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Linux remains above 2% on the Steam Survey for June 2024
4 Jul 2024 at 10:03 am UTC Likes: 2

Quoting: fabertawe
Quoting: KorhakaI had the hardware survey just now. I have 1 SSD and 3 HDDs and it marked them all as SSDs. Other than that it got everything correct. Seems odd that there is no way to flag that it detected something incorrectly.
Got the survey yesterday for the first time in many, many years and it registered my HDD as an SSD as well, along with my four SSD/M2s.
I heard this part is known broken for quite some time. I just ignore it.
(Got the survey at least half a dozen times already over the decade.)

Endless launch Block Coding for Godot Engine, great for beginners
1 Jul 2024 at 8:37 pm UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: Pyretic
Quoting: hardpenguinIs it a good moment to remind everyone that Game Maker is available on Linux [External Link]? :D
Why does it only say Ubuntu?
So does Steam...

Aspyr Media announce a STAR WARS: Bounty Hunter remaster arriving on August 1
28 Jun 2024 at 2:33 pm UTC Likes: 3

2002 is calling.
I still want my 2015 [External Link] back though...

Steam Deck LCD 64GB and 512GB discounted until July 11
24 Jun 2024 at 7:24 pm UTC Likes: 3

I guess it's often hard to buy second-best, but I still think it's s good deal.

PVKK from the Dome Keeper devs has you manually control a massive planetary defence cannon
21 Jun 2024 at 8:34 am UTC Likes: 5

Thought that looks boring, watched trailer, now think that does look absolutely stylish!

Man, we've gone a long way since Space Invaders. :D

Valve faces a £656 million lawsuit in the UK for 'overcharging 14 million PC gamers'
18 Jun 2024 at 4:57 pm UTC

Quoting: benstor214
Quoting: LoudTechieYou both question if they even exist.
I had to go back and reread the post but I think it's clearer to me now. Thanks

Quoting: EikeHow so? Contact some developers, many should be happy to break those alleged rules, someone breaks them, wait if valve reacts.
This would only serve to prove they exist (which we doubt), not that they don't. As always, it's hard to prove a negative.
Right, but nobody needs to prove the negative in such a case, the plaintiff needs to offer prove for their claims.

NVIDIA exploring ways to support an upstream kernel mode GPU driver
18 Jun 2024 at 7:34 am UTC

Quoting: Marlockthe phoronix post seems to imply cloud VM clients need stuff isolated from cloud VM provider

we usually have a threat model in our minds where the host needs to be protected from malicious guests, but afaik the reverse is also important to cloud clients processing sensitive data

having minimal parts of the gpu driver running host-side seems to help this goal of keeping sensitive info exclusively in the VM, or at least that's what I'm reading into it
Sounds plausible to me! Not everybody might fully trust the big cloud hosters...

Canonical detail improvements the Steam Snap, work to advance gaming continues on Ubuntu
17 Jun 2024 at 6:44 pm UTC

Quoting: Tuxee
Quoting: morbiusI tried Steam snap when I installed Ubuntu 24.04 and it worked like ass, no games would start. I replaced it with the app from Steam store and everything was fine.
What is the "app from Steam store"? Downloading Steam from Steam? This might cause a singularity in the space-time continuum...

Anyway: The Snap version of Steam runs without hiccups on my laptop. The apt version had it's fair share of problems with launching the single game I play on my laptop (Hexcells).

The apt version of Steam on my desktop launches all games quite nicely BUT I always have to start Steam from a shell. Just clicking the icon which supposedly does exactly the same results (after showing the splash screen briefly) in a Steam icon in my indicators section but does nothing else. The only menu entry working is "Exit Steam".
I read it sets some (GPU related) environment variable that some systems don't like. So edit that or make your own starter...

Valve faces a £656 million lawsuit in the UK for 'overcharging 14 million PC gamers'
16 Jun 2024 at 4:35 pm UTC

Quoting: benstor214I perfectly understand that Valve Corp. is not my friend. This being clarified:

To me Point 1 and 2 seem to serve as smoke and mirror for point 3 - which may be the actual motivation behind this lawsuit.
I say this because both seem to be very hard to prove if not outright false in my eyes.
How so? Contact some developers, many should be happy to break those alleged rules, someone breaks them, wait if valve reacts.