Quoting: Leopard

Quoting: chomwittIsn't Proton a patched wine?

Yes but where did you pull that "port" part?

No one ports anything, Wine/Proton usage =! Port

It is kind of weird how that fine line gets manipulated. Like the VP 'ports' sort of appear to look like native games. But they were created with a wrapper (called Eon if I recall correctly) which uses Wine to get things to work.
I think some of the Feral / Aspyr ports were done in a similar way? (I can't recall who said that, but someone did at somepoint and I was never sure it was correct.)

Back on topic, nice to see progress on the AMD front! Would be wonderful if we could purchase hardware...

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Quoting: Nanobang

Quoting: slaapliedje

Quoting: NanobangI'm a huge fan of what ChimeraOS (nee GamerOS) is doing (even if I'm not an actual COS user) and I see it as another example of the power of Open Source software in action. SteamOS was rushed out undercooked and then abandoned by Valve relatively quickly, and ChimeraOS stepped in, dusted it off, and set about bringing it up-to-date and even expanding functionality beyond anything Valve would have done.

So I offer a hearty skål! to ChimeraOS and its makers.

I don't know if they abandoned it as much as (at least one) of the developers decided he hated Debian's build methods and started looking for a replacement. From some points of view, it does make more sense to run with a rolling release for a game console OS. But for the most part the game console operating systems have been some form of BSD (except xbox, which basically uses Windows from my understanding). Valve made (in my mind) a smarter move and based it on Linux so others could maintain the parts they don't care about :)

If I'm honest, I can't speak to the difficulties of using Debian or BSD or Arch as a basis for SteamOS, but on the face of it, yes, I imagine a rolling release like Arch would be more amenable to dedicated Linux devs updating things with minimal breakage. Do I remember correctly that Debian was chosen for its oft praised stability?

I'll stick with saying SteamOS was abandoned, like a rusting car parked in a field, barely visible among tall grass and brambles, home to nesting mice and wasps, started every so often to keep its engine from seizing up entirely. ;)

Ha, I'm betting if you took the last version of SteamOS and changed the repositories to Debian Buster and then Bullseye it'd update just fine and still work. I may try that if I get bored enough.

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Quoting: NanobangI'm a huge fan of what ChimeraOS (nee GamerOS) is doing (even if I'm not an actual COS user) and I see it as another example of the power of Open Source software in action. SteamOS was rushed out undercooked and then abandoned by Valve relatively quickly, and ChimeraOS stepped in, dusted it off, and set about bringing it up-to-date and even expanding functionality beyond anything Valve would have done.

So I offer a hearty skål! to ChimeraOS and its makers.

I don't know if they abandoned it as much as (at least one) of the developers decided he hated Debian's build methods and started looking for a replacement. From some points of view, it does make more sense to run with a rolling release for a game console OS. But for the most part the game console operating systems have been some form of BSD (except xbox, which basically uses Windows from my understanding). Valve made (in my mind) a smarter move and based it on Linux so others could maintain the parts they don't care about :)

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Quoting: BielFPsMy favorite Steam deck game :whistle:

Ha, I'm hoping we'll be able to get new batteries for the thing... as my ~3000 steam library count, along with many libraries of games I have that are supported via retroarch.... I may be wearing that thing out.

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Quoting: elmapul

Quoting: Lachu„we saw the Phil Spencer of Xbox had access too and commented on Halo, Age of Empires and xCloud working nicely.”

Mueeehhhhh ... !
So MS test these games on modified Arch Linux?

asking the real question

I mean if he is working for Microsoft, then YES.

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Quoting: Zeroedout

Quoting: ShabbyX

Quoting: jarl.arntzenWhy not just call it "Couch OS".
Much more fun name which is actually perfectly related with the use case :D

That sounds like the OS is running on your couch. Smart couches anyone?

Wait until you hear about CoochOS.

I was making some jokes about CentOS today... like if you swapped the e with another vowel... CantOS is the family friendly version of that. I'll let your imagination go with what else it could be!

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Quoting: Liam Dawe

Quoting: slaapliedjeYeah, ChimeraOS really only brings a newer kernel and drivers, for the most part over the currently released version of SteamOS.

It does plenty more including Chimera (Steam Buddy) to provide an interface to get other stores and things working within it. Their steamos-compositor-plus also brings a number of enhancements like higher resolution support, adds a bunch of game fixes and more. There's plenty to ChimeraOS that's on top of being a more update SteamOS-like.

Nice, I only got as far as installing it on a m.2 SSD drive for my AtariVCS, only to have it not boot because they don't have a signed bootloader for the secure boot to work... I also think I booted it briefly on some other machine, and got as far as setting up Steam, then went back to Debian.

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Quoting: levellord

Quoting: CyrilCould it run on it thought?

020 or even better 040, HDD and AGA chipset, I am sure it would.

I mean I have two systems with 060s and RTG and an A500v2 and V4SA... it'd run on at least one of those :)

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Quoting: Purple Library Guy

Quoting: slaapliedje

Quoting: Purple Library Guy

Quoting: slaapliedjepetitors though? Sure they do have their own stores, and their own sales, but the sales usually coincide... they make money off both... And it'd be in their interest to have a 'Ubiconnect' or whatever icon on the Steam Deck for purchasing straight from them if possible. The question is, would Valve allow this? Possibly as they don't like exclusives.

Well, it comes with a browser. If you want the Ubisoft store on your Steam Deck you google it and bookmark it. I can't see Valve going to extra effort to stick a built in button front and centre.

It is an application / launcher, not a web page though.

So, what, to launch an Ubisoft game you have to remember which games you bought from Ubisoft so you know to launch the launcher thing, and then pick which Ubisoft game you want to launch once some kind of launcher interface comes up? Something like that? Sounds annoying. Remind me not to buy any games from Ubisoft.

This is why they'd need to add a native version of it. In the same way you'd do any non-Steam apps. But who will want to install Windows just for that?

I actually think you should be able to actually pass a command line to boot a game, much like you can on Steam. But how else do you think the Assassin's Creed games work in Steam? They still open up the Uconnect or whatever the hell it's called these days.

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Quoting: Purple Library Guy

Quoting: TheSHEEEP

Posted on Twitter and Steam with one of those annoying text over image delay posts (at least it wasn't bright yellow like we saw with Cyberpunk)

I blame Twitter's nonsensically short character limit.

I can't do Twitter. All I can think of at the notion is "But my walls of text!!!"

Yeah, not a fan. At least something like Reddit, I can liken to Usenet Groups. Twitter to me seems like all the useless notifications you get on your phone that you have tried your damnedest to eliminate...

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