Quoting: BrokattValve officially only supports one distro and that is the latest Ubuntu LTS - with either Gnome or KDE desktop.

They don't support Gnome any more - well, specifically Wayland Gnome; X11 Gnome is OK - because it breaks SteamVR. I can't remember which widget it is that Gnome doesn't provide (I don't use VR and I don't use Gnome) but ISTR that the Gnome devs specifically refuse to support that widget. Someone with more familiarity with the details can fill in the gaps.

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Quoting: slaapliedjeSource?

QuoteSteam only officially supports Ubuntu running Ubuntu 12.04 LTS or newer and SteamOS, but the Steam for Linux community is extremely resourceful and has managed to run Steam on a large variety of distros. Valve approves of these efforts but does not officially endorse or provide support for them.

https://partner.steamgames.com/doc/store/application/platforms

QuoteSteam has been packaged as a Flatpak app by the Flathub community, but this Flatpak app is not officially supported by Valve...

Steam has been packaged as a Snap app by Canonical, but this Snap app is not officially supported by Valve.

https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steam-runtime/blob/master/doc/steamlinuxruntime-known-issues.md

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Quoting: slaapliedjeDon't they already support flatpak version of Steam? Isn't that what the Steamdeck uses? (Maybe not, I'd have to look).

Flatpak Steam is also unsupported.

The Deck doesn't use flatpak Steam.

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Quoting: GuestWhat bothers me much more is the uncanny valley of full-price games that depend on online services.

There was a recent related editorial on GI.biz that's worth a read.

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I just noticed that the game got a lot more language support with this update, including Catalan, Silesian and Welsh. It's always nice to see games become available to more people.

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Sail Forth has been on my wishlist for a while, and one of the reasons I didn't get it the last time I was buying games was because it's the kind of game I'd rather play curled up on the sofa than sat at my desk. It just got bumped up the list.

Recently on the Deck I've completed Unavowed and Beyond A Steel Sky, and the little one's been playing Duck Tales, Skywalker Saga and Alba. On my desktop I've been playing Parkitect.

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Quoting: pleasereadthemanualI'm still curious how this process actually works. Let's imagine I'm a game dev, and I've committed to supporting Linux with Proton. Alright, what do I do?

Full effort version: have at least one Linux machine running Proton plumbed into your CI unit tests and manual testing pipeline, and fail those tests if any build fails to work as it should on that machine.

Less effort version: test your release builds on at least one Linux machine prior to release.

Even less effort version: make some effort to fix bugs that your Linux users report after you've released an update that breaks the game for them.

Least effort version: release updates and let Valve fix them.

Most game devs pick the last one, and a select few pick the penultimate one.

QuoteI imagine the only thing I can do is submit bugs to Valve when I encounter a bug with Wine/DXVK/whatever. Does Valve have an official private channel for sending these bugs in? Because there is no open issue on the Proton Github page for SMITE 2. Well, if I had a Wine dev on hand, I could get them to submit patches upstream.

Game devs that have paid their $100 get access to a whole bunch of game developer-only forums and a separate game developer-only helpdesk (it used to be a specific contact at Valve but got amended into a shared pool of staff). Valve also have the resources to pre-emptively test whatever they deem important, or to contact anyone they deem important.

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This has been on my wishlist for a while, but with my Deck for games to cozily finish and my desktop for spectacle games, and having recently started something from the category of "new timesink games that anchor you to a desk," it'll be a while till I get round to it.

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Quoting: Mohandevir

Quoting: CatKillerHands up: I didn't think that they'd be able to match the price of the Deck, but they have. They must've managed to get some sweet prices on components.

4000 series apu. Old tech? Could it be a rebranding of an older model's internals leftovers that they are trying to get rid off?

If so smart move, but I'm not interrested.

Renoir is the same Zen 2 as the Van Gogh in the Deck; the Deck just uses RDNA 2 for the GPU rather than the Vega in the mainstream chips.

But, yes, stock clearance would have helped with the pricing.

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Hands up: I didn't think that they'd be able to match the price of the Deck, but they have. They must've managed to get some sweet prices on components.

I definitely wouldn't get one over a Deck - awkward control layout, no trackpads, weaker GPU - but the Deck isn't an option for everyone since it's only sold in a limited number of countries.

I hope using Linux works out for them, and they use it for future models (and there's no shortage of future models with Aya Neo) as the better option rather than as the cheaper option.

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