LOL that name... is this institution an serious one? because with a name like that
[update] never mind its the bundle name

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Quoting: Philadelphus. Pretty much anyone who buys a Deck is going to have games in their library they can play, even if they can't play all the games in their library*. So the question becomes, what fraction of players are going to motivated enough by a specific unplayable game

that is a double edge sword, if they dont care about it, then valve will have less incentive to care thenselves, so people like me who never got the opportunity to play, cant play.

some people may already have played most of those games, because they purchased at launch since it worked day 1 on windows, but for people who waited 10 years to play it on linux, missing this oportunity is not an option.

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Quoting: PhiladelphusI'd bet anything the number of players/owners of games looks like an exponentially decaying distribution.

long tail, google it.

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Quoting: CatKiller

Quoting: elmapulits impressive when compared to other console launchs, but its not when compared to 90.000 games avaliable on steam for windows, and even more than that avaliable for windows in general.

It's about 64,000 games on Steam (today - there are about 28 new games added each day). It's including DLC and non-game software that gets you the higher number.

speaking of it, there is any way to buy Resident Evil 2 and 3 classic edition (aka, not the remakes) for pc?
i couldnt find so i tried to pirate it, but couldnt figure out how to install the cracked version on linux.

i'm not trying to advocate for piracy but, come on! i couldnt afford this game when i was an kid, then it flew out of my radar as an adult (forgot about it existence) and now that i want to pay to play it again for nostalgic reasons+finishing the things i never did as an kid, now that i can afford, now that the game run on linux... its not for sale anymore.
sigh, if i knew i would have purchased when it was on steam but i was trying to prioritize games avaliable for linux...

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its impressive when compared to other console launchs, but its not when compared to 90.000 games avaliable on steam for windows, and even more than that avaliable for windows in general.

i hope console gamers buy this thing like hotdogs, and pc gamers dont get too inclined to install windows on it, not until most games (be it steam games or not) work on it.
then it would be too late to reverse the trend.

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the art direction seems great but...
the video is too edgy, i mean, oh no, some one blew up the white house!
it would be an great premisse if i didnt saw it 1000 times before, now i cant take it serious.

and so on...

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Quoting: Purple Library Guy

Quoting: elmapulhell, even microsoft is doing some nice inovative stuff, directX 12 came before vulkan was a thing.

I don't remember it being quite like that. Didn't they kind of get developed/specified around the same time? DX12 might have been officially released before Vulkan was quite finalized, but it was all happening about the same time and basically drawing on the same ideas, which were being developed mostly in public.

the ideas are the same, because the hardware is the same, and its about being low level, not about building a lot of libraries on top of the hardware, so i think its natural to come to the same conclusions, but i dont know much about low level programing, nor about the development being public.
i dont know if the khronos group is something akin to w3c with public proposals that get adopted by the browser vendors in different speeds or what, what i do know is that the gaming market try to squeze every little bit of performance from the hardware and microsoft was the first to offer an solution in that regard, wich gave then a big advantage, or maybe their product was adopted by more companies due to the windows marketshare.
maybe mobile games use vulkan and it can be argueed that more developers chose vulkan than dx12, but while mobile gamers are an bigger and more profitable market, they suck in general (almost all are pay to win gacha games) so i dont count then really as gaming...

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i'm not into distro hopping anymore, can someone benchmark this and see if it make a huge difference?
i dont have free space or HDD's avaliable to test myself.

anyway, this tech dont seem impresssive, i'm a bit tired of seing huge improvments in the proprietary software world, and gimmicks on the free one.
dont get me wrong, blender and godot are amazing, but i'm still not convinced that an new desktop enviroment is nescessary and will help linux grow instead of just fragment.
sometimes it seems like we are just reinventing the whell and "stealing" money from other distros instead of developing some real tech
compare lumen /nanite from unreal engine to this, what have the bigger potential to be an game changer?
some "rocket science" algorithms to allow an "unlimited" ammount of polygons to be rendered on screen in real time, with another "cutting edge" tech to make lights ingame feel almost as good as raytracing without the processing cost of raytracing in scenes with that ammount of polygons...

meanwhile we get hyped at stuff like "automatically seting your cpu to performance mode when you gonna game" or "automatically seting priorities straight for processes"
hell, even microsoft is doing some nice inovative stuff, directX 12 came before vulkan was a thing.

i know system 76 is not as big as epic or microsoft, the question is, maybe the path for linux to go foward is, using the money that can only be gained by selling proprietary software and using it to fund open source, like what valve is doing funding wine/proton, vulkan, mesa, futex, etc.

i know this leave an sour taste on our mouth, the question is "the goals justify the means"
and an philosofical discussion i would like to propose:
if we give up having many stores to rely only on steam and stuff that work well with lutris/heroic, because those work well with linux , we are giving up part of or "freedom"
if we give up on the ability to change the wallpaper as canonical was proposing with ubuntuphone to try to convince oems to adopt the system (aka seling the consumers wallpaper as an place to put brand adivertise )
we give up having many tools, like tools to make mods (eg: custom maps for an specific game)
give up using floss drivers because the proprietarys are better.

and so on... at some point we end up with less freedom than on windows...

sigh...
sorry for the confusing comment, i cant formulate phrases in english right now.

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looks like they arent the only ones:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nej_0hT0X3M [External Link]

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did they improve their emulator? the last time i checked it was an piece of shit.

i'm not talking about how accurate it played the game, but the usability in general.

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