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Steam broke its own record for online users once again, hitting 29 million
24 January 2022 at 2:52 pm UTC Likes: 3

This must be the first article that doesn't include an intro and link to Steam Deck. Liam thinks we finally know what it is by now :D

Valve sponsors more work to improve Linux graphics drivers
24 January 2022 at 2:48 pm UTC Likes: 4

Quoting: Liam Dawe
Quoting: ShabbyXFYI, dEQP is the original name of the OpenGL CTS, before Google bought the company and donated it to Khronos. The correct name now is VK-GL-CTS.

Also, lol, I didn't remember what it stood for.
Heh, interesting, even the official GitHub ReadMe still calls it dEQP though https://github.com/KhronosGroup/VK-GL-CTS

Yeah, and so do the command line options. Despite all the work that's continuously done to add tests, there is no one actually cleaning anything up there :D

Valve sponsors more work to improve Linux graphics drivers
24 January 2022 at 12:44 pm UTC Likes: 6

FYI, dEQP is the original name of the OpenGL CTS, before Google bought the company and donated it to Khronos. The correct name now is VK-GL-CTS.

Also, lol, I didn't remember what it stood for.

Microsoft to acquire Activision Blizzard
18 January 2022 at 6:10 pm UTC

I haven't touched a blizzard game since the CEO's now-long-ago response to the petition to bring their games to Linux. Given how everything microsoft touches goes to sh*t, I'd say ...

Whatever.

Collabora pulls in Jason Ekstrand to work on Linux graphics drivers
18 January 2022 at 7:36 am UTC

I can't imagine how much of a salary cut this must be!

Good for us though in the end.

There it is - Steam breaks 28 million users online
10 January 2022 at 1:46 pm UTC

Is it just me, or 8 million people gaming seems such a small number? The onlinr number really means nothing, I leave my Steam open 24h a day, and I imagine many people do.

Like I'd imagine globally there are hundreds of millions of people gaming at any time, which makes windows gaming insignificant, let alone Linux.

My favourite 2021 games played on Linux
21 December 2021 at 6:44 pm UTC Likes: 3

I'm playing Northgard now, and it's very addictive! It's very different but somehow gives me a warcraft vibe.

SteamOS for the Steam Deck gets slimmed down to 10GB
16 December 2021 at 1:57 pm UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: SolitaryWho knows, the question is what/why was it 24GB big before and how they managed to save 14GB.

Maybe they used to have a whole distro with every irrelevant lib and app installed, then went and trimmed that. Like I think LibreOffice is installed by default on many distros, but obviously the deck doesn't need that.

SteamOS-like Linux distribution ChimeraOS 28 is out now
7 December 2021 at 1:50 pm UTC

I'd guess chimera would adopt steamos3's interface, but I think it's still an improvement over steamos. For one, you can install games outside steam (like stepmania) and chimera takes care of integration with steam itself.