That's sad, considering that Stadia was imho the best cloud game streaming service. GeForce NOW is basically a Windows machine running on a remote server with all its downsides. Microsoft xCloud on the other hand is a remote Xbox (with all its downsides). Stadia combined the best from both (PC and console) worlds.

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Quoting: scaineSo it's outdated and broken? That would be odd, since I'm using it every day.

It's hopefully not that broken since I helped fix the worst parts for 20.04, but it's still problematic and outdated when compared to the official deb package from Valve. For example the version in LTS 20.04 is from March 2020 and was never updated[1].

[1] https://changelogs.ubuntu.com/changelogs/pool/multiverse/s/steam/steam_1.0.0.61-2ubuntu3/changelog [External Link]

Quoting: F.UltraNot to mention that the steam package is just a shim that downloads the real installer from Valve.

Except that it also has to handle dependencies (that change with time, especially with Pressure Vessel and VR stuff), ship udev rules for VR/controllers and do other things.

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Quoting: scaine

Quoting: AsciiWolfSadly, many of the Ubuntu packages are bad because they are outdated a broken

Examples?? Cos I've been using Ubuntu and its derivatives for decades and I have no idea what you're referring to here.

Steam, for example. :wink: There were many problems with that package, I helped solve some of them (in collaboration with other Ubuntu community volunteers), but it was really pain in the arse and the package is still regularly broken and outdated. And there are many more examples, just search for random packages in Ubuntu 20.04 universe repo and look when they were last updated.

Also, take a look at how many of these packages have an actual maintainer in Ubuntu instead of just being synced from Debian, without any testing, fixes and updates.

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Quoting: Eike

Quoting: GuestThe issue Linus had with Steam on Pop is why I always use the deb from the Steam website.

Good to see System76 learn from it though

I honestly got no idea how the package of the distribution makers could be worse than the one that doesn't know anything about your distribution.

Sadly, many of the Ubuntu packages are bad because they are outdated a broken. Only a small portion of packages from universe is actually maintained and not just synced from Debian during the release, then left to rot.

This and the intentionally bad Flatpak support are probably two worst things about Ubuntu and reason why I switched to Fedora.

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Still waiting for the Flatpak version. :-)

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The updated version is already available on Flathub [External Link]. ;-)

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It actually looks better than Windows 11, at least in my opinion. :wink:

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Yeah, typical Garry Newman as always. He has been spreading anti-Linux hate for years...

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I wonder what is the state of Ray tracing support on AMD GPUs with Mesa. Does anyone have more info?

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Quoting: KohlyKohl

Quoting: benjamimgoisGreat article Liam ! I still remember the faster zombies article, that thing was really a hit by that time. I would suggest to add a note about CEDEGA [External Link], for those that are old enough to remember, it was the beginning of Linux gaming before steam.

I still remember walking into GameStop in 1999 and seeing boxed Linux versions of Quake and being confused as to why anyone would sell boxed version of Linux games (I had already used Linux for 6 years by that time).

I still have my boxed Quake III and UT2004. Both with tux icons on them. :smile:

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