I hope I am wrong, but a change in ownership of a popular platform never ended well as far as I can tell/remember.

PayPal is doing better than it would have under Thiel and Musk. Minecraft is doing better than it would have under Notch.

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Valve are probably going to have to do better testing since this

SteamOS:
This game runs successfully on SteamOS

isn't really true. Only Deck. And potentially only LCD Deck if it's like the others that use this anti-cheat.

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Does the 1650 series not count as Pascal?

When Turing came out there was market demand for chips on the new architecture but without ray tracing capability so the price could be lower; that's the 1600 series.

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They still do get the next driver. The next driver series. So I think it sounds more dangerous than it is at the moment.

And the 580 branch will be carried in distro repositories for a very long time, just like all the other legacy branches.

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Does streaming from my main PC count?

It does as far as I'm concerned, but doesn't for Steam's year-end stats.

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What have you been playing recently?

I played through Old Skies, the Wolfenstein games, and Planet of Lana, with a little bit of Tempopo. The little one's played Spyro and Jelly Car Worlds.

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They do give this caveat:

What We Haven’t Tested (Yet)

Desktop Linux distributions other than SteamOS (Ubuntu, Arch, Fedora, etc.)

If you play on a non-Deck Linux PC, we’d love to hear about performance, input quirks, or crashes. Share your feedback using the in-game socials (Gear Icon > Options > Email) or in the Community Hub.

Given that they've only had 7 reviews, this GOL article could make Linux users their majority customer base. It looks pretty cool.

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I think what they really want is to get the discussion going along the lines of "in order to reduce the maintenance burden of 32-bit stuff without losing too much functionality, what would we need to do?"

"The best way to get the right answer on the internet is not to ask a question; it's to post the wrong answer."

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There will also be multiple models of it, not just for different processors but different storage and RAM sizing too.

A confusing number of SKUs is bad in general, but it's particularly going to add more logistics headaches for a small team and will block off the ability to achieve economies of scale. It's more work for less money, which is the opposite of what you'd be hoping for with market segmentation.

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Realistically though, as I pointed out in the initial article covering it on GamingOnLinux, Fedora's user share on Steam is low to the point Valve likely won't care until more distros do it which will delay it even further.

That's not a viable method, either. You can't have lots of distros planning on breaking everything and hope that Valve swoops in as a white knight to fix it - what if they don't? What if they just keep 32-bit on SteamOS and blow out all the seppuku distros?

The method that would work is to continue the approach that Ubuntu took after they got burned by this issue - identify the 32-bit parts that are needed to keep everything working and make sure they keep working. Ideally work with other distros and application developers to make that list get smaller over time rather than bigger. Perhaps they'd ultimately be able to be put in a separate container like snap or flatpak so that all distros could have access to the same set of 32-bit libraries without having to maintain them themselves. Breaking things is a Bad Plan regardless of what Valve does or doesn't do.

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