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  • bigb@lemmy.worldtoPatient Gamers@sh.itjust.worksAnything tempting you?
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    20 days ago

    If Civ 7 reviews well and works on Steam Deck, I’ll be tempted.

    I’ve been a patient gamer since buying used NES games as a little kid, but I’ll buy at launch every once in a while. I was a single adult with a full-time job when Mario Maker came out. I took a day off work just to play it nonstop. It was a childhood dream of mine to design and play my own levels and spent my teenage years making ROM hacks with Lunar Magic.

    I still think about how great that day was, staying home all day to play. Sometimes it’s nice to treat yourself.


  • So far so good for me. I switched last week after dual booting Pop OS and Windows 10 for a few months. I used to use Mac OS X back in college and missed the interface, so Pop OS’s implementation of GNOME felt good.

    As for OP’s question, someone else with more knowledge can answer if a specific distro has the best drivers/compatibility with games. Pop OS comes with NVIDIA drivers which works for me.

    I also wanted a full desktop OS. Some of the distros will focus on being a controller-friendly frontend for gaming rather than a desktop OS.

    It might be helpful to try something like Ventoy for any distros that support a live CD. You won’t be able to fully test gaming performance, but Ventoy lets you try multiple distros on one disk.

    Other questions for OP: What type of GPU are you using? What is your current OS?



  • Good, worth the price if you don’t want or have emulation as an option. There were bug fixes after a rocky start and is based off the DS version. Other reviews will say the DS version is a “definitive version” because:

    • It includes cutscenes from the PlayStation release.
    • Includes bonus content and a new ending.

    The PC and DS versions also feature a new English translation. Fans of the original (i.e. me) will notice the difference. The SNES loyalists will be the biggest detractors for this version. But I don’t think there’s a substantial argument against newcomers playing this port other than bias and nostalgia.