Quoting: tamodolo- It needs to keep backward compatibylity! Linux cannot break software because you update a lib that dropped legacy support.

This point is seriously a library developers problem, and users should force them to solve this, not Linux. The way Windows solves it (and how "modern Linux distributions" like Flatpak, Snap and AppImage) solves it are just plain awful with bloat and hidden security exploits waiting to happen.

The only lib that I know of that takes this seriously is glibc, they version every function when the ABI/API changes and keep deprecated functions hidden but versioned so that the old applications that linked to them still works. This way an application written for an old glibc still works with a brand new glibc.

Moving this burden over to distro maintainers would increase their workload exponentially, but for the libs devs it would be just to manage backwards compatibility for the one libs they already maintain and in worst case scenarios they could instead of holding on to much old bloat just write a wrapper from the old to the new, e.g SDL should have done this when they moved from SDL1 to SDL2.

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Quoting: F.UltraWow that is a lot of memory mappings. I assume that Windows doesn't limit this or have a higher default, the default on Linux is 65535.

A lot is relative. For Star Citizen the value is upped to 16 million.

Honestly, it feels a lot like the max open files where the default remained extremely low even though it was completely not necessary for current generation computers.

Well there are a lot of default limits in Linux to prevent things like fork bombing, comes from being a multi-user system at heart.

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Quoting: tom34DayZ is crashing on my PC at loading screen:

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ARMA 3 is working for me.

I'm not able to get DayZ working either. :(

You stuck on loading screen too?

I found this while searching around and it may help you so I figured I would share.

"I was able to get it working by running this command:
​sudo sysctl -w vm.max_map_count=1048576

To make it permanent:
echo 'vm.max_map_count=1048576' | sudo tee /etc/sysctl.d/vm.max_map_count.conf

Taken from https://old.reddit.com/r/linux_gaming/comments/r86ziz/more_battleye_titles_for_proton_on_linux/hn6lxzm/

Game now loads and plays fine when started with the second launch option."

Source: https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/issues/3899

Wow that is a lot of memory mappings. I assume that Windows doesn't limit this or have a higher default, the default on Linux is 65535.

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Quoting: elmapulthat make things... interesting.
google is struggling to sell stadia, so steam is quite important for chromebook gamers, google will have to work harder on making sure steam work flawless on chromebooks (aka, make sure their sandbox for linux native apps dont have any major flaw) if they want to enter the operating system market.

Now imagine if Stadia would have gotten the publishers to publish the native Linux version of the games running on Stadia how much easier it would be for Google to have some games on their Chromebooks right now :-)

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Quoting: BlooAlien"Less hostile" in the way that Windows users have been "less hostile" to people like me? Harassing, trolling, stalking, making endless hateful comments, using every stereotypical insult in the book? That sorta "less hostile"? So sick and tired of being labeled as "toxic" literally just because I use Linux when most of my life I've actively gone out of my way to help people with computer issues regardless of which operating system they chose to use, yet it's literally never labeled as "toxic" to literally stalk me (or other Linux users) across multiple forums to endlessly harass us, because we're "a minority group" among computer users.

Just makes me positively sick that people will endlessly harass a group (or an individual) in the most hateful fashion, but then when some folks in that group finally start to get sick of the abuse enough to speak up about it, they're "toxic" for not just shutting up and accepting their abuse and begging for more. Funny how they're always suddenly all polite and your best friend in the world when their computer's all broken though… Y'know, when they think they can take advantage of you as their "free tech-support guy".

Yes that is one of the problems of being a minority, you are always judges by a completely different standard. And even if all of us here acts nice and friendly, all it takes is for one random asshole on reddit to write something bad and "the entire X community is toxic and garbage".

Another problem of course is that it does not help to lash out, as a minority there is very little one can do to win but there are many, many ways that one can do to loose.

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyThis won't happen.
But, wouldn't it be cool if this were installed on the Steam Deck by default, Valve could get some of the developers of these games to put them up for sale on Steam (just ones that work pretty well), and the games kind-of-automatically used this the way Windows games use Proton, or at least it could be picked as an option like Boxtron? Maybe with a game-view option that would let you look through just PS3 games if you wanted?

Doesn't RPCS3 require a copy of a real PS3 firmware/bios thingy like the PS1 and PS2 ones? That would be a huge show stopper right there.

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Quoting: F.UltraI think that we all should just calm down a bit here. This is not Ubisoft making any form of statement, this is just some poor sod working as a support rep at Ubisoft trying to answer a request in a friendly way. This rep have zero insight into what Ubisoft are planning to do or not to do, so all he/she can do that doesn't sound negative is to say "well why don't you all write down that you want it and then I could send that list upwards".

Ubisoft have 19000+ employees, there are probably max 40 of them that have any knowledge of their direction and support reps are way way down on the ladder.

Who's not calm? You wanna know the worse way to de-escalate a problem? Tell people that are not calm to calm down. It's what not to do 101 when trying to de-escalate a problem. Good thing is, nobody seems overly upset here, just some people with passionate views.

With calm I mean that people are making far to much out of this, I'm not talking about people being upset. I'm talking about some people being perhaps a bit to exited over something that means exactly zero. This is not Ubisoft saying anything.

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I think that we all should just calm down a bit here. This is not Ubisoft making any form of statement, this is just some poor sod working as a support rep at Ubisoft trying to answer a request in a friendly way. This rep have zero insight into what Ubisoft are planning to do or not to do, so all he/she can do that doesn't sound negative is to say "well why don't you all write down that you want it and then I could send that list upwards".

Ubisoft have 19000+ employees, there are probably max 40 of them that have any knowledge of their direction and support reps are way way down on the ladder.

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Quoting: CatKiller

Quoting: F.UltraWell here's to hoping. Wish I was a billionaire so that I could invest tons of money into creating the perfect Linux computer that was as slick as a Chromebook and have it been sold in normal stores. We need a new Canonical anno 2004 to pour resources into moving Linux closer to the customers.

It would need to be someone bigger than Canonical was. They did pour resources into a slick Linux device, worked out software packaging and distribution, took cues from Android about how to avoid the cruft of X11, developed an interface paradigm for convergence with the desktop... and then ran out of money, had to fire a bunch of people, and had to give up. So like Canonical, but with sufficient resources to be able to survive, say, 5 years more burn.

This, turns out that $575M only takes you so far (and I don't think he poured all his money into Canonical either). Meanwhile lots of billionaires like Musk and Bezos reap benefits from Linux, they could invest $1bn each and their wallets would not even loose any weight.

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Quoting: Purple Library Guy

Quoting: F.UltraLinux desktop adoption is simply a long long process, if lucky we will some day reach macOS numbers but we will never reach Microsoft levels. That war was lost before Linux even existed when MS made sure with their shady business tactics that they got a large enough monopoly that PC equals Windows in everybody's mind.

You'd think that. But in some ways Microsoft has been too successful. When my wife got a Chromebook, and I was helping her figure out how to use it, it became apparent that she did not in fact really know what Windows was. She also didn't understand the distinction between a web browser and an operating system, or indeed between software and the OS in general. So the idea that the difference between her new dinky cheap laptop and her computer at work had a lot to do with the difference between a thing called Windows and a thing called ChromeOS, just didn't immediately have a meaning to her at all.
There are a lot of people out there like my wife. If some big computer manufacturer starts selling their computers with Linux on, an awful lot of people won't really get that there's a difference.

Well here's to hoping. Wish I was a billionaire so that I could invest tons of money into creating the perfect Linux computer that was as slick as a Chromebook and have it been sold in normal stores. We need a new Canonical anno 2004 to pour resources into moving Linux closer to the customers.

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