When they release it for the first ROG Ally, I hope they add support for the egpu. That's what's still holding me off to install something like bazzite. There seem to be ways to get it running, and I think this is a great space-saving setup, especially as it can run VR then.

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Back then when Alien: Isolation was announced, we could have a first look at gamescom. Oh my gosh! My knees were shaking when playing this. I knew what this organism is capable of and it scared the sh!t out of me. My sister screamed through the whole booth when one of the booth employees scared her during her playsession.
And then the game was released, gosh... it was soo good!
And we even got a native Linux port from Feral Interactive!

I've been longing for more content of the Alien (and Predator) franchise. The newer movies, well, have been great for fans (like me), except Alien: Romulus which seems to be well accepted by the majorty even. Alien: Earth as a tv show is being aired soon. We got quite some games over the recent years even, with Aliens: Fireteam Elite, Aliens: Dark Descent and even Alien: Rogue Incursion as a proper VR game on the horizon. We are still playing Aliens vs Predator (2010) and even Aliens: Colonial Marines in multiplayer on a regular basis.

Hopefully the sequal will be similar in tension and quality as the first game. The expectations are really high. I'm looking forward to the continuing story of Amanda Ripley.

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The SteamOS + Linux system requirements are funny :D

Minimum:
OS: when in doubt, check if you can run godot 4

Recommended:
Graphics: will run better on dedicated GPUs

Cool to see another example of the Deck being used productively and not only for gaming.

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Actually I played GTA V only in multiplayer so far, funmaps only, no GTA online. Haven't touched the singleplayer at all. Not only on Linux desktop PC, but also a lot on Deck. I saw the online games being full of cheaters, but that has been the case for over 10 years. Why do they add it now? GTA V is 11 years old. It's nice to see it still being supported, but what's their motivation to add it now? Do they really expect to make many more sales? GTA 6 was announced, scheduled next year (probably postponed, but still). Those who want GTA (V) have it already, and all their updates had been free which is cool, so do they intend to sell the next update?
Hopefully they'll just send that email, as the game itself runs great on Linux and Deck.

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How this changed everything. Incredible. John Carmack stated back then this is the way to get Linux gaming popular. And we laughed. Proton got released and a lot of Linux fans got mad because this would kill native versions.
Yet we can now play more games than ever before on our favorite OS. Be it on PC handhelds, where Valve managed to create the best experience with Steam OS, we can play VR (currently all games are working again, at least for me)... and so much more. On the marketshare sites and Valve's own stats page Linux has outperformed Mac since a while now.
People install Linux on Windows only PC gaming handhelds with Chimera OS, bazzite, etc because it's the better experience.
Wow. Thanks Valve, thanks to all contributors, what a time to be alive as a Linux gamer.

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from Lawrence Yang on The Verge [External Link]

The note about ROG Ally keys is related to third-party device support for SteamOS. The team is continuing to work on adding support for additional handhelds on SteamOS

Okay! This is indeed official support for SteamOS from Valve for other devices than the Steam Deck. Awesome!

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Is Chimera OS or Bazzite pulling stuff from Steam OS? Maybe that's the idea behind it. What purpose do these fixes have otherwise in Steam OS?

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Quoting: poke86

Quoting: GuestMight be the wrong place to ask, but I want to play Half Life Alyx as intended. Is there a VR system that works well with Linux that perhaps is a bit less than the $1k price tag of the Valve index?

Used HTC Vive off ebay.
You won't get the full finger tracking of the Index but apart from that it'll work.

You could get the Index controllers seperately though, they do work with the Steam VR 1.0 (HTC Vive) tracking. Nevertheless it's a good idea to have also Vive Wands (HTC Vive controllers), as e.g. the Half Life 2 VR Mod seems to work better with them than with the Index controllers.

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Awesome, thanks for this interesting write up!

and because I may have anger management issues when they tell me something doesn't work on Linux, but just maybe!

Haha, maybe!

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Hopefully they add multiplayer for Ultimate Carnage again, after stripping the Windows Live component multiplayer is gone.

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