Quoting: sudoer

Quoting: CyborgZetaGood. I want to see more Flatpak adoption.

Me not at all. https://ludocode.com/blog/flatpak-is-not-the-future [External Link]

You are certainly entitled to your opinion.

For me, Flatpaks are extremely convenient. They're kept separate from the core OS, and they're distro-agnostic. On a more "stable" distribution, like Xubuntu on my ThinkPad, Flatpaks are a handy way of having up-to-date programs. And on an Arch-based system, like I'm using on my desktop, they allow me to maintain my policy of avoiding the AUR, in addition to allowing me to reliably use Steam.

Getting Steam to work reliably, coming from Ubuntu and Debian, has been a pain in the butt on EndeavourOS. For starters, I had to add udev rules to root that Ubuntu+Debian installed automatically as the package "steam-devices". But more importantly, the Steam Flatpak has been the only way I've been able to consistently play my Steam games. The only game I can't explicitly run in the Steam Flatpak is Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines; any other game I've had issues with have had issues in the Steam Flatpak and the Steam Runtime.

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Quoting: STiATUsing KDE, Wayland is not an option with NVidia yet anyway. Unless you want to move your mouse so that anything is done and rendered at all ... think this bug exists now since october.

Is Wayland usable for games on AMD? I have a Nvidia system and wayland halves my framerate in games at best and makes them unplayable at worst.
Works great outside of games for me otherwise.

I've been playing games through Steam on Plasma Wayland (using the Steam Flatpak, no less) with no trouble. The only problems I've had have nothing to do with Wayland.

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I generally don't like to pooh-pooh specific distributions, but this is one distro I feel gets way more attention than it probably deserves.

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Good. I want to see more Flatpak adoption.

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Surprisingly, I can actually run CS:GO now (maybe thanks to this?).

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Moving away from PPAs is smart. I don't think the average end-user should be relying on them for anything.

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I think the Steam Deck is the right kind of device to help Linux get its foot in the door of the mainstream. Expensive laptops and computers from TUXEDO, System76, StarLabs, etc. isn't going to cut it. I'm on a PC I built myself now, but prior to this I had to use refurb'd/used Lenovo ThinkCentres and ThinkPads to use Linux (they work great for that, btw, good machines).

Also, and I'm sure quite a few people will not like me saying this, but I think Linux will need to push Flatpak more if it wants to get into the mainstream. If we want more developers to develop/publish their applications on Linux, then I think Flatpak is the best method we have (for now, perhaps). Even Valve seems to be supporting this with their promotion of Flatpak as the primary means of installing applications on SteamOS 3.0.

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I feel pretty confident in saying that if the Steam Deck succeeds, Valve will absolutely develop games catering to their own creation. Why wouldn't they?

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Immutable file system with the option of installing applications via Flatpak is, I think, the right move for this kind of device. Those two factors will protect the less-technical users from themselves.

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I liked GOG when I was on Windows.

But I'm on Linux now, and GOG is no longer an option. Valve caters to me, now a Linux user, through Steam. GOG does not cater to Linux users like me. The choice is, shall they say, obvious.

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