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The important part is the builds.
Too many of them depend on libraries that are no longer available in modern Linux Distros.
Also i think they should get rid of that weird shellscript installer that has an archive wrapped in a .sh file.
I also like to see one general gog script interpreter shipped by galaxy that executes allt changes after the game updates instead of each game shipping its own temporary copy. Doesn't work well with firewalls on all operation systems.

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I have some lyrics in my head "how low can you go?" ;)
Very nice to see so many people working on game compatibility improvements.

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Quoting: Cley_FayeIt was unlikely, but I kinda hoped there would be some hardware release date announcements too :D

Me too. For me the steam machine looks like some kind of on-desk box I've been looking for. Depending on the price, I have to get that pitch through my finance minister (my wife).

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Hey, you cant begin your headline with "Valve reveal all..." when everybody is hoping for more news on the Steam hardware any day! Think of our poor poor hearts 😆

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It was unlikely, but I kinda hoped there would be some hardware release date announcements too :D

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VR fest for our new VR goggles where? 😭

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text scaling was always a stupid point against verification honestly. it's just too arbitrary. a bunch of indie games with perfectly legible text might have one line that's kind of small and get a tick off of verification, meanwhile games like Elden Ring are composed almost ENTIRELY of tiny text and are verified. should just be removed from the verification process

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Quoting: eldarionI don't know about the cross platform app, but Vortex is a buggy and overcomplicated mess. I miss the days of Nexus Mod Manager...

It's funny the NexusMods is best known for Skyrim modding, because this really reeks of Bethesda being adamant that the Creation Engine totally isn't just a Gamebryo rebrand and is totes the best at modern game development actually.

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Liam, do you happen to know if they make a distinction for stand-alone optimized games and games to stream for best possible graphics?

The former would be great to have on Frame when traveling, while the latter would be great when at home.

As an example, VR devs often released ARM64 optimized titles for the pico/meta platforms at the cost of graphical fidelity. On Steam these titles would be released targeting higher specs and thus a better experience.

Although I understand their concern about bad ports, there are cases, especially for VR where I think it would make sense to have both.

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The most important game I want to run on it is a 3D desktop that can run a bunch of *readable* wezterms and maybe a few browsertabs.
I am still between xreal glasses on my steam deck and a steam frame...
The steam frame will be a desktop replacement, so if either the frame or the deck breaks, I can still use the other.
In the end I might stream desktop from my cluster. But for travel: deck+xreal or frame...
I reckon the deck+xreal is more expensive than the frame.

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They must trust FEX a whole lot if they are not encouraging devs to make an ARM build...

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*A few old still not entirely closed wounds.

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Love this improvement! I'm going to do an Avowed replay after they release all the dlc / expansions / patches / etc... so probably at the end of the year maybe? Or next year? By then mesa should have a TON of raytracing improvements and my 9070xt can run with it all turned up. Should be gorgeous. It was already gorgeous when I played it on my 6800xt with no RT.

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Text scaling support is why Baldur's Gate 3 was the only game I played when visiting my sister for Thanksgiving. Even though the TV where my family was staying was 55 inches and I wasn't sitting far from it, I had to sit to the side of the TV causing bad contrast and it also had low pixel density. So I had a hard time reading text in games so I just when though what games I had installed and Baldur's Gate was like the only one with text scaling so that's what I played.

I don't always need accessibility stuff but when I do I'm usually disappointed at what a game supports. Stellar Blade did surprise me with a pretty alright list of stuff you can change. My hand was locking up from fishing you have to spam Square while using the analog stick to fight the fish and then hold the trigger in a certain position to real in the fish. Had to fish a lot for missions and the fact I had to do it quickly caused me pain. Luckily in the Menu you can turn on a setting to have each action turned into a single press so all you have to do use is the analog stick. There is also an option to just change the reeling in part to a timing game instead of holding a specific position.

Also FOV should always be able to go high its accessibility as well. I can't play a lot of games because I get extreme motion sickness from an FOV being to small I usually need a FOV of 110 sometime 90 is fine like in source games. Starting playing the Snowbound mod for borderlands 2 and needed to increase the FOV to 130 not to get motion sick do to that mods increased speed. I don't know if devs use this excuse anymore but it use to be devs would say if we let you increase the FOV to much cut scenes might look wrong. One that's a you problem and two I DON'T CARE IF A CUT SCENE LOOKS A LITTLE WEIRD I WANT TO BE ABLE TO PLAY THE GAME.

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Proper Wayland support when? (Especially wrt shortcuts.)

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doing things so cursed that there's no plausible approach for supporting them

Ah, we call that classic Microslop. 🍌

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I hope a good scale in 720p is required for full verification, entirely because as much as the high end crowd is already beyond 1080p, a lot of average people still carry ~720p screens around (myself included).
It's still HD and actually looks fine!

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This documentation actually went up last month[…]

And this part shows that Liam is a pro.
In the meantime, a whole cohort of YouTubers, Redditors and Discorders want to make you believe that Valve put this up just a few days ago, only because one of them happened to stumble upon it a few days ago.

I was reading this on Christmas Eve, and I am certain it was up way before then…

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Very nice! Time to start a new Terraria world soon 😄

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Quoting: eevWhatever the price may be, I'm hoping Valve can at least make the new Machine a very stable experience with all the lessons learned through the Deck and with these updates. We should all care a bit more about the easy on boarding for people unfamiliar with Linux and PCs perhaps, especially in keeping performance up.

I agree. Even if the Steam Machine turns out a failure, the software improvements will hopefully be a huge boon for Linux distros.

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I thought this was about [Less MSIérables](https://lessmsi.activescott.com/) for a second. :P

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Not going to lie this pissed me off, disappointed.

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For anyone interested in running XFCE version 4.20 on Mint, install LMDE7 (Linux Mint Debian Edition v7). That includes Cinnamon by default. However, add XFCE via:
sudo apt install xfce4 xfce4-goodies xfce4-screensaver catfish

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Whatever the price may be, I'm hoping Valve can at least make the new Machine a very stable experience with all the lessons learned through the Deck and with these updates. We should all care a bit more about the easy on boarding for people unfamiliar with Linux and PCs perhaps, especially in keeping performance up.

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Things are continuing to line up for a much improved replay of Stalker 2 whenever "2.0" comes out...

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Gaming news for Linux are so rich and exciting this last years !

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Better ray tracing and official FSR4 compatibiliy for Steam Machine would be game changer !

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Quoting: eggrole

Quoting: LoftyWe want Passion over Profits.

This sounds great, and I agree when it comes to art/games and even life in general, but I don't think this statement stands up to scrutiny. Do you, and/or how many people do you know, that work a job they are passionate for versus a job that pays the most?

I know there is a limit when more money does not matter, but from what I understand that is somewhere around 75-100kUSD/year. Most people (in the whole world) don't make that much. Hell, the median income (individual) in the USA is only ~40k. I don't think people are working these "low" paying jobs because they are passionate. I think they are taking whatever they can get.

As the old saying goes, money talks and bullshit walks.

I'm not saying this is good/right, it simply is the shitty nature of our for profit (and put a price tag on everything) world.

I think you missed my point that as Ai skeptical consumers it's what we want (as literally stated) it's not what the 'company' wants.

And yes i can delineate the difference between the Artist/coding and the management structure of a company. Also I don't think bringing employee salaries is valid considering on of the main objections to the use of Ai is entire workforces are let go because of Ai. It feels like your saying 'they were just doing their job ', they had no other choice. It's an oxymoron.

However if your making excuses for shitty industry behavior & glossing over it with a " money talks and bullshit walks." statement which is akin to saying " the proof is in the pudding " well the proof might be the overwhelming negative consumer reaction to generating games using Ai.

As a side note your statement implies that only those with money or power have valid opinions. You probably think that, but we have seen from some recent news articles that a the collective voice is starting to slowly resonate back to developers that in general gamers don't want game studio's pumping out generic Ai slop.

In the end you may be right about the financial incentive to make cheap Ai slop games but we have the option to state our concerns using our wallets and our voice to explain why.

This is why GOL is a valuable news source, because it alerts us to which companies are trying to go this route and decide how much this means to you as a consumer.

*edit Some people don't care about the use of Ai in game and that's fine too.

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Quoting: LoftyWe want Passion over Profits.

This sounds great, and I agree when it comes to art/games and even life in general, but I don't think this statement stands up to scrutiny. Do you, and/or how many people do you know, that work a job they are passionate for versus a job that pays the most?

I know there is a limit when more money does not matter, but from what I understand that is somewhere around 75-100kUSD/year. Most people (in the whole world) don't make that much. Hell, the median income (individual) in the USA is only ~40k. I don't think people are working these "low" paying jobs because they are passionate. I think they are taking whatever they can get.

As the old saying goes, money talks and bullshit walks.

I'm not saying this is good/right, it simply is the shitty nature of our for profit (and put a price tag on everything) world.

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I don't know about the cross platform app, but Vortex is a buggy and overcomplicated mess. I miss the days of Nexus Mod Manager...

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