Quoting: pb

Quoting: GuestAs far as i know, you still need the steam client to restore those backups

You don't need Steam client to restore if you just copy or tar a game's directory.

I have a pretty clear example of that: Witcher 3.
It's possible to launch the game by running it's original .exe file, in the Steam game folder, via Wine, and Steam doesn't launch and is not even aware of it. Ok, it's CDPR... Owner of GOG, but Steam won't prevent any devs of doing the same and that trick probably works on many games, already.

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Maybe... One day... If I can muster enough willpower to finish RDR2... I must have installed this game 4 or 5 times, played a couple of hours then deleted it.

Even if I acknowledge the quality of this game, I always end up with a feeling of doing chores, when I try it. Too much management. Over complicated menus and inventory. For me, this is when realism breaks the fun.

"But it's not the game, it's me". :grin:

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Who knows, maybe they'll treat us to SteamOS 3.6 stable later today,

Please! I'm begging on my knees! Do it Valve! :grin:

Seriously though, I'm really looking forward to all the goodies in this new release.

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Bud Spencer & Terence Hill - Slaps & Beans games.

Everytime I think about these games I have this, on my face:

:grin:

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Eagerly waiting for the stable release. I'm not really familiar with these release cycles, but am I being "delusional" to think it might be soon?

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Quoting: CatKiller

So it would make a lot of sense for Valve to be working on a system like this to extend Proton support to ARM64 and get Android-based apps / games working as well.

It was Steam on Chromebooks that made me think Valve were likely funding FEX.

Tought about that too. There was no official release of Steam "Borealis" project. It seems the project is in Limbo, since Nvidia scrapped it's Chromebook initiative. Maybe it never got to the performance level they hoped for? Could Valve made the decision to switch to a native ChromeOS client?

This said, Nvidia also displayed an arm based rtx powered laptop, running some form of Arch, in the same period. Could it be that?

Reuters [External Link]

PC-Gamer [External Link]

Found it!
Nvidia-Blog [External Link]

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perhaps it’s finally time for Valve to allow developers to officially list their games as supported via Proton for Linux-based platforms

This. Maybe it could be as easy as what they did for cloud gaming and family sharing (an opt-in/opt-out option). Forcing Devs to commit: "Do you support or not Proton and/or the Steam Deck" and create an easy to see filter, in the store pages for the devs that support Proton officially. Free advertising to these devs and make them first class citizens, above and before the Steam Deck verified program.

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I'll just wait for a good sale, then. I'm not in a hurry. I bought Uncharted, last week. :wink:

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Even if I once wrote that I hoped for kernel-level anti-cheat getting blocked (ea anti-cheat discussion), I never really tought it would happen. So, not really surprised.

This said, It feels like the best solution that would give control to the devs, for Linux anti-cheat, is probably through a native linux client. That's probably why they are waiting for tens of millions of Linux users? Less than that, it would be too much assle for the number of potential players? Am I wrong to think so?

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I created my Steam account in november of 2012(?), when Steam launched officially on Linux. I formatted my Windows drive and installed Linux on my i7-3770 coupled to a GTX650 with 1GB of VRAM... What a beast! Lol! In fact, I think I started on a Core 2 Duo E8400 and switched to the i7-3770 not long after... The amount of Linux supported games was in the forties, if my memory is right? I played a lot of Portal & Trine, when it started, then Half Life a little later. At that time, I bought all Linux games at the second they became available. What a ride since then!

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