Quoting: TheSHEEEPor the claim is indeed baseless - which I still think is unlikely because why make an entirely baseless claim to waste your time and money (lawyers, etc.) with?

Indeed, why? To find the reason, follow the money. Who paid the lawyers preparing the lawsuit? Some five random indie guys? I doubt it. :whistle:

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That part: "keep the price of their games the same on Steam as other platforms" can be understood in two different manners.
1. Valve doesn't want the game to be available cheaper elsewhere.
2. Valve doesn't want the devs to take advantage of Steam's popularity and price the games higher on that platform.

If there was no such clause, who wants to bet if the games would be cheaper on other stores or just more expensive on Steam? :whistle:

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Quoting: MrKiasuThe better conspiracy theory is Tencent == Epic investor == force all Klei games to be EGS exclusive == no more linux.

Probably not all, but the next release - very likely.

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More single-player games from Valve, yes please! :wub:

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Great game, but I have it on Amiga and the DOS port is probably inferior. :tongue:

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Quoting: alkazarIt is possible to use Stadia and also probably GFN through Chromium installed via Flatpak. The downside is the Flatpak version of Chromium cannot access gamepads. For some reason native Chromium fails to run on GamerOS and Google refuses to let you login via Steam's built-in browser.

I tried to install chromium using the instructions from github, but it didn't work (didn't show up in steam buddy). But since, as you say, I wouldn't be able to use a controller, then it's useless anyway, as it's a couch gaming pc used mainly by the kids and they wanted GFN to try Fortnite and Stadia for Crayta.

Sorry to hear you had a poor experience with GamerOS. /etc is read-write so you can definitely add additional disks.

Well I couldn't create any mount-points in /opt or /mnt so I didn't go as far as modifying fstab but if it's writable then it should be fine, thanks.

We are looking into ways to make that kind of use case work out of the box. The goal of GamerOS is to be a plug and play system, sometimes that means sacrificing some use cases, at least in the short term.

I understand the primary goal but I guess for me it's far too restricted and therefore frustrating. SteamOS isn't perfect but I like it better, because I was able to just fix stuff like outdated drivers (to play Hitman 2) or install java and Minecraft (btw I appreciate it's far easier via SteamBuddy but I really don't like flatpak...). So I'd say GamerOS serves its goal of being a console-like experience rather well, I just didn't like that experience. :whistle:

BTW Two other issues I had: 1) installer would hang when booted in UEFI mode, I had to switch to "plain" boot to even install the system; 2) no sound; 3) when playing today, the system just went to sleep (suspend) a few times for some unknown reason...

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Quoting: pbI will probably try this on my old machine, but before I erase SteamOS :cry: , can anyone confirm that Stadia and GeForceNow work fine on GamerOS with xbox controllers? I couldn't get them to work in SteamOS' browser, I guess it's too old.

I'll answer myself. It's not possible to use Stadia or GFN on GamerOS, because, like SteamOS, it only has the internal Steam browser, with no way to install Chrome or Chromium, so neither of the services work. My overall experience with installation and 3h usage of GamerOS has been rather terrible, worse than SteamOS anyway. With the system being read-only I had no way of modifying any launch settings, such as mounting another disk, where I have all the games installed. I'm sure it's better than SteamOS in subtle ways, such as newer drivers and more games working, thanks to compositor fixes (like Dead Cells), but for me it's fundamentally broken, it might have been the first way I had a worse experience with a Linux distro than with Windows. :neutral:

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I might get it on Stadia if they support importing progress from the Steam versions of Hitman 1 & 2, otherwise I'll probably just wait a year and buy it on Steam.

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I will probably try this on my old machine, but before I erase SteamOS :cry: , can anyone confirm that Stadia and GeForceNow work fine on GamerOS with xbox controllers? I couldn't get them to work in SteamOS' browser, I guess it's too old.

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"Find Quake II RTX on Steam with the first three levels free, the rest available if you buy Quake 2 directly."

So if I have Quake 2 on Steam, then I can play the whole game in Quake II RTX (with RTX enabled etc.)?

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