That’s one of the bugs.

Hm, maybe that’s a problem with the instance you’re on? Mine loads fine.

What problems are you facing on the website exactly? I’m just accessing my instance’s website via Safari and it works pretty okay. I’d just recommend opening threads in a new tab, perhaps.

There isn’t really an alternative to Mlem at present, so the only thing you can do is to make due with it for now and / or use the website. I mainly use the website at present because Mlem doesn’t have a compact mode.

Fallout mostly. It’s all just so grey and boring and not fun at all. If I want to see a wasteland I can just go outside /s

Same experience as you with D4. Fun game but the always-on requirement is a tad annoying. Not deal-breaking for me, but I have had my fair share of rubber-banding on my SteamDeck, especially with Bluetooth headphones connected. D2R worked well offline, why not have an offline mode here?

And I still know tonnes of people, especially at my workplace, that drive SUVs with “Fuck you Greta” stickers and that complain about everything and anything that is even remotely related to climate change.

I used this guide: https://www.polygon.com/23750107/how-to-play-install-diablo-4-steam-deck

I read that it is apparently also possible to simply install the Blizzard Launcher from Lutris, but I haven’t tried that personally. The above guide worked without problems for me, though.

Absolutely! Currently running Diablo 4 on the SteamDeck using Proton Experimental. Runs perfectly on medium-high settings at 45-50 fps. It’s insane how far we’ve come. When I first started using Linux over ten years ago, running Windows games was nigh-impossible. And Valve finally released their Steam client for Linux, the selection of games was … very limited.

For that to happen, I believe that interacting with people from other instances and moving your community and account from one instance to another have to become possible / easier.

At present, people flock to the instances with most users as those often have more local content (local content is generally easier to find than federated content) and they often have a smaller risk of shutting down. If I create a community on a smaller instance, the chance of it being found and interacted with are also much smaller than if it had been created on a bigger instance (because of, as I said, local content being user to find).

Sure, I can create an account on myfirstlemmyinstance.com (example URL, not an actual instance) with 10 users, but if my instance decides to shut down, my community of, say, 500 users will now have to move somewhere else and all old content will be deleted.

Ideally, I think no one instance should have a million users to begin with.

I’ve heard lots of good things about Chained Echoes, a recently released JRPG in the style of those older NES / SNES games. Might be up your alley. Runs natively on Linux afaik.

That probably also depends on what instance your own, I am guessing. A lot of them are experiencing such a large and unprecedented influx of new users, it’s often hard for them to cope with the existing hardware they’re running on.

Better UIs is definitely one of the main problems for mass adoption I would say. I don’t have any trouble using it myself, but it can be a bit clunky.

I run a PeerTube instance and the amount of people that try following my instance with exactly THAT type of content is… astonishing. It just seems like no PeerTube instance is properly moderated.

I get a solid 45-50 fps in most areas and I set most things to high. Only a few select things like fog and shadow quality I set to low. It ran fine even out of the box. I would recommend using AMD FSR 2 in quality mode (from the in-game menu, not the SteamDeck internal FSR) for a somewhat more stable experience. Mind you I am pretty early on in the game (level 15), so maybe late-game performance is worse. You might also want to check out SteamDeck HQ’s recommended settings: https://steamdeckhq.com/game-reviews/diablo-4/

Diablo 4 has been a blast and runs great on the Deck! Battery life isn’t all that great but it’s also a non-issue mostly as you need an active Internet connection to play anyway. So it’s not like I’d be playing on the go.