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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Quoting: ElectricPrismDon't be a disingenuous jerk, did you not read that the date was 2012 nearly 10 years ago?

i know those numbers are out dated, dont know how many years outdate, but that is beyoned the point, i was working with the numbers that i knew from head (1~2 trillion for microsoft) and the numbers he gave me. (3 billion for valve) using other numbers for valve would be an strawman argument.

Quoting: ElectricPrismHonestly, you are on the level of 1+1 = 3 right now, and you're not even worth my time to carry on a discussion -- also holy god man -- spell check your posts once in a while -- are you drunk?

english is not my native lang , so i dont need to be drunk to make a lot of mistakes, i should spell check they indeed, its just not worth the trouble of doing it, i'm not paid to comment on foruns and i waste a lot of time discussing on the internet that i should realistic spend elsewhere, most of the time i discuss in portuguese, so my english is getting kinda "rusted".

i dont have an spell checked embed to firefox and dont think it worth the trouble searching for an add'on and installing for something i do only a few times a day.

Quoting: ElectricPrismAlso, why the shitting all over Valve, the literal only hand that feeds -- that level of shillery makes no sense -- you are a clusterfuck of contradictions.

sigh, i'm not shitting over valve, i'm shiting over the stupid argument.
arguing that valve having 3 billions of dollars as if this meant they could enter the cloud gaming business and any other market they want is stupid, first because microsoft, google and amazon are way bigger, and second because an company having a lot of money dont mean they gonna spend everything in a single product/service.
sure the game goes for microsoft, if we wanna be completely fair we shouldnt compare the entire microsoft budget to valve budget, the closer thing to this would be to compare the money from the xbox division (About 13 billion last time i checked) with the money of valve cloud gaming division, but if steamOS really has the power to challenge windows, i bet microsoft would spend a lot of money to keep their products competitive, not only the money from the xbox/gaming division.

Quoting: ElectricPrismOh awesome, I just discovered I can click on your profile and block you -- since you have nothing intelligible to say I will cleanse my feed of your nonsense. Good god man. I mean I'm genuinely impressed by how much of a proud fool you've made yourself out to be.

Oh I also stopped reading past the quotation btw, again -- if you want to sit at my big boy table you need to behave and prove that you are sane by making sane arguments and acknowledging facts and data.

we can search for more precise data (wich is troublesome to do, because valve is not an public company so they only relase this data when they feel like too do) but the fact remain that microsoft has much more money and economics of scale than valve for doing cloud gaming.
now, dont get me wrong, an small company can compete with an big one in an particular market, so long their investments are smarther, shooting for all directions trying to hitsomething is not smarth, only big companies can afford to try this.
i dont think its smarth for valve to even try to enter this market right now, making an partnership with nvidia sound smarther than that, if they split their money into too many projects they might not have enough to compete in any of then.
cloud gaming will not be big any time soon, its something that will be in the long term, and investing on it contradict the investment on steamdeck.

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Quoting: ElectricPrism

By 2012, Valve employed around 250 people and was reportedly worth over US$3 billion, making it the most profitable company per employee in the United States. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valve_Corporation [External Link]

Also, Valve is basically a CDN and accounted for like 1-2% of all internet traffic last time I checked.

In the kindest way I know how, you may want to update your view to include these facts. There's no way.

1)3 billions? wow, hat is just 500x less money than than microsoft, google or amazon! my 6 milllion dollar corporation certainly can compete against valve!
and an 12 thousands dollars corporation certainly can compete with mine!
do you see how that is ridiculous?

2)profit per employee is completely different than having a lot of money, employee count is just part of the equation, you need other stuff like servers.

3)1~2% of the internet traffic is a lot, but those servers arent really meant for stremaing games, bandwidth is not the only thing we should consider, if i write an application that waste 1 MB of ram per user and host it on my own machine, with 8GB of ram i can have almost 8192 users (a bit less due to stuff like OS) but that dont mean i have bandwidth for that.
on the other hand, if i have bandwidth for that, that dont means that i can host applications that waste 8GB of ram, and host then for thousands of simultaneous users.
i know, that contradict what i said about video cards, but google/ms/amazon use their machines for stuff like machine learning so their machines are most likely ready for processing hude ammounts of data, wich is quite different from being an massive file server as steam mostly is.

nintendo spent 1 billion in a single deal with unity to support their platforms, valve worthing 3 billions dont seem impressive to me.

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Quoting: BlooAlien

Quoting: elmapulyes, people are willing to pay for subscriptions of an *SMALL library of games (imagine an big one)

If the price was fair and reasonable, I'd happily pay a monthly fee to Valve for streaming access to my Steam library from a Valve server farm (for mobile gaming, and gaming on "lesser" devices than my powerful gaming rig). Of course, only if such service fully supported Linux and Android devices decently… But yea, I'd pay for that.

i'm not criticizing that, quite the contrary, i'm saying: there is still hope.
if amazon didnt needed games that only work on windows to have an sustainable product and grow it, then they have an huge incentive to futher invest into breaking free of windows dependence completely.
and now with valve and amazon deep pockets, investing into wine, and... hey, wait! i just remembered another info, google said that developers dont need to support vulkan anymore!
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2021/07/stadia-gets-more-generous-revenue-models-plus-a-porting-toolkit-for-directx-to-vulkan/

now developers have 3 incentives to support linux and we have 3 big companies beting on it! things are starting to get interesting to say the least, i was worried that amazon would counter google on cloud by taking advantage of the huge windows library instead of trying to compete with microsoft, but that is not the case, windows might have been an provisory solution or an plan B just like WindowsCE was an planB OS for dreamCast.

omg, now i need to process all this info to conclude anything i'm getting confused, it worth nothing that my day was an mess with tons of things to do.

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