: you can symlink the directory that houses all the proton versions and shader catches to the SD card.

    That was pretty much the first thing I did after I got my deck, as a stopgap before I could upgrade the SSD but it’s been working well enough I never got around to swapping out the SSD after, what, almost two years?






  • Gaffe@pawb.socialtoMemes@lemmy.ml"gaming is dead"
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    10 months ago

    IMHO yes. It is among my favorite games of all time.

    The plot is of course nonsense (all far cry plots are garbage), but the core gameplay loop is tight, the shooting feels good and there’s a diverse arsenal, you get a large selection of colorful sidekicks and animal companions, the most annoying mechanics of earlier titles in the franchise were fixed or removed in 5, and the entire campaign can be played coop after you escape from tutorial Island.

    It doesn’t take itself too seriously but it’s also a internally consistent rural Montana simulator. Stealth mechanics feel great (subjective ofc) but more aggressive strategies work well too. The base game has plenty of content and goes on sale frequently.

    It was everything I loved about FC3 but more of it and bigger and polished to a radiant shine, with a kitschy rural US setting.



  • A friend of mine switched to windows because he plays a particular popular online fps that has windows dependent DRM, and he’s happy with that but it’s also the only game he plays.

    Setting up dual boot isn’t difficult, though, you can do both if there is a particular reason you need windows. I think there is no benefit to switching to windows unless you have a specific need for it that steamos can’t accommodate (cod, destiny, etc.)

    I retired from competitive shooters long ago and use steamos exclusively on my deck and have not had many issues that would be resolved by using Windows instead.