I wonder if (although I'm pretty sure the answer is no) the game will go through the Deck verification process again so that it's the Linux version that gets deployed on the Steam Deck. Still, the developers can ask for that to happen.

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Quoting: user1What's interesting from those screenshots is that even though the kernel is still 5.13, AMDGPU version is "DRM 3.45" which is from one of the latest kernels. But yeah, I wonder what prevents Valve from updating the whole kernel.

I suspect that they've got a big directory of patches, and they're finding it less painful in the short term to just add another entry in that directory rather than rebase all of them on a new kernel. They can ask Google about how that works out in the long term, of course.

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Quoting: EikeAh, so I just change it like for a game? Thanks, will find my way around! What a bad default, though...

Yep, really bad decision. In the game interface, in games, and in "lizard mode" of just the controller's firmware when Steam isn't running, clicks are on triggers. Having Steam running makes it rubbish, unless you manually change it to be sensible and consistent with everything else. Hopefully they'll come to their senses at some point. But at least they do provide the option to set it up yourself.

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Quoting: EikeHow do you press the mouse button on desktop mode with SD's own controls? I only know pressing the touchpad, which always makes the cursor move, especially with double clicks..

I changed mine so that clicks are on the triggers, and the left trackpad is scroll wheel. Controller setup in Steam in desktop mode is how you change it to whatever you want.

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Quoting: t3gI guess this screws over Ubuntu 22.04 users unless they upgrade to 22.10, wait for a backport, or move to Pop_OS which has 22.2 and 6.0.6 of the Linux kernel right now.

https://launchpad.net/~graphics-drivers/+archive/ubuntu/ppa [External Link] (actually, the standard repositories carry 520.56.06 without needing the PPA)

https://launchpad.net/~kisak/+archive/ubuntu/kisak-mesa [External Link]

Mesa (and the kernel) will also get standard upgrades on LTS releases following the Hardware Enablement cadence.

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NVIDIA said in the announcement their plan is to also bundle Flow (combustible fluid, fire and smoke simulation) and Blast (a destruction library) which don't depend on PhysX, but they've decided to include that too under the same open source license.

That's nice to see. One of the disappointments of Q2RTX was that when they announced it they showed fluid particle effects for the explosions, but when it got released those had been replaced by sprites because they didn't want to open source those parts. It's good to see developers moving to more open stuff.

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Quoting: g000hOr, is each Device being counted, so I'd count as 6 Linux Steam users according to my machines listed above.

It's a hardware survey, not a user survey. That's six Linux entries. And somewhere out there, there's Wing000h with six Windows entries for their gaming stable. Just part of the statistical noise.

The back-of-the-envelope "active users" guesstimate does assume that users and machines are equivalent, but it's a back-of-the-envelope guesstimate, so what else are you going to do?

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Quoting: AppelsinI think most of the shit Canonical got was due to them literally trying to force you to use the snap, if you wanted to or not. Not because it shipped as a snap, which of course is up to them, but you couldn’t even uninstall it and sudo apt install “normal” Firefox, since *buntu was set up to install the Snap version even if you did the command to install apt/deb version. That, I think, was a mistake on their part, to think would go over well with people.

Which alternative method to you propose to get those users upgrading from a prior release (where the package existed) onto the snap (which is supported) rather than the package (which no longer exists)? Note that your chosen method will need to both be seamless for users and reduce the maintenance burden for the Ubuntu devs.

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Quoting: play0adWe're actually really interested in what it would take to go on Steam properly, and whether we can at all so please get in touch if you know what's required.

It's mostly $100 and agreeing to the Distribution and SDK Access agreements. The rest is mostly best practices stuff: localisation, branding requirements, controller support, stuff like that. The best bet would probably be to talk to other folks that have already done it: Supertux, Blender, RetroArch, are ones that come to mind. For rustling up the $100 you could take donations, potentially with a specific call to action. You might also consider Early Access as an option if you feel the game isn't quite ready yet, although you wouldn't want to stay like that forever.

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Quoting: dziadulewiczIt may work yes, but the thing is it does not launch out of the box clicking Play. We are talking about the desktop here not Steam Deck. The Steam in question is most certainly not flatpak. Check out the discussions on SuperTux on Steam: it's filled with "not launching" or similar threads.

I just tried it on my Linux desktop. Absolutely zero issues out of the box. Hit Install, it installs. Hit Play, and it launches and runs fine.

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