Quoting: GuestFor some things, but not others. Installation of software, modification of boot processes, unrestricted access to protected memory areas, all things that are an order of magnitude worse.
It's not so much as being closed/open source as it is what the software is intended to do. Drivers from nvidia vs a rootkit designed to spy on the user and report back in a possibly insecure manner? World of difference.

Yeah, I'm aware, but what would the malicious software actually do with all its rights?
(Because, "It's not so much as being closed/open source as it is what the software is intended to do." ;) ) It can access all my data, my mails, my letters, my pictures, my financial data, my browser's data (including banking and stuff(*)) all fine with user rights, right? It can encrypt and or post them...
Putting itself into the boot sector is a different thing, ok, but then, I'm not reinstalling as often as every decade...

(*) not totally sure about this

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Quoting: GuestYou seriously shouldn't trust a kernel module for anti-cheat. The rootkits of old were universally criticised for good reason.

For average users, running games and all their stuff under their account and not sand boxed, I feel the difference between running closed source stuff as user or as root would be small though.

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Congratulations! You get a "This User Is Actively Caring About Security And Privacy And Yet Nobody Cares" golden medal award!

Please compare MayeulC's and your latest posts for constructiveness. I got a favourite.

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyI mean, they can't really stop unofficial clones even if they wanted to, it's an open platform. Anyone in an appropriate industry could make a tiny PC with a controller running some kind of Linux with Steam preinstalled. But nobody not expecting to profit from the game sales could match Valve's price point, I would think, so I'd expect anyone doing it wouldn't get nearly as big results. Just seems likely to be a kind of marginal phenomenon.

I'm not sure about the "Steam preinstalled" part - which would be important - without Valve's agreement. But as they did agree...

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Quoting: Comandante ÑoñardoIf Valve doesn't allow other companies from around the world to make official clones, this will be a megafail.

I don't see how that works. What do they get from official clones?

Obviously, Valve would get people buying games on Steam.
I don't see though how not having that would make Steam Deck a fail.

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Quoting: Comandante ÑoñardoIf Valve doesn't allow other companies from around the world to make official clones, this will be a megafail.

You mean, like PlayStation and Xbox?
Why?
People obviously want it. If I'd sell something and meet such an interest, I'd be happy.

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Quoting: saturnoyoOn the other hand I think people are happy with the Valve Index, it's difficult to say since they don't allow reviews of it.

I wondered what you talk about. I guess it's Steam reviews, because of course there are reviews about it out there.

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Quoting: HoolyOr they use btrfs-subvolumes and allocate storage dynamically.

Unlikely, since BTRFS does not have casefolding which Proton uses. Casefolding for now is only available with ext4.

Hmmm I actually use proton on top of btrfs, what issues will this cause ? Can I assume some of my games are broken because of that ?

Windows developers expect "load 'myfile'" to successfully load "MyFile". This can be made work with "case folding". So if some games don't find their files (which might result in many different symptoms), this might be the reason.

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Quoting: inlinuxdudeI remember playing this co-op with my wife on console. Would love to run through it again with her! (especially if there were steam workshop mods etc.. available - I wonder if that will be a thing?)

"Do you remember how we walked this road killed this dragon 20 years ago, honey?" :heart:

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Quoting: TermyDoes anyone know what the hell they are including to make it that big? Even with several proton-versions preinstalled it shouldn't get up to 10GB, let alone 24.
Or are they maybe going in the silverblue-direction and include a bunch of redundant libraries?

How much would you consider reasonable for a Linux desktop installation plus Steam and the Protons?

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