Quoting: Liam Dawe

Quoting: BaronVonSuckonormally known for Linux support (iD).

id software don't support Linux, never have. You must be confusing them with something else. They previously released some unsupported binaries for old titles many years ago, plus some open source engines but they've never supported Linux proper.

Quoting: BaronVonSuckoI'm beginning to suspect Stadia has a "No Linux" clause written in an NDA or something. It's the only thing which makes sense of this.

I already answered this here. Market share + Google pays developers to port. There is no conspiracy or special clauses, outside of their exclusives/timed exclusives. It's the reality of being a niche platform.

That's plausible, but we don't actually know it to be the case. And OK, not many AAA games get ported to Linux these days, but lots of the Stadia games are far from AAA. Far as I understand it, wasn't it around a quarter to a third of all games on Steam are available native on Linux? There are a lot more than four games on Stadia and they already run on Linux. If it is in fact the case that none of them have been released for the Linux desktop, at a certain point that's gotta start seeming a bit weird.

Of course a lot of them are Stadia exclusives for the moment, so time will tell there.

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Quoting: randylOn one hand I think these are great additions to Stadia. On the other, I'm not seeing any practical benefit from Google using a Debian backend yet at all. Maybe I'm being impatient, but my benefits of the doubt have run out.

I never really expected most of the Stadia games in specific to be released also for desktop Linux, although IMO it is still a bit early to judge whether that will happen. For me it's more a matter of developers getting used to developing on Linux leading to more cross-platform development down the road, and also the use of Stadia for games by and for big companies creating a push to eliminate technological roadblocks (eg drivers, sound etc).

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Quoting: EikeWhat I'd really want is "please do not recode at all, just dump all those frames I told you I don't want".
But I guess that's just not what video editors are all about.

This is a lot about how video codecs and containers are constructed technically rather than being against the goals of video editing software. With most video containers, it is not possible to just split a file without re-encoding it.

So what? I don't need to know that. Have it pretend. I don't know what the heck LibreOffice does to a spreadsheet file when I save it--it's not my problem.

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Quoting: CatKiller

Quoting: fleskStadia unquestionably has more positive repercussions for us, since it forces developers to adapt to Linux and Vulkan, whereas Luna makes that completely irrelevant. No matter what you think of streaming, Stadia is clearly a better deal for our ecosystem than Luna or GeForce Now.

It's just a shame that it's not as good for either developers or customers as the competing services.

For developers, they have to go to the effort of porting to Linux, which they don't have to do for the competitors.

For customers, you don't have access to games you've bought elsewhere, and you lose access to games that you've bought should you lose access to Stadia, which comes from the notoriously-fickle Google.

Which means that it won't have as much impact on the part we care about - game devs getting more experience with Linux gaming and Vulkan - as if it were a more competitive offering.

I take your point about using Windows being better for developers, who mostly develop on/for Windows. But on the other hand, Stadia's probably more efficient. There's reasons Linux dominates the server space. Cheaper infrastructure means savings for someone, so it might have some compensations for either developers or customers.

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Console no longer requires the curses library.

. . . They've moved up to Goat-Sacrifice 1.1

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This seems really awesome but I feel like it should be incorporated into something like Lutris.

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Huh. I feel like I want to try playing Necroids but give them some totally enlightened traits--pacifistic, egalitarian, democratic Necroids, bringing peace, love (and death) to the galaxy.

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But what about chief Vitalstatistix? And where's the special "Magic Potion" technology?

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What I keep wondering is, OK, we got these streaming game services. A couple already, plus Amazon now. Soooo . . . what's their market share like?
There's plenty of hype, and some people clearly are playing them. But are they catching on? Are they eating anyone's lunch? Or are they currently a relatively fringe thing, for all the talk? Is it a bandwagon Valve better jump on, or just mostly a money sink? Note that I'm willing to buy either possibility, I'm just complaining I don't have the data to judge from.
It's the same thing I've been wondering about the Epic store, which I haven't heard as much about lately. Everyone was talking how Valve needed to do various things to meet this threat, and they mostly didn't, and it's still unclear whether they had any need to.

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Quoting: elmapulbtw, purple is my favorite collor, so this background is automagically beautyfull
and the name is a perfect fit.

but the controller, looks like some one just glued togheter 2 pieces to pretend they were just one...
hopefully i'm right and you can change the base depending on your hands size...

I heartily endorse the purpleness of it.
The controller has a bit of purple theme going, too, so it's not all bad.

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