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  • i like their program where they make older games Legally playable(IIRC Steam used to do the same?).

    The big difference between Steam and GOG here is Steam will happily host older games but doesn’t seek them out. GOG actively seeks out older games that aren’t published anymore and tries to get the right to distribute them, and patches them in various ways for modern hardware.




  • dankm@lemmy.catoSteam Hardware@sopuli.xyzThe worst timeline
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    1 month ago

    … no. I was dead serious about trying FreeBSD on the Steamdeck. FreeBSD supports almost all mainstream hardware you’d see on a normal desktop. Figured it’d be similar for the steamdeck. So now my weekend project is to try out booting FreeBSD 16 off a USB stick on my steamdeck.

    After a small amount of duckduckgoing I found that it somewhat works already. GPU hardware is detected but can’t initialize. That’s a reasonable starting point for someone like me who isn’t afraid of kernel-level code :/


  • More-or-less bog standard amd64 with amd graphics? Assuming the generic AMD video drivers work FreeBSD should be able to get to a graphical UI out of the box. Might not have controller or gyro drivers, but a keyboard and mouse should work fine.

    Now I have a project. Thanks, Droechai…