Out of the 25 games Feral has released for Linux so far, 10 are strategy games!

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I guess with modern day's trend of hating real life friends and preaching for everyone to lock down their doors and play online alone with no option of split screen, Stadia will give those people who still have real friends a chance to once again play together on the same couch. I'm pretty sure there will be A LOT of people who would prefer to play Fortnite on Stadia rather than any other platform despite the possible latency. Sony and Microsoft will feel the pain now for not paying attention to the importance of split screen.

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Does anyone know if this is still a GNU/Linux based OS, or is it like Android where the kernel is Linux but the rest of the stack is not a GNU/Linux?

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Damn it. For a second I thought I was reading "Steam Machines 2" and got excited.

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Hmmm... why couldn't Valve provide a similar line up of AAA titles at the launch of Steam Machines? They could've been successful if they provided such a line up.

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For Linux gamers, the lack of VR content could be the real barrier

Well, Beat Saber supposedly work well on Linux with Steam Play, so there you go, problem solved.

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It would probably do better if it was sold as an actual physical board game. Why would anyone play a board game on a computer rather than a table?

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Quoting: aFoxNamedMorris

Quoting: sarmadIs this driver better than valve's own driver? Valve's driver doesn't work out of the box and you have to tinker with udev files to get it to actually behave like a normal controller (for games that has built in controller support).

I don't know about other distros, but for Ubuntu and derivatives, you can install `steam-devices`, and everything should work just fine.

I am on Ubuntu as well, and no, installing `steam-devices` is not enough to get the controller to work for all games. There are still games that require tinkering with udev files.

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Is this driver better than valve's own driver? Valve's driver doesn't work out of the box and you have to tinker with udev files to get it to actually behave like a normal controller (for games that has built in controller support).

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Quoting: danniello

Something along the lines of: if you plug in a bootable external USB drive our hypervisor will boot from it, otherwise it will boot the internal Atari OS.

LOL. If I interpret it correctly - hypervisor means that "other OS" will be started as VM in KVM/Xen hypervisor. It means no real GPU acceleration in VM.

Not necessarily. They said it will boot either of the two OSes and that's different from booting the main OS, and then booting the other OS inside. If Atari OS is not even loaded then all the hardwares, including the GPU, will be available directly to the guest OS to use and you should get native performance.

However, for me I prefer the path Steam Machines took, which is a very open standard Linux distro with Steam Client on top of it. That is more attractive for Linux users than a closed system that is compatible with Linux APIs. Also, with Proton Steam Machines become way more attractive. I wish AtariVCS all the success nonetheless.

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