May be the next cloud they support with steamm play as the nvidia one, but actuall not featuring a windows client.

That looks it could be a lot of a closer integration and would certainly be interesting.

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Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord <3

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Quoting: Eike... but if your list is from half a year, I'm really surprised. I get my usual problem after updating nvidia drivers, sometimes write permissions when mounting my phone are wrong, but I think that's about it. I had a bigger problem with the database thing (akonandi?) going wild over my data in I guess the last but one Debian update, but that's at least half a decade ago. Maybe using Debian stable and not the latest release anymore is helping me.

That's for sure, debian stable is certainly stable, but as a software developer the base is too old for me.

The list is from the past 6-9 month, so those issues are really ones which either exist or existed (in example most of the dual-screen stuff is solved by now).

The file indexer thing you meant is probably Baloo - ye, I had my fair share of issues with it too, but that ended about a year ago.

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Quoting: kuhpunkt

Quoting: STiATI'd like a competitor to Steam.

What would be the benefit of that?

Less costs for devs/publishers. I know AAAs usually csn easily afford that and still make millions, but indies often can't really afford it.

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Quoting: Eike

Quoting: KallestofelesMaybe one day, in a perfect world, KDE would finally become stable enough to daily drive it. But I guess that's besides the point.

Running it daily for many, many years.
Don't know what you're talking about.

They break stuff on a regular base. I am using it as a daily driver too since 1998 (1 year break using Budgie though), and have been contributing to KDE for some years (I do not any longer).

KDE is more complex than necessary, especially because of the reason that you can customize so much.

The ony thing which I find really stable is KWin, and it's certainly better than mutter.

Everything else breaks every here and there, KIO in Dolphin, GetNewStuff, Settings crashing applying a global theme (as in the cuttent version), shell "hangs" because some effect ticks out, panel crashing, dual screen not working properly (not saving settings, not setting wallpaler, can't interact with one screen, not enumerating devices properly, having issues having two identical monitors to identify them properly), Dolphin can't display Android Storage any longer (complaining you should use MTP while you do already), audio devices disappearing and never showing up again...

And thats just a few of those I experienced in the past 6 Month only using stable releases.

They break a lot, often in the name of fixing something breaking some other stuff. The beast is so complex it's almost impossible to test.

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I'd like a competitor to Steam. Currently publishers go with "their own" platforms for saving the cut steam takes, but for me that's no option. I do not want a dozen tools, so I do not buy games which are not on Steam.

If another platform with a proper Linux client existed which provides games from all publishers we could talk about me installing a second client. But as a buyer, there would need to be incentive to do so - meaning lower prices on the other store, why else would I switch?

And making it "the other one exclusive" is pretty much the same as with their own launchers, they will cut their profits by that by quite a good margin, since a lot of people see Steam as their "gaming platform".

From what we know / hear, Valve seems not to be very flexible on the cut they take, and the 30 percent (which I think are pretty much a fact by now) seems a lot, especially for smaller developers.

It's a cash cow.

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Quoting: Kimyrielle

Quoting: STiATI'd happily pay valve 12 bucks a month if I could use it to play my whole library without the hassle of nvidia.

That is honestly the only way I can see cloud gaming to become a desirable thing - as an premium add-on service to stream the games you already own anyway. That way, you can play games on your PC when at home, and on your tablet/phone when travelling. Best of both worlds.
But other than that, I have no desire to rent my games, or have to rely on a service that might or might not close shop tomorrow morning. Or clog my bandwidth with multiple GB per hour just to stream a game that my PC can easily run locally.

Quoting: STiATAnd ye, not an option for competitive players, but for casuals like me good enough. If I had something like that I would not have bought a new gaming PC. That's a lot of month until it pays off buying my own gaming rig.

Honestly, the save-on-hardware argument doesn't hold much merit, particularly not for more casual players that don't need (multiple) high-end GPUs. Unless you really use your PC for gaming ONLY and can argue not to need a PC at all anymore when streaming games, the difference in price between a pure office PC and a casual gaming PC is actually pretty marginal.
This is actually why I still fail to understand the economics of game-streaming. Casual players don't save enough on the hardware to make the streaming subscription the cheaper choice in the long run, and hardcore players typically don't want any extra lag when playing games, so they will have to buy high-end hardware anyway.

If you buy games on a DRM platform as Steam you basically agree by their AGB that you only rent them.

Even not needing multiple high-end GPUs. My current PC cost ~2000 Euros. In a rate of a gaming rig, which should be about 5 years, that's about 400 Euros a year. Paying 12 bucks a month would still be cheaper. I may be a casual player, but that does not necessarily mean I do not like new titles.

I see cloud streaming not as a replacement to buying my games, it's a replacement of buying a gaming rig. And ye, that could be a lot more efficient to me, and even profitable to Valve.

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Quoting: Guest

Quoting: STiATI'd use some silent mini PC instead of my 24kg tower with passive heatpipe cooling, save space and would not have big invests every few years.

I would Stadia an awful lot more if it ran on a raspberry pi 4. If it runs on a phone, I'm convinced that the pi4 hardware is capable enough.

I am sure it would, drivers are not there (yet).

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Quoting: Kimyrielle

Quoting: STiATI'd happily pay valve 12 bucks a month if I could use it to play my whole library without the hassle of nvidia.

That is honestly the only way I can see cloud gaming to become a desirable thing - as an premium add-on service to stream the games you already own anyway. That way, you can play games on your PC when at home, and on your tablet/phone when travelling. Best of both worlds.
But other than that, I have no desire to rent my games, or have to rely on a service that might or might not close shop tomorrow morning. Or clog my bandwidth with multiple GB per hour just to stream a game that my PC can easily run locally.

Quoting: STiATAnd ye, not an option for competitive players, but for casuals like me good enough. If I had something like that I would not have bought a new gaming PC. That's a lot of month until it pays off buying my own gaming rig.

Honestly, the save-on-hardware argument doesn't hold much merit, particularly not for more casual players that don't need (multiple) high-end GPUs. Unless you really use your PC for gaming ONLY and can argue not to need a PC at all anymore when streaming games, the difference in price between a pure office PC and a casual gaming PC is actually pretty marginal.
This is actually why I still fail to understand the economics of game-streaming. Casual players don't save enough on the hardware to make the streaming subscription the cheaper choice in the long run, and hardcore players typically don't want any extra lag when playing games, so they will have to buy high-end hardware anyway.

I can be a casual player and still want to play AC: Valhalla or Cyberpunk? Or Bannerlords. I do not see a reason why I could not.

I have a work PC which is just missing GPU power.

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Valve should buy the tech and do their own streaming service on the technology.

Nvidia is ok, but the virtual desktop is really annoying, always having to log in, copy/paste not working, wrong keyboard layout.

I'd happily pay valve 12 bucks a month if I could use it to play my whole library without the hassle of nvidia.

I think something like that would be the next logical thing if valve does not want to fall behind.

And ye, not an option for competitive players, but for casuals like me good enough. If I had something like that I would not have bought a new gaming PC. That's a lot of month until it pays off buying my own gaming rig.

I'd use some silent mini PC instead of my 24kg tower with passive heatpipe cooling, save space and would not have big invests every few years.

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