Quoting: LinuxerUmm what is a .pak file? I see that for a download at itch. Do i just run that?

It's a data file for the Quake engine, sort of like a plugin. You'd have to copy that into your existing Quake installation.

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As much as I enjoy LEGO as a product, LEGO as a company is quite litigious, and not always welcoming to fan projects like this. Anyway, this looks awesome.

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Oh, I remember messing around with Darwinia back in the day. Couldn't figure out what was happening, or what I was supposed to do?

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Quoting: elmapula lot of stats show chromebook marketshare already surpased all other linux desktops.
keep in mind that this is concentrated on only a few regions

That is why I said on a global scale. Also the fact remains that only the high end Chromebooks will be able to run Steam.

I am not trying to say that Chrome OS is less relevant than desktop Linux, because in the big picture they are both miniscule. It's just that Chrome OS and desktop Linux don't overlap all that much.

Google are setting themselves up for the worst case scenario here. Anyone who tried gaming in a VM knows how janky that can be. Input device passthrough, GPU virtualization, etc. all have caveats. Also they are using Wayland, which still has issues with Proton. Not only that, they are making their own Wayland server, their own drivers, their own VM software, none of which is relevant on desktop Linux. Neither is it in any way representative of a desktop Linux system when it comes to game compatibility and testing for developers.

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Quoting: elmapuli dont like how any of this sounds,android didnt helped linux desktop, instead it created its own ecosystem

I don't think this will have any big impact on desktop Linux at all. On a global scale there are about as many Chrome OS users as there are desktop Linux users. And even then, only selected few Chromebooks will be able to run Steam, so even a smaller userbase. If anything it seems that Google is trying to catch up with the desktop Linux, not the other way round.

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QuoteThey say running Steam and games in a container like this "provides another layer of security above normal Linux systems"...

Except that is just an excuse for bad design. Linux has multiple ways to secure a system without the complexity and overhead of a VM: containers / cgroups, chroots, read-only filesystems, etc. And if that is not enough, SELinux exist.

Yeah, I don't particularly like ChromeOS...

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The architecture of Chrome OS is really overcomplicated. They insist on running everything in those "containers", which are actually more like a full blown VM's, because not even the kernel is shared with the host. That is why everything is in constant alpha, and takes forever to integrate into the system. Just seems so counter-productive to me.

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Now if they also added the original American McGee's Alice, and I would throw money at them so hard it would hurt.

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I am really looking forward to all of this goodness coming to the desktop. I use Steam exclusively in big picture mode on my TV, and while it works fine, there is definitely place for improvements.

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Note that a scaling driver (acpi-cpufreq, intel-pstate, amd-pstate) is distinctly different from a scaling governor (performance, powersave, schedutil). Roughly speaking the governor controls what state the CPU should be in, and the driver actually knows how to get to that state.

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