Quoting: slaapliedje

Quoting: Purple Library Guy

Quoting: slaapliedjepetitors though? Sure they do have their own stores, and their own sales, but the sales usually coincide... they make money off both... And it'd be in their interest to have a 'Ubiconnect' or whatever icon on the Steam Deck for purchasing straight from them if possible. The question is, would Valve allow this? Possibly as they don't like exclusives.

Well, it comes with a browser. If you want the Ubisoft store on your Steam Deck you google it and bookmark it. I can't see Valve going to extra effort to stick a built in button front and centre.

It is an application / launcher, not a web page though.

So, what, to launch an Ubisoft game you have to remember which games you bought from Ubisoft so you know to launch the launcher thing, and then pick which Ubisoft game you want to launch once some kind of launcher interface comes up? Something like that? Sounds annoying. Remind me not to buy any games from Ubisoft.

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Quoting: slaapliedjepetitors though? Sure they do have their own stores, and their own sales, but the sales usually coincide... they make money off both... And it'd be in their interest to have a 'Ubiconnect' or whatever icon on the Steam Deck for purchasing straight from them if possible. The question is, would Valve allow this? Possibly as they don't like exclusives.

Well, it comes with a browser. If you want the Ubisoft store on your Steam Deck you google it and bookmark it. I can't see Valve going to extra effort to stick a built in button front and centre.

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Quoting: PodyPearPearlIs Linux gaming a large market? Because I heard Linux is actually growing. I hope it becomes large enough until then I will run games not working on Linux in windows.

Tiny market comparatively. But given the size of Steam's customer base, it's incredible to think there are over a million active monthly Linux gamers out there.

You can track the stats on GOL's dedicated page: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/steam-tracker/

There's one mismatch I've gradually noticed: So on Steam, the proportion of PC gamers using Linux is only around 1%. That probably is a good basis for figuring that's how it is for PC gamers in general if only because Steam accounts for such a lot of them.
But it seems like the proportion of people using Linux for, say, browsing the web, is like at least 2-3%. I wonder where that mismatch comes from. There are a lot of possibilities (Linux desktop users disproportionately don't game, or those are work computers, or such). But if part of the explanation is that many Linux desktop users dual boot and game on Windows, or do their gaming with consoles, because they see Linux as not a gaming platform, that opens the possibility of a successful Steam Deck also bringing it to existing desktop Linux users' attention that they could do their gaming on Linux as well, and we could gradually get like a .5% or so bump out of that. Which sounds like very little, but it would be a 50% increase.
That's a lot of "what ifs", but it could happen.

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Quoting: subThe first two attempts got rejected?

Yeah, there've been articles here about those. But you know, looking at the little "changes" bit there, I don't understand a word about what specifically they changed, but I get the impression that criticism by Serious Kernel Types was constructive and resulted in real improvements to the code, and also that the third version changed a lot less than the second version, which suggests that the heavy lifting of meeting requirements was done after the original patch was critiqued, while the third version was just taking care of a couple of loose ends.

That seems like real progress, not stonewalling, and seems like maybe either this third one will be accepted, or a couple of other loose ends might turn up but at any rate we're getting close.

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As a Canadian, when I see this I find myself thinking of it as "Trudeaugrad".

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Wonder if that distro support language is kind of hedging bets based on the idea that going forward, once it exists, they may find they want to support SteamOS 3.

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I'm not sure I'd actually heard of Steam before it launched on Linux. I'd pretty much given up on games for the most part when I dumped the dual boot, and I'd never been much of a gamer to start with. But I came to the conclusion that lack of games was one of the big things still blocking widespread Linux adoption on the desktop, and nobody much was talking about the desktop any more, and there was this website called "Gaming on Linux", which I started following to see what the prospects might be for a breakthrough on the games front that could make my preferred OS a more viable desktop competitor.

So then a while after I started following GoL, there was all this talk about how Linux was getting a Steam client, and this was supposed to be a big deal. I rapidly assimilated why it was a big deal, and a while after that it showed up on my distro as a thing you could just install, and Valve was pushing Linux, and there were games, commercial games I wanted to play, actually available by pressing a button! It was a breakthrough moment for me. I had basically played zero computer games since Loki went belly up.

Now I'm so used to Steam that it weirds me out when I'm trying to think of something family members could get me for Christmas and I say "Well, um, you could go on Steam and buy me a game" and they're like "What's Steam?" and I realize it's possible to not know . . . like I didn't back when the Linux client first arrived.

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Quoting: TheSHEEEP

Posted on Twitter and Steam with one of those annoying text over image delay posts (at least it wasn't bright yellow like we saw with Cyberpunk)

I blame Twitter's nonsensically short character limit.

I can't do Twitter. All I can think of at the notion is "But my walls of text!!!"

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Kind of nice that the kraken is the good guy. Krakens usually get a bad rap, good to see some kraken-positivity here.

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Interesting character.

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