Quoting: EikeThis is the opposite I'm recommending everybody in the Steam forums (for any distribution). Because the distribution makers have the same package and more knowledge of their distribution than the user or even Valve. Is this claim based on anything?

I was helping with the steam package update for Ubuntu 20.04. There are multiple problems with this package:

One of them is that the steam package is not autosynced from Debian because of custom Ubuntu changes. So, every time there is a new Ubuntu release, someone has to update this package manually (or keep it outdated). For example, in Ubuntu 20.10, the package is still on version 1.0.0.61-2 instead of the latest 1.0.0.68. This outdated version has multiple issues, for example missing dependency on bubblewrap (that, as far as I know, is required by Pressure Vessel to work properly) and xdg-desktop-portal (that is used by Proton since 5.13 to be able to open web URLs when running in a Pressure Vessel container). Or, for example, outdated udev rules missing some new devices. etc.

Other problem with the steam package is that because of how SRUs are handled in Ubuntu, the package is usually only updated when a new Ubuntu release is out and updates are not backported into older Ubuntu releases (including LTS). Because SRUs for "feature updates" are usually not accepted in Ubuntu, only for bugfixes and minor updates (patches). Bigger updates or modified dependencies are also usually not accepted for SRUs. In other words, it's unlikely that, for example, the missing bubblewrap/xdg-desktop-portal steam package dependencies will be added in current Ubuntu releases, although they break Proton.

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Just make sure to install Steam on Ubuntu from Valve website and not distribution repository. The distro one is outdated and problematic, even on 20.10. It will hopefully be in a better shape in 22.04.

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Quoting: fagnerlnIt's nice those improvements, but in my PC any Proton that uses pressure vessel (like 5.13) don't work in any game. It's sad.

How did you install Steam? Ubuntu repository package?

(The Ubuntu repository package is missing dependency on bubblewrap that Pressure Vessel needs.)

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Still not available in Czech Republic and still no Google Workspaces account support.

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This is also interesting.

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Does not seem to work on my Fedora 32 machine running Chromium with Chrome OS user agent. I get a "0xC0F2220E" error every time I try to launch some game. Maybe I am missing some codecs?

edit: It works fine when using chromium-freeworld from RPM Fusion!

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QuoteYeah this doesn't involve the EAC team at all.

Source: Reddit

Sad to hear this, but still amazing news!

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Veloren is already available as a Flatpak on Flathub.

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Do achievements work?

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DIRT 5 seems to be inspired by Forza Horizon which is good news for me. Now if only it had open world mode, just like Forza Horizon has. :-)

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