I’ve not read the details for a few years, but I’d guess there isn’t because there doesn’t need to be for the vast majority of users. Even the few who use desktop mode can manage with flatpaks, the few who can’t can use distrobox, etc.

Yeah that’s what I meant, if you really want to use pacman or one of the traditional package managers then install another distro

Could be a Steam Deck running Windows just to fuck with you

Well that’s not what the OS is designed for, it’s designed to be simple to update and hard to break. If you really want a traditional package manager then you can just install a different OS, I guess.

Apparently distrobox come pre-installed. Also I don’t think there’s any rpm-ostree on steamos, that’s a Fedora Atomic thing.

Yeah looks like it’s installed by default. Can’t find an official announcement/changelog but according to an unsourced reddit thread it’s been there since steamos 3.5.

Can’t you just use distrobox directly on steamos to save changing os?

Yeah I don’t like it when they remove what are essentially accessibility features in the name of their artistic vision. A classic is something like limiting when you can pause the game.

I guess it’s a design decision so people don’t save-scum, but losing your whole game highlights a pretty massive issue with that design

That makes sense. OP mentioning save slots made me think they were habitually duplicating their entire save file after each save or something!

How would multiple save slots have helped a random bug which lost all your progress?

I did a post on it a while back, it runs on everything!

Isn’t that the standard date format of all passports?

Software: Their app is clunky. Screen scaling is manual to avoid blocking content.

Do you need their software? Is it not just a controller which can be recognised by games?

I had a Symbian Nokia as my first smart-ish phone, having a web browser that could run real websites (even if you had to move the cursor around with a dpad) was absolute sci-fi. It could also run flash games, I remember getting a .swf file of pacman from a games website, copying it to my phone, and being able to run it right from the file browser.

Good to know, thanks

Thanks, I’ll treat that like an instruction manual

I bought this game at least a decade ago but I still haven’t given it more than half an hour of play, and it clearly deserves a proper go. Is this a game I can just pick up and play or is it one of those where you really need to have a wiki open to vaguely understand what’s going on? I generally don’t like looking stuff up until I’ve completed (or otherwise got most of the way through) a game but if some prior reading is actually required then I want to know in advance.

I guess some of those people you knew at school who just couldn’t help spouting any nonsense that would make them seem cool never grew out of it

That’s how they became relatively bright, by asking questions to learn about new things!