Looks like Canonical, the creator of Ubuntu, want to get in on more Linux Gaming with their Desktop Product Manager starting a new series of blog posts and your feedback is needed.
The first blog post goes over using Steam and Proton, which won't be news to any of our readers, especially with our full guide existing for some time now. What's interesting though, that I had no idea, is that their Desktop Product Manager is Oliver Smith, who previously worked for Creative Assembly as a Producer on the likes of Alien Isolation - which got ported natively to Linux by Feral Interactive.
As for the actual guide, it's a pretty good intro for those who need to point newer users to get setup ready with Steam and try out Proton.
Pictured - Steam on Ubuntu
At the end of it, Smith mentions how "we don’t want to get complacent, we know there is still a lot more we can do to improve the gaming experience on Ubuntu Desktop" and that Canonical is "keen to hear from you on the issues or areas we should focus on in 2022". A post on their official Discourse Forum has been opened to gather feedback.
The first reply on it already jumps right into thing Ubuntu should look to sort, like making Mesa upgrades easier so people don't need to resort to PPAs for new graphics drivers on AMD/Intel, which is often needed to keep up with newer game releases and new Proton releases.
Hopefully this will be the start of Ubuntu making more progress to make gaming great on Ubuntu, and easier overall.
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
Quoting: GuestWhich is a shame, because they were well poised to become the standard distro that could have been the reference against gaming development.And they had as Valve for years had and still has the official Steam Runtime based of off versions found in previous Ubuntu repositories. Valve still has the Steam installer as a .deb file.
Quoting: CFWhitmanWell . . . don't we all?Quoting: tonRCanonical? Listen to feedback?
"hahahaha. Oh, wait. You're serious. Let me laugh even harder. HAHAHAHAHAHA"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_n5E7feJHw0
Let's just say that Canonical has very selective hearing. They'll ask for feedback and then ignore the parts they don't like.
Quoting: slaapliedjeThe amusing thing to me, is that Unity also pushed me away from them... and then they finally announced unity was dead, they turned around and forced snaps... so I still stay away.Personally, I lost interest when they stopped with the nude photography.
No wait, that was the reason I lost interest with Playboy.
No, wait again, it really was Ubuntu!
(In reality I have of course never used either.)
slaapliedje Nov 28, 2021
Quoting: whizseHa ha, the naked people brought back memories (I think I still have some of the official Warty CDs. Remember when they used to send those out for free upon request?)Quoting: slaapliedjeThe amusing thing to me, is that Unity also pushed me away from them... and then they finally announced unity was dead, they turned around and forced snaps... so I still stay away.Personally, I lost interest when they stopped with the nude photography.
No wait, that was the reason I lost interest with Playboy.
No, wait again, it really was Ubuntu!
(In reality I have of course never used either.)
Projectile Vomit Nov 28, 2021
Quoting: TangoBakerQuoting: ThePierrasseUnity is still the best DE ever though. Change my mind.
Seconded. I gave up on Ubuntu though. I'm currently using Gnome with the Unite extension on Arch, a combination I've come to refer to as "Baby's First Chainsaw".
..."Baby's First Chainsaw".
Apropos.
ElectricPrism Nov 29, 2021
Last edited by ElectricPrism on 29 November 2021 at 2:59 am UTC
Quoting: ElectricPrismMAKE A ROLLING RELEASE UBUNTU VARIANT
It kind of exists, it's called Debian. You just need to enable the testing (or sid) repositories.
Quoting: AnzaQuoting: ElectricPrismMAKE A ROLLING RELEASE UBUNTU VARIANT
It kind of exists, it's called Debian. You just need to enable the testing (or sid) repositories.
Nah, that is Debian, the Ubuntu development version, currently Jammy Jellyfish to be released as 20.04, does come close to a rolling release, but its like Debian testing and unstable affected by freezes, so its not really rolling, but close.
You can also use devel instead of the codename, devel is kind of a symlink to the current development repositories.
slaapliedje Nov 29, 2021
Quoting: RedfaceUbuntu just isn't good...Quoting: AnzaQuoting: ElectricPrismMAKE A ROLLING RELEASE UBUNTU VARIANT
It kind of exists, it's called Debian. You just need to enable the testing (or sid) repositories.
Nah, that is Debian, the Ubuntu development version, currently Jammy Jellyfish to be released as 20.04, does come close to a rolling release, but its like Debian testing and unstable affected by freezes, so its not really rolling, but close.
You can also use devel instead of the codename, devel is kind of a symlink to the current development repositories.
erm, good for a rolling release. There isn't any point, really. It has a release every 6 months. And unless your particular pieces of software you use are actually directly in the Debian repositories, they aren't likely to be updated fast enough to bother any quicker than that anyhow. And even then sometimes you likely don't want it to be that quick. Sure there are times when it's nice.
Really if you want a rolling release where you always have latest/greatest (or pretty damned close) Arch is the way to go.
Quoting: RedfaceNah, that is Debian, the Ubuntu development version, currently Jammy Jellyfish to be released as 20.04, does come close to a rolling release, but its like Debian testing and unstable affected by freezes, so its not really rolling, but close.
You can also use devel instead of the codename, devel is kind of a symlink to the current development repositories.
At least according to documentation, Debian unstable (aka. sid) is not subject to freezes. Testing is subject to freezes, so rolling stops for a while (shouldn't called testing rolling release as because of that it's not really one).
However as mentioned, there are other distributions out there that do rolling releases. Those are quickest way to fix the problem instead of waiting Canonical to implement true rolling release. Debian is the most familiar for Ubuntu users, Arch is doing bit of its own thing with AUR and all (which is not bad thing at all).
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