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Amazon Luna cloud gaming launches in Canada, Germany and the UK
22 Mar 2023 at 4:47 pm UTC Likes: 2
22 Mar 2023 at 4:47 pm UTC Likes: 2
Quoting: Liam DaweNile?Quoting: GuestNo way to play amazon prime games?That's an entirely separate thing. There is an in-progress app for Linux from the community, but I can never remember the name.
Big Ambitions drops Native Linux support shortly after the Steam release
21 Mar 2023 at 4:06 pm UTC Likes: 11
21 Mar 2023 at 4:06 pm UTC Likes: 11
Quoting: InhaleOblivionAnyone of us who has used Linux for years prior to the advances of gaming understands why those of us who are lifelong gamers have two PC builds.Nope. Gaming every single day for ~35 years, using Linux for ~20 years. If a game doesn't work on Linux, I'm not interested in it.
Big Ambitions drops Native Linux support shortly after the Steam release
21 Mar 2023 at 4:03 pm UTC Likes: 5
21 Mar 2023 at 4:03 pm UTC Likes: 5
On this game in particular, I think their realising they'd bitten off more than they can chew, early, and giving refunds to their affected customers, is over all a good thing. Upping their skill levels so they could provide a well-supported product would be better (and would help their development on their other platforms), but limping along selling a badly-supported product under false pretences would be much worse.
Big Ambitions drops Native Linux support shortly after the Steam release
21 Mar 2023 at 3:59 pm UTC Likes: 4
21 Mar 2023 at 3:59 pm UTC Likes: 4
Quoting: TermyNot great - but as the explicitly said they will make sure it is tested on proton, i'm halfway fine with that.Exactly halfway for me: explicitly having Proton as a development and testing target means that I'd get a game at 50% off, rather than at full price if they'd had Linux as a development and testing target.
Canonical want help testing their Steam snap package for Ubuntu
18 Mar 2023 at 6:44 pm UTC Likes: 8
Red Hat revenue 2021: $5.6 billion.
Gee, I wonder why Red Hat may be able to do more than Canonical can.
18 Mar 2023 at 6:44 pm UTC Likes: 8
Quoting: slaapliedjeThe scale difference of how much Red hat improves Linux as a whole vs how much Ubuntu does is kind of staggering.Canonical revenue 2021: $93 million.
Red Hat revenue 2021: $5.6 billion.
Gee, I wonder why Red Hat may be able to do more than Canonical can.
Canonical want help testing their Steam snap package for Ubuntu
18 Mar 2023 at 11:09 am UTC Likes: 4
18 Mar 2023 at 11:09 am UTC Likes: 4
Quoting: Purple Library Guyslaapliedje might be overstating, but so are you.Nope. The bullshit from the tinfoil hat-wearing 4chan/Reddit/Phoronix crowd is bullshit. If you want to use snaps, use snaps; if you don't want to use snaps, don't use snaps. Either way, snaps resolving their issues is a good thing.
Canonical want help testing their Steam snap package for Ubuntu
18 Mar 2023 at 2:07 am UTC Likes: 7
Snaps only come from one place to solve the discovery issue that PPAs have, and which Fedora users experience from flatpaks where they have access to some flatpaks but not all of them. All the snaps are available in one place - accessible by default for Ubuntu users and trivial to add for users of other distros (except Mint, who put up additional barriers in the way of user choice).
18 Mar 2023 at 2:07 am UTC Likes: 7
Quoting: slaapliedjeEvery corporation has an agenda... to make money. Canonical's best way to make money is to try to get as much vendor lock-in that they can, without pissing off the community enough that someone switches to a different distro. Snap and them being the only ones who can host a snap store is their method of lock-in.That's just nonsense. Canonical make zero money from desktop Ubuntu users. They make money, like Red Hat/IBM do, by offering paid support and services. Snaps make that hugely easier for their actual customers, and for themselves as maintainers. They might also have made money from the Ubuntu Phone, which snaps were largely created for, but they ran out of money before that could become a thing.
Snaps only come from one place to solve the discovery issue that PPAs have, and which Fedora users experience from flatpaks where they have access to some flatpaks but not all of them. All the snaps are available in one place - accessible by default for Ubuntu users and trivial to add for users of other distros (except Mint, who put up additional barriers in the way of user choice).
Canonical want help testing their Steam snap package for Ubuntu
17 Mar 2023 at 10:13 pm UTC Likes: 1
17 Mar 2023 at 10:13 pm UTC Likes: 1
Quoting: soulsourceA Mozilla developer posted about Snap (and Flatpak) just recently, and I think it's a very interesting read.Especially since it was Mozilla that asked Canonical to replace the repository version of Firefox with the snap.
Steam Deck hitting retail in Hong Kong, Taiwan and later Japan and South Korea
17 Mar 2023 at 1:56 pm UTC
We can estimate (assuming that all Deck users are active, because they've just bought a new shiny, and that one hardware sample = one user, which isn't realistic but getting better than that approximation would be super hard) that the total active Steam Linux user base is five times larger than the number of Decks sold, since SteamOS is only 20% of the distros sampled by the survey, and the total active Steam user base is 80 times bigger than that. You get a similar Steam Deck is 1/400th of the Steam user base estimate if you look at the GPU stats: the Deck's GPU is 0.27% of the GPUs surveyed.
17 Mar 2023 at 1:56 pm UTC
Quoting: Purple Library GuyWell, sure, but the existing Linux bit of that 132 million is a titch over 1%, so like 1.5 million, max. A couple of million units would more than double that. So I would have expected if sales were high, the variations in the sampling would not normally be enough to make Linux numbers actually fall.No. The 132 million is the number of users that were on Steam in a particular month, not the total number of users. The total number of users is higher, but how much higher only Valve knows, and to estimate how much higher you'd need a model of which proportion of users would be online in a particular month, which we also don't have.
We can estimate (assuming that all Deck users are active, because they've just bought a new shiny, and that one hardware sample = one user, which isn't realistic but getting better than that approximation would be super hard) that the total active Steam Linux user base is five times larger than the number of Decks sold, since SteamOS is only 20% of the distros sampled by the survey, and the total active Steam user base is 80 times bigger than that. You get a similar Steam Deck is 1/400th of the Steam user base estimate if you look at the GPU stats: the Deck's GPU is 0.27% of the GPUs surveyed.
Steam Deck hitting retail in Hong Kong, Taiwan and later Japan and South Korea
17 Mar 2023 at 2:37 am UTC
17 Mar 2023 at 2:37 am UTC
Quoting: Purple Library GuyYeah . . . but I was really expecting, given the apparent success of the Steam Deck, that it would kind of swamp all that variability.The Steam user base is huge, with 132 million monthly active users. There are 20 million people on Steam right now. A couple of million units is just a drop in the ocean. If the Steam Deck sold as many as the best selling console ever (PS2, 155 million) to brand new, never on Steam before, customers, the Steam user base would be less than twice as big.
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