So I just had my "Little Nightmares (Enhanced Edition)" license revoked by steam without any reason. No e-mail, no nothing. Just a pop-up on Steam... =/
Now the Humble Bundle page isn't listing it.

Update:
Apparently the whole game was pulled from Steam.

Update Update:
Now it looks as though the original "Little Nightmares" listing is including the information for the "Enhanced Edition"? Perhaps they're just tacking it on to the original?

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Quoting: Pyretic

Quoting: reedloveWhen the high 90th percentile of everything else graphics related works just fine on NVIDIA hardware, there's no excuse.

Honestly that's fair. They may not be as good as AMD but supposedly they work just fine. I think that they just don't want to encourage NVIDIA's laziness when it comes to Linux drivers. It's not a good excuse but AMD is their main focus now and I don't believe that they're working on a general SteamOS release right now.

I'm fine with them not focusing on a generic Steam OS for all hardware right now, BUT, **Steam**, >>> THE CLIENT <<<, is still being pushed to the masses as though it were production software.

This isn't something that's being whittled away at by unpaid software developers in the open source community... This is a commercial product/platform that folks spend tons of money on that in many cases only provides you a "license" to play purchased games and software that could be yanked away from you at any time in the event that a publisher gets bought out or folds...

This also isn't an issue with Proton Compatibility etc., which is an insanely complex beast, this is a NATIVE feature for their NATIVE client on Linux.

I think that NVIDIA users have been more than patient. If you're not gonna play nice with everyone at the park then put up some big warning signs all over your platform saying "WE DON'T SUPPORT NVIDIA GPUs ON LINUX", but they're not going to do that, because then they'd alienate a good chunk of an already small segment. If they really love Linux, then they should be inclusive, especially if we're giving them our money. What they shouldn't be doing is using their position of power to publicly neglect a segment of the Linux community, regardless of circumstances.

If they don't want to provide a good work around for the client in the interim, then they can pool their resources in to making the open source NVIDIA kernel module conformant to their specifications and invest in the MESA NVIDIA Vulkan implementation.

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I also get that VALVE could be spanking NVIDIA for their bad behavior and bad driver development practices by not doing whatever it takes to make gamepad ui work well on NVIDIA graphics cards. They probably think that if NVIDIA users get pissed off enough that they'll go complain to NVIDIA until NVIDIA fixes it. I am not a driver developer, however, I do know enough about the software stacks involved to know that VALVE could totally come up with an interim solution until NVIDIA Proprietary, or NVIDIA Open, drivers are in the state they want them to be.

At this point in time they're just punishing their end-users.

When the high 90th percentile of everything else graphics related works just fine on NVIDIA hardware, there's no excuse.

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Quoting: Pyretic

Quoting: reedloveI do feel like at some point they need to stop blaming NVIDIA drivers for the crappy performance of Gamepad UI. Honestly, it feels intentional at this point.

Considering that ChimeraOS has also given up on NVIDIA, I'm not sure Valve is exaggerating.

Considering that ChimeraOS is using VALVE's gamepad ui, which is the culprit P.S., they absolutely could be exaggerating.
Honestly, if the NVIDIA drivers are good enough to play most modern 3D games with good performance etc., rendering a 2D GUI, regardless of whether or not it's using 3D acceleration to do so, should not perform as badly as it does.

Think about it.

Edit:
And it could just be that VALVE is focusing on AMD because that's what's driving the Steam Deck. I understand that, because they need to make sure that their hardware is working as well as possible.
However, is it also fair to say that if they're going to release Steam for general Linux distributions, and make money off of it *regardless of the market size, yadda yadda*, shouldn't a product that isn't explicitly listed as being beta quality work?
When Gamepad UI first came out, I totally had no problem with it not working out of the box. The Linux graphics stack has been in a state of great transition. I get that, but how long has the damned thing been out???
If the VALVE software engineers can continue to crank out all of the lovely things that they do for Linux, thank you VALVE, shouldn't getting a major feature that ships with their software working smoothly be a priority? NVIDIA users aren't just a tiny segment of the Linux community. If anything, I feel like it's exclusionary to a degree.

Am I being unfair??

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Gamescope does everything!!!
Except work on NVIDIA cards.... -_-

Edit:
Or maybe that's just gamepad ui under a gamescope wayland session.

Either way, the state of Gamepad UI on NVIDIA GPUs is garbage. I absolutely appreciate everything that VALVE has done for Linux, 100%, but I do feel like at some point they need to stop blaming NVIDIA drivers for the crappy performance of Gamepad UI. Honestly, it feels intentional at this point.

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So I've been using Linux Mint *Cinnamon Edition* for well over a year now, coming from Arch with Gnome. In terms of file operations etc., I probably use the terminal for ~98% of everything that I do. When it comes to desktop/GUI stuff, Linux Mint Cinnamon is a super polished/consistent/intuitive experience that doesn't get in your way with a bunch of flashy/unnecessary bloat or poorly implemented UX/UI paradigms. Even though I wish that they would move away from leaning on Ubuntu for the base, due to some of the less open practices Canonical are engaged in regarding snaps etc., having that widely supported infrastructure is ultimately beneficial to users on many levels. Luckily they even address the snap issue by disabling snaps by default and are instead embracing the universally inclusive flatpak architecture in addition to tried and true apt repositories. Of course, you can take this all with a grain of salt because it's personal opinion, blah blah blah. =]
I've been kickin' around in Linux since 1999 starting with Red Hat 6/Corel Linux, then Slackware, then Debian, then Ubuntu, Arch, Elementary OS, Arch again, and now Linux Mint. I've used kde/gnome/xfce/enlightenment/openbox/icewm/pantheon/gnustep and many others.
I feel like I finally found in Mint and Cinnamon a great balance between having a really good/nice, stable end-user experience for daily computing needs while still retaining the power and versatility that Linux provides.
Just my two cents. *shrug*

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Congratulations Liam! Very very cool. =]

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Quoting: Klaas

Quoting: reedloveI also uploaded those to virustotal. Neither file showed as being malicious.

Serious question. Can virustotal detect Linux malware? And if it does, does it know how to deal with AppImages?

Good question. I do know that several of the antivirus products they run through support Linux and detect Linux malware. Now, it also seems promising that virus total appears to be trying to run it through a virtual machine in addition to doing the regular scan, which makes me think that it is aware that it's an elf, binary and executable. Now, I don't know enough about the app image format, I know that it's a disk image of some sort with an executable attached to it to mount it and execute the main application. I'm not sure as to what file system it uses in the disk image.

Regardless, I never claimed that virus total was 100% foolproof. None of that stuff can keep up with zero day exploits and malware etc. It's something at least. =]

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Quoting: GuestUgh, can someone please re-post the Discord-walled download link for the latest version?

Agreed, because it automatically signs you in to their chat room etc.. Yuck...
Anway, here you go!

Linux / SteamDeck (Perfomance Build): https://downloads.shipofharkinian.com/SoH-Gibbs-Alfa-Linux-Performance.zip [External Link]
Linux (Compatibility Build): https://downloads.shipofharkinian.com/SoH-Gibbs-Alfa-Linux-Compatibility.zip [External Link]

I also uploaded those to virustotal. Neither file showed as being malicious.

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Now THOSE are eggrolls! ;D
<3

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