Let's see... Valve is now using (an old) Ubuntu for the Scout Steam runtime. Debian 10 as the Soldier runtime for Proton, and Arch for SteamOS. Pretty cool little menagerie of distributions!

As a Debian user I guess I should be disappointed by them choosing Arch. But why? We should celebrate open platforms. The lack of vendor lock in, and how easy it is to move from one distro to another!

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You take Sunday afternoon off, come back and half of the GoL community is playing dress up with the Steam Deck.

Get a life you dorks!

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Quoting: MaathId used to open source their game engines after a while. Do they not do that anymore either?

Nope.

Rumor is that Zenimax is actually working on a way to travel back in time and prevent any source releases from id from ever having taken place.

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Quoting: Alm888It can (by default root directory is mounted as Z: drive). So a Linux-aware Windows virus can access ones "host" filesystem and, let's say, encrypt all the files it can grab.

WINE developers warn everybody: WINE is NOT a sandbox!

Yes! This should be stated and re-stated over and over again. The danger is not just theoretical. Wine is proven to be both virus and ransomware compatible:

https://linuxscriptshub.com/wannacry2-0-ransomware-has-been-able-to-infect-linux-through-wine/ [External Link]
https://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-devel/2007-January/053719.html [External Link]
https://web.archive.org/web/20090225163757/http://www.trustedsource.org/blog/186/Running-Windows-Malware-in-Linux [External Link]

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Quoting: F.UltraWell to be honest in order to fulfil "that will tell games if they're being run on the Steam Deck" that API could be just /etc/os-release :-)

Z:\\etc\os-release :tongue:

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Quoting: GuestSo much for Ubuntu only :P

Unfortunate I have no account with Beta access so the journey stops here :(

Dang openSUSE users. Always bending the rules and breaking the law [External Link]!

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Quoting: AsciiWolfI wonder what is the state of Ray tracing support on AMD GPUs with Mesa. Does anyone have more info?

If you missed it: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2021/07/ray-tracing-with-amd-radv-on-linux-gets-closer-with-the-worlds-slowest-raytracer

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Quoting: BeamboomWow I was not aware of that "hidden department"! I wonder what else that slot is intended for?!

Hidden snack compartment? I mean, it heats up, and it looks like it's the perfect size for a pop-tart.

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyAnd of course we lefties are an afterthought, if a thought at all.

Well, to be fair. Left handed people are sinister... :tongue:

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Birds of a feather, will skate together, September 16!

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