Don't you think Flatpak will face the same problem as Ubuntu and Fedora?

Why would it? That's antithetical to the concept of Flatpak itself. The purpose of it is to provide sandboxed environments for applications that contain the exact dependencies they need. These dependencies are not installed to the system resources directory (/usr) like typical libraries, and it would make absolutely no sense to disallow the use of i386 libs since they aren't actually touching the base OS. Also, the other things you described are trivial problems to work around. The Steam forums are going to be filled with Windows users, so of course they're not going understand it. If they had any semblance of understanding, they wouldn't be asking for help on the Steam forums. Y'know, a traditionally unreliable source of technical information.

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I've found Wayland works ok on most of my laptops but not at all working on my desktop that has Nvidia graphics

Works fine on my 3060. I've been on COSMIC for nearly a full year, and it's been a wonderful experience. Make sure you're using a driver version above 560 (or explicitly go with 575 if you use gamescope, as it fixes a Vulkan bug), and make sure that you're using a desktop environment that properly utilizes explicit sync. Wayland on Nvidia is abysmal without those two factors, and you can check if explicit sync is in use with Waycheck. It lists all of the protocols your DE supports. I don't remember explicit sync's specific name off the top of my head (it's something like objsync_v1), but just filter by the term "sync", and if it shows up in bold letters, that means it's in use.

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I wish more companies would take Fatshark's approach, and implement their anti-cheat server side. Vermintide and Darktide used to both use EAC, and it was removed in favor of their own non-local solution. It seems to do the job. I've put nearly 1,000 hours into Darktide, I've never once ran into a blatant cheater.

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That's a lot of CVEs...

Just imagine what's not been found yet. I'm not here to turn this into an X vs Wayland thing, but there's a reason why X is referred to as a walking corpse. There's nobody around to properly maintain it anymore, and all it ever sees are patches for independently discovered vulnerabilities like these. And the guy who wants to create its successor, LibreX or whatever, is a lunatic who feels it necessary to inject his ultra far-right beliefs into every tiny facet of his life. Even Linus has called him out for being a lunatic. It's time we let it die, and embrace the future. The same people were kicking and screaming when systemd replaced init.d and rc.local, and they're always going to be around to try to convince you that your best interest is to stay on antiquated systems all because they feel they're above learning something new.

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Didn't they claim Linux support for that, way back during the initial crowdfunding?

I wouldn't know, but we certainly don't have it now. I'm not necessarily a fan of it. I just have friends that got me an introductory ship so I could fly around in the ones they dump money on.

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For the Ultimate 2 it actually does work over the dongle but it's kinda hidden. Their newest dongle beta firmware allows D-Input over it now. Hold Home+B when turning it on and it'll work on steam input like over Bluetooth.

Nice! Does this mean gyro controls work over 2.4g, as well? Now if I can just get VirtualBox to cooperate. I might have to move to a different VM solution. I used to update my Ultimate using Vbox with no problems, but the Ultimate 2 dongle doesn't properly reconnect when put in flashing mode. Same goes for the controller itself.

Also, does anyone know if this finally fixes the face button layout detection for those with the Nintendo layout? Steam used to automatically map things as expected so long as I had the "Use Nintendo layout" option toggled. Games no longer seem to respect this, though, and I have to make a Steam Input profile for practically everything. This might be a Wayland thing, but I don't remember experiencing this until Steam got updated one night some time last year.

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Say what you will about Star Citizen, it's really amusing how much work goes into getting it running on Linux. It's probably the most documented non-Steam Windows game when it comes to set up instructions and troubleshooting. Considering the state it's in, I just find it funny that people would dedicate so much time to it, but it also makes me happy that they do.

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I guess I understand why the devs have done this, but I really wish they didn't disable game compatibility that was once available behind the experimental toggle. Before they disabled Skyrim detection, I used this to mod SE without any problems, but it's no longer possible to do this with later releases. I feel that it kinda defeats the purpose to have an option to enable experimental features if they get taken away with the intention to add them back later. That all being said, it's very possible it had problems with certain mods. I installed around 30 of the most popular ones, but Skyrim has an obscene amount of mods, and it stands to reason that something was breaking.

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The hacker in me says "how hard is to fake a whitelisted device to the routine asking for it?".

It'd be really amusing if the SteamDeck=1 flag is all that's needed. This is what's required for EAC to work under Space Marine 2, so it's not that far fetched.

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The question is, does it properly understand the concept of Wine like e.g. Heroic does? Can we use it as a native Linux app to handle Windows games in multiple Wine prefixes? Like it or not, that's the status quo for gaming on Linux nowadays. I have no use for it if it must be run inside each separate Wine prefix as a Windows app.

It's a native application, hence the "cross-platform" label. It works by scanning your Steam directory for prefixes belonging to supported games, and it adds them to a library within the app itself. I used it to mod Skyrim SE before they temporarily disabled support for it, and it worked perfectly fine. Also, if you don't want to use this, LIMO exists as an alternative.

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