Valve's about to count to three... | Steam Deck & Linux News

So, it looks like Valve is actually working on Half-life 3—for real this time! We’ll discuss. And, do we finally have a good remaster of a classic Star Wars game? Plus, Valve’s suddenly talking about the ASUS ROG Ally. What’s that about? All of this (and a whole lot more) in this double wide, double deep installment of Linux Gaming News! We also touch on the new STAR WARS Bounty Hunter Remake, Humble's CAPCOM Summer 2024 bundle that offers over 40 games for just $30, a new update for ChimeraOS, the Steam Hardware Survey for July 2024, Ethan 'Flibitijibibo' Lee and FNA's completion of their DirectX integration, and Decky Loader putting some Steam Decks into a boot loop.

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About Gardiner Bryant: A native Maine resident, Gardiner (yes, that's his first name) is an enthusiastic Linux evangelist, a believer in the efficacy and superiority of the Free and Open Source way, and President of Heavy Element. Heavy Element offers web design, media production, and YouTube consulting services to individuals and companies in Maine and beyond.

-- Chapters --
00:00 Introduction
00:25 Half-life 3 Details Leak
01:44 STAR WARS: Bounty Hunters is Deck Verified
02:23 Humble's CAPCOM bundle offers 44 games for $30
03:51 ChimeraOS 46-1 Update
04:46 Steam Hardware Survey for July 2024
06:28 FNA goes DX11
08:07 Delete these 7 Decky Loader Plugins NOW
09:17 SteamOS's Megafixer Update is here

[nikamak]

Once Portal 3 releases, my life will be complete and I can peacefully pass away.

[ucky]

Half-life 3 might be a bit fast assumption. A new Half-life is already a great news !

[zek]

Seeing Linux more often in Tuber videos too.

[Hexicus-xv]

Been using Fedora for the last couple of months. So nice to be free of windows jank. All the hardware I buy now has to be well supported in linux which helps make a smoother transition.

[HiTechLoLife]

The code name being HLX makes me think maybe they'll call it Half-Life X.

The X makes it sound more badass plus it means Valve doesn't count to 3.

[novhck]

A friend of mine just received a Deadlock invite today. He is a TF2 veteran with 1400+ hours in it so Valve seems to be inviting testers with a lot of experience.

[fresco_dinero]

Can’t wait to turn my Ally into a superior Ally Deck

[pxkqd]

The original steam machines were supposed be provided by third party vendors. Valve had to rethink that and create their own handheld for it to finally work, but I can see them bringing back third party hardware support. So SteamOS everywhere finally. The way they price the deck is not like their earning a lot from there, better to have their store in every handheld.

[TimothyKist]

Running Debian 12 bookworm w/ Gnome + SteamOS on my deck :). Also have a desktop PC that's currently connected to PC however dueto needing replace mobo, the deck is use mostly now to handle gaming on the TV. Thanks, Gardiner for your coverage inthis space!

[bas]

Tyler McVicker always emphasizes that most, if not all, of what he says about any Valve leak is _purely_ speculative.
Your use of "supposedly" may mislead some people watching.

Anyway, absolutely amazing if true.

[nunosousa]

The rog Ally thing is just steam input. Valve adds improved support for other controllers all the time, and rog Ally users use Steam, so yeah.

[graemcdevit]

Sure, I'll feed engagement
My deck is currently running Bazzite (gnome) and my laptop I've got running Pop!_OS because I'm hyped for COSMIC

In regards to the support for the Ally keys, It's probably due to Bazzite, ChimeraOS, and other projects like them.

[TechJoltd]

Regarding Chimera OS, who are ShadowBlip?? They make OpenGamepadUI, InputPlumber, Powerstation, and a lot of other projects.

[Gatorboy]

VALVE IS FINALLY LEARNING ABOUT THE NUMBER 3?!?!?

[AlfieLikesComputers]

My favourite distro is OpenSUSE Tumbleweed

[PixelShade]

I might be one of the few out there, but I would be extremely sad if Valve didn't make a VR game in the Half Life Universe, building on the incredible work they did in HL: Alyx.

[ProudVermin]

As soon as Win 10 is no longer supported i will switch my outdated media / old gaming rig into a linux machine.

[Thomas-qcxl]

Oh man, I'm pretty excited about the fix for external displays staying dark, but I'm not switching to beta just to have it. Glad they finally got around to addressing it.

[ToobasusNotQfThisWorld]

I currently use Bazzite on my htpc, and I love it. Have an amd rx 570 card too, so I love seeing that they finally found a solution to the problem those cards had.

[tito_me_doe]

I have a HP ProBook running W11, a Dell Inspiron running Vanilla OS, and a MacBook Air running MacOS 14.5

Using a combination of Synergy, networking, USB-C docks, a monitor with KVM functionality, and an Elgato HD60X, it all works together as one machine.

I wish there was a modern equivalent to x11 forwarding which was performant, though, because the one thing I can’t do that I would like to be able to do on rare occasions is have remote application support, so I can open any application on any screen, but as it stands I can open almost any modern program but it’s limited to the screen it is installed on