The main thing of value here seems to be the Itch integration. Though not for me -- I isolate itch in a separate container home because of its annoying `~/.itch` folder, so things probably won't work well unless I install this in a container as well.

Personally, my main reason for using Launchers are to track playtime and integrate with Steam. Steam is already my "one-stop" launcher, and I'd rather integrate other launchers to Steam than the opposite. For non-Steam games, though, they don't have a playtime tracker, so that's why I use Lutris (emulator games) and Heroic (Wine, GOG, Epic).

So, this one seems kinda redundant, but I know that the Gnome and Libadwaita crowds wants everything in that aesthetics, so I'm also unsurprised.

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GOG is pointless to me. Why would I buy such expensive stuff compared to Steam? Evenicle was three times the price of the game on Steam. There is no regional pricing for my region. At that point, I might as well just pirate the game.

The reason why I buy games is because I want convenience of setting things up and safety of not losing saves. The warm and fuzzy feelings of paying for your stuff is just a bonus. I'm not going to pay 3x the price just because I want to feel good, especially when GOG is a much bigger company than JAST and Kagura Games, yet they managed to figure out regional pricing for SEA region much earlier.

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I actually liked the #1234 system. It means that your username could never be fully taken, you don't have to deal with "@name is taken, so is @name213" issue. And everyone could just change their display name in different servers anyways. I agree with Linus and Luke's question of asking what's the point of this change.

I could understand if they expanded the Nitro benefit to being able to have the "@name" handle without needing to use #1234, but still enabling the "@name#1234" system for new users and plebs. It makes economic sense. But changing the whole system? What's the point? The current system works.

I'd rather see a less casual spin of Discord. Make it paid, or whatever, I like Discord's backend, I just want something that is actually more oriented towards work and non-casual interaction, like Skype or whatever.

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Quoting: EikeI got the feeling though the autoplay option would switch itself every other week...

Yeah, I'm pretty sure as well. I do disable autoplay by default on my browser, but the problem is that, without disabling autoplay, Steam defaults to showing the trailer even if it doesn't play.

Usually I just can't be arsed to change it again, I only ever change it when I'm doing initial logins after distro-hopping.

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I honestly just disable the autoplay and never look at the trailer. Years of various online stores' videos have taught me that most of the time they waste a lot of time and aren't very informative.

They really should just apply TikTok/Shorts video principles to store trailer -- make them short, to the point, and interesting immediately and throughout.

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Quoting: ripper81358

Quoting: pete910Well just tried AV1 via GPU encode on my 6800xt seems to work fine. No option to use AV1 when streaming though.

Having said that do YT/twitch support streaming AV1 ?

How did you do that? RX 6000 series GPU'S do not support AV1 encoding. RDNA 2 is limited to AV1 decoding only as far as i know. Also AV1 encoding is not supported by MESA VAAPI as of now.

Yeah, AFAIK only RDNA3 (RX 7*000s) supports hardware encoding for AV1. RDNA2 / RX 6*000s is decode only. There's been some major support for AV1 recently, though I can't remember if it was for Mesa, vaapi, or ffmpeg. But all those three probably need to be sorted out first before we can use AV1 hardware encoding.

Legitimately, this is why I'm just patiently waiting for any upgrading. By the time that a decent RX 7600 board is cheap enough for me to buy here, most of these stuff should be sorted out enough for public testing.

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Quoting: HighballIf you close steam
run this command  
sed -i -e '/SurveyDate/ s/"[0-9].*"/"'$(date +%Y-%m-%d -d "1 year ago")'"/' ~/.steam/steam/config/config.vdf
Then reopen steam
You will get a steam survey.

I would prefer the login and playtime data as well. Hit me up Valve; I can make this happen for you.

Yeah, this works -- even though I'm using steam in a container. I wish they could just do it every three months -- at least for Linux users. I think that's a reasonable time between distro-hopping and stuff, so that the Linux distro division remains fresh.

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I hope Valve release SteamOS officially for end-user and OEM soon. I don't really care who makes the hardware, I just want them to use SteamOS and Linux by-default.

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I was about to ask for Nobara as well, since it's currently the distro in my PC as well. Though, there's also been a lot of new distro making a splash as of late -- Vanilla OS, blendOS, Pika OS, Cachy OS, and others. Do we have a criteria for what distro can be added/requested to be added?

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Quoting: pentarctagonI think I want the technical description then? What measures are used to determine that "the app is published on Flathub by its original developer or a third party approved by the developer"?

I think it's domain ownership? Similar to how they base the top level domain in their tld.packager.package format name for flatpak apps.

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