I don't think anyone assesses it wrongly. It's just another annoying thing from Google, who do this every time they deal with Linux. From Android (hello Surface flinger + bionic, where is Wayland + glibc?), to ChromeOS (hello some weird hybrid, where is normal desktop Linux stack?).

Now Stadia can be added to the list. I.e. hello backend targeted Linux releases, where is the benefit for proper desktop ones?

It's as if Google have this motto: "use Linux for our projects, but make sure to screw Linux users while doing it".

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If it's such a standard stack, then releasing proper desktop version after all the Stadia work should be trivial.

I partially blame Google, for being "the best friend and the worst enemy" of Linux, like Aaron Seigo put it a while ago about Android [External Link]. Same applies here. Google could do a lot more to help Linux gaming through Stadia, but they don't care.

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Quoting: StenkaSteam no support amd mesa vaapi implementation, gaming on Steam link not playable, totally choppy software-rendered, in nvidia simply works.

That's a Steam's problem, not AMD's or anyone else's. VAAPI is standard. OBS supports VAAPI just fine for instance. So use OBS if you need video streaming.

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Quoting: StenkaAMD... No hardware encoder support for in-home streaming, no thanks.

It has H.265 hardware encoder, but not VP9. That's annoying, but not a major issue.

From vainfo on RX 5700XT:

vainfo: Driver version: Mesa Gallium driver 19.3.0-rc5 for AMD NAVI10 (DRM 3.35.0, 5.4.1+, LLVM 9.0.0)
vainfo: Supported profile and entrypoints
      VAProfileMPEG2Simple            : VAEntrypointVLD
      VAProfileMPEG2Main              : VAEntrypointVLD
      VAProfileVC1Simple              : VAEntrypointVLD
      VAProfileVC1Main                : VAEntrypointVLD
      VAProfileVC1Advanced            : VAEntrypointVLD
      VAProfileH264ConstrainedBaseline: VAEntrypointVLD
      VAProfileH264ConstrainedBaseline: VAEntrypointEncSlice
      VAProfileH264Main               : VAEntrypointVLD
      VAProfileH264Main               : VAEntrypointEncSlice
      VAProfileH264High               : VAEntrypointVLD
      VAProfileH264High               : VAEntrypointEncSlice
      VAProfileHEVCMain               : VAEntrypointVLD
      VAProfileHEVCMain               : VAEntrypointEncSlice
      VAProfileHEVCMain10             : VAEntrypointVLD
      VAProfileJPEGBaseline           : VAEntrypointVLD
      VAProfileVP9Profile0            : VAEntrypointVLD
      VAProfileVP9Profile2            : VAEntrypointVLD
      VAProfileNone                   : VAEntrypointVideoProc

Personally, I'm looking forward to AV1 becoming ubiquitous everywhere. It should happen soon.

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Good, if true. Nouveau replacing the blob will be very good for Linux desktop progress and Wayland adoption, that has been slowed down by Nvidia for years. But for now, I'm pretty skeptical about them actually working with upstream, given long standing Nvidia's reputation.

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Quoting: F.UltraNormally yes and it would indeed be very interesting to hear THQ:s side of this. Could be that normally THQ is not against the dev studio releasing also on Linux but that Airship is not interested. Could be that the Stadia port is not yet in good shape enough to be distributed as a stand alone version, could be that THQ as a small studio is already busy enough with them releasing it on stadfia+steam+xbox+switch, could be a million things.

Yep, that's why I said it's good to ask them, rather than assume "market share" issue. Probably Liam writing them would have more weight for THQ to actually answer, than us, who are random users for them.

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Quoting: Liam DaweSame answer as always, market share. Stadia has Google's backing and is a "single platform" in the mind of developers.

Not from THQ. Current market share and even smaller one didn't bother them. They published a number of games for Linux, and even spent money on remaking old ones and released them for Linux. So they are clearly in a different category from legacy publishers, who ignore small markets.

So since developers made a version for Stadia, it should be natural to expect THQ to support normal Linux release in such case, which is a lot easier than making from scratch Linux release like they did in the past.

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Quoting: F.UltraTHQ is just the publisher. Airship Syndicate is the studio behind Darksiders Genesis.

And commonly such things are blocked on the publisher level. I.e. since developers already released it for Stadia, they shouldn't be lacking Linux expertise.

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@Liam: May be writing to them would be a good idea, to clarify what's blocking normal Linux release in this case.

I.e. in case of legacy publishers, such situation would be expected, but from THQ Nordic, I expected something better.

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Quoting: damarrinDo you see any Darksiders game out for Linux anywhere?

Since it's on Stadia, that's one. And THQ Nordic is usually positive about desktop Linux releases. So why is it not out then?

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