Linux Steam Integration, the initiative from the Solus distribution developers has a fresh release showing how far their project to improve Steam on Linux has come.
For those not clued up on it: Linux Steam Integration is a project to make Steam games and Linux play together a bit nicer. It comes with various optimizations and workarounds designed to fix issues in Steam and games, resulting in what should be a smoother gaming experience on Linux.
This latest release adds initial snapd support, a workaround for Unity games that give a black screen (solved in later releases of Unity), a massively enhanced "shim" system, enhanced vendoring rules and more. Since they have snapd support, you can now actually install it using Snap packages too (in the edge channel), however you do need a recent very recent version (likely git/unstable/ppa - they don't say specifically) of snapd to install them.
They aren't stopping with improving Steam, they're also looking to work with GOG games in future too, going by what they said in the latest update. Although, if they do that, they're going to need a new name for it…
It's a very ambitious project, one I plan to keep an eye on. Anything that can help improve the gaming experience on Linux has my vote, especially since it should eventually work across all distributions.
See the full release notes here. It's available on GitHub for those who want to dive into the technical side of it.
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
Joeyboots80 Dec 20, 2017
Quoting: liamdaweQuoting: kalinI wouldn't go that far. We have to keep in mind that to question something, isn't necessarily a negative thing. We also have to remember the language barrier, English isn't everyone's first (or even remotely good) language, so people often phrase it in what looks like a rather blunt and direct way.Quoting: no_information_hereNo. Linux people are awful. Someone decide to make something useful or just hobby project and share it with the community and what he take in return is finger pointing, blaming and complaining. I participate in this community from 5 years and I read only negative opinions in forums. Luckily developers are not so easily discouraged .Quoting: kalinThat is a bit harsh. People are trying to understand the motivations behind the project. That should be encouraged.Quoting: ZlopezWhy not using Flatpak instead of snap?Quoting: lucifertdarkWhy not use it as it was intended by Valve & stop messing about with Snap & Flatpack?Why not stop asking stupid questions. It's matter of choice. If you don't like it, just don't use it. Simple as that
Ok I give my apologies for making quick conclusions
Quoting: BrisseAt one point it had a bug which caused Steam to do 'rm -rf ~/' which caused some peoples entire home folders to be removed. It's proprietary software, so can you really trust that it doesn't do anything it's not supposed to?Do you scan the source code of every software you run on your machine for this kind of mistakes before executing something? ;)
Don't get me wrong, this is a bad and serious error that should not happen, but please don't assume that open source software does not contain any not yet known serious mistakes just because it is open source.
Quoting: jensDo you scan the source code of every software you run on your machine for this kind of mistakes before executing something? ;)
Don't get me wrong, this is a bad and serious error that should not happen, but please don't assume that open source software does not contain any not yet known serious mistakes just because it is open source.
Sorry for being unclear, but I meant those as two separate issues. Of course open source software can contain mistakes. Just look at what happened with Ubuntu 17.10 recently which apparently corrupted the UEFI on certain laptop models. Still, I'll take open source before proprietary any day, and if I have the option to sandbox software which I cannot trust 100% then I will take that option.
Quoting: lucifertdarkWhy not use it as it was intended by Valve & stop messing about with Snap & Flatpack?
It's pretty simple:
Solus ships a newer stack, which newer games require. Especially on LTS or similar, that can help a lot (and ye, that is shipped in the snap).
LSI drops out some libraries known to make issues replacing them with certain other versions of libraries which are known to work.
LSI works around known game bugs (as ark: survival evolved water bug, unity blacks screen bug and more).
I personally think LSI should not be required. It shows, it is, because either game devs don't care or Valve is reluctant to update their software stack which would fix known issues.
It is nice that the guys of Solus, or in this case Ikey is putting a lot of effort in making the gaming experience better and easier Linux, creating a stack/snap which game devs could rely on. We'll see if it's picked up or not, meanwhile we're left with the workarounds LSI can do for us.
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Quoting: kalinLinux people are awful.Well that's an awful thing to say, don't you think?
Quoting: kalinI participate in this community from 5 years and I read only negative opinions in forums.See, there's your problem. You should read the positive ones as well.
You might only remember the doomsayers and reactionaries, but to me they seem like the loud minority.
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