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Faster Zombies to Steam Deck: The History of Valve and Linux Gaming
23 Jul 2021 at 1:36 pm UTC
Ryan Gordon and Ethan Lee on Proton and the Steam Deck
21 Jul 2021 at 5:30 pm UTC Likes: 1
Quoting: STiATBrowser support, .NET support, sound, cutscenes, etc. are still lacking in areas, as is anti cheat, and while we heared about anti cheat, we didn't hear about any of the others.
They addressed it in one of their FAQs and said that devs should use Vulkan in general, avoid .NET stuff and Media Foundation.
Ryan Gordon and Ethan Lee on Proton and the Steam Deck
21 Jul 2021 at 1:40 pm UTC Likes: 5
I get that Ethan is frustrated, but that seems extreme. Of course he wants to keep porting, but at what cost? Without Proton there would hardly be any progress on the gaming front.
NVIDIA shows off RTX and DLSS on Arm using Arch Linux, DLSS SDK adds full Linux support
19 Jul 2021 at 4:23 pm UTC Likes: 2
Quoting: sub
Quoting: kuhpunkt
Quoting: MohandevirWhat is making me wonder it's the fact that Microsoft and Nvidia always walked hand in hand, when it comes to gaming... What is happening?
I guess they also just want to be future proof. Nvidia is working with Valve (enabling DLSS on Proton) and Nintendo on the Switch etc.
Is the Switch bit still valid?
I thought that was some rumour for the Switch Pro which obviously didn't happen.
I meant they are working with Nintendo in general, not that the Switch will have DLSS. Two separate examples :>
NVIDIA shows off RTX and DLSS on Arm using Arch Linux, DLSS SDK adds full Linux support
19 Jul 2021 at 2:26 pm UTC Likes: 1
Quoting: MohandevirWhat is making me wonder it's the fact that Microsoft and Nvidia always walked hand in hand, when it comes to gaming... What is happening?
I guess they also just want to be future proof. Nvidia is working with Valve (enabling DLSS on Proton) and Nintendo on the Switch etc.
NVIDIA shows off RTX and DLSS on Arm using Arch Linux, DLSS SDK adds full Linux support
19 Jul 2021 at 2:10 pm UTC Likes: 2
The video is live now.

https://youtu.be/VBfci5hYN1c [External Link]
The Valve Steam Deck, lots of excitement and plenty to think about for Linux gaming
16 Jul 2021 at 1:53 pm UTC Likes: 13
Quoting: denyasisI think this product will struggle. They've never solved the problem that stream machines failed on:

You can't play all your steam games on it and that will never be the case.

It's too underpowered to run lastest/future releases and the fact that we rely on something like ProtonDB means that new users are going have to dive into settings on an OS they don't understand and hopefully not mess it up.

I'm not trying to say news users are dumb or anything. Messing with wine/proton prefixes isn't exactly an easy part of our OS. As much as Valve tries to solve it, that burden is still there for a lot of games.
Steam Machines failed because

a) There weren't many games. That has changed massively. The games available already top every console out there. The selection is huge.

b) There was hardly any incentive to buy one, because people usually already have a PC. Why would you buy a prebuilt system, when you already have one? - Steam Decks are different, as you can't build them yourself and people don't already have mobile PCs.
Valve has formally announced the Steam Deck, a portable handheld console with SteamOS
15 Jul 2021 at 6:29 pm UTC Likes: 1
Quoting: Mohandevir
Quoting: kuhpunkt
Quoting: MohandevirWill we be able to download SteamOS 3.0 somewhere?
Why wouldn't they make this public?
I dont't know, seriously. But since it seems specialized for the Steam Deck hardware... Will it support Nvidia drivers? Are we going to be left on our own to make it compatible with our hardware? SteamOS included quite everything any new PC of that time needed. What is it going to be like for the "other hardware" support?

Don't get me wrong... I'm just asking. I really hope it will be the same as previous SteamOS versions.
I mean, they are also directly working with nvidia to make DLSS compatible with Proton and all that stuff.

They also said that they hope that other vendors will join the market and produce their own handheld PCs and I'm sure that some of them would want to use nvidia instead of AMD.
Valve has formally announced the Steam Deck, a portable handheld console with SteamOS
15 Jul 2021 at 6:08 pm UTC Likes: 2
Quoting: MohandevirWill we be able to download SteamOS 3.0 somewhere?
Why wouldn't they make this public?
Valve has formally announced the Steam Deck, a portable handheld console with SteamOS
15 Jul 2021 at 5:51 pm UTC Likes: 1
Quoting: GuestProton generally works well, but they must have some big updates (other than that anticheat news) and faith to be marketing it as taking your entire library on the go. I know I can put up with some minor work or glitches when using it but the general public who just want handheld Steam? And the games that still flat out don't work? Will be interesting to see what happens.

Really hoping this works out for the best as it could be a nice win for compatibility.
They said they are working directly with Anti-Cheat devs to make everything work with Proton and that they have a lot of stuff that's not in the Public Proton yet.