Quoting: CyrilSeriously? You never install a software directly from source? I mean, you never have to do it?
Why you refuse to do it, serious question, because it's not really the philosophy of a Linux system IMHO, you can install any software you want from source or from binary, but refuse to do it from source makes me confused.

Because it's a time-consuming, finicky process that frequently results in the urge to pull one's hair out. And if you're on one of the more popular distro trees (like Debian), you rarely need to, because most programs put out a deb or a ppa or something.

For CoreCtrl maybe we'll see binary builds later, right now I've got an error after compilation I'll retry later.

See!

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Quoting: leillo1975

Quoting: pawelcompWould love a Flatpak for this.

Snap would be welcomed too

Geez, just anything beyond manual dependency management and a make file. Doesn't matter how user friendly your interface is if installation scares everybody off.

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*sigh* I got really excited for a moment about the Interactive Recommender, but there doesn't appear to be a manual override for the included games, which makes it useless for me. For example, two of my top five by playtime are clickers and I am *done* with that genre. What would be useful is if I could exclude any game I have hidden (or uninstalled, for free-to-plays).

Also doesn't look like it can be filtered by OS? I use Steamplay, but it would be nice to be able to look at the Native Linux stuff first.

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Maaaan, I'm glad I don't run cutting edge. Odds are good that I'll be able to stick with Mint 19 until it hits end-of-life in 2023 and hopefully by then this kerfluffle will be sorted out. :P

This also firmly stomps on the occasional passing thought of "now that Unity's dead, I wonder if it's worthing switchig back to Ubuntu?" That's a big, tall glass of nope.

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>>The Game features all the gameplay you would expect from an indie sandbox game - fishing, gathering, social interactions, furniture and fashion

Bleh, social interactions. I play games to get *away* from people. Too bad, because the rest of it sounds lovely.

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Does it show if you're following and/or have reviewed the game from the library? I absolutely hate that I have to manually check each. Store. Page. Indivually. to figure out what needs following and reviewing.

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Two Point Hospital (a lovely, polished sim) is my main game at the moment, with Coloring Pixels (Steamplay) for when I'm brain-fried. There was also a brief side trip into Game Corp DX, but that ended in a rage-quit.

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Quoting: BotonoskiThe Nvidia driver requirement doesn't seem all that strict. The decade old laptop I have hooked up to my TV ran this beta just fine despite running on version 340.106

Yeah, I'm on 384.130 and have been running several (simple, lightweight) games without problem. I imagine it's going to vary a bit in practice and posting a specific requirement just simplifies their support.

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Quoting: Comandante Ñoñardo

Quoting: belisamaIs there still no indication on the store pages that the game you're looking at is Steamplay compatible or am I just missing it?

Not in the beta stage of Steamplay.

So it's *this* kind of beta but not *that* kind of beta . . . yeah, that's not going to confuse anybody.

Quoting: mahagrI just wish that Steam didn't list Windows games inside my Linux library..

In the client, you can set your library to only display "SteamOS + Linux" games. It's a pulldown just to the right of the search box and just under the "Library" tab at the top.

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Is there still no indication on the store pages that the game you're looking at is Steamplay compatible or am I just missing it?

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