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On the deck I use them all the time. For FPS games I frequently bind them to be ABXY, lets you jump/reload/etc without having to take your thumb off of the joystick. Absolutely mandatory for games like Doom Eternal and Deep Rock in my opinion.

In games with heavy dpad use for cycling abilities/items (like Elden Ring) I usually use them for that. Being able to cycle spells or potions while running is very necessary sometimes. You can also use them in combination with mode shift settings, things like while I hold R4 down it will temporarily turn my ABXY into a second DPAD.

You can use them for steamOS features, stuff like opening keyboard or toggling zoom for games with small text.

A lot of people dislike clicking thumbsticks, so it's common for people to use them for that. L4 to toggle sprint instead of L3 is very popular for example. Also nice for when L3/R3 do something you don't want to trigger accidentally during combat (Ys 8 and 9 toggle a minimap overlay with L3, which is very distracting during combat. So I've disabled L3 on the thumbstick and instead have L4 open the minimap overlay).

In any PC game with more inputs it can be great for common button presses that didn't make the cut onto the standard controller. Things like map/journal shortcuts, quick save, etc. Setting left trackpad to a touch menu is also great for this.

Overall they're pretty great, I don't use them in every game, but there are a lot of games I refuse to play on a standard controller without them.

It lists mac and linux support on it's homepage.

They also provide docker support for running it on non-supported linux distros. Pinging @Overspark@feddit.nl since they were the ones who recommended Apollo to begin with.

I need to play it still, I have it in my library from some bundle, but there's always been something more pressing that I wanted to play. It doesn't look like the kind of game I normally would enjoy, but I've heard so many good things about it that I know I need to try it sooner or later.

That's human nature. People are complicated, and everyone has negative and positive aspects to them (granted some have mostly negative or mostly positive traits). It's a lot easier to have a black and white opinion on people, either you really like someone or you really don't like someone. When dealing with thousands of famous people that you don't know, simplifying your opinion on them to a black and white opinion is a shortcut we take to keep from getting overwhelmed.

I'm wondering if that's something like Obsidian

ReviewMeta is still up, but seems really slow, especially when trying to get a report on a new listing.

Linux has had a major increase in usership lately if I recall right, and supposedly windows has lost a major number of users (although mostly people dropping desktops for just phones).

No idea if PewDiePie contributed or not.

I hope so, I know I've run into issues before with streaming from a server with no available monitors, so I'm hoping this will fix that.

I'm mostly playing Ys 9 Monstrum Nox, and it's been a fun time. Also been playing some Mindustry with friends, although I suspect I'll want to make some tweaks to the control scheme before I play too much longer.

Yeah, I don't think it quite applies here since all that was needed was a reboot.

Yes, it was fixed December of 2023 or January of 2024, if I recall right. Not long after the OLED launched. It was some specific wifi features, mostly wifi 6 features, that would cause the wifi card to malfunction and not work at all until you rebooted. Had to disable the specific wifi features on your router if you wanted to use 5ghz, or stick to 2.4ghz networks. Didn't usually affect LED decks afaik since they wouldn't try to use the affected wifi 6 features.

While valve got it fixed in SteamOS not too long after launch, they only recently applied that wifi fix to the SteamOS recovery usb drive. There was over a year where people could still run into the wifi issue if they had to repair their OS from a recovery drive.

The default desktop mode layout opens keyboard just by pressing x I believe, and if it doesn't you can customize the desktop layout to set a different keybind for keyboard. I haven't actually seen it open big picture mode from pressing steam+x at all, I'm curious if anyone else has encountered that.