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Latest Comments by mr-victory
Valve actually announced Steam for Chrome OS now too
26 Mar 2022 at 4:58 pm UTC Likes: 1

This situation sounds to me like this:
"Google vs Microsoft! Round 2! Fight!!"
Round 1 is obviously the market for smart phones. And we know the winner :grin:

Valve actually announced Steam for Chrome OS now too
26 Mar 2022 at 2:12 pm UTC Likes: 7

Quoting: denyasisI was always under the impression that most/many of the Chromebooks were lower powered ARM chipsets? I'm assuming this is for x86 systems only?
Steam for ChromeOS is only for a few select devices, the reauitements for Steam on ChromeOS is i5/i7 CPU and 7 GB RAM. So very few of the Chromebooks.

Steam Deck gets a 15FPS option, new keyboard themes
12 Mar 2022 at 3:14 pm UTC Likes: 3

Quoting: Mountain Manone of Paradox's real time grand strategy titles would be playable at 15FPS.
And sometimes 15 FPS is your only option on them :happy:

Google plans their own version of Wine to run Windows games on Stadia
11 Mar 2022 at 5:46 pm UTC

I inferred from the article that Google is really going to emulate Windows with virtual machine technologies instead of something like Wine.

Windows drivers roll out for Steam Deck but Valve won't support it
11 Mar 2022 at 3:54 pm UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: Eike
Quoting: mr-victory
Quoting: EikeDo you have a link how to do this?
Here ya go:
https://www.geeks.lgbt/diy-steamos-3-0/ [External Link]
Do the last two steps (opt in to beta and pass
-gamepadui to steam)
Thanks

Though my Firefox doesn't want to load this as they don't support TLS 1.2. :-/
The TLS stuff is weird as I can access it fine with FireDragon (a Librewolf fork)
This is how you should opt in to beta:
 
echo "steampal_stable_9a24a2bf68596b860cb6710d9ea307a76c29a04d" > ~/.steam/steam/package/beta

Windows drivers roll out for Steam Deck but Valve won't support it
11 Mar 2022 at 12:12 pm UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: EikeDo you have a link how to do this?
Here ya go:
https://www.geeks.lgbt/diy-steamos-3-0/ [External Link]
Do the last two steps (opt in to beta and pass
-gamepadui to steam)

Linux sticks above 1% still on the Steam Hardware Survey
8 Mar 2022 at 6:33 pm UTC Likes: 1

Perhaps because what they are used to is cracked Windows?

How Valve Can Make the Deck Verified Program Better
8 Mar 2022 at 5:03 pm UTC

There are some unfortunate games which have linux builds / enabled their anti-cheat for linux but got Deck Unsupported.

Linux sticks above 1% still on the Steam Hardware Survey
8 Mar 2022 at 4:53 pm UTC

Quoting: Mountain Man1% is in line with historical averages for Linux. I was hoping it would move higher now that gaming is more accessible than ever on Linux, but I guess that's never going to happen. Too many people think they have to use Windows.
We are decreasing probably because of an incerase in Chinese users.
Look at the last graph on GOL Steam Tracker

Linux sticks above 1% still on the Steam Hardware Survey
8 Mar 2022 at 1:13 pm UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: XpanderAlso windows 7 seems to get a small bump
Small? It increased from %3 to %4 (roughly) in last 2 months.