Quoting: dubigrasu

Quoting: Mohandevir

Quoting: dubigrasuThey also said about future SteamOS being possibly image-based

That's exactly GamerOS' model.

Indeed, and for those missing on SteamOS, it is a good alternative.
I also like what its dev said a couple of times about GamerOS (probably not an exact quote, but close):
"If you'll ever have to use the mouse and keyboard on GamerOS, then I failed in my mission"

For mouse and keyboard warriors out there, that doesn't mean you can't use them on GamerOS, but just that it strives to provide a flawless console-like experience.

It might just be a foolish and uneducated tought of my own, but at some point, I began to think/hope that Valve would/could make GamerOS it's own, just like they did with DXVK, and work with Alkazar for the maintenance/development of the thing. Imo, GamerOS is probably the closest thing to what SteamOS strives to be.

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Quoting: dubigrasuWell, they did said at one point that Debian tools gave them too much headache, so they might search for something else.
(that's how I remember it, so don't quote me on that)

P-L Griffais effectively said something along those lines; I remember reading the same too.

Quoting: dubigrasuThey also said about future SteamOS being possibly image-based

That's exactly GamerOS' model.

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Quoting: scratchi

Quoting: GuestWhats all that talk about Debian vs Arch? We all know Valve will base the next SteamOS on Gentoo :P

Agreed :)

ChromeOS uses Gentoo, so maybe Valve is looking at a similar approach (Steam Cloud and all).

Which comes to this... Again:

https://www.pcgamer.com/steam-is-coming-to-googles-chrome-os/ [External Link]

Why not?! :)

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Quoting: AppelsinHow did you manage to get FAHControl running?

Personnally:
https://github.com/fcole90/fah-control/releases/tag/7.5.1-1_focal_1 [External Link]

It works on Ubuntu 19.10 too.

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GamerOS is a good exemple of what an arch based SteamOS 3.0 could be. Something similar to Recalbox or RetroArch too... But not being debian based doesn't, imo, prevent an Ubuntu based spin of SteamOS. Like it or not, Canonical is still a big player, on the Linux scene and could be an asset to SteamOS, as much as Redhat or even Intel, to name a few. But as Scaine said, the typical console user to whom it is targeted doesn't care about what's under the hood, as long as it works, updates automatically and has a large library of recent, playable and bug free AAA games.

But, and there is a big BUT... Please... Please... Please... Valve, stop advertising games on SteamOS, that are only playable on Windows. It doesn't make any sense.

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Quoting: PatolaThe Steam Controller is amazing and yes, it's great for playing Total War games too.

Good to know... All I can say is the day that my Steam Controllers will fail (I got 3, so I have some headroom) is the day I'll switch back to K+M.

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Quoting: CreakI'm always a bit puzzled about controllers on Linux.. Why do they all need a user-space driver to be installed (except for the PS4 controller)? Can't it be included in the kernel and call it a day?

Other than that, I just paired my PS4 controllers using a basic Bluetooth dongle and it was recognized out-of-the-box on Fedora 31, no tinkering with config files, nothing to install, nothing to compile, no need to launch Steam to make it work, it "just works".

Only flaw: it has some lag. But I wonder if that is coming from my machine or my Bluetooth dongle. Do you know a good Bluetooth dongle I could buy?

Note on the Steam Controllers: I have 2 Steam Controllers at home, hoping I would find them useful one day, but honestly, after testing with my PS4 controllers (and even despite the lag), I really don't see what's good in them. They only work if you launch Steam (or, once again, a user-space application), and even with that very few games actually work. I tried with a few games like Alien: Isolation, Overcooked 2, Team Fortress, and it's always a bit clunky.. it feels like it's just some kind of not so good keyboard emulation (I had to boost the "mouse" sensibility to the max in Alien: Isolation for instance in order to have something playable, eventually K+M was so much more enjoyable).

I love the Steam Controllers, but you are tight in that you kind of either have to spend the time configuring it, or hope someone else has done a decent job of it. It rarely is a plug in and play affair.

Now to completely annihilate any latency, I bought (had to import... why Thrustmaster do you not sell it in the US?) A Thrustmaster eSwap. Now I have a LOT of controllers, and maybe it is a case of 'you have to love it because you spent a crazy amount on it', but I do love the controller, and it works great on Linuclx and the PS4.
Only downside is the firmware and configuration utility for it is Windows only. It has some bottom buttons that replicate the top four, which are nice for when you need to use the right stick at the same time!

Controllers are always a matter of tastes. Personnally it's the other way around. I prefer my Steam Controllers to my son's DS4 or my Nvidia Shield's, hands down and I never had much problems configuring them. Witcher 3, Mad Max, Just Cause 3, Batman Arkham Knight, the majority of shooters comes with default configurations that are doing a great job.. Doom 2016, Metros, Bioshocks, Rage 2, SpecOps:TheLine... All of these games I played and finished with my Steam Controllers. The only thing I do is to setup the gyroscope for precision shooting in FPS games and it's a lot more precise than any dual sticks, imo. Personally, I never witnessed a deal breaking configuration problem, but that's what I like... Being able to configure it to my tastes... Might be related to the kind of games you play too. I wouldn't try playing Civ games or TotalWar games on anything else than K+M, though. But who am I to tell you that you are wrong? Personnal tastes.

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Quoting: scaineThanks. I've done that, I see the GPUs.txt in the /var/lib/faclient folder. I'm just going to finish the CPU job that's running before trying a reboot. Fingers crossed, but not very hopeful, as the web interface didn't update in the way you describe! I've also installed the ocl-opencl libraries for dev too, which required quite a few other libraries to download. We'll see.

I installed nvidia-cuda-toolkit too.

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Quoting: scaineNo joy getting my GPU recognised. I have the OpenCL libs installed, I've tried manually over-riding the OpenCL-Index in FAcontrol, and I've tried editing /etc/faconfig/config.xml to both include a GPU slot AND to make "gpu v" true instead of false. When I reboot, all the config.xml changes reverted.

It's a mystery. I can still contribute via CPU though, but it's a shame I'm not taking advantage of my beefy GPU.

I don't know if my experience can help, but in the configuration window of fahcontrol, there is an Expert tab. Check for a variable GPU 'False' or similar to that. When I changed it to 'True' and saved it, it downloaded a GPUs.txt file in /var/lib/fahclient. After that, the web control showed me the GPU beside the CPU with a "unsupported GPU" entry. At this point, a reboot made it get detected and I could start folding with it.

Hope it helps!

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Did it!

It the configuration windows, there's an expert tab and there was a GPU 'False' variable. Switching it to off and a reboot later solved my issue.

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