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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Too many games I have never played. I thought switching from GOG to Steam would change it a bit. But nooo. At least steam has cloud save for most games. Which makes the client more like a game cache.

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Quoting: hardpenguinOkay, scary games are not my cup of tea but this is very awesome.

Frictional makes some very disturbing sickening games (except for soma though, that was ok). The story is so disturbing, I feel sick, yet I want to continue to know how the story unfolds, even though I know, in the end, it will plant a seed in my brain that will slowly eat it until I am nothing more but a vegetable, a mere spectator of what the seed has grown into doing unspeakable things, using my body.

But yeah, I know their games make me sick, but I will still buy it. This is not like doom3 jumpscare galore. It's not the game that you play, but it's the story they tell in the game.
Amnesia had the sickest descriptions of optimal methods of the torture and death sentences they used to do.
Penumbra... If you know the end, you might not want to play it.

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Quoting: MohandevirIn the first wave of games I completed when Steam launched on Linux.

Ah... Good ol' times! :)

ol' times?
I played those games on linux before there was a thing called steam. Or I've never seen it I think. Can't really remember. It was a let down that all episodes never were continued. Like SiN: Episode one, that was a great start of a story.
Hmmm, yes, I think there was some client. I played stuff with winex, cedega, pol. Tried crossover even, but that never worked. I sponsor crossover for years, but it never works for me. But yeah, that's years before Steam and all Valve games were officially released on linux.
I did replay them though... half-life has a great story.

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Quoting: MohandevirDidn't read through all the posts, but there is this bit of news that might have a link to what's going on or that Steam may benefit from...

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/11/google-outlines-plans-for-mainline-linux-kernel-support-in-android/ [External Link]

ChromeOS gaming PCs? Mmmmm... :)

Chromeos and android are like linux vs OS/2 . Good systems, but totally different.
It's nice to read though, because google will be forcing the manufacturers to support *mainline* linux instead of forking 3.10 in a 5.* age and call that support.
Chromeos is a basic normal linux system based on a readonly image with an overlay on top. There are a lot of nice things about chromebooks, for instance that google *enforces* manufacturers to have a developer and fully unlocked mode. The unlocked and developer mode boot with a big warning to the user it's not running certified chromeos.
This means: if you see someone boot his chromebook, and it shows no warnings, you can log into your google account, and never have to worry that that person can sniff or search your data on his chromebook. He can only delete your account.
It works pretty neat if you keep everything in the cloud, because it does not always work 100%.
I had to revert to a previous stable version because they fscked up ipv6, and I couldn't work anymore.
A fix is expected in the next stable release. But it does mean: erase all data and switch to old version.

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Quoting: vectorHalf a year later and with Windows 7 reaching EOL, any recent communication from Valve on expanding the list of officially supported Linux distros for Steam?

I think the container thing is a real answer actually saying they are not supporting any specific distro's, but actually saying they want to support as much as possible.
Containers work 2 ways: they shield the host from the container: whatever happens on the container will not really have impact on the host, but they also shield the container from the host: whatever installation change on the host should not be noticeable in the container...
But it still is just a container and not a VM.

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Personally I would go with:
GTA (any^H^H^Hall)
No Man's Sky, although they are doing a pretty good job keeping it running on proton.

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Quoting: cookiEoverdoseAny one of the major anti cheat softwares like EAC... !!!

EAC has a linux version.
It doesn't work on games run with proton.

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Quoting: Liam Dawe

Quoting: velemasActually the issue with hardware survey is reported back in Aug 2017
https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/issues/5114 [External Link]

2017, likely nothing to do with the bug that came up and fixed now.

Well, the difference seems to be that this time the hardware survey was mandatory to pass, while previously if it crashed, it was just marked as succesful I guess.

I tried triggering the hardware survey by hand using magical incantations I found in those reports, and it just hung or crashed earlier this year.

But yeah, a few months after that I got for the first time in my life a spontaneous hardware survey for both my GPD WIN's. Those systems were on the shelf for over 6 months due to battery (replacement) issues.

So between it hanging and crashing it also did work 2 times(!) for machines I actually never game on.

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