Back around 2000-2005 we had several companies (Like Stichting Internet Reclame) in the Netherlands that denied the existence of people using Linux and firefox. None of their metrics showed the existence of these visitors.
They failed to mention that the way they measured was by installing snooping software on the windows systems of the volunteers. The bogus results of Stichting Internet Reclame and other companies destroyed the self hosting of advertisement servers and software, because they showed different results. This eventually has lead in the Netherlands to the intrusive ad networks we see today. Mass spread of virusses thanks to these
As a matter of fact: I am battling one right now, as a client even, because just serving a pixel to give feedback the ad has worked, actually redirects them to parties I've never heart of.
The original was a javascript that they called pixel. It basically downloads other javascripts from unknown sites, and runs that. On a simple GDPR compliant page, the page went to 60% marketing network and gross violation of GDPR, and to have an add run on their network is very expensive.
How did I get here ranting like that?
Oh yeah: I don't trust stats like that.
I never did. But at least you can twist the stats of NetmarketShare to something that supports what I want to see:
https://tinyurl.com/tv-operating-systems [External Link]
There are apparently only 2 operating systems for TV's: Gnu/Linux and Linux/Android.

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Nice... I have a refurbished thinkpad T430 from a second hand store... It feels like the best PC linux system I've ever had at home, except for the supermicro's.
Everything works. Except of course that nvidia crap.
Added an eGPU using express card. RX580. The system feels a lot faster than my zotac sn970.

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Meeh, 5 minutes in and it crashes (walking into the computer room that in the original is only accessible after the incident). So I tried using the proton version, and that doesn't start at all.
Back to the pile of retry in a year.

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Vendetta Online is probably the only game that really works marvelous on Galaxy Gear VR: free look with head movement and complete steering of the ship with the controller.
It's stunning I think.

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Would be nice if they can apply some ip matching to match the original Steam account with the Smurf Steam account, and address warnings there too. But then again, that might be a privacy issue.
Maybe they should ask the right to process your IP against fraud cases like this.

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Quoting: EagleDelta

I don't think this is using what many of us would consider "true" containers in that they aren't (AFAIK) based on LXC or ContainerD, but are Flatpak-based containers. I could be wrong though

A container to me is something that encapsulates itself into it's own namespace.
Sometimes I even only need a secondary ip stack... ip netns to the rescue...
Lxc is just a wrapper on the set of different nameserver creations and migrate systemcalls. You can do it using bash :-). Lxc is very nice though.

I don't know flatpak, but from what I've seen, they are just squasfs like files mounted. No security or whatever unless the flatpak itself does that. I doubt that's what they are doing.

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As a side note: personally I promote making bug free windows games, that perform perfectly on proton.
The linux platform ABI changes a lot, and I consider the windows API is just middle ware.
If we can change that somehow to a platform agnostic middleware, that should be better.
Most old windows games are hard to run on modern windows. You have to know what you are doing (do this, click that, install this, turn off that), while these games are usually running problem free on proton.
So yeah lets keep the API legacy on the windows side for now. There is no proton for windows, so only those that know how to fiddle with windows can run old games.
It does not mean I do not appreciate the work of feral games. They are really dedicated, so I don't expect them to stop supporting old builds.

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Quoting: lgpmichaelI'm not completely sure that UT was anything to do with Loki. My memory is a bit old and fuzzy from back then, but I do distinctly remember that Tux Games had to sell Windows UT boxes with an installer CD. It was 20 years ago though, so, you'll have to forgive my brain if I'm wrong {;-)

There was only one box, that contained the penguin logo, but only the windows version.
You had to download the real engine and installer from the Loki site.
What tuxgames did was a service to it's customers.
The port was indeed done by Loki, but the distribution was different.
I remember trying to get a deal with a local software supplier to send me 1 linux game every month of their choosing. Online purchases were still a big hassle, as there was no easy way to pay (upon delivery or wiring), so having mandated them to take money of my bank account was the easiest way to go.

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyOK, I don't know anything so this may be bogus, and anyway it's kind of shooting a mouse with an elephant gun, but . . . if worst came to worst, couldn't you run a VM and stick a whole old Linux in it and run the game in that?

This is what Valve is trying to do with the containers. With the added benefit of security.

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To be clear: My first native linux games are as far as I can remember Quake: the offering and Quake 2: whatever . I had to order them online in 1999/2000(!) and yes, delivery was a big problem, crossing the pond and all, customs documents not correct, so I got to pay a VAT twice as high as it should have been.
Those contained a native install with rpm's.
UT however, only contained a penguin on the box. But the way they partially opened the engine source was pretty great. UT99 still feels as the best game engine to me. And it was great that we could run plain Unreal with the same engine. Because I don't like multiplayer.

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