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Latest Comments by Mohandevir
VR is absolutely insane, I am officially a convert and it works mostly great on Linux
10 May 2021 at 1:42 pm UTC

Personally, I tried HL:Alyx with the Occulus Rift S and felt a lot of motion sickness, like a lot. 15 mins of play and I was done for at least two hours...

I'm wondering if it would be the same with the Valve Index? Aside for the price, that's the main reason why I'm hesitating.

David Rosen of Wolfire Games explains why they're taking on Valve in a lawsuit
7 May 2021 at 6:33 pm UTC

Quoting: dibzI mean, does virtually anyone come across a game where they don't go to Steam and read the reviews + view the rating for regardless of where they actually make the purchase?
I even heard about people asking for support on Steam forums for games they bought on the Epic Store.

David Rosen of Wolfire Games explains why they're taking on Valve in a lawsuit
7 May 2021 at 1:00 pm UTC

Quoting: rustybroomhandle
Quoting: MohandevirBlablabla... "For the customers freedom of choice".... Blablabla... Yeah right!

From my end, as a customer, everything is fine with Steam, but I understand, from what is being reported, that true quality indie developers are being drowned in shovelwares. That's the real issue. It all comes down to how much copies they are selling on Steam. Maybe Steam should think of a way to curate all that shovelware and remove all the noise that it causes in the discovery algorythms? Maybe there is just too much games on Steam?

All I know it's that, from my customer's point of view, there are two quality stores... Steam and GoG. I won't buy from anywhere else in the near futur... Maybe itch and in extreme cases, Stadia.
The regular game festivals is meant to help with that.
Is it enough?

David Rosen of Wolfire Games explains why they're taking on Valve in a lawsuit
7 May 2021 at 12:44 pm UTC Likes: 1

Blablabla... "For the customers freedom of choice".... Blablabla... Yeah right!

From my end, as a customer, everything is fine with Steam, but I understand, from what is being reported, that true quality indie developers are being drowned in shovelwares. That's the real issue. It all comes down to how much copies they are selling on Steam. Maybe Steam should think of a way to curate all that shovelware and remove all the noise that it causes in the discovery algorythms? Maybe there is just too much games on Steam?

All I know it's that, from my customer's point of view, there are two quality stores... Steam and GoG. I won't buy from anywhere else in the near futur... Maybe itch and in extreme cases, Stadia.

Big screen gaming distribution GamerOS continues picking up the SteamOS slack
6 May 2021 at 6:08 pm UTC

Quoting: [email protected]
Quoting: lessster
Quoting: [email protected]There is an acceptable solution, even quite good in my opinion.
Take a close look at this Internet-Address:
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https://github.com/ShadowApex/steamos-ubuntu/blob/master/install.sh [External Link]
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After that you can install the Steamos-Compositor Plus from GamerOS
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https://github.com/gamer-os/steamos-compositor-plus [External Link]
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e-voila ...

..yours ..iVAN..
This does in fact look truely promising, thanks a lot for that! I really have to give it a try eventually (soon).
Not only promising, this works very good, first I was a bit sceptic to have always the latest mesa/vulkan git installed, but in practice the system and the Games (native and proton) are performing very well..!
... And go figure why, if you replace the GDM3 greeter with Lightdm (probably a permission issue with GDM3), then add a user account named "desktop" and add user "desktop" to the nopasswdlogin group, the BPM "switch to desktop" option will work exactly like in SteamOS. Personnally I like/prefer that option, when I have issues with BPM's bluetooth or sound setup (personnal experience).

Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order is free on Stadia Pro, Head of Product at Stadia leaves
5 May 2021 at 8:32 pm UTC

Quoting: GuestAs far as I'm aware, the interfaces for Stadia aren't public knowledge, and are probably NDA'd by Google. So nobody can really create a Stadia runtime that way.

Even if SDL2 is used and some non-public branch provided, there's still likely a few things Stadia specific. A game wouldn't be binary compatible on a desktop.
Buzzkill! :wink:

Big screen gaming distribution GamerOS continues picking up the SteamOS slack
5 May 2021 at 8:20 pm UTC

Quoting: dubigrasu
Quoting: pbwhile we wait for SteamOS 3 4. :whistle:
You surely meant to say SteamOS 2 Episode One, or I dunno...SteamOS 2 Lost Coast.
SteamOS 2 Lost Cause? :shock:

How dare I! :grin:

Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order is free on Stadia Pro, Head of Product at Stadia leaves
5 May 2021 at 8:18 pm UTC

Quoting: dubigrasu
Quoting: MohandevirI'm just wondering what could be done with a Stadia build, whitout the api and some way to run it?
Maybe "we" could implement some kind of "Stadia-Runtime" that can be used in any distro.
I have no doubt that the Linux community would find a way, but would Google ever consider this before pulling the plug? I was thinking about the other 98% (total guess) of Stadia users that know nothing about Linux. What would be in it for them?

Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order is free on Stadia Pro, Head of Product at Stadia leaves
5 May 2021 at 12:41 pm UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: NanobangWill Google leave the Stadia spigot on just enough for game owners to access their games? Will game owners be able to download their games just before Google pulls the Stadia plug? Or will Stadia just not be there one day, a sign on the Stadia door that says "Gone Fishing."?
Lol! Your guess is as good as mine. :grin:

I'm just wondering what could be done with a Stadia build, whitout the api and some way to run it?

Big screen gaming distribution GamerOS continues picking up the SteamOS slack
5 May 2021 at 12:33 pm UTC Likes: 1

The other solution is to use a vanilla Ubuntu and slap SteamOS-Compositor, Steamos-Compositor+ on top of it. That's what I do, atm, I'm waiting for the GamerOS installer to be updated so that it recognizes my ethernet card (Asus TUF Gaming B550m requires Linux 5.11).