Quoting: DuncBack in the days of physical media, you could go to a friend's house and take your games along. Not so easy nowadays. (Sure, it's theoretically possible, if you log in to your account and wait to download them, but unless your friend has a fat connection it's hardly practical.)

There’s also Steam Remote Play, where you just need to leave your home computer running with Steam open and log into your account on your friend’s computer :)

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Quoting: GoboOr imagine using the stick with the new console generation to access your steam library on those.

See, that’s where I think it could have been a cool move to get Steam into people’s living rooms without having them buy yet another console (or a gaming PC and Steam Link), but Liam’s quote says "trying out Linux on a normal PC" so... meh. If they could somehow force the consoles to boot to USB and give us full Linux operating systems on top of cheap console hardware without the risk of bricking the device, I would definitely be more excited about that.

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Burn it to a USB stick, load it on your PC and login to Steam, download a game and away you go — you're now gaming on Linux.

... Yay?

Unless Valve intend to distribute ready-made sticks as a marketing gimmick to get people to try SteamOS before they buy the next generation of Steam console, I don’t see how that changes anything from the already long-established practice of burning ISOs on live USB or CD/DVD peripherals. I’m also struggling to see the benefit of "instantly updating said media from the other OS" rather than from the device itself. Other than updating everything automatically without giving the user any information, the update process couldn’t be much simpler than it already is, and having to reboot into the host OS to do it just sounds tedious.

I would hope that Valve have more in mind than that if they’ve been working on something that already mostly exists for 2-3 years. Otherwise, from a Windows user perspective, this just sounds to me like "Here’s a few extra steps you can take to be able to do almost everything you already do *(with slower data read/write)!"

Even if the plan is to make the next "Steam Machine" a USB device you plug into a host computer, I can’t imagine why someone would want that when they already have non-Steam games installed on their gaming PC and access to Big Picture if they want a couch/controller experience.

... I guess it would make more sense if they’re making progress on a game streaming service, where the host hardware no longer matters. I still don’t really see why they would especially want to sell that service on a Linux peripheral though, rather than just make clients for all operating systems as is already the case.

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Well I’ve been on Mint since I moved on from Ubuntu and can’t recall ever having issues with games that were specific to Mint. I guess screen tearing at one point that could be fixed by switching the compositor? Definitely a comfortable experience overall, although I’ve been thinking of giving other distros a shot in the somewhat near future. I’m overdue for a fresh install anyway.

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Quoting: kaimanI've already played the Roadwarden demo, but it didn't impress. Maybe if the writing was more concise and to the point.

Yeah, I found the demo interesting from a game design perspective, but ultimately it didn’t really hold my interest with the way it was paced and some of the mechanics.

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Curious about a few, but mostly interested in Inscryption, and possibly Death Trash and Book of Travels. I’m just discovering the soundtrack to Viscerafest and loving it so far so thanks for that!

Also intrigued by Lotus Reverie [External Link] which was covered on GoL a while back and is slated for January.

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That’s a damn shame. I would have never been able to afford their computers any more than those of System76 (shipping and customs definitely not helping), but it was still a part of the ecosystem. Hopefully the silver lining will be that System76 and other Linux-dedicated brands have a bit less competition and can better hold their own against Dell and Lenovo.

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That’s pretty crazy. What do you do if you don’t have a smartphone?

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I was just looking at some PinePhone videos last night after learning that the Librem 5 was shipping soon and it seemed really slow. I hope the Librem 5 will do better in this regard but there aren't as many videos showing it off.

Still too rich for my blood either way :(

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Quoting: HoriI'm not saying this is why they're doing this, as I don't think that's true, but you gotta admit there's a certain benefit in being loved by the community. Valve is basically our "knight in shining armour".

Indeed, I am reminded of the way many people said they would buy games at full price from Feral just to thank them for doing what they do, even when they already owned that title or weren’t interested in actually playing it. Similarly, I would never buy a Windows game from Epic to play it via Wine, but with Valve I’m willing to make a few exceptions knowing that some of that money will in fact go towards supporting the Linux ecosystem.

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