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PayPalValve has released a small update to the stable version of the Steam Client, with it mostly being about fixing up Remote Play. It's not a big surprise to see the focus on Remote Play right now with the Steam Deck, especially with the SteamOS 3.2 update bringing full Remote Play Together compatibility for the Deck too.
Here's what's new in the update:
Remote Play
- Greatly improved desktop capture quality on Windows, now supporting variable framerates
- Fixed crash on Windows when the stream resolution is changed
- Fixed streaming connections failing after Steam has been restarted
- Fixed Remote Play Together dialogs occasionally not resizing correctly
- Fixed color quality when streaming from Linux to Steam Deck
macOS/Linux
- Fixed game install/update failing for Steam libraries installed on a filesystem that does not support preallocation (e.g. ExFAT, FAT32)
Nice to see the Linux fixes there too, another reason to love the Steam Deck as it means other parts of Steam / Linux keep getting fixed up.
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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Quoting: slaapliedjeQuoting: BeamboomWhy not use ntfs?When you own a Linux, Mac and Windows machines, plus various old computers with USB ports running outdated operating systems like OS/2... Fat32 is still the most universally supported filesystem next to FAT16/FAT12 (which of course has a lot more limitations in partition sizes etc.)
If you have a museum of various devices all over the house ;) , it makes sense to use a very old file system as the common denominator.
I just have a very strong suspicion that a lot of those who today use fat32 just use it out of old habit to transfer/share files between two relatively new OSes.
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UDF should be supported everywhere, it's a ISO standard :P
If you only use Linux, I'd format a sd card as F2FS. Otherwise exFAT or FAT32.
Back to the streaming, steam+wayland+pipewire has been broken for a while... :/
Last edited by MayeulC on 2 June 2022 at 11:22 am UTC
If you only use Linux, I'd format a sd card as F2FS. Otherwise exFAT or FAT32.
Back to the streaming, steam+wayland+pipewire has been broken for a while... :/
Last edited by MayeulC on 2 June 2022 at 11:22 am UTC
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slaapliedje Jun 2, 2022
What I find irritating sometimes is that I'm so used to Linux pretty much supporting just about every file system under the sun (sadly not PFS3 or SFS from the Amiga world, even though PFS3 is open source), and yet macOS barely supports it's own file system... by this I mean it's semi-case sensitive by default (meaning you can name files upper/lower case, but they're the same file if you mix/mash, so rsync can get really confused...) and to switch it to case sensitive, you have to format...
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Quoting: BeamboomEven using Fat32 doesn't make everything perfect, mind you. Every time I plug a Linux-formatted Fat32 USB into my Windows computer at work, it bitches that there's a problem with it and asks if it should fix it. I ignore that and it works fine, but if you ever get this, be warned: Do not let Windows try to fix the USB. It will ruin it.Quoting: slaapliedjeQuoting: BeamboomWhy not use ntfs?When you own a Linux, Mac and Windows machines, plus various old computers with USB ports running outdated operating systems like OS/2... Fat32 is still the most universally supported filesystem next to FAT16/FAT12 (which of course has a lot more limitations in partition sizes etc.)
If you have a museum of various devices all over the house ;) , it makes sense to use a very old file system as the common denominator.
I just have a very strong suspicion that a lot of those who today use fat32 just use it out of old habit to transfer/share files between two relatively new OSes.
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slaapliedje Jun 2, 2022
Quoting: Purple Library GuyYou know what I hate are the extra files that the operating systems insist on putting there. Linux (depending on desktop) is just as guilty of it as Windows and macOS.Quoting: BeamboomEven using Fat32 doesn't make everything perfect, mind you. Every time I plug a Linux-formatted Fat32 USB into my Windows computer at work, it bitches that there's a problem with it and asks if it should fix it. I ignore that and it works fine, but if you ever get this, be warned: Do not let Windows try to fix the USB. It will ruin it.Quoting: slaapliedjeQuoting: BeamboomWhy not use ntfs?When you own a Linux, Mac and Windows machines, plus various old computers with USB ports running outdated operating systems like OS/2... Fat32 is still the most universally supported filesystem next to FAT16/FAT12 (which of course has a lot more limitations in partition sizes etc.)
If you have a museum of various devices all over the house ;) , it makes sense to use a very old file system as the common denominator.
I just have a very strong suspicion that a lot of those who today use fat32 just use it out of old habit to transfer/share files between two relatively new OSes.
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catbox_fugue Jun 6, 2022
Quoting: JuliusThere is exFat these days. Works the same but doesn't have the limitations of Fat32.
im not sure if you can change the block size of exfat
so if you use exfat on a 2TB drive, the minimum block size is 2MB
that means any file that is 1byte - 2.0MB in size on the disk is using the full 2MB
on a much smaller 32GB sdcard, exfat blocksize is a much more managable 32KB
for fat32 one minor issue is the 4GB file limit. many games include a single file that can be over 10GB in size
... or a bluray rip of 40GB ... lets see you put that on a fat32 disk
ive gone full ext4, no issues. no complaints. maybe its not the best for what i need but its what im going to continue using.
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catbox_fugue Jun 6, 2022
also according to the steamos cloud repository for source code
its using linux kernel 5.13
its using linux kernel 5.13
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slaapliedje Jun 8, 2022
Quoting: catbox_fuguealso according to the steamos cloud repository for source code5.13.0-valve15-1-neptune-02197-gf6ec7ad3762a
its using linux kernel 5.13
In case you wanted to know EXACTLY what the beta one is. Haha
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