Currently running at, meaning at that exact moment, in the background with no game playing or service running.

This, for those who have trouble with the English language, means that it is a current snapsot of usage not a record drain on resources.

Sitting at 1.4, right now, which is more than every other part of my system unless I’m using plasma crap on the desktop.

That’s double Heroic, more than Heroic and Itch put together, and you could almost throw in Luitris (Before I dumped it thanks to Claude) and still use less RAM than Steam.

Maybe they just suck at Linux? You’d think not, since they pretty much own the backend now with proton, but it’s sure the least efficient and most obnoxious piece of software I have dealt with.

Lost? Not really any. I’ve replaced everything I can on GOG, and replaced what I can’t with pirate copies.

The 2GB RAM usage of a client that does no more than spam me with irrelevant recommendation isn’t worth it now that I can’t just slap another 16 in there for the heck of it.

I moved the “common” folder installations out, tried launching them all directly, anything that did not force Steam to open or scream that it wasn;t running I kept official and made a backup. Anything that did I dumped and yarred the games I already owned.

My Steam library is something like 1500 games, spent a lot replacing console stuff when I moved to PC, but now I consider it to have been a mistake. I just don’t trust Valve anymore, simply being better than Ubislop and BiowEAr isn’t enough, with ho the state of gaming is shifting to be completely anti-consumer. We’re not the customer there, we’re the product, proven by how a publisher can add DRM after launch, or break a game and force out an update, and Valve will demand that we accept this no matter how bad it is.

Nothing, yet. I getg paid next week XD

Thankully it will still be running, could do with a few new games, though I’m aiming for things with native Linux ports mostly even if there are otehrs I would rather play just to support ditching Microslop and not relying on Valve to make everything work.

Nothing, I moved to GOG, who is also having their Summer Sale.

Waylad is technically a better idea, the progression of X11, more secure and should be faster and smoother when it’s ready…

But I run into so many incompatabilities still and often janky support via xWayland that I really don’t think Wayland is ready to be the default just yet.

It will be, I’m sure, but for now I spend more time fighting it than I do using it. A bit of snazz in KDE and Waydroid seem to be the only things that actually need it, for me, and so many legacy things just nope right out and crash without going back to x by force.

I will admit things “just work” a lot better with systemd than it did fighting with configs under various init systems, but it’s far too bloated and centralized.

Like how so many use flatpaks now, which has some great advantages like simple sandboxing and great fine control of permisions in a simple manner, but is has Flathub becoming an “app store” for Linux with all the issues that has elsewhere.

The more sstuff is consolidated, the more risk of one person fucking it all up.

It won’t run on my current PC, but I still have the original.

Devuan has the easy repos like Debian, it’s a pretty straight forward fork, as is AntiX.

Void is great, but a bit more complicated, not LFS insane complicated but like Arch/Gentoo “Git good noob” complicated.

Really, any is good, and I’m looking at moving from Debian to AntiX.

Good choice, though…

Systemd is a mess, and the main guy is one of those obnoxious tech bro types who doesn’t listen to anyone and slaps crap in for no reason aside from his own ego. Everyone should be moving away from it, for many reasons.

Oh, they’re all on RetroArch, now.

I just hate them not letting you pay for it, their greed forces piracy, but then I’ve not downloaded a game because I was too broke to buy it for decades. It’s all been being unable to buy, or having terrible DRM that broke the game, or a shitty launcher that you were forced to use.

Nvidia, at least this time, they’ve ticked me off enough when I upgrade I’ll be leaving. Vulkan drivers are nice for Eden, though. Much better performance than the GL option, though a few games fritz out on Vulkan and I have dropped textures bad enough I need to force GL instead.

Animal Crossing, the one I play the most, is very mixed. It runs insanely fast using Vulkan, but sometimes my hair will disappear, or my floor will just be a black void when I enter the house. GL fixes this, but runs at about 3/4 the speed, which is good enough by I can see noticable lag when I am in the “park” I built between two waterfalls.

I’m sure there’s a setting somewhere I’m missing, but I’ve always just powered through things since this is the oldest my GPU has ever been, and an RTX 3060 isn’t that old and fairly decent for most things. I played Cyberpunk (the original even supported ray tracing, but I had to drop that with the 2.0 update and increased hardware requirements) without issue, though I have noticed anything running on Proton tends to have issues with reducing the framelimit which native Linux ports don’t have any I didn’t see in Windows before I switched to avoid the Plague of Eleven.

The weird one I get is DQ XIS, if I launch it in 2D mode it plays perfectly, but if I swap to 3D it crashes hard, like my whole computer has frozen up and I run Linux so that’s not normal.

I miss Xenoblade, and I’m mad I bought special editions of the whole series only to be unable to play them now, but that’s a few hundred bucks lost vs all the money spent buying three Switches only to have them fail and losing saves because you can;t back them up yourself and Nintendon’t sued the guy who wrote the code that let you to push their shitty cloud nobody asked for.

I’ve been off Sony for a while, as well, because getting ads on the home screen was a big “Nope!” for me, but when I left they had a better cloud system, but you could still plug in a USB device and backup your saves to it without PS+. No idea if they broke it as well, but Nintendo has always been at the forefront ot greedy corporate fuckery, it’s just now that enshittification has seeped into everything pushing the boundaries of an already bad ecosystem isn’t just kinda annoying like it used to be.

I mean the emulation, their online service as a sub with it all included, rather than letting us buy like they did from the time they implemented it up through the 3DS. There’s issues with digital copies, but my 3DS has a permanent license when they closed the eShop, so all of the games I have on it will work until the system dies and I can;t downalod them again. The Switch, if I am not subscribed to Online, all of them are gone.

Sadly Xenoblade doesn’t play well on emulation, the only exclusives I lost, I was kinda miffed about losing my Animal Crossing island after having spent hundreds of hours building it and raiding forums for island visit codes of people with rare items in the shop but it is what it is when the greey company locks your saves on internal memory and sues the guy who dropped the code to copy them.

The Steam Deck with Eden on it plays Switch games better than my Switch, move up to a more powerful Ally X or a full computer…

The Switch.

Damn thing was fragile af, and they wanted to rent everything to us, no more Virtual Console no more solid hardware, they spend more money suing people for fixing it then they do on it like blocking local backup of saves so they can force a cloud sub and them still not having fixed the drifting JoyCons then charging you more than they are worth for repairs.

See, that right there.

I used to have a massive F-550, but it was so beat up and had the connections to make use of that towing capacity.

Most of these trucks have never been off the pavement and never hauled more than groceries.

Also, an F-250 now is the size of my F-550 in the 90s.

They’re charging more now to rent than it costs to buy, it made sense if you didn’t want to keep something, but now the consolidation and enshittification has kicked in and there is zero value to “streaming” period.

The fancy joysticks is the only thing I might actually want.

Since nobody has made a controller as reliable as the old wired 360 controller and you can;t get that anymore I’d really like something less prone to stick drift if you give it a funny look.

I mean, to be fair, consoles are being jacked up to insane levels as well.