NonSteamLaunchers gets booted from Steam Deck plugin store Decky Loader
NonSteamLaunchers gets booted from Steam Deck plugin store Decky Loader
There's a bit of unfortunate drama going on right now in Steam Deck land, with the Steam Deck plugin NonSteamLaunchers for Decky Loader getting the boot.
FYI - the owner of this site, gamingonlinux, was a mod on the !linux_gaming@lemmy.ml community until they were caught abusing their moderator powers. Then they deleted their account and complained on mastodon that it's stupid design that mod logs are public. [Screenshot]
I'm always pointing out that public modlogs are good because they help prevent abusive mods.
and complained on mastodon that it's stupid design that mod logs are public. [Screenshot]
Maybe they should've, you know, looked at the site for 2 minutes before signing up. The modlog is linked at the bottom of every page.
TIL, that is amazing!
And nothing of value was lost
That's insane, honestly didn't expect that. How did he abuse his mod powers?
Being rude doesn't get you too far in OSS.
But uh.. Linus is kinda rude NGL. Part of his charm no?
No, it's not. It's tolerated because of his importance.
So I've been reading through the deck homebrew discord trying to figure that out. A user claimed he was racist, and got him banned/kicked out of Decky over it. However as far as I can tell, no evidence of him being racist was ever posted, and the user that got him banned left the server afterwards.
It does sound like he was quick to get into arguments with some other users, but that's not officially what he was banned over.
There may be better evidence I'm missing, there are a lot of messages discussing it in the server, but I see several people there claiming that banning him without evidence was an overreaction, so I'm assuming there isn't anything concrete that I've missed.
My personal opinion from what I've seen is that I think the ban should be reversed, it seems like a shame to deprive the entire deck community from a useful tool unless there's something more concrete I'm not seeing.
Does anyone know of a similar alternative? Junk Store only covers Epic unless you donate. I know I could use Lutris and/or Heroic and manually add the non steam games that way. I do like the ability to see them in the non steam tab on my deck in gaming mode.
Heroic has the option to automatically add games to steam. Also it works quite well in game mode if you add it as a non steam game and can then be controlled entirely with a controller. That’s the most convenient option I found.
Thanks! I guess I missed that bit when I initially set it up. I'll try this out. :)
So, what was actually said?
It feels like a real low bar to cross for an article on the subject, especially given that comments were public
Were they public? I've been trying to find them on the homebrew server, and all I've seen is that someone joined the server, accused him, got him banned, and then left. I haven't actually found any examples of what he got banned over yet.
Is decky any good? I never really saw the benefits of it and the update notifications annoyed me so I got rid of it.
Yeah it's got some great additions in my opinion. It's not as necessary as it used to be thanks to valve slowly adding in many decky plugins into standard SteamOS.
Some nice plugins for usability:
- autoflatpaks: update flatpaks from game mode
- battery tracker: track average power usage of games over time. Good for getting an actual average power use for games with a wide range of battery drains
- Junk store: install epic (and GOG if you spend $6) games from game mode
- KDE connect: get notifications from your phone, use your phone keyboard to type on the deck
- MagicBlack: turn off screen on the OLED version for saving power during downloads/etc
- Pausegames: lets you pause any game, freeing up resources without closing it. Lets you pause games that can't be paused, run multiple games at once, and can fix audio issues when suspending
- Playtime: tracks playtime per game and per day
- protonDB lets you see what games will run on the deck, even if they're not steam verified/etc
- powertools: lets you adjust cpu cores/clock speed etc. Lets you get super low power usage in some games (down to 3.5w or so), and fixes some games with bugged cpu speeds
- shotty: moves steam screenshots in pictures folder to make them easy to find in desktop mode
- steamback: makes backup saves of your games everytime you open or close a game.
- volume mixer: change volume balance between programs. Very helpful if you're using discord/etc while playing.
There's also a ton of nice customization ones, which I can share if you're interested.
Adding to this, tunneldeck, helps me connect to my vpn service without having to jump to the desktop
Pause games is a essential plugin that solved the sound issues I had with suspending games.
Ah yes, cancel culture.
Grow up
People nowadays should, yes.
https://decky.xyz/ Policies/CoC:
Contributor Covenant Code of Conduct:
We pledge to act and interact in ways that contribute to an open, welcoming, diverse, inclusive, and healthy community.
cope and seethe
It's not cancel if it's the good guys (they/them)
so much for the tolerant left
