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

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"deduplicating files" did they re-pack every asset again and again with their map files and ship themin huge chunks?

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

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Been on openSUSE (Leap/Tumbleweed/Aeon/Kalpa) for over 20 years now. While KDE was Always my primary Desktop. I also use Gnome on Laptops as it has nice handy touchpad gestures, but KDE just feels like Home.

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Nice to see more distros moving towards optimized builds for various x86 feature levels. So Windows can left behind in the dust even quicker. Considered how bad Windows already performs compared to Linux even without optimized CPU architecture packages.

Even though Linus hates this "abomination" of these feature levels as they are not really a thing from a CPU architecture point of view. Some do exposure only some "v3" Features, some with hybrid cores do even have "v3" only on one set of cores while the efficiency cores for example don't.

Anyway: Hope in the future Ubuntu does automatically install thoe v3 optimized packages on eligible hardware as Tumbleweed does. (Yes that is the whole reason I wrote this comment to say TW already does it)

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This is just moving the problem from outside the Flatpak to inside the Flatpak: If we want to run all those old 32 butt games, they need 32 bit libraries somewhere.

That's what the Steam Runntimes and org.freedesktop.Sdk.Compat.i386 are for. 32bit support on 64bit systems.

You do not need a single 32bit library to run 32bit software on 64bit systems with flatpak. Also there is WOW64 for Wine / Proton which is to run 32bit Windows game on 64bit. Even Windows uses 32bit abstractions on 64bit to run legacy software.

Removing 32bit support is not an issue at all.

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Finally Vegan Horror!

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