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Quoting: Mountain ManI think game developers, filmmakers, music artists, and others should go the other way and make a point of trumpeting when their product doesn't use any kind of generative AI. The following disclaimer could become the mark of quality and artistic integrity:

"No generative artificial intelligence was used for the creation of this work."

There is talk and efforts being made that I've seen to do something like this in developer circles. At the moment there is a lot of push back or apathy but wheels turn slowly sometimes.

Personally, I'm a fan of the concept. Depending on the interest and customer push back to non-AI games I could see something being added to help. Even if it is as simple as attaching a static-badge or something.[Static Badge](https://shields.io/badges)

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Quoting: ramieraI'm one of the "newcomers". (I had used BSD/Linux for a long time, just kept a Windows machine for gaming.)
Windows 10 decided to give me a reason to fully switch, when on the last day of support, it switched off my screen during use. 2 days later I had a Void Linux gaming machine setup, and using it ever since.

Like Windows winking good bye... :D

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No problems, so nothing in the changelog for me and nothing to really wait in the future except once the vulkan extension for descriptor_heap thing gets actually released and the driver with it comes out. DX12(vkd3d-proton) perf improvement thingy

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Quoting: scaineYeah, I should have said, I actually got into Arch because of Endeavour. It's a great O/S. I mentioned CachyOS here because it attempts to fix the issue of non-GUI software-centres by including Octopi, which isn't ditro-specific, but is pretty limited in what it can do address this lack.

Octopi gets the job done, but OH BOY is it clunky and difficult to learn / use for a new user. I've been on linux for decades at this point, and the first few times I used it I was so confused. I like that there's a GUI front end to manage all the packages, but man alive it could use some work. Oh well, if that's about the only thing I have to complain about with Cachy, then I think it's doing a damn good job!

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I always like reading these articles. Thank you for the series Hamish!

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You can always install `pamac` for an app store-like experience. There are different versions depending on how much you want to give users. The "full meal deal" includes Arch, AUR, Flatpak, and Snap.

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I was a bit "meh" on VR until the Steam Frame announcement but this is such an interesting and open device that I now can't wait to get one! It goes beyond just VR. Exciting times.

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Either they're still going to support them this time, or they completely forgot to update their own documentation on it for Linux.

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I loved my StrongArm Risc PC, overclocked to 287 MHz, if memory serves me right. It was so much better than Win95 which I had running on the PC card inside! I first saw Quake 1 running on that card. Never had this game though, so off topic really

It was fab growing up through the early days of home computing. Those were great times

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This driver won't support 10 series and earlier any more, correct? Then why are they still listed in the 'supported products' section on the Nvidia website?

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I don't see a code repo mentioned, and haven't found anything myself. If someone has a link, I'd love to see it.

Maybe they haven't open-sourced this yet because they don't consider it ready, but I hope they do open-source it like the other work they've been doing. Especially since it's based on Waydroid.

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Interesting stuff indeed. I'm very curious what the goals for the project end up being.

Running Quest games on the Frame? Reverse FEX (running ARM applications on x86)? Getting Android applications like YouTube or Netflix on Linux to make SteamOS more comparable to consoles?

So many potential use cases but only time will tell.

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This is the closest I've seen someone get to Starfox 64 superficially, but a core part of a rail-shooter is scripting out cool cinematic sequences and it seems like its lacking strong direction in that regard. It's coming across a lot more arcadey and silly. 😅

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I'm one of the "newcomers". (I had used BSD/Linux for a long time, just kept a Windows machine for gaming.)
Windows 10 decided to give me a reason to fully switch, when on the last day of support, it switched off my screen during use. 2 days later I had a Void Linux gaming machine setup, and using it ever since.

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Quoting: PyrateIs there any indication of this working differently than Waydroid when it comes to ARM-only APKs ? Currently on Waydroid, only x64 APKs work, ARM ones work only after installing an inadequate emulator.

Given that the target platform seems to be the Planck, which uses an ARM CPU, I doubt it. In practice, a tool similar to FEX could work.

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The avalanche is building very slowly it seems.
Wish it would be faster, but i have no idea if it is just the BF6 community that can't switch or if there is another big obstacle to solve.

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Quoting: scaineI'd LOVE to see an Arch-based distro that give us a store-like experience for updates and software installs. It's frustrating that Arch is so obtuse that even tools like Discover (KDE's appstore) is "not recommended for use with Arch-based distros".

Not exactly a solution but rather a workaround: you can install flatpak backend of Discover and use that. Discover will ignore host OS repositories and install software from Flathub only. Discover not being recommended (what's not recommended is PackageKit's Arch Linux backend, PackageKit handles host package manager interactions for GUI app stores) becomes irrelevant, you can use it safely.

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No, you'll need Proton.

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Oh for the good old days of community-ran servers with local admins and kick-votes.
Sure, there were still dodgy players and servers out there, but you'd just flag them as such in your server browser software (<3 All-Seeing Eye.)
Over time, you'd build up a list of trusted community servers with great and reactive local admins.

This is what we've sacrificed by allowing publishers to take the server executables out of our hands, all for "convenience", "persistence", "leaderboards" and "achievements."

I'll stop yelling at clouds now.

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So... It will be a native Linux version?

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Is there any indication of this working differently than Waydroid when it comes to ARM-only APKs ? Currently on Waydroid, only x64 APKs work, ARM ones work only after installing an inadequate emulator.

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I saw one comment... it could be a great way to bring a lot of streaming apps like Netflix to the Steam Machine as well. People might want that.

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This is very nice to see, even with such lower numbers, the trend is obvious and I have no doubt it will increase more for December, but for the non gaming people, I gotta say, remember WSL 2 it's getting better everyday, and it's already super stable, also I have a feeling MS is getting married with Canonical... my 2 cents.

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They're definitely having fun with the logo:
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And from the current [compatibility list](https://steamdb.info/app/3043620/info/) we see that they've been testing at least those through Waydroid:
- Labogrammetry (no idea what that is)
- [Moss II](https://store.steampowered.com/app/2059670/Moss_Book_II/)
- [Open Brush](https://store.steampowered.com/app/1634870/Open_Brush/)
- [Pistol Whip 🐸](https://store.steampowered.com/app/1079800/Pistol_Whip/)
- [The Lab](https://store.steampowered.com/app/450390/The_Lab/)

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real heads know this is a reference to the (incredibly underrated) dead free to play game, veiled experts.

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Quoting: amataiThat's like 4 millions monthly active users. That's too low to make Linux a primary target, but hopefully too high to be dismissed.

And as the Steam Deck sold around 4 millions units and is at 1 million monthly active users, we can extrapolate to 16 millions total Steam Linux user base, which is bigger than Wii U.

That number is massively out of date. We haven't been given a new overall monthly active for years, and since Steam has grown massively - the Linux number is probably more like 8-9 million total.

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THREE POINT TWO PERCENT?! What the heck!
- "We will be more than 1%"
- "We will hit 2%"
- "We are now more than 3%"!

Proton, Steam Deck, PC gaming handhelds showing Linux distros working better on them than Windows, the end of Windows 10, Recall, Co-Pilot, etc... all aspects to our benefits. Wow... more than 3 percent.

Okay, next goal: Windows drops below 90%

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I am not sure if it matters any more.
There are practically no Linux games out there.
A lot of franchises that had linux(bad ones at that) ports - became windows only with proton.
I suppose it only matters for proton, there is more initiative to make proton better as result.

As a point and click, CRPG and puzzle game player, I still got more native games to play than I would ever find time to do so.

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I am not sure if it matters any more.
There are practically no Linux games out there.
A lot of franchises that had linux(bad ones at that) ports - became windows only with proton.
I suppose it only matters for proton, there is more initiative to make proton better as result.

Of course it matters! I get to use Linux and play games. And there are thousands of native games out there. Not many big-budget ones, but I can live with that. I don't buy AAA anyway, unless it's old and cheap as chips.

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I am not sure if it matters any more.
There are practically no Linux games out there.
A lot of franchises that had linux(bad ones at that) ports - became windows only with proton.
I suppose it only matters for proton, there is more initiative to make proton better as result.

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