I hope that Valve continues developing steamos under the radar. What we don't need right now is a public competitor for Windows 10S. Without competitors, Microsoft will only shoot itself in the foot like it did with IE. Of course the penalty and work needed to comply was very small, and Microsoft could hold on to monopolizing the browser "market" long enough to wipe out substantial part of the "competition".
So if we want to get the market healthy, we should refrain -for now- posing steamos as a viable alternative. We as users can though, but Valve shouldn't promote it as that (for now).

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Hmmm, it is time I do some more donations to Valve by buying some games.
Exactly this is the reason I switched from GOG to Steam...
I know that on Steam a substantial part is used for linux development. And at the same time I get to play games too.

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Subnautica?

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Why do I get such nostalgic feelings when I see the terminals...
Those game designers probably never ever worked on terminals that looked like that...

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Quoting: SeegrasI've got a GPD Pocket http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2017/02/gpd-pocket-ubuntu-7-inch-laptop-indiegogo [External Link] It's out, it has a better resolution and is apparently cheaper. It doesn't have the game-controller-keyboard, though, but I'm not a game-controller-user anyway.

The GPD pocket is the netbook version of the gpd WIN. It just has a real keyboard more screen estate 7" vs 5.5", more RAM (8 vs 4) and a bigger eMMC, but the remainder is the same.
Now I want to see the GPD pocket with WIN2 specs.
For gaming there is a tablet hook on game controller, turning it into a 7" portable gaming console.
But since the pocket still sports a classic ATOM and the WIN2 has a decent SoC (atoms are not produced anymore, luckily), it's only normal it's more expensive.
But price wise, the GPD win now goes for $350 or so...
In my case I am only glad they do not use eMMC anymore, that means I can set the BIOS to just ignore eMMC and let linux sort it out.
On the GPD WIN/Pocket, I have to set it to something specific, else it won't be able to boot.
Using that specific, linux is not able to set the right parameters on the uSD slot (which is just another eMMC lane), and that makes the speed of it terrible slow.
So yeah, GPD WIN2 is a WIN overal, a POCKET2 would be a double win.
But in the end they are just intel platforms, and as such, my galaxy Note 8 still runs around it without breaking a sweat. I really have to look into qemu and native vulkan forwarding... Maybe I can run the Talos principle 8-D.

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Wow... does anybody have to think about Kylie Minogue with David Tennant, saving the starship titanic? (Dr. Who christmas version)

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Quoting: NotSoQT

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Quoting: Hugormwow it look a lot like Pyra/Pandora https://pyra-handheld.com [External Link] whis is linux

The Pyra has an ARM CPU. This one is x86_64. Makes a big difference for compatibility.

But if I understand the Pyra will be modular and the next thing to be pursued after the release should be a x86_64 board as option.

You can't say x86_64 without a lot of fans...
The pyra has none... because arm cpu's can do more with less power.

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Quoting: HamishWhen I first started gaming heavily on Linux starting back in 2007 on Fedora games using OSS were the bane of my existence, as even with the methods for emulating it under ALSA and then later PulseAudio it almost never worked well for me. Just using ALSA for Quake 4 works fine in my experience as long as you specify the correct PCM device and it is not engaged.

I've found that if you want to do real gaming, you also need a real sound card. Not those cheap ass HD single PCM channel things. I don't know where it wen't wrong, but the htpc like machines I had in 1999 had the YMF40 chipset, featuring 40 PCM channels.
I've found that the soundblaster live is also pretty good, remixing the 128 channels(?) internally at 48kHz?

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To start a game without internet:
ip netns add NI
ip netns exec NI ip set up dev lo
ip netns exec NI <game>
# Wait for game to stop
ip netns delete NI
It will create a network namespace NI, up dev lo (usually important for a lot of things), and start the game within that namespace.
That game will really have no clue about a network, but still has full access to your x-server (as it can reach the socket).

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Quoting: fedotixHello

Can we dream about (one day or soon ) "Farcry" on linux ? :huh:

The original Farcry was epic... I've played it a few times.
I eventually settled for the DX renderer as that looked better than opengl passthrough :-).
Heh... maybe I should play HL2 again, this time with the native port...
Last time was cedega I think...

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