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Google announce ‘Stadia’, their new cloud gaming service built on Linux and Vulkan
20 March 2019 at 1:49 pm UTC Likes: 2

Quoting: Salvatos
Quoting: ShabbyXRegarding Google and data, believe me, Google is the farthest from evil.
You mean among its likes? Or in absolute terms?

Facebook, maybe? Are we all Facebook free here? I'm not even sure being Facebook free is enough, anyway. It seems they have other means to get our data.

Edit: This said, not going to say that Google is the good guy. Just saying that the war for the protection of our personnal informations seems to be lost, imo. I'm not ok with that and it doesn't mean that we shouldn't be careful about that either, but that's how it is. The only real solution is to be disconnected from the internet and, thus, become some kind of alienated creature. ;)

Google announce ‘Stadia’, their new cloud gaming service built on Linux and Vulkan
20 March 2019 at 1:10 pm UTC

Sure thing, for me, it's Steam first. After that, for titles I can't get any other way, I might consider Stadia, but let's wait and see what form it will take. There are too many unknowns in the equation, for the moment.

The controller looks packed with features and cool, though. Might get one at some point, depending on the price and if it's not locked to Stadia.

Edit: Crazy tought... Stadia on Steam Link (hardware) with Chrome...

Edit2: Is Stadia going to use a "custom" (as in kiosk and dedicated) version of chrome? Like a preconfigured chrome app that you install from the google store?

Google announce ‘Stadia’, their new cloud gaming service built on Linux and Vulkan
19 March 2019 at 8:13 pm UTC

Quoting: GuestThat feeling when OnLive begins to trend with #Stadia ...

Interresting read on the subject:

https://www.theverge.com/2012/8/28/3274739/onlive-report

Google announce ‘Stadia’, their new cloud gaming service built on Linux and Vulkan
19 March 2019 at 7:43 pm UTC

Quoting: tmtvlConsidering the ability to choose the mods you use is so important I think this platform is gonna take off like the Challenger.

... Not counting on the quality of "Stadia's homemade exclusives"... Just that might attract a lot of people on the service.

Google announce ‘Stadia’, their new cloud gaming service built on Linux and Vulkan
19 March 2019 at 7:02 pm UTC Likes: 1

If EA, Ubisoft, Blizzard and the likes start shipping games for Stadia (not exclusives)... I wonder if it could mean that we are closer to see a Linux version of their respective stores... But I might just be dreaming.

GameHub is another open source game launcher, giving Lutris some competition
18 March 2019 at 3:27 pm UTC

Quoting: mao_dze_dun
Quoting: MohandevirOh sweet! Is it controller friendly? For couch gaming, something like this would be pretty nice.

Yup. The beta branch has had controller support for months. Sadly most people wouldn't look at anything that isn't Lutris, because apparently choice is only good when it comes to your OS ;).

From what I read and understand, ElementaryOS is an Ubuntu derivative? I wouldn't be affraid to try it, at least.

GameHub is another open source game launcher, giving Lutris some competition
18 March 2019 at 1:41 pm UTC Likes: 4

Oh sweet! Is it controller friendly? For couch gaming, something like this would be pretty nice.

Mesa 19.0 is officially out, lots of improvements for Linux open source graphics drivers
15 March 2019 at 2:34 pm UTC

Padoka-dev is at Mesa 19.1 and Padoka-stable is at 18.3.3... Does this news means that Mesa 19.0 is now going stable? If so, is there anybody that knows when we may hope for it to appear on padoka-stable?

Valve announces new networking APIs for developers and Steam Link Anywhere
15 March 2019 at 1:43 pm UTC

Quoting: Mal
Quoting: subHaha.

https://www.reddit.com/r/pcgaming/comments/b15k8g/epic_games_launcher_appears_to_collect_your_steam/

No.

But not really surprising if this SteamSpy guy is now in charge at Epic.

Well. Look at the bright side. It could be worse. They could be scanning you hard drive looking for words like China, Xi Jinping or Winnie the Pooh.

Who said they don't?

Valve announces new networking APIs for developers and Steam Link Anywhere
15 March 2019 at 1:02 pm UTC

Quoting: MalSteam stream service over the Internet. It might be that my next rig is actually an aws instance or something of the likes.

Why not an android TV box with an optimized version of Steam Link? Oh! It could be called Nvidia Shield! Lol!