As someone who uses the Steam Flatpak on his EndeavourOS install, I would rather Canonical contribute to that and help make it better instead of doing their own thing and making a Steam Snap package (which, let's be honest, likely no one has asked for). Of course, Canonical is going to do the latter.

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Fatal Frame: Maiden of Black Water is playable with Proton Experimental now. Certain cutscenes don't work, but that's nothing new. Same issue with lots of other games.

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I forgot to ask in my earlier comment, but I see that this game will be getting a Linux release (kudos to the developers for that). Will the demo be available for Linux? I'm sure it'd run fine with Proton, but I figure I might as well ask.

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Looks solid. Didn't know this existed, so thanks for bringing it to my attention. I'll be keeping an eye on this.

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I've been using EndeavourOS since I finished my PC back in December and have no plans to switch, much less try, anything else myself (unless SteamOS 3.0 gets a public release this year).

I run sudo pacman -Syu and flatpak update twice a day and have had no stability problems. Can't complain at all. The impression I got before switching to an Arch-based system was that Arch was volatile as hell, but any hassles I've had since switching to EOS have had nothing to do with Arch itself.

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As I understand it, Proton-GE 7-10 implements "shared resources" already, which is why games that make use of it, like Fatal Frame: Maiden of Black Water, are now playable on Linux. That's a game I've been wanting to play on PC instead of console, but have been unable to up until now.

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That's nice, I guess. I will never, ever, accept Cloud gaming though.

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Quoting: Liam Dawe

Quoting: CyborgZeta

Quoting: Purple Library Guy

Quoting: CyborgZeta

Quoting: Liam Dawe

Quoting: CyborgZetaCan't you just connect the Deck to a PC using USB and transfer files that way?

Tried that, no dice.

That's really strange, but I guess it's because of the immutable filesystem. Since SteamOS would have to format microSD cards, I imagine you can't just put files on your card either.

It's not like no files can be added or changed. I mean, you can download games, flatpaks etc., and presumably there are save game files and so on.
Does SteamOS have to format the SD cards? Well, if you were a Windows user I guess for practical purposes because SteamOS wants them to be ext4, and I doubt Windows will format something to ext4. Presumably you could plug in an SD card, have SteamOS format it, then put it in your other computer and add things . . . can Windows work with ext4 if it's already there? You'd think, since Linux is so big in the server space and Windows still does server stuff, but I don't know. If you're a Linux user you'd be fine though, right?

I'm not a Windows user. My concern is that SteamOS formats the microSD card to its immutable filesystem and I become unable to drag-and-drop files from my PC onto the card.

Also, if SteamOS formats the card into ext4, would it even have write permissions for another user (in this case, my PC)?

SD Cards have a standard ext4 format, you can do whatever you want with them.

So I can drag-and-drop files to an SD card? I hope that is the case. I was already let down by the inability to use the Steam Deck as a controller through USB.

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Quoting: Purple Library Guy

Quoting: CyborgZeta

Quoting: Liam Dawe

Quoting: CyborgZetaCan't you just connect the Deck to a PC using USB and transfer files that way?

Tried that, no dice.

That's really strange, but I guess it's because of the immutable filesystem. Since SteamOS would have to format microSD cards, I imagine you can't just put files on your card either.

It's not like no files can be added or changed. I mean, you can download games, flatpaks etc., and presumably there are save game files and so on.
Does SteamOS have to format the SD cards? Well, if you were a Windows user I guess for practical purposes because SteamOS wants them to be ext4, and I doubt Windows will format something to ext4. Presumably you could plug in an SD card, have SteamOS format it, then put it in your other computer and add things . . . can Windows work with ext4 if it's already there? You'd think, since Linux is so big in the server space and Windows still does server stuff, but I don't know. If you're a Linux user you'd be fine though, right?

I'm not a Windows user. My concern is that SteamOS formats the microSD card to its immutable filesystem and I become unable to drag-and-drop files from my PC onto the card.

Also, if SteamOS formats the card into ext4, would it even have write permissions for another user (in this case, my PC)?

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Quoting: Liam Dawe

Quoting: CyborgZetaCan't you just connect the Deck to a PC using USB and transfer files that way?

Tried that, no dice.

That's really strange, but I guess it's because of the immutable filesystem. Since SteamOS would have to format microSD cards, I imagine you can't just put files on your card either.

Hmm. Not sure how I feel about this. I don't like having to jump through hoops just to do basic stuff.

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