Quoting: ShabbyX"UE4 supports Linux very well, we've never tested it, but it's going to be fiiiiiine"

You can tell how wrong this is by the fact that UE4 has better windows support, yet they still have to put so much time in to make it work well.

Then reality hits and they're going to whine about Linux.

They support linux in EVERSPACE 1, so I expect they know what supporitng linux means.

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Actual info about linux support, expected in v1.0
Steamdeck support also planed for 1.0, but has less priority than Linux and Mac [External Link]

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Quoting: sarmadAs usual, Valve games just refuse to die. Maybe I should pick Team Fortress again to see what's new.

Only way how Valve game can die, is being reincarnated. Just like Half-life reincarnated to black mesa :-D

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I'm surprised it actually took any company this long

I'm not suprised
- Steamdeck CAD files are under "Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International Public License". This is clearly commercial usage, so they needed communication with Valve for get permission and Valve maybe came with some strings attached (material quality,...).
- In addition, the mould for this requires more precision than the for Dock and therefore production may take longer.
- This is niche product. Only small group from SteamDeck owners want to change backplate in comparison with who want dock, so priority is low.

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I don't know rust, i didn't play it, so dont know how multiplayer work in that game. But generaly, there is solution how to solve linux cheater "problem".
1. They can disable crosplatform multiplayer. You have problem with cheaters? Let linux users be on separated servers. Some players want to play with linux frieds? Just allow windows users to join to linux servers with warning of greater risc of cheaters.
2. If game has ability to create own server, just give ability to run game without EAC for "not EAC servers"

Linux can be unofficially supported with these limits.

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Quoting: SpykerOne day, all those people will have to admit that kernel level anti-cheat is not future proof and maybe they will start to find another solution.
Server side anti cheat supervised by AI could be the next better solution against cheaters.

Don't hope. I predict we see CPU firmware level anticheat before we see spread server side aticheat.

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Next step? Add support for steam workshop :-)

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Quoting: ArtenValve dont have actual data about all, because every month only subset of their user is in survey.

As I have been complaining forever, Valve could easily take the data from live Steam client connections. They really have daily information of the base OS for every single user. It wouldn't have the hardware detail, but the OS statistics would be a 100% sample of logged-in users. Not sure why they don't.

It's hurts more then help. Automatic telemetry shared with 3. party is no go in my case and probably it is relatively common opinion in linux community - more then in windows community. So it can cause bigger falsely underreporting of linux. One in year with exact data is best case and tolerable for me.

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Quoting: TheSHEEEPWith these, I always wish Valve would give out absolute numbers instead of percentages.

It's a bit like that "PC gaming is dead! Mobile is the future" nonsense that crops up every now and again - with PC gaming being in better shape than ever and with more games than ever.
Just because some share shrinks (or grows), doesn't mean there are actually less (or more) absolute users.

You only get this "very rough ballpark" number when Valve shares some actual user numbers once in a blue moon.

I don't think it is good idea. Valve dont have actual data about all, because every month only subset of their user is in survey. So % is better solution, because if they write absolute number, you expect real value.

Side note: -0.04% is so small number that can be be statistical error and reality can be positive change just because some bias in selection process or small sample size...

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Valve just need ramp up production ever more and they need enough buyers. In principle, we need larger marketshare.

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