Quoting: CyborgZetaI wish all Cloud gaming would die.

Call me a dinosaur, insult me, whatever. I don't care. I will never accept streaming games from someone else's hardware, in addition to the "always online" mandate. People who mandate an Internet connection are people who've never had to deal with a spotty connection.

I don't, I hope it continues to succeed. It opens up gaming to more people in various ways from not having to buy expensive hardware, to saving on domestic energy bills because it requires so little power. It's just that Google's business plan was terrible.

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Quoting: hardpenguinI mean they already have a Linux build in beta? I use it. Fully playable with achievements and stuff.

Seems they don't consider it good enough though, and I've seen repeatedly a fair amount of people can't run it at all.

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Quoting: BrokattI find KDE Connect to work well enough onm Steam Deck these days.You just need to add the source in Discover via Settings > Add Source... > https://distribute.kde.org/kdeapps.flatpakrepo [External Link]

I would be happier to cover KDE Connect if they put up a proper Flatpak app, one that is not in their testing repo that isn't ready for production. I've spoken to them before, and they claimed it couldn't just be a Flatpak by itself due to various integration issues. Once they have it out properly, I'll take a look.

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Quoting: randylYeah, I got that and it's a cool article. I hope my questions didn't come across as trying to undermine your tutorial. I was just curious about the technical details. It's a very cool hack.

Not at all, always happy to explain where I can even when the original instructions are not my own :) (as linked in the OP). Hopefully we can find better ways to do it eventually and have it stick around, or Valve just lets us mess with it officially.

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Quoting: itscalledrealityWhat? Is this an internal team or actually the staffing at EAC? Why would the Rust devs care about EAC company’s staffing?

The feeling that comes across is that EAC is not particularly big, and every new game that gets hooked up and every new platform (like Linux / Steam Deck) spreads their resources.

Naturally, all developers want to ensure their games are secured, and it's things they have to think about. The Rust developers obviously know a lot more than we do and more than they can publicly say about it all. I think Garry made the point pretty clear in the quotes there that doesn't really need a whole lot of explanation?

If you really need it spelled out: extra resources spread across a small user-base is not exactly a wise business decision. That can change, if Linux / Steam Deck grow a lot more because then naturally resources will flow towards it.

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As I understand it, the main point is ensuring parity with the default files otherwise Steam will overwrite it and it won’t work. Yes it will overwrite any extras you put in it but the purpose of this guide was this alone.

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Quoting: Pendragonvery cool

edit: what happens if the files are not truncated? Does the video just not load or does the boot error out?

Steam notices the file is modified and redownloads it.

Yep, this exactly. It’s there to ensure it’s right on what Steam expects.

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Quoting: LightkeyAre you planning to extend the selectable timescale or why did you change the purge date from 2 to 5 years?

It went from 2 to 5 based on feedback from users directly, because most people don't upgrade their PC so often so it seemed to make sense.

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Quoting: GEO

For the KDE team, this seems to be the first time they've done a dedicated fundraiser with previous campaigns being for KDE as a whole.

This isn't the first time, Krita did a dedicated fundraiser as well.

This is an official KDE-level fundraiser, Krita do their own thing.

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Updated with RTX Remix info.

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