What are you all playing right now?

[emjay]

Thank you, I'll bear that all in mind. I guess what's the worst that could happen? since I do have a backup disk image of the linux partition and a timeshift backup also, just never restored to them yet so far, and have been so used to Linux running along seamlessly without any problems that I didn't want to tempt fate.

There is another issue I have though, that I wonder if I could pick your brain about? Steam's "Remote Play" doesn't work for me in Linux, does it for you? It just could not receive (or, I think, send) broadcasts. So that means I'm stuck playing just one game, Dysmantle - which uses Remote Play for (a virtual) local co-op - in Windows where Remote Play works fine. There's no problem with normal multiplayer in games for me, but Remote Play seems dead in the water.

Unfortunately, I have never used the remote play feature of Steam, in Windoze or Linux.

Ah, okay... thanks anyway. If you did want to try it out in the future (and let me know the result ) it's useful...

• a) if a game has local multiplayer, ie the equivalent of being able to play in the same room IRL, such as in Dysmantle (Platinum on Proton I might add if you wanted to try it) or possibly Overcooked (I think it may have both local and online multiplayer),

• b) to control the same character in a game...this presumably would work for any game, whether it has local multiplayer or not... which allows for switching between who's controlling it at any given time with the other player basically backseat driving... which is great for a game like Dysmantle which is a massive game of exploration... so i can play alone for a while till i want a rest then my sister can seamlessly take over the same character for a bit and then back again (as opposed to playing as two separate characters on-screen at the same time in multiplayer), all the while chatting over a Steam chat and watching eachother play... makes for a very chilled play session and is qualitatively different than multiplayer, and

• c) following on from (b), if you just want to watch someone play, one person is the host who 'broadcasts' to the other, whether that other player is actively playing or not, so in that sense can just be used for observing a broadcast stream but not playing. That broadcasting part is the part that I think is not working properly in (at least my) Linux.