Quoting: GuestIt's all about money to all of them, There's nothing wrong with that.

Disagree.

Quoting: GuestIf Ubisoft really wanted to do something, they'd stop internal employee abuse. Let's not forget what they put the actual devs through to make these games, or just because they can. Ubisoft has to earn my support, starting with removal of company culture of abuse. Then they can talk about earning my support for their games.

Agree.

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Quoting: Solitary

Quoting: LoftyRemote play never fully worked for me. i managed to get a friend to see the video/audio feed but the controllers were never detected. they were on windows and of course i was on Linux ;)
we tried everything. I even tried it on two local machines both connected to the internet, both running Linux on separate steam accounts and nope.. nothing.

it could be my firewall, but id rather not have to open ports to the outside world just to have a (admittedly cool) feature i don't often use. my desktops of course have a standard firewall enabled for good measure but nothing out of the ordinary.

We had similar issues with Remote Play Together like you describe (controller didn't work), and we tried remote playing together using two linux Steam clients, no Windows there. What actually worked in the end was that the other person used the flatpak Steam Link app. Maybe try similar approach, I think Steam Link app should also exist for Windows.

thanks, il give this a try. Id hope that the remote play stuff between steam clients gets fixed for Linux given that there maybe a much more frequent scenario where two steam deck users want to try this.

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Interesting, i wonder if this will create an uptake in appimage's. Given it's self contained ease of use (download and click icon) simulating a feeling of a windows .exe for the normie user.

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Quoting: Mohandevir

Quoting: LoftyRemote play never fully worked for me. i managed to get a friend to see the video/audio feed but the controllers were never detected. they were on windows and of course i was on Linux ;)
we tried everything. I even tried it on two local machines both connected to the internet, both running Linux on separate steam accounts and nope.. nothing.

it could be my firewall, but id rather not have to open ports to the outside world just to have a (admittedly cool) feature i don't often use. my desktops of course have a standard firewall enabled for good measure but nothing out of the ordinary.

There are two concepts here...

"Remote Play" which was originally know as "Steam In-home Streaming" (streaming from one pc to another, locally), but since Valve added the possibility of streaming from your PC to anywhere where you have access to wifi, they changed the name.

The other concept is "Remote Play Together" which is what you seem to be talking about (inviting remote friends to play games that are intended to be played locally) . I'm not sure this thread is about the latter... It doesn't mean that this news doesn't affect both though.

i guess i got confused with all the streaming name changes & updates.

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Remote play never fully worked for me. i managed to get a friend to see the video/audio feed but the controllers were never detected. they were on windows and of course i was on Linux ;)
we tried everything. I even tried it on two local machines both connected to the internet, both running Linux on separate steam accounts and nope.. nothing.

it could be my firewall, but id rather not have to open ports to the outside world just to have a (admittedly cool) feature i don't often use. my desktops of course have a standard firewall enabled for good measure but nothing out of the ordinary.

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Do you have to be in the steam beta in order to run the correct version of proton experimental ? I have the regular steam client running experimental and two games i have tried (hitman:absolution & GRID2) don't launch.

i wonder how long it will be until CEG gets into the regular experimental branch? I don't want to run the steam beta as i have had issues with it in the past.

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyLately I'm seeing a marked return to the old days of seeing Microsoft as the dangerous enemy and nasty monopolist that I personally have considered it all along. I wonder why?

Because you were right all along.

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This game + steamdeck = comfytime ☕

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Quoting: GuestI'm curious though I doubt we can ever fully know, how bad is this Proton/WINE implementation of EAC security/privacy-wise?

Quoting: CorbenSame, I'm also wondering how effective EAC on Linux is, if it's not running on Kernel level as it does on Windows.

il third that concern.

for me it's creating a situation where by i have to consider running a dedicated Linux gaming machine
((as afaik some implementations have been known to be looking through browser data, indexing file names, ip logging, sniffing packets, hardware ID data-basing etc.. and having complete machine control while the game runs)).

And then i have to potentially use another machine for even casual consumption or when im dealing with sensitive files / productivity, where as now it's all on one machine. Of course the steam deck satisfies this requirement.. that would be if it was actually more powerful than a dedicated midrange GPU from 2015.
This is paradoxical, because with terrible privacy why don't i fork out for or get a promo code for Windows and run it isolated and have 100% compatibility. Or even just get a console ? And although subscription fees maybe an argument, how much is my data privacy worth to me that could be gleaned from my anti-cheat DRM laden wine games running on my 'private' Linux machine.. on Steam + origin.
you get the picture.

Still, i understand everything is a compromise but having some knowledge as to how it works and how secure/private it is VS the windows implementation would be nice. In the end it's obvious that my next Monitor choice has to include a KVM in order to quickly switch between a DRM free Linux machine and the 'practically windows at this point' Linux gaming console.

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Quoting: smnAs I said in my previous message, go to wallpaper settings and look for installing new plugins, there's a shader one for animated backgrounds.

Thanks for the tip. But that's why i said i would like to see a Gnome or KDE dedicated app for Linux desktops in general so i don't have to use KDE just to have the single feature. Having a dedicated application with the features i mentioned + tray icon seems better than a plugin.

That said, i appreciate the advice. For If/when i switch to steamOS-3.0 / QT environment.

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