Quoting: 14Thanks for the great info in the article.

What I take out of this is simple: Games released in a year or two will have much better Linux support in EAC.

I work for a company with many software developers and I see all the time how many components get upgraded when they already work right now -- close to never. It only happens when there is a security risk. The business pressure directs devs to add features and fix bugs. Changing EAC SDK would be seen as a risk and could cause a bad experience for the 97% of players that don't need the Linux-compatible version.

so lets place a bug bounty, if someone find an security hole, then the latest version of the SDK will patch it, and developers might migrate to it...

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Quoting: DaddySteamA login might not be required yet, BUT it can be required in the future.

Epic is no saint and definitively wants to profit from it.

so you think they refuse to migrate to the new SDK because they are afraid that epic will relase an mandatory update for it to require an epic account? its more likely that they will refuse such mandatory update.

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i never use twitch, their interface was too heavy for my computer, it was not impossible to use, but it wasnt worth it, its like the chicken and egg problem:
the UI was heavy so i didnt visit it often, as result of not visiting it, i dont know about any good content on it, so i didnt cared enough to give it another try to know if they fixed the ui problem.

so... its looks like it wasnt twitch but twitch performance on firefox... i have no idea of what bootnecks firefox have that twitch uses to have this issue.
for me its easier to giveup on twitch than on firefox, but good to know they are looking at the issue.

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how many of those are online games that work thanks to valve anti cheat aproach?

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i played this a couple times in the past.
i dont know how it evolved since then, but it had a couple of issues to fix.

bug 0 of any game: the game isnt fun.
they need some quality control on the offical levels, curate every part of every level for maximum fun, replayability and having an proper learning curve with the harder levels later on the game, also the basic gameplay of walk/jump needed improvment as fair as i remember.

bug 1 (ok its not really 1, but i dont follow their issue tracker) some graphical glitches.
im not sure if it was their fault, or ubuntu fault (or my mistake of not using an LTS back then)

bug 2: the patern/tiles repeating is anoying to the eyes.

that said, i dont remember where was the level editor, and if it was easy to find/use.

i hope windows users dont create content for it exclusive for windows (eg: new powerups using some physics library only avaliable for windows, or an new/better level editor since it wont violate the game licence even if its not GPL)

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"backflipping"
didnt new super mario bros ds had this already?

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Quoting: CyborgZetaHowever, it's not going to change the fact that Ubuntu is just not suited for gaming just from the way it's designed. Gaming, particularly on Linux, benefits immensely from having the latest kernel and the latest drivers. .

i wonder what leassons valve have learned about developing for linux.
maybe it was an good idea to focus at stability at the begining, focusing on packages that were heavily tested, so they can be sure that any bug they encouter was their fault not fault of some thirdy party code/library, then after building an strong foundation they can "port it" to the latest versions of those libraries, fix any issue that occur and keep their new code compatible with the latest versions of the libraries?

or maybe relying on old but heavily tested packages was an mistake since the begining?

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Quoting: elmapuli forgot to mention, i saw an video sometime ago discussing if linux was the reason why stadia was strugling to grow, they gathered some data about the topic and came to the conclusion that only 1 game was avaliable on luna but couldnt run on any linux device or something like that, so the answer was: NO, stadia using linux didnt explain why amazon and xcloud were more sucessfull than it.

so the lack of games on linux was not the main issue, and now with amazon investing on linux...

I FOUND IT
https://youtu.be/SePfbQAlkaU?list=PLQd8fE-Xwp-5NYEHyFnb-i5vTC6JqRX0D&t=2015 [External Link]

its a bit strange to quote myself but worth it, it took me days but i found the video they said it!

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i hope this 10GB include proton installations.
it make a lot of sense:
valve save bandwitdh by not having to distribute proton alongside the games for everyone who purchase an steam deck, instead it already come pre installed.
and it make it easier to manage.
just think about it:

lets say we have 2 games that use 100MB of storage and need the same version of proton to run, lets say: proton 6.3 (34MB)

the user will be confused if he see this situation:

you need 134 MB to install game A, and 134MB to install game B.
but if you have A installed you only need 100MB to install B, and if you have B installed you only need 100MB to install A.
if you only unistall one game, you free'd 100MB of disk space, but if you unistall both you free 234MB.
those games arent even from the same company to share any code/assets, so that problem dont make any sense for the end user, it just make it more confusing to manage your remaining storage.

10GB is A LOT of space for an linux distro, so i hope it also include some space for cache , for games/applications who need virtual ram, since 8GB might not be enough for then, and/or an copy of the OS as it came from factory for those who want/need to reset to factory settings.

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Quoting: scaineMeanwhile game streaming has as a couple of really difficult problems to address, like input latency,

input lag? before microsoft relased xbox series and sony relased ps5, digital foundry made an analysys comparing the input lag of xbox one x, with stadia on red dead redemption.
guess what? the input lag on stadia was lower!

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