Quoting: scaineAbsolutely incredible work.

Agree. Liam, you are a machine. I have no idea how you put out so many articles.

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Quoting: ElectricPrismAs much as I agree, I think the difference boils down to which order each priority is numbered -- I think they [Re-Logic] (prioritize practicality over morality -- they probably REALLY wanted to give Google Stadia the finger for good, but already had a financial investment and didn't want to disappoint fans since they already announced intended support.

Yes, I don't blame Re-Logic for their decision. As you said, I am sure they had already put resources into the port.

It is a very good lesson to the rest of us, though.

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Quoting: elmapuli cant wait to see the stadia haters report this... oh wait, they wont, they pretend that stadia dont exists when its a good news, and pretend "its dead with this final nail in the cofin" when its bad news.

stadia has "died" more times than jesus and kuririn at this ṕoint

Well, enjoy your stadia while it lasts:

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2021/02/report-stadia-undershot-to-the-tune-of-hundreds-of-thousands-of-users/ [External Link]

I am not a 'hater' - I am someone who used (past tense) a lot of different google services over several decades and actually have a working memory, and don't have stockholm syndrome.

The first comment on the Ars Technica article said it succinctly:

It's almost like if you cancel enough consumer-facing projects, consumers won't want to take a chance on your new projects.

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It's really interesting to see that Google was actually being transparent about what happened

Too bad you need to be a significant business partner with millions of fans to get any response. I no longer trust google with any kind of service.

Cool engineering, no follow-through, zero service.

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Quoting: sarmadToo bad Steam Controllers are only 2%.

Too bad they are discontinued. We desperately need a second version.

The Steam Controller deserves to be wildly successful. Valve just seems pretty meh when they market hardware.

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Great to see them committed to long-term support for Linux. I am looking forward to Silksong!

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Quoting: Julius*June 2021* Google announces acquiring a majority stake in Valve Software (as founder Gabe Newell retires in New Zeeland with his new found billions).

That would be terrible. The next announcement would be:

*August 2023* Google announces they are shutting down the Steam game platform and instead moving the Valve team into a new Google subsidiary writing messaging apps.

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I learned not to trust Google quite a while ago, but it is certainly hard for regular people to avoid its services.

Quoting: ArehandoroEmail: https://www.posteo.de [External Link]
Nextcloud: https://www.thegood.cloud [External Link]
Article vault: https://www.wallabag.it [External Link]
Password manager: https://bitwarden.com [External Link]
Comms: https://www.matrix.org [External Link] (Any client will do, the official is https://element.io/get-started) [External Link]
Video-conferencing: https://meet.jit.si [External Link]
External Backups: https://backblaze.com [External Link]

Nice list, here is mine:

Email (incl basic webhosting): https://fastmail.com [External Link] (excellent service)
Password manager: https://keepassxc.org/ [External Link] (offline)
Messaging: https://signal.org/en/ [External Link]
External Backups: https://spideroak.com/ [External Link]
Maps: https://www.openstreetmap.org/ [External Link]
Phone Maps: https://osmand.net/ [External Link]
Phone Authenticator: https://freeotp.github.io/ [External Link]

I still end up using a few google services (maps, youtube) occasionally, but generally not as a logged-in customer.

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Quoting: kon14Gaming on an LTS release or a stable branch is like shooting yourself in the foot.

No.

I have no idea how you came to this wrong conclusion, but you can easily correct your information.

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I have no idea what this all will lead to, but THQ Nordic and Koch/Deep Silver both have some Linux games in their stable. Hopefully there will be enough in-house support to keep Linux ports happening for the whole group.

Cautiously optimistic?

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