Hey Liam, can you check Maui Apps on Steam Deck? They are supposed to be more touch friendly and convergent. They also work on Android. You can find latest Appimages and Apks here [External Link]

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Nobara Project [External Link] looks interesting. Did anyone try it?

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Quoting: Guest

Quoting: Sputnik_tr_02

Quoting: Guest

Quoting: damarrinIf they wanted to stay relevant with the Linux crowd. Which they don't.

Focusing on old games, as the name "good old games" suggests, you're absolutely correct. There's really no point: relatively few of those older games having native versions, with wine or dosbox taking care of the bulk of the titles. With software such as Lutris, there's really no reason for GOG to actually bother with GNU/Linux: the market share is too small, and everything needed for GNU/Linux users is basically already taken care of. For older games, of course (and I daresay for most newer titles too).
Ironically, I suspect it's easier to get the older games running on GNU/Linux thanks to wine and dosbox, than it is to provide interface libraries and have the games run on Windows.

Why bother with all of those?

Steam provides tools for both. Steam Linux Runtime for native and Proton for others. An they have first class Linux support, Regional pricing, alternative payment options and countless other features via their Native Linux Client. So there is no reason for me to bother with gog.

Turns out that my distro provides all of those tools for free, outside of a proprietary games management client, and integrated with the distro itself.

Yea G.O.G Good old gatekeeping.

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Quoting: Guest

Quoting: damarrinIf they wanted to stay relevant with the Linux crowd. Which they don't.

Focusing on old games, as the name "good old games" suggests, you're absolutely correct. There's really no point: relatively few of those older games having native versions, with wine or dosbox taking care of the bulk of the titles. With software such as Lutris, there's really no reason for GOG to actually bother with GNU/Linux: the market share is too small, and everything needed for GNU/Linux users is basically already taken care of. For older games, of course (and I daresay for most newer titles too).
Ironically, I suspect it's easier to get the older games running on GNU/Linux thanks to wine and dosbox, than it is to provide interface libraries and have the games run on Windows.

Why bother with all of those?

Steam provides tools for both. Steam Linux Runtime for native and Proton for others. An they have first class Linux support, Regional pricing, alternative payment options and countless other features via their Native Linux Client. So there is no reason for me to bother with gog.

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Quoting: LoftyIs it possible with Wayland to create virtual monitors ? and therefore custom resolutions / aspect-ratios for games to see and utilize ?

Maybe Gamescope [External Link] is what you are looking for?

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Quoting: Sputnik_tr_02I think it's a good time for Valve to push the Steam on Chrome Os officially.

Why do you think that ChromeOS support will help linux? ChromeOS is mostly used for education and managed by schools, which means that most users would not be able to install Steam if it was officially available. Also someone who really wants to play on a Chromebook would install Linux (or Windows) right away.

Why wouldn't it? It will be the Linux Steam client running on them.

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I think it's a good time for Valve to push the Steam on Chrome Os officially. There was a rumor about it long ago. With that and Steam Deck we may finally break the cycle.

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Does anyone know why Arch Linux no longer updates wine and wine-staging anymore? They are stuck at version 6.16.

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KDE Plasma is awesome, it was actually one of the reasons that I switch to Linux back in the day.

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Quoting: ShmerlDo they cache it for each existing GPU architecture?

Foz pipelines are gpu and driver agnostic , which client utilize them to build shaders.

I am using an optimus laptop with prime render offload (Which means my desktop and Steam runs on intel gpu but games run on Nvidia), does that mean my system will benefit from this as well?

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