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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The biggest problem is that people allow untrusted third parties to run kernel level drivers on the same hardware that they are using for internet banking.
Clearly easy anticheat is a very dangerous backdoor in the already subpar protection of windows.
What I don't get is how something like easy anticheat can get it's stuff into the windows kernel. That means that microsoft is supporting them?

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If they could strike a deal with Valve, letting Steam users play their games throw Stadia (renting a game render server), I would actually use it. But it is yet another walled garden. And I don't see that any of the profits they make is returned into Linux.
So for me it's Valve Tax or contribute.

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