One of the good things about Stadia was that it could potentially bring new native Linux ports (that could also be made available for regular GNU/Linux systems outside of Stadia). And for Stadia users, it was also much better because these ports were optimised for Stadia - basically a custom console-like ports. Google is killing all of this now and bringing a GeForce Now-like experience to Stadia (but you will have to buy the games again, unlike GeForce Now). I understand their reasons (they are trying to save a dying platform which Stadia sadly is), but this is not a good thing at all, at least in my opinion.

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Nice! (Although it is pretty disappointing that the new EA App is even worse than Origin.)

By the way, similar guide for the Blizzard app would also be great. :-)

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Quoting: CyborgZetaMy rule of thumb for several months now and going forward, and this is just MY OPINION, is that if something isn't in the official repos or available as a Flatpak (typically from Flathub), then I'm not going to bother.

And Flatpaks are basically unsupported on Ubuntu (outdated Flatpak/xdg portals, no support in their GNOME Software fork etc.).

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Great! Now if only HDR displays were supported on Linux (I know that Red Hat is working on it, but we are not there yet).

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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Quoting: scaineSo it's outdated and broken?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It's hopefully not that broken since I helped fix the worst parts for 20.04, but it's still problematic and outdated when compared to the official deb package from Valve.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

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. 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. ;-)

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