Update: Valve replied today to say the Interactive Recommender will get a platform OS filter.

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I do always find it odd when people ask "why when x exists?". Nothing moves on both in hardware and software, without more people and companies trying to make things. Competition is good too and a 100% Linux focused vendor doing it is obviously icing on the cake, the stronger they are as a company the better.

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Quoting: elmapul"Pricing starts at $699 for the base model with 8GB RAM and a 250GB SSD. Could be a great little indie gaming and streaming machine."

er... nope, at this price i can buy an ps4, switch or xbox one...

Missing the point. The main point is this is an open desktop PC, in a mini form factor (always expensive) with a focus on privacy. That can also double-up as an indie gaming/streaming machine.

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Quoting: sigzI'm really disapointed.. Valve doesn't release its own game with vulkan and for steam OS at release ?? And they make it with dx11 after participating massively on vulkan for years ?? I don't get it..
They just don't believe themselves on linux gaming then, It would not be surprising if they delay more and more alyx linux release.

It's likely a case of when production started, Vulkan was still too new and rough or didn't have extensions needed to get the kind of performance they wanted. As we've seen with Artifact (RIP) and Dota Underlords, their newer stuff is usually Vulkan at release.

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Note: Did an adjustment on the title, to make it clearer and match what's in the quote.

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Quoting: razing32uhm
The whole SWAT team got massacred.
Not a great example of how the system works.
They should show a fail state and a win state. Like more of what the system is capable of/ how to play.

Why does it not make it a good example, if they lose? It's a perfect example, shows exactly how it works, that's the point. You don't need to show every feature in every game with the player winning, weird way to think.

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Quoting: Liam Dawe

Quoting: IperpidoYes, they rolled out 4k for the web... but on Windows only.
On Mac Os, there's no native VP9 support, but i can't understand why on Linux it's still locked to 1080p

Well there's the Stadia+ extension [External Link], which can allow you to force a resolution like 4K. The reason they don't by default, is likely as no current browser (even Firefox) has proper GPU video acceleration on Linux right now.

Well, i can confirm Stadia+ is actually working well on Linux too.
My other problem is that i have a 2k monitor, not fuill 4k. on windows i can use AMD's VSR, but on linux is harder.

I managed to do that using xrandr:
xrandr --listmonitors
hdmiOutput=$?
xrandr --output DisplayPort-$hdmiOutput --mode 2560x1440 --panning 3840x2160 --scale 1.5x1.5

(change DisplayPort to HDMI if you are using HDMI, of course)

Stadia+ is open source too, so as Stadia evolves people can hack away at that too which is quite cool. Shame it's needed for 4K right now, but eventually when browsers catch up on Linux for GPU accel it won't be needed.

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Quoting: IperpidoYes, they rolled out 4k for the web... but on Windows only.
On Mac Os, there's no native VP9 support, but i can't understand why on Linux it's still locked to 1080p

Well there's the Stadia+ extension [External Link], which can allow you to force a resolution like 4K. The reason they don't by default, is likely as no current browser (even Firefox) has proper GPU video acceleration on Linux right now.

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Quoting: dpanterHoly crap those Mario skills! :woot:

Look, it's not easy having five thumbs.

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Update: Steam again broke a new record with over 20 million (approx 20,048,416) concurrent users online.

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