Quoting: JarmerWow .... it may have finally happened. I may have finally found a factory sim type game that I actually enjoy!!! Whoa. This genre always seemed like something that I would love, but almost every game I try in it always falls into two categories for me: too casual / simple, or the opposite: too complex / insane with the mechanics. I just spent some time in the demo for this game and wow, loving it!!! I love how there are no resources / time, no enemies attacking, no residents dying, etc etc. Just freeform building and optimizing. I love it!

Did you give Infinifactory a try already?

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This looks interesting, and I like that it doesn't do constraints, financial or by introducing enemies. Let me buiiild! :)

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Not only that, it's also bumping up TF2 to use the newer Steam Linux Runtime 3.0 "Sniper", making it work better on modern Linux distributions.

Isn't making the game more independent of the version of the distribution the Raison d'être of the Linux runtimes?

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Quoting: nlborlclAre they trying to cause a riot?

Or are they trying to end Riot?!?

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyOr, say the government paid authors

If you don't know it yet...
https://no-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Innkj%C3%B8psordningene_for_litteratur?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=wapp [External Link]

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Quoting: Villian

Quoting: Eike

Valve posted asking people to consider using the official Valve .deb package

Please, please, please, please not!
I'm reading nearly every thread in the Steam for Linux forum, and we hear problems from people having used the downloadable deb for over a decade now! People should use what their distribution made of it, adding their dependencies and such. I cannot believe Valve proposes to actually use that!

and if their distribution made is shit?

Then you should not use their distribution. At all.
For Debian, this works all fine though, I tested this several times.

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Quoting: slaapliedje

Quoting: Eike

Valve posted asking people to consider using the official Valve .deb package

Please, please, please, please not!
I'm reading nearly every thread in the Steam for Linux forum, and we hear problems from people having used the downloadable deb for over a decade now! People should use what their distribution made of it, adding their dependencies and such. I cannot believe Valve proposes to actually use that!

I just use the Debian version of the Steam package. Never have any issues with it at all.

The Debian repository package or Valve's deb? The former one is the one I'm recommending. Of course, the latter one works too, it just might need more manual "help".

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Quoting: BrokattWhat's almost never brought up is that if a user is using Ubuntu LTS, and the official Steam package then they can get support directly from Valve. They don't need to go forum hunting, pasting commands lines into their terminal that they have no idea what its doing etc. They can just contact the Steam support and get help from a real company.

[The same day on the forums, by an Ubuntu user...]
I hate how there's basically no support for Steam on Linux. I filed a ticket asking for help and they told me to check log files in C:\ - absolutely useless.
https://steamcommunity.com/app/221410/discussions/0/4038106081469257961/?ctp=3#c4130430927306703734 [External Link]

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Quoting: hell0[I've never replayed an old game and as such they do not really have value to me.

I'm on a similar boat, but got two problems with it: I just want to be able to revisit all my games even if I most probably never do it. And, lately, I started revisiting games with my little ones.

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Quoting: Brokatt

Quoting: Eike

Valve posted asking people to consider using the official Valve .deb package

Please, please, please, please not!
I'm raeding nearly every thread in the Steam for Linux forum, and we hear problems from people having used the downloadable deb for over a decade now! People should use what their distribution made of it, adding their dependencies and such. I cannot believe Valve proposes to actually use that!

What problems? I have been using the official .deb for over a year and it has worked fine. It's not flawless but there are issues with the Flatpak version as well.

As said: dependencies. And I'm not promoting Flatpak either, I prefer the "native" package (deb or whatever your system uses) of your distribution. The distribution makers download the same deb you can download (so they'll hardly make it worse), and they can add to it what the distribution needs to run it. I'm not saying the Steam deb does not work at all, it just might miss dependencies. Of course, if you know what to do, you can install them manually.

People keep coming in the forum with "Steam does not work on Linux", and when you make them show the terminal output, it's missing (32 bit) libraries. And people post "Steam for Linux cannot use games on my hard drive", and when you dig into it, they're using Snap or Flatpak, didn't even know they do, and thus wouldn't know why Steam cannot access other drives.

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