Quoting: OrdiciYeah, the itch.io app works, but you can only download Linux native games...

Running Windows apps from itch.io app works if you install wine.

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How can someone create this? Pretty simple if you know a bit of programming and where to look, since the Steam Deck uses Linux (SteamOS) and so the majority of it is open source (apart from the Steam client).

This part is actually in that closed Steam client though - but it's somewhat hackable anyway because it's using HTML and JavaScript :P

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Quoting: AkienDo you know what's triggering the issue when not clearing `LD_PRELOAD`?

LD_PRELOAD is used to inject the library that's usually responsible for Steam Overlay. I'm not sure what is it useful for under Gamescope as Overlay is handled in a completely different way there, but Steam tries to inject it anyway and the itch app doesn't like it.

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All you need to run itch.io app in Gaming Mode is adding
LD_PRELOAD= %command%
to Launch Options.

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> A developer made a (...) recording tool for Linux

It would probably be more newsworthy if it was, say, a plumber or a dancer, don't you think? ;)

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In my experience, Arch is really stable for a rolling distro (although I'd like pacman to be a bit more robust, but it's generally good enough). However, it explicitly requires regular maintenance efforts, and not everyone is willing (or able) to do that.

Which is fine, there are different distributions for people with different needs.

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Quoting: ShmerlI see Linux is listed as supported for the first game on itch.io: https://sos.itch.io/mcpixel [External Link]

Yup, it's also there on Humble. It was simply never uploaded to Steam, as the game was released before Steam supported GNU/Linux.

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Quoting: axredneckIt's Arch, it doesn't have anything "irrelevant" preinstalled.

No, it's SteamOS and it has everything preinstalled that Steam Deck devs wanted to have. It's not unthinkable that early images could contain lots of dev tools, debuggers, compilers, debug symbols or even random cruft that won't be there in the final release.

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Quoting: EikeAFAIK the main Linux developer at Valve doesn't like Debian's package format.

If that's true, then I don't think it's worth discussing any other reasons. This one is the only one that matters :P

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Quoting: GuestJust how many 32 bit apps do you run on your machine? I run one, steam.

The app used to send declarations on Polish taxes electronically is an Adobe Air application which works on GNU/Linux via its old 32-bit runtime.

(OTOH, containerizing it will probably be the easier and safer way to support it, so...)

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