Quoting: Cley_FayeI was under the impression we already had a PC port of Super Mario 64.

Anyway, good news.

We do but a lot of those have been rather all-over-the-place and required you to compile them yourself, at least that's been my experience. Many were abandoned pretty much right after they were playable.

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Doing some thinking myself, I think this whole thing is the Deckard.

You have "controllers for video games" and "computer hardware and computer software for the reproduction, processing, and streaming of audio, video, data, text, and multimedia content".

That, to me, sounds like a controller and a wireless VR headset.

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Does that mean that if shader pre-caching is disabled, such videos won't be re-encoded on the fly, so enabling it is the only way to see them?[quote]

Yep. Because at that point you may as well include the codec directly to support the video format, but then this problem wouldn't exist in the first place. Just legal messiness for the sake of it.

[quote]I am worried about games that have such videos but which are used for something like a cut scene, where nothing plays, not even the test pattern. When that happens, you've no idea that there even was a cut scene supposed to play, so you're missing out.

In those cases, go for something like Proton-GE, that includes most of the missing codecs.

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with plans for Native Linux support too

Now THAT is what I like to see!

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My problem with this whole discourse was how sensationalized it was by YouTubers and the like.

Everyone was talking about it like all of Steam and their games would be erased by next week. It was just a PROPOSAL! It's something that needs to be done sooner or later, and all this Dev was trying to do was provide a gentle nudge asking "Hey, could we look into this?".

I don't know how many people in various Discords and Subreddits asked if Fedora or Bazzite were about to implode overnight, and worryingly wondered if they needed to switch.
The response by the Bazzite devs, saying that the project would need to be shut down if this went through, only added more fuel to the fire. Don't do that!

Fedora itself has done nothing wrong. The Dev who proposed it did nothing wrong.
The only people to blame are the people who sensationalized it and Valve for still not having put out a 64-Bit Build of Steam for Linux. They should've taken care of this back when the Steam Deck released for crying out loud.

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When 64-bit Steam Client for Linux?!

That and what about Steam for ARM? If Apple can have it, why can't we >:D!

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Bit sad to not see "I Wani Hug That Gator" as part of the ad card but it is what it is. Incredible game, highly recommend it. The story is beyond moving :heart:

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Incredibly glad they're looking to add keyboard layouts. That's the main thing that's been keeping me from using Cinnamon Wayland (besides Nvidia). Me and my QWERTZ Keyboards can finally work together nicely!

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The most unstable version of SteamOS seems to be at Kernel 6.8 and when you consider the fact that Proton already has the alternatives patched in, there seems to be some misunderstanding

It's worse. I checked it. The current Steam Deck Kernel seems to be derived from a 6.5 Release.
In the Preview and Beta Channels, it's listed as 6.5.0-valve23-1-neptune-65-g385b5e207ae2.

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