Finally WEBP. I've never understood why this was not supported. Does someone have any insights I'm missing?

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This gets a little out of hand. You're all right from a different point of view. So please calm down. :)

The discussion if this is appropriate should and will happen in glibc's channels and only dependent on their goals as API developers. It is very much fine to break your ABI _if_ this is the kind of API you are providing. The kernel is not but they have to decide if their "backwards compatible, portable, and high performance ISO C library" is and should be.

Depending on the outcome of that the distro or runtime maintainers (e.g. Valve) will discuss if or how glibc is appropriate to use for their goals.

I personally hope that something changes in one of these points.

To add a personal note from a non-game-developer: I'm also annoyed by glibc but don't know if we'd fare better with others like musl (any experiences?). There have been breaking changes in the past even for applications that don't use it directly. We keep recompiling a lot after every dependency change against multiple versions and their compatibility to others in order to ensure everything still works. I for example currently cannot release any binaries compiled on my machine because of braking changes when using openssl with glibc (whoops!). As a maintainer I've had lots of integration failures because of glibc. This costs a lot of time especially when testing it (and waiting for all the tests to release a security fix that needs to be pushed NOW). So I can relate to any game developer which just wants to fire and forget their finished fun little puzzle game.

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I'm in Q3 ❤️

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Quoting: olican101"Bash: latpak: command not found"

There's an f missing. Its `flatpak` not `latpak`.

If it is not yet installed on your system and you need help setting up flatpak, there is a tutorial on https://flatpak.org/setup/ [External Link] :wink:

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Quoting: RedjeIn the Dutch interview from tweakers, they also mention they wanna move to immutable OS. And that they probably cannot do it with Debian packaging. So maybe they move over to fedora or arch?

Do you have a link? I coudn't find it.
Pop!_OS and Fedora Silverblue are currently my most favourite OSes on a Laptop.

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I've previously ordered a laptop from System76 before they had a German keyboard layout and learned the hard way that the US layout has less keys.

I'm really glad that they do well and can expand to other markets.

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Finally. I've already updated my Ansible-Playbooks to install Lutris on my gaming devices (Fedora Silverblue). Thanks Liam!

I'm really glad to see this surge of developement regarding Flatpaks. I hope this continues and involves more and more desktop applications so I can convert more of our workstations to Linux. :)

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I'd love to see the Flatpak version of Lutris. I think Lutris is next to Steam the most important piece of software for many Linux gamers.

Having a Flatpak version finally removes some of the hassle of setting it up for new penguins and SteamDeck users 🐧.

So thanks to everybody contributing their time or money into this project. :)

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Quoting: CatKiller1.3M monthly active. The 0.3M is how many have been on at the same time.

Ahh. Thanks for clarifying :)

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I'd like to know the Steam Deck rating for each of these. We're likely to see an immense increase in Linux gamers in a few weeks. :)

We're currently at about 0.3M monthly active gamers there and are hopefully bound to be in the millions within the next two years.

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