I miss the original Asus Eee PC. Something in similar size and powered by ARM would be great.

As long as you can live without proprietary applications like Skype, and basically all the games, it would be a perfect on-the-go machine for a Linux user. There are already a bunch of distributions supporting ARM, so there wouldn't even be that big of a difference.

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Unfortunately nothing really fixed for me. Video options still don't persist, shadows and ligting are sometimes bugged, and of course occasional crashes. :cry:

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I am pretty sure that Valve would never put anything about XOrg or Wayland on the store page. It's way too technical and is an implementation detail that users should really not care about. Whether it's native or Proton, XOrg or Wayland, it should just work. And it will, given a bit of time.

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It's not much more expensive than a Raspberry Pi 4 (4GB) + a keyboard. Of course you still need a power supply, a mouse, and a bunch of adapters and cables. But you need that for the normal Raspberry Pi as well.

I was considering a similar setup for trips where I would not want to bring a laptop, but that never happened due to practical consideration. While most hotels have a TV with HDMI input, it may not be easily accessible. Also the location of the TV may not be very practical itself. In real world a smartphone can do basically the same, plus more.

Also it's not like any of us will be traveling anywhere anytime soon... :unsure:

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Quoting: GuestSo would this help with old SDL games? When those go to full screen, they change the desktop resolution, which makes **** kwin re-shuffle all windows on all screens. At least for me, this is a major PITA :sad:

It should. Definitely worth a shot. Do you have an example of a game that does this?

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Quoting: minidouI still don't understand what a user is supposed to make of "Steam Linux Runtime".

Not so much right now. Although it is already useful for getting games like Dying Light to work properly.

The whole idea is to give a stable runtime environment to the game developers where you don't need to care about what distribution is the game run on, or that upgrades to the system would break something. It is essentially a Linux compatibility layer for Linux to address the main argument a lot of people have against Linux - fragmentation.

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Valves dedication to Linux is like nothing we have ever seen before. Makes one wonder if they are preparing for something big, or just expect organic growth of the platform? The elephant in the room is that they are the only major player that have not launched a streaming service, but seem to have all the ingredients for it.

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Digital Restrictions Management or Direct Rendering Manager? I think soon we will need new names for things in this brave new world. :whistle:

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I was one of the early adopters, and got myself a Vega 56 when it came out. Was a bit rough in the beginning, but it literally is a plug'n'play experience now. Just install Linux and enjoy. Moreover, it is getting better almost every day. Games that were barely running when I first got it are butter smooth now, all thanks to the steady flow of Mesa, ACO, Proton, and kernel driver upgrades.

Funny how AMD drivers are better on Linux than on Windows. They should just do the reverse NVIDIA and put the Mesa stack on Windows, and open-source their Windows driver.

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I am not sure I understand it correctly. Is he implying that the streamers did not pay for the game they are streaming? As in piracy? Or does he want people to pay extra to be able to stream?

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