After loki left the building, and no others were to take their place, GOG came and promised to relieve the biggest hurdle on playing licensed windows titles on linux: that fucking DRM that everyone hated.
As such I bought a lot on GOG.
Then Valve got a steam client that worked on linux.
And then they got games working on linux.
And then they threw everything they had on linux.
So yeah, Valve first, GOG next.
Valve is doing good, GOG is doing good. From the 2 Valve is doing better good than GOG.
But if the gog installers embedded in chimeraos lists more games on green (about all games I have on gog are not supported in the chimeraos GOG installer), I would start accidentally buying on GOG again.
Because throwing money on GOG is not bad. Throwing money on Valve however is currently better for the near future of gaming.
I actually have original linux games that I can't play anymore because the DRM requires me to mount the original CD (Shogo MAD ported by hyperion).
Both Valve and GOG prevent that from ever happening again.

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I can totally understand GPD though. They had a "mediocre" device with virtually no support at all in a niche market. Despite no support and mediocre (still very good though), they did good for a "small" company.
And now they will be swept away by a company that delivers way more for half the price, completely open in a way GPD can't compete. Of course they will be angry and feel backstabbed because it was their niche.
But they can't compete with Valve on 2 things:
1) The device is open. Much more open than any GPD device ever
2) Service. Selling to Europeans from Europe means european service.
If GPD could have serviced my gpd's, ok.
But they can't, so I have 2 dead GPD's (a WIN and a WIN 2) that were barely used and that in total is more than twice the price of the premium deck version.
And most of the time I was waiting for replacement batteries.

If GPD can fix their support line and starts supporting steamos, then I will see them as viable again.

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Is that an open source sdk that talks to a proprietary nvidia API, or is it open source end-to-end?
Usually "open" and nvidia are usually vendor lock-in attempts to create yet another monopoly.

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But no old gpu support, nor opensource support for older gpus. While AMD and intel still get updates (not because they need to, but because they love to see it work).
(IMHO: NVidia is just slightly better than being the D-Link of GPU's).

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This should be free for Belgians.
(For those that don't know: Belgium is known to have the worst roads in Europe and are in a never ending project of fixing it).

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I need my deck so I can fly.

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Quoting: thelimeydragonDoes make me interested in what the bootleggers will do.. make cheap systems but with the actual SteamOS installed?

First of all: the steam deck is the cheapest system.
Second of all: that was the idea of Valve all along. They want others to adopt Steam OS.
But the hardware manufacturers are severely lagging and lacking in any initiative.
Valve does this so there can be a new market with a good baseline (not the aya neo "crap", but a lot higher with respect to controllers) in hardware and a good base software.
Nobody wants to innovate in a microsoft world.
That's why valve chooses Linux. But they really have to carry the whole thing before 3rd parties will just copy paste.
Steam os was for it's time already a significant step ahead. There was no such thing as a PC gaming console until steamos.
Due to lack of manufacturer backing valve had to take the next step. Sell hardware too.

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Once I have my high end deck, I will order the "cheap" deck, so I can play with my wife.

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Quoting: ArtenCouple of my natives games are unsuported. Surviveing mars for example. It run on my OS, so what is different? Only one think on my mind is gamescope...

All the games that are in my unsupported list are games that I play. Except for a serious sam vr only title because I have no VR, but I felt compelled to support cro-team, as they initially showed on linux what the problem was with high end cards and jitter on windows.

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Quoting: BielFPs

If the Linux build fails compatibility tests or otherwise experiences significant issues, we'll then test the Windows build of your game running under Proton.

Judging by this message, I bet Dying Light will be one of those games who will be opted to run on Proton by default despise having a "native" version.

I always thought Dying Light really played well under linux. I did a lot of time with my steam machine.
But somethink like ARK: survival evolved, or ETS, or ATS, I play them on Proton.
They did fine when they were linux native, but now proton seems to work better. Because proton is vulkan, and all these titles are doing opengl.
Maybe that's also the issue with Dying Light. Steam machines always had an nvidia card. So maybe it was an nvidia vs AMD opengl "compatibility" issue. (Made for nvidia)

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