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No, you'll need Proton.

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Oh for the good old days of community-ran servers with local admins and kick-votes.
Sure, there were still dodgy players and servers out there, but you'd just flag them as such in your server browser software (<3 All-Seeing Eye.)
Over time, you'd build up a list of trusted community servers with great and reactive local admins.

This is what we've sacrificed by allowing publishers to take the server executables out of our hands, all for "convenience", "persistence", "leaderboards" and "achievements."

I'll stop yelling at clouds now.

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So... It will be a native Linux version?

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Is there any indication of this working differently than Waydroid when it comes to ARM-only APKs ? Currently on Waydroid, only x64 APKs work, ARM ones work only after installing an inadequate emulator.

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I saw one comment... it could be a great way to bring a lot of streaming apps like Netflix to the Steam Machine as well. People might want that.

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This is very nice to see, even with such lower numbers, the trend is obvious and I have no doubt it will increase more for December, but for the non gaming people, I gotta say, remember WSL 2 it's getting better everyday, and it's already super stable, also I have a feeling MS is getting married with Canonical... my 2 cents.

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They're definitely having fun with the logo:
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And from the current [compatibility list](https://steamdb.info/app/3043620/info/) we see that they've been testing at least those through Waydroid:
- Labogrammetry (no idea what that is)
- [Moss II](https://store.steampowered.com/app/2059670/Moss_Book_II/)
- [Open Brush](https://store.steampowered.com/app/1634870/Open_Brush/)
- [Pistol Whip 🐸](https://store.steampowered.com/app/1079800/Pistol_Whip/)
- [The Lab](https://store.steampowered.com/app/450390/The_Lab/)

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real heads know this is a reference to the (incredibly underrated) dead free to play game, veiled experts.

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Quoting: amataiThat's like 4 millions monthly active users. That's too low to make Linux a primary target, but hopefully too high to be dismissed.

And as the Steam Deck sold around 4 millions units and is at 1 million monthly active users, we can extrapolate to 16 millions total Steam Linux user base, which is bigger than Wii U.

That number is massively out of date. We haven't been given a new overall monthly active for years, and since Steam has grown massively - the Linux number is probably more like 8-9 million total.

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THREE POINT TWO PERCENT?! What the heck!
- "We will be more than 1%"
- "We will hit 2%"
- "We are now more than 3%"!

Proton, Steam Deck, PC gaming handhelds showing Linux distros working better on them than Windows, the end of Windows 10, Recall, Co-Pilot, etc... all aspects to our benefits. Wow... more than 3 percent.

Okay, next goal: Windows drops below 90%

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I am not sure if it matters any more.
There are practically no Linux games out there.
A lot of franchises that had linux(bad ones at that) ports - became windows only with proton.
I suppose it only matters for proton, there is more initiative to make proton better as result.

As a point and click, CRPG and puzzle game player, I still got more native games to play than I would ever find time to do so.

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I am not sure if it matters any more.
There are practically no Linux games out there.
A lot of franchises that had linux(bad ones at that) ports - became windows only with proton.
I suppose it only matters for proton, there is more initiative to make proton better as result.

Of course it matters! I get to use Linux and play games. And there are thousands of native games out there. Not many big-budget ones, but I can live with that. I don't buy AAA anyway, unless it's old and cheap as chips.

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I am not sure if it matters any more.
There are practically no Linux games out there.
A lot of franchises that had linux(bad ones at that) ports - became windows only with proton.
I suppose it only matters for proton, there is more initiative to make proton better as result.

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Growth with Bazzite, Mint and Cachy shows that there are lots of new users joining i guess. Since those are distros i see recommended the most on the interwebs

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That's like 4 millions monthly active users. That's too low to make Linux a primary target, but hopefully too high to be dismissed.

And as the Steam Deck sold around 4 millions units and is at 1 million monthly active users, we can extrapolate to 16 millions total Steam Linux user base, which is bigger than Wii U.

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And yet we can't see if the Windows 10 End of Support has given any effect. I doubt it, but it would be interesting to see.

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Further links and resources can be found on the official website:
[https://icculus.org/~hamish/retro/part48.html](https://icculus.org/~hamish/retro/part48.html)

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Debian is back in town!

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While 3.2 is still a very small percentage, the clear upward trend should make people at Microsoft nervous. Awesome news!

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I love winning!

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That music is really thumpin. Reminds me of the MOD/S3M tracker days.
Now I'm suddenly looking for more

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I think I liked the previous ones that have so many low profile game better. That always lead me to discover some gems. Since last year, they put fewer but more recognized games like every other bundles. Tons of curated obscure games was the way to go.

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I love this distribution, it runs so nice even on my Legion 5 Pro (AMD/NVIDIA Hybrid). At best i would consider myself as an experienced user, not an expert. But i really can get things done on Endeavour, and i have a good chance to solve problems. I like how you get ushered a bit to use the terminal, so i slowly generate more experience. It is so solid that i will use it for a new PC build that i do for my eldest son, who was on Mint so far.
So i will have to donate to KDE and Endeavour once again. :)

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To play this game you also need
You must own ONE of the following games:

S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl - Standard Edition

OR
S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Prypiat - Enhanced Edition

I have every stalker game in steam...

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Btw, this version has improved videos handling. Now NightDive logo video in System Shock remake works properly.

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This is good for people who want a basically pre-setup arch but NOT a fully 'tweaked' version like CachyOS.

I used it before CachyOS. if your aware of all the additional stuff you may need to tweak, its pretty good base.

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Quoting: Lofty

Arch is catered towards people who like using the terminal, who are willing to read manpages, documentation, wiki pages, etc. to administer their systems

Lets not make out like Arch is for super technical linux experts. It's not, it's more geared towards the kind of person who want to think they are. I mean, why not use Gentoo and get really into the weeds.


we miss you Sabayon , come back !

Being able to use a terminal doesn't make you an expert. Being disinclined to use a terminal makes you indisposed to be an Arch Linux user.

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It's called “RISC OS”. Correct in the article, wrong in the title.

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As for the Steam Deck they said they don't have the ability to test it right now

idk ..Buy a steamdeck ?

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Arch is catered towards people who like using the terminal, who are willing to read manpages, documentation, wiki pages, etc. to administer their systems

Lets not make out like Arch is for super technical linux experts. It's not, it's more geared towards the kind of person who want to think they are. I mean, why not use Gentoo and get really into the weeds.


we miss you Sabayon , come back !

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