Great Article @Liam, to add to the history -- I found this statement from Gabe Newell to be profound historically over the past few years as I predicted the re-emergence of SteamOS.

LinuxCon September 16th, 2013
Gabe Newell
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gzn6E2m3otg&t=14:08 [External Link]
Time Index 14:08

Quoting: Gabe Newell"These other [proprietary] systems put a tremendous number of road blocks in the way of doing that. It takes Valve several months to get through certification process for a single update. It took us 6 months to get one update through the Apple Store to ship an iPad update. We have a lot of resources and have a huge commercial motivation. No individual user if they are the center of gravity for content production is going to have the wherewithal or stubbornness to get through that.

Quoting: Gabe NewellOne of many ways that closed systems appear to us to be antithetical to our user-centric model of content production going forward.

Time Index 15:05

Quoting: Gabe Newell"We think that process is going to continue [to shift to user created content] and we think that we need to be knocking down as many barriers and reducing friction not going in the other direction."

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If you wanted to enhance the article I think notation of Valve's early on interest in SDL v2 and getting Linux Input ready for the vast array of Proprietary Controllers that work out of box was also a pretty amazing achievement that made Linux Gaming give Windows a run for its money where the controller setup was much less easy & less intuitive.

Edit: On this occasion I must also say. Valve by and large made PC Gaming what it is today. And now they are making Linux the PC of Choice where games don't simply rot and break as time marches on. What Valve is doing is preserving their PC Gaming legacy & enabling PC Gamers to bring their library with them into the future as they enjoy new games they can enjoy old games too without keeping around a obscure PC box or console with old controllers in various worsening conditions.

Valve set out to make game development on Linux easier, and that's exactly what they achieved.

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Great to read more about the culture & ethos inside the think tank at Solus. I've long admired the genius in their Shell's functionality and simplicity (while not being overly-simplified to the point of obscurity)

A lot of the core ideas and principles seem to reverberate through the community and I think we can be proud of that last bit especially.

Nobody starts out as an expert and you will find the best way of learning is to just start doing. Don't be afraid to ask questions and don't be afraid of failure. Do not pay any mind to the nay-sayers telling you to not to build your own application or game just because something else might already exist that does something similar.

Having a attitude of seeing things in terms of "setbacks & "challenges" and being driven are critical ingredients in the recipe of success as a software developer & life in general. Infact, if you are not failing once in a while -- you are not trying hard enough. Failure is necessary to learn anything in life. Fear of failure is a defective mindset.

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I like the art style a lot, I just hope that playing it feels right.

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In reality -- everything in the Ubisoft List WILL run on Steam Deck via Proton once the Proton AntiCheat is ready.

https://store.steampowered.com/developer/ubisoft/#browse [External Link]

Or perhaps Ubisoft meant they are thinking about "supporting Proton", or doing "Native Ports" not necessarily "Proton-native Ports"

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Quoting: inkheyDont think it's a bad news for now. As Blender may be the professional 3D tool, lot of companies want to be part of it. The fundation need to be careful to not lost independance from those donations. I dont really like the mozilla business model...

Mozilla is just kept on life support by Google money so that Google can say "I'm not a monopoly" as far as browsers go.

Mozilla management 2010-2020 has been shit. 2004 Mozilla still had a soul.

Support projects who have broken free of the Management and still benefit from the legacy of the forerunners

https://librewolf-community.gitlab.io/ [External Link] (Mozilla Telemetry disabled, tracking disabled)

https://github.com/dr460nf1r3/firedragon-browser [External Link] (Fork of LibreWolf for KDE, this one uses SearX by default)

Quoting: Purple Library GuyAdobe did something that wasn't evil?

Negatory, they are likely trying to stir trouble for Autodesk. It would be like if Autodesk dropped 2 million dollars into GIMP to try to make Adobe loose hundreds of millions in subscriptions. Actually this is a very good idea, somebody should email Autodesk CEO, they can even deduct it from taxes and really pay $0 more.

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Sounds like a halarious gag gift. Right next to Secret of the Magic Crystals [External Link] of course

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I've seen saying this would happen for 4 years. If you watch what people are doing not saying, you can see this kind of thing in advance.

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I gotta hand it to Valve for the "Pool Model".

!Dota 2 Prize Pool Tiers [External Link]

https://liquipedia.net/dota2/The_International/2019 [External Link]

As a Linux Gamer, TI is my sort of "Super Bowl" -- so many interesting and amazing plays I just put it up on the TV via Steam Machine while I work.

DOTA 2 has come a long way since it's Linux Beta and seeing TI move from place to place is awesome.

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The AUR is a great feature but mainly because the maintainers do such a good job curating content & keeping it up to date and fresh.

The philosophy behind Arch is also part of what makes the AUR great -- Keep It Simple Stupid.

I don't mind Debian stealing a page from Arch's book but I would really be encouraged to see everyone steal a page from Gentoo's book and essentially be able to install packages by compiling them from source with custom patches or installing bins.

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Another Homerun by AMD!

Take Note. This is what <3 Linux looks like.

Big props to AMD, proud to be a AMD consumer on all my home & office electronics the last 5 years.

Open Source AMD stuff on Linux is so nice.

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