Quoting: constThe final goal isn't every game getting ported to Linux, it's every new game project taking linux into consideration and using the tools that let them support us.

What I'd like to see is developers not thinking in terms of "ports" at all, but to have Linux builds as part of their standard development and testing routine for their PC release. They'll squash more bugs before release that way, just from having more lenses to examine their code with. They'll have saved time and money even without a single sale. Then they only need to make a depot of their existing, working, tested, Linux build the same as their Windows build.

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Quoting: kuhpunkt

Quoting: STiATBrowser support, .NET support, sound, cutscenes, etc. are still lacking in areas, as is anti cheat, and while we heared about anti cheat, we didn't hear about any of the others.

They addressed it in one of their FAQs and said that devs should use Vulkan in general, avoid .NET stuff and Media Foundation.

It was this one.

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Quoting: MohandevirThe only part where I'm curious to know how it will be done, it's on the "Steam Deck desktop" side and all that productivity stuff... Will Valve create a SteamOS app store that integrates Proton too?

I think we might see more things like Blender on Steam.

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Ah, that's why the main Ubuntu repositories got updated versions of the Nvidia driver with uncharacteristic swiftness today.

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Hopefully we'll be starting to get positive accounts from people using Steam Deck dev kits. I know they're hand-crafted artisanal units, but there's not a lot of time been October and December and they'll need to keep their momentum up.

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Quoting: Comandante ÑoñardoWeird...
I'm on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS and I just got an Nvidia driver update, but it is not the 470.54.02 version, it is the 460.91.03 version...

What is going on with Ubuntu and Nvidia?

The PPA got 470 today, so I got automatically updated from the 470 beta. I don't think that Ubuntu habitually moves you from one branch to another unless a branch loses support and they put in a transitional package. The 460 branch did get an update yesterday.

Edit: oh, it was actually the main Ubuntu repo that pulled in the new 470 rather than the PPA.

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I think Valve's messaging is somewhat problematic.

QuoteDo I need to port my game to Linux to have it work on Steam Deck?
No porting necessary. Your Windows build will likely work right out of the box, thanks to Proton.

Will people be able to install Windows, or other 3rd party content?
Yes. Steam Deck is a PC, and players will be able to install whatever they like, including other OSes.

Not even a hint about the benefits of multiplatform development, and nothing to suggest that staying with SteamOS would give a better experience than installing Windows on it.

However, game devs and Windows gamers are easily spooked, and to make any difference at all Valve need to get these devices into people's hands.

I'll still be applying the sliding scale. Getting more games into the 50% category is great for everyone, but it sure would be good to get more into the 100% category. There are dozens of new games released on Steam every single day, as well as every game's patches, and Valve has a couple of hundred employees. Testing and fixing has to be the responsibility of the game devs themselves.

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Quoting: michaWhile I would love to see Ubisoft releasing new Games on Steam, that sounds really just a like a possibility for the far future.

Yeah. They're talking to investors, so they aren't going say, "if there turns out to be a massive new market opening up, we're totally going to just ignore it."

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Quoting: slaapliedjeMaybe if we ask nicely they'll do it.

I suspect that the more they have open source development, the more open source development they'll want to do. It's fundamentally really pragmatic. Baby steps.

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Quoting: slaapliedjeWould be hilarious if they didn't release drivers for it, and it ends up being how most people still view Linux (the hardware is lacking drivers, hard to use because resolution isn't right, etc).

Or if Microsoft needed to go get their bootloader signed by Valve so that it would work with Secure Boot.. .

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