More options are great, but somehow I feel this will be used to tackle AMD, and NVIDIA will remain unchallenged.

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Running Linux on Apple hardware has always been a quirky endeavor. Every time I try it, there's something uniquely non-stadard and almost compatible, but not quite. Then it would randomly forget which drive is a boot drive, mess up NVRAM, or something else to ruin the day.

In my experience it is just not worth the hassle.

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Quoting: RoosterI would be interested to know, why don't they use a Docker-like container instead of VM? Seems to me like quite a big waste of resources to use a full fledged VM.

It is more akin to a docker container than a VM

Well, depends on the definition of a container. Docker runs a single isolated process, but still on the host kernel. Crostini runs a full-blown system, including a guest kernel. See this presentation at FOSDEM [External Link] for more details.

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In case you are wondering why is this such a big task getting Steam to run on Chrome OS, it is because Google paranoidly insists that all Linux (non-Chrome OS) applications need to run inside a VM. They spent an enormous amount of effort just poking holes in their VM trying to get basic stuff like copy/paste between Chrome OS and guest Linux working. They don't even want Linux applications to talk to Chrome OS kernel directly.

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I like that the overview is less loaded with different widgets.

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Considering all the free games Epic have been handing out over the last year, I've no doubt plenty of you have been logging into EGS just to claim them so this will hopefully help some of our readers get the most of of gaming on their Linux box.

Nah. The best thing about Proton and Steam is that they made Wine fun again. Tinkering with DLL overrides, and dealing with quirks of Windows software on Linux has never been appealing to me. Not even if the games are for free.

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Apple has been alienating game developers for a while now. You can use Vulkan on Windows, Linux, Android, but have to use Metal on Apple devices. Then you also have to get expensive dedicated hardware, sign developer agreements, and jump through other hoops for the privilege of being allowed on their platform.

You either go all-in with Apple, or you really have to carefully consider if it is worth it? Even though Apple still has a cult following in the developer community, I think they are hugely overestimating just how far are people willing to follow them.

In the end, if Apple doesn't care about gaming, why should game devs care about Apple?

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My wishlist for 2021:

• Native Wayland support in Wine/Proton
• Gamescope maturing and being integrated into Steam
• Mainstream adoption of Pipewire
• Steam Controller 2

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Quoting: fubenalvoThe game mostly made in free time, after work. Two of us working on it. Sadly we have no budget for a bigger testing team, so we are using our players for that.

Hi there. That's perfectly understandable, and you reaching out is appreciated. Let me get back to you with a bit more information after the smoke from all the fireworks has settled down. :smile:

Happy New Year! :grin:

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It's a REALLY early version from what I have seen. Controller support is partial at best, menus are clunky, and my ship would just randomly fall into the abyss right at the start without any explanation of what is happening or what I should be doing.

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