Hello @ikey,
I was wondering why Snap and not Flatpak? I don't know much about the technicalities behind these solutions, I've just heard that Flatpak is more secure, but maybe it's too secure to make a proprietary software like Steam working flawlessly.

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Quoting: AimelaThat's pretty much because the issue doesn't affect everyone, and seems to vary by DE; I encountered the issue while using Cinnamon(and judging by other comments, this will also occur with GNOME), but everything is fine in KDE Plasma. Regardless, I'm pretty sure this is something that Valve needs to fix.

If it's a bug for GNOME and every GNOME related DE, that's pretty much the majority I think.
There's around 50/50 GNOME vs KDE, and the others DEs are mostly derived from GNOME/GTK.

Edit: you can look at the GoL statistics: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/users/statistics

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Fix fullscreen video? It absolutely does not work here, I got the video in 720p in the corner of the screen and the rest is memory garbage.

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I tried it on Fedora 26 with an RX 480 and it almost bricked my PC. The game was outputting garbage on the display, even when I force closed the game. Rebooting fixed the problem. Asked Steam for reimbursement.

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That's really cool! Especially for Alien: Isolation :D

I hope this whitelist is temporary though, because in the long term it's unmaintainable.

In the long term, I hope devs themselves will enable or disable this feature based on their own tests.

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Quoting: Tak

Quoting: natis1If so then it would be their first Ubisoft game

We already had Grow Home, then we didn't get the sequel. :|

Yeah... Linux is not a priority for Ubisoft, it represents 1% (Linux marketshare) of 10% (PC marketshare) of the sales of a game (so a total of 0.1%). Right now, studios that do (or finance) Linux port are doing it for the test or for the fun, but not really for the money. I would really be surprised if Ubisoft would finance Linux ports of their AAA games.

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Quoting: GuestNow just hurry up blizzard and give me Overwatch then I can get rid of windows and use my SSD for linux!

Hehe, I've lost hope on Blizzard, they just deeply hate Linux.

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Is it Razer that said recently that they were interested in supporting Linux? I'm not able to find a news about it, but I'm pretty sure it was them... do you remember that?

Edit:
I think that it is simply this sticked forum post by an official Razer staff:
https://insider.razerzone.com/index.php?threads/welcome-to-the-linux-corner.20618/ [External Link]

If their Laptops get compatible with Linux... oh man, I'm gonna buy the shit out of them.

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Quoting: MayeulCWhile that *might* be true for the kernel (sort of, you can have both amdgpu and radeon enabled for the earlier GPUs, and blacklist one at startup time), RADV and the AMDGPU-PRO (vulkan) driver are using the same kernel module, so there is really no such policy.

I'm not saying that they implemented a system to prevent having two drivers for the same hardware, I'm saying that the maintainers' policy is to refuse patches that would enable two drivers for the same hardware. The idea behind that is to prevent to split the code and the resources in two. So that's why RADV and AMDGPU-PRO can live together: AMDGPU-PRO is not open source, so not in the kernel, so not under this maintainer' policy.

That being said, since these drivers are user space, I might just be saying garbage :D

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Knowing that the Linux kernel maintainers don't allow two drivers enabled for the same hardware at the same time (from what I understood), there's going to be a battle between RADV and AMD if they open source their Vulkan drivers...

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