Huh, that's unexpected, Hall Effect version of Pro 2 is relatively new. Well, I hope this will cause some serious discount for Hall Effect Pro 2 gamepads.

View this comment - View article - View full comments

Maan, so many hours sank in mp of this game.

View this comment - View article - View full comments

@ScottCarammell

Not a clue, as I have just tried with Ubuntu Mate 24.04, the native Linux version works perfectly.

Edit: The game is verified with native Linux version for Steam Deck.

recommended_runtime
native

https://steamdb.info/app/48000/info/ [External Link]

View this comment - View article - View full comments

Limbo has an unadvertised native Linux version on Steam as default, I suggest getting it.

https://steamdb.info/app/48000/depots/ [External Link]
https://store.steampowered.com/app/48000/LIMBO/ [External Link]

View this comment - View article - View full comments

Ross Scott already responded with clear points:

https://youtu.be/z5Ay_aOUcFw [External Link]

View this comment - View article - View full comments

tldr: We pulled an Ubuntu, got Ubuntu backlash, we now pretend that it didn't happen until the next pre-release.

View this comment - View article - View full comments

Because Steam is legacy software… (but this explains a lot).

In a sense that it was released 21 years ago; yes.

Then expanded into 3 different OS& architectures, regularly updated, receiving new features quite often, got at least 3 UI overhaul switches, is the backbone of Windows and Linux gaming.

Legacy software, sigh...

View this comment - View article - View full comments

x86_64 is ancient. People are already striving to move to the next, more efficient architectures (aarch64 & Risc V). We already can run x86 software without any problems in containers but generally don't need to: "Our" software is build for x86_64 by the distributions. Again, it's only crapware from crap developers which blocks this.

I really don't want to sound cynical but this makes me one. I keep reading about the wonders of Risc-v for at least 5 years, yet I am yet to see a working distro running all the legacy i386 apps and games that works seamlessly on risc-v.

I use Linux exclusively since 2009, I was reading about the heavens offered by Wayland even that early. Yet, we are witnessing its mass adoption in last couple years. Why? Because, some smart people didn't arbitrarily decide to drop x11 that would render old apps inoperable due to lack of efficient translation.

Nobody is stopping you, have fun: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/infra/sysadmin_guide/copr/ [External Link]

Also, no one is stopping people to switch to other distros either. Unless its name is Debian, there is no irreplaceable distro. Have fun seeing people migrating to distros offer better and native compatibility.

View this comment - View article - View full comments

The macOS client was recently ported to aarch64 (a completely different CPU architecture!). If an x86_64 build is harder than that then Valve should completely rewrite the Steam client.

As I pointed out earlier, Steam client is 64 bit on macOS for both x86-64 and ARM64, yet it is still not fast. The problem is CEF, as long as CEF remains as it is, changing and/or upgrading architecture won't change much.

View this comment - View article - View full comments

Perhaps open a separate one to talk about changing build architecture to build fewer 32-bit packages?

Canonical has been doing that in Ubuntu repos for years. Some apps simply don't have i386 packages. As bothersome as that is, it is a fine compromise rather than dropping x86 support entirely.

View this comment - View article - View full comments