It's beautiful.

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This is what was missing for a proper local streaming setup. You can stream games using a standard Steam client, but if you have to enable Proton, change command line arguments, etc., you'd have to physically do it on the host machine. Well, no more!

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This one seems like a legal minefield.

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Huge respect for them not just abandoning the game.

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Quoting: EhvisAnother demonstration of how broken the patent system is. There nothing in that patent that isn't entirely trivial. Basically "let's put a button where an unused finger rests". I'm surprised that Valve's lawyers didn't manage to get this thrown out because I highly doubt that this is original.

Also the paddles on a Steam Controller is actually a single battery compartment cover that doubles as clickable buttons. The controller would still be 100% functional if you remove/break/throw away the cover. Also it is replaceable, which the patent does not say anything about.

I am really surprised all this was not enough to consider it sufficiently different, but a trivial button placement was enough to be patent-worthy. Either their lawyers are completely incompetent, or they simply consider it cheaper to not pursue this further.

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More options are great, but somehow I feel this will be used to tackle AMD, and NVIDIA will remain unchallenged.

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Running Linux on Apple hardware has always been a quirky endeavor. Every time I try it, there's something uniquely non-stadard and almost compatible, but not quite. Then it would randomly forget which drive is a boot drive, mess up NVRAM, or something else to ruin the day.

In my experience it is just not worth the hassle.

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Quoting: RoosterI would be interested to know, why don't they use a Docker-like container instead of VM? Seems to me like quite a big waste of resources to use a full fledged VM.

It is more akin to a docker container than a VM

Well, depends on the definition of a container. Docker runs a single isolated process, but still on the host kernel. Crostini runs a full-blown system, including a guest kernel. See this presentation at FOSDEM for more details.

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In case you are wondering why is this such a big task getting Steam to run on Chrome OS, it is because Google paranoidly insists that all Linux (non-Chrome OS) applications need to run inside a VM. They spent an enormous amount of effort just poking holes in their VM trying to get basic stuff like copy/paste between Chrome OS and guest Linux working. They don't even want Linux applications to talk to Chrome OS kernel directly.

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I like that the overview is less loaded with different widgets.

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