That is really quite nice, I would expect there to be a bit more trouble getting it to work, but that's relatively painless and smooth. I do hope Valve adds an "Install Windows game..." option next to "Add non-Steam game..." or something alike. Would definitely make it easier to install games and use, say, Legendary in CLI mode to install Epic Store titles.
Now I don't use Steam myself, but that's the solution I used to install Tetris Effect in one of my Wine prefixes. In that prefix, I used the Windows version of the Legendary binary to install Tetris Effect and presto that's it; I bet that would work out very well in Steam, being able to install an Epic Store game without having to go through the launcher to play it. Definitely not as straightforward without a few tweaks to the Steam client from Valve I'd guess, but the end result is pretty sweet.

Anyway, I wonder, how come people are so eager to install SteamOS on their desktop computers? What sets it apart from Arch with KDE Plasma, or Manjaro KDE, both of which will supply a more recent kernel?

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Quoting: Liam Dawe

Quoting: ridgeWhat's blocking SteamVR on Linux for me is not being able to, with an official first-party method, toggle my lighthouses power state via Bluetooth. But I'm crossing my fingers for a solution one day.

I found the Android app is pretty much perfect for it.

I wanted to use it, but I think my phone is incompatible or I just don't get it. But I'm glad it works!

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What's blocking SteamVR on Linux for me is not being able to, with an official first-party method, toggle my lighthouses power state via Bluetooth. But I'm crossing my fingers for a solution one day.

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Sad, but true. [External Link]

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Oh man can't wait!! McPixel introduced me to Sos' games and I had so much fun with it back when. This is gonna be good.

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It's unfortunate, but he does have a point. I'm wondering how feasible it would be for a game to only support certain kernel builds, such as the ones major distributions build, and some community kernels such as Zen and Xanmod.
Not that Epic Games would bother putting in that amount of elbow grease for us of course, but I'm curious if it'd work regardless.

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It's quite bittersweet.

Egoistically, I do take great glee in watching Google's stuff crash and burn. I despise Google, I've been anti-Stadia from the get-go; it all just seems absurd. Especially Stadia Pro, buy games individually AND pay monthly? Sure you do that on Xbox and PlayStation as well, but this time you don't have any right to even download your game files and keep them locally, no guarantee that the service will stay online and let you play your purchased games. You aren't entitled to them at all, good gosh!

Now I'm not really a fan of streaming services anyways, and when I do stream games to a device (such as my Nintendo Switch with Ubuntu), I use my own computer as a host so I can (mostly) be in complete control.

But if, as you say, Stadia really is a good way for people on low-cost devices to enjoy a hassle-free spit of video games, that is truly a shame. I certainly hope someone can come up with a more elegant solution that'll enable this kind of entry point to playing games, and that isn't as unstable as the other services you mentioned.

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Super interesting series, keep up the good work :)

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Guess it's time to stop...

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Stellar, hopefully we can get together and make Lutris installers for EA games using the EA App instead of Origin, as it works much better in Wine. I believe using the EA App instead of Origin fixed my BF4 stutter issues.

Quoting: Arthur...but one feature I really wish they could pull from Origin is the friends list and being able to join a game directly from it.

Try using the EA App [External Link] instead, I can join my friends and use the overlay in Battlefield 4 using it. Install the EA App in your prefix using a fork such as Wine-GE or Wine-Lutris, and once logged in, you can "migrate" your game by picking its existing install location when "installing" it.

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