Quoting: feaneron

Quoting: Purple Library GuyThat's great.
Makes me wonder about one thing, though--I thought one of the deals with Flatpak was supposed to be it wouldn't take whole communities months to make decent packages? Just saying, doesn't seem like ease of use, you know?

It did not take months to package it, only a few hours. What took months was improving the whole stack, from adapting OBS Studio to use portals, to adding new features to existing portals, to adding new features to the Flatpak tooling itself, to figuring out a deploy pipeline from GitHub to Flathub - OBS Studio is the first application in history to publish directly from GitHub to Flathub. In the end, these months were well spent; the platform was improved, and the entire community - users and developers alike - will reap the benefits of the work we've done.

Oh. That's pretty cool.

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Quoting: feaneronIn addition to Rodney, allow me to clarify another point: there is no connection between Red Hat's donation, and the Flatpak work. Publishing OBS Studio to Flathub was an effort lead entirely by the community, and contributors have been working on it for many months now.

That's great.
Makes me wonder about one thing, though--I thought one of the deals with Flatpak was supposed to be it wouldn't take whole communities months to make decent packages? Just saying, doesn't seem like ease of use, you know?

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Quoting: Anza

Quoting: GuestAward of bug fest of the year... and the winner is: Cyberpunk 2077.
Valheim bugless gameplay and clean mechanics laughs at you. And it's still in Early Access lol.

Valheim is not without bugs, but some of them get exploited in fun ways. Viking space program wouldn't exist without a bug: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdUJ3inZmoE [External Link] (not sure if this was patched at some point)

OK, that was hilarious and the Red Dwarf music was a lovely touch.
And y'know, I'd call that a feature.

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Quoting: Alm888

Quoting: zen_xeno

Quoting: Alm888Proton™

Hey Alm888™, that are you on about with that?

I have not made my nickname a trademark yet. But it would be a wise idea to register it (so no other human being could use it ahead of myself).

Sincerely yours, Alm888®.

P.S. It is hilarious to see how some "Just Use Proton"™ fans are getting riled up by such a small detail. As if they perceive the notion that Proton™ is a commercial product of a in-for-profit company as something insulting. :)

Well, it is open source. A product of a for-profit company, yes, but it doesn't actually possess any of the attributes, such as say exclusivity, that you'd associate with a trademark, nor is it being sold for money.

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Quoting: Eike

Quoting: Purple Library GuyI mean, they can't really stop unofficial clones even if they wanted to, it's an open platform. Anyone in an appropriate industry could make a tiny PC with a controller running some kind of Linux with Steam preinstalled. But nobody not expecting to profit from the game sales could match Valve's price point, I would think, so I'd expect anyone doing it wouldn't get nearly as big results. Just seems likely to be a kind of marginal phenomenon.

I'm not sure about the "Steam preinstalled" part - which would be important - without Valve's agreement. But as they did agree...

I guess . . . at a minimum, there would be nothing to stop them putting a big button taking up half the first boot-up screen saying "Install Steam".

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Quoting: Eike

Quoting: Purple Library Guy

Quoting: Comandante ÑoñardoIf Valve doesn't allow other companies from around the world to make official clones, this will be a megafail.

I don't see how that works. What do they get from official clones?

Obviously, Valve would get people buying games on Steam.
I don't see though how not having that would make Steam Deck a fail.

I mean, they can't really stop unofficial clones even if they wanted to, it's an open platform. Anyone in an appropriate industry could make a tiny PC with a controller running some kind of Linux with Steam preinstalled. But nobody not expecting to profit from the game sales could match Valve's price point, I would think, so I'd expect anyone doing it wouldn't get nearly as big results. Just seems likely to be a kind of marginal phenomenon.

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Quoting: Comandante ÑoñardoIf Valve doesn't allow other companies from around the world to make official clones, this will be a megafail.

I don't see how that works. What do they get from official clones?

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Nothing wireless in the store, I notice.

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Quoting: ElectricPrism

Quoting: elmapul1)3 billions? wow, hat is just 500x less money than than microsoft, google or amazon! my 6 milllion dollar corporation

Don't be a disingenuous jerk, did you not read that the date was 2012 nearly 10 years ago?

I think elmapul's point stands, though. Say they've tripled in size in 9 years. That would make them worth $9 billion. Still not near the same league as MS or Google or Amazon.

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Quoting: elmapul1)3 billions?

To be fair, that was in 2012. I get the impression they've grown some since. But still, yeah . . . that's actually rather smaller than I was expecting.

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