Fedora based ... no thanks

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Quoting: vertigo

Quoting: The_Real_Bitterman

Quoting: vertigoMakes sense, it's feature complete and superseded by RTX Remix.

There is a RTX Remix? Always thought this only works on DirectX 9 titles as this is what nvidia made the remix studio for. Since OG Quake uses OpenGL as it's default engine I never expected a RTX Remix here.

Oh yeah, that's a very good point. Remix works with DX8 and DX9 games so maybe a source port would work?

Probably. I mean there was WinQuake of the first Quake which uses DirectX instead. And also made John Carmack not like DX over all 😅

I am very much certain someone will have made a DirectX port of Quake 2 over the years.

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Quoting: RedjeI consider myself a casual user.
And I don’t really get the hype for flatpak. Me and friend of mine had several big annoying bugs. For example; in the steam flatplat my nvidia 3080 mobile was not working in games. And games installed outside flatpak worked just fine. And also apps just not working with flatpak, and local app just working as expected.

Flatpak is out there for 10years+ or so? And still such big issues…

This is a distribution or user issue not flatpak I'd assume.

Flatpak will install the required flatpak Nvidia driver runtimes automatically.

If you disable auto update in Gnome-Software or KDE Discover these runtimes will not be updated, apparently. As soon as your host system installs a new Nvidia driver package. Hence, the Nvidia driver is not "properly" installed for your flats.

Same happens with Mesa. Except that Mesa on the host can work with out-of-date Mesa in flatpak and does not require both to match the exact same version.

Simply run flatpak update and all your flats will work on your Nvidia GPU. Edit: Unless you have unloaded the Nvidia driver somehow by using things like prime-select. Which is unlikely as RTX 30 series do not require it anymore due to proper power management and offloading support since GTX 16 series and newer.

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I'm interested in whether if or when Valve will adopt Flatpak itself as their primary distribution format for the Steam Client.

Ngl Steam with flatpak might not be perfect especially if you have to grand it directory access to anything outside home. But for me personally Steam flatpak has been overall the best experience compared to their own dep package or any repack for any other distribution in their respective native packaging format.

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Quoting: vertigoMakes sense, it's feature complete and superseded by RTX Remix.

There is a RTX Remix? Always thought this only works on DirectX 9 titles as this is what nvidia made the remix studio for. Since OG Quake uses OpenGL as it's default engine I never expected a RTX Remix here.

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As I once used Bazzite I had an issue where after a fresh install and on Desktop Mode (nvidia system Steam Big Picture still isn't working right...) was that it at random complained about read-only file system for files I just created in my home directory a second before... But that was Bazzite 41 I guess. It's been a while and I assume they fixed it. Unfortunately as I was not very well able to proceed I never got to test it any further back then. Maybe give it another try.

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I don't see any issues here, unlike others in the comments it seems. Technically the game is complete and works well.

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Quoting: elmapul

Quoting: The_Real_BittermanMaaan glad Linux has CoW file systems. Well doesn't help with downloading but at least storing these chunky games is better.

it was useless in this case, because it couldnt auto detect those file duplications and save space, nor ir would be usefull in an HDD where you really needed those duplications.

The de-duplication process in, say, btrfs is not automatic. Right? You have to run a scan periodically. I doubt many people do this.

However, when you perform such a scan, it compares blocks in the filesystem, which means it can de-duplicate portions of files. Files don't have to be exactly the same content or name or size.

Most distros I know of, using BtrFS by default, also ship de-duplication tools and implement a SystemD timer to periodically run these tools.

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Quoting: elmapulit was useless in this case, because it couldnt auto detect those file duplications and save space, nor ir would be usefull in an HDD where you really needed those duplications.

Many distributions shipping BtrFS often times also ship out-of-band deduplication tools to do exactly this.

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Quoting: Creepio

Quoting: Brokatt

Quoting: The_Real_BittermanHm, Steam Deck 2 might be ARM based I guess. 🤔

I wouldn't count on it. Valve has a very good relationship with AMD and I don't see another vendor provide an ARM chip with similar gaming performance. But maybe for a Steam Deck 3?

I thought AMD was dabbling or was going to dabble with ARM cpus? If I were AMD, I'd begin transitioning to ARM. x86 days are numbered.

I think claiming x86 days are numbered is like guessing the Year of the Linux Desktop. Those who run ARM (Linux) or into it can't wait for it to be the reality. But the majority of PC users simply don't care.

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