Yeah I agree. The only reason to get the 64GB here is if you plan on install a 1TB SSD or something like that.

No, Steam families is now out of beta and is the default for all users I think. I’m not sure how long you can keep using the existing family sharing, but I’m guessing at some point you’ll be forced to swap over.

The only risk is that if someone gets banned using your copy of a game, you’ll be banned too.

So if you owned Rainbow Six, and your brother and as playing with your family copy and he got banned, you would be banned as well.

No, many steam games use steam to verify if you own the game. It’s up to developers if they require their game to have steam drm or not.

If the game doesn’t have Steam DRM, you can just copy the game folder and run it anywhere. But many games will require steam (with an account that owns the game) to be running before they’ll open.

I think these are just old stock they’re selling off.

The catch is that many game publishers won’t release their games on GOG, or wait for several years after release before they start to sell it there.

Technically, Steam DRM is optional and any publishers who want to can sell their games through steam without any form of DRM. The game files are transferable, and you don’t need steam running or logged in to run the game. But most publishers don’t want DRM removed, and so it’s pretty rare.

Here’s a list of Steam games that have DRM disabled. There’s also a number of games that will run DRM free if you put a txt file with the game’s steam ID number in it.

Previously a family member could only play your shared library if you weren’t playing any game.

With this new steam families, they can play any game except the game you’re actively playing (unless the family collectively owns multiple copies). So if me and my son want to play Lethal Company together we need two copies.

This implementation of steam families has been available in beta for several months. This is just the non-beta roll-out of the feature to everyone.

Glad it helped!

Tbh I think I’ve only run into that maybe once. But very few of my games require keyboard, so maybe I’ve just been lucky.

Steam versions of games tend to run a little better, and also benefit from things like Steam distributing pre-compiled shaders for the games. There are also some cases where non-steam games will require you to install specific windows components through wine for the game or in-game media to work.

Overall Fallout 4 should work, but without actually trying it I can’t say if it will work without tinkering or not.

Edit: did some searching, sounds like it mostly works, but you may have to manually install xact_64 to get sound working.

They have a 1 time $6 payment for GoG access, which isn’t too bad. I’m loathe to agree to a subscription payment for anything else these days, but a one-off payment isn’t too bad if it’s something I’ll use.

Innoextract sounds pretty good, I’ll definitely keep that in mind for non-steam games in the future.

Sounded like they ran fine from the moment the updated version was released. Glad valve is finally getting them updated, that meme about how doom will run on everything except steam deck was a little painful.

I’ve heard of it fixing various sleep related audio bugs. Overall it’s a great plugin and I recommend it to everyone.

The steam recovery media let’s you reinstall just the OS while preserving user files.

As long as you haven’t done anything too dramatic like converting your file system to BTRFS

Edit: This will downgrade you to a much older version of SteamOS though, from which you would then have to update back to current. This can be a problem because some early issues (like the OLED deck not being able to connect to wifi 6E networks) can make it frustrating to update.

Presumably the hand grips on the deck keep enough of a gap under the deck to keep this from being an issue.

I have both the Spigen case and the JSAUX modcase, and both will fit inside the carrying case. The modcase one has to have the front cover and kickstand removed to fit however.

That said, I usually only use the modcase with front cover now instead of the original carrying case.

You should definitely use OpenMW instead of vanilla, it’s not a mod but is instead a full engine rewrite. It runs natively on linux, has better performance, and a whole lot of other benefits:

• Native support for macOS, Linux, and Windows
• Improved physics and AI
• Distant terrain
• Save/Load dialogs organized by character
• Quality of life UI improvements, such as being able to search for spells
• Multiple quicksaves
• World map adjusts automatically to fit new landmass from mods such as Tamriel Rebuilt
• Support for up to 2147483646 loaded mods (up from 255 in the original Morrowind engine)
• Since it was made from scratch, virtually no engine bugs from the original Morrowind
• And much more

You can install it from the Discover store in desktop mode and then add it to steam, or alternatively you can use a tool like Protonup-qt (also in the discover store) to install Luxtorpeda, which is a tool for automatically launching supported games with rewritten engines. Once Luxtorpeda is installed you can open Morrowind steam properties in game mode, and check the “force specific compatibility tool” box and select to run the game with Luxtorpeda. After that it will automatically run the game through the OpenMW engine instead.

You’ll need to set a password for Cryoutilites I think. In desktop mode you can open konsole and run the command passwd, then enter your password twice. After that you can just run the Cryoutilites installer.