Quoting: tmtvlI guess even with identical hardware specs and the same software machines can behave differently still.

I've switched about a month ago and experienced a partial breakage. No chance booting into game mode, due to an infinite logon spinning wheel, but switching to desktop mode worked reliably. But Steam was completely broken in desktop mode as well. I ended up renaming the Steam folder in $HOME – that fixed the problem. Later I moved back my data from the broken Steam installation to the working one piece by piece.

So the issue I had was not related to hardware at all, but to the Steam client since it is so heavily integrated into SteamOS.

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Quoting: mrdeathjrmpeg (case melty blood act cadenza, resident evil 4 2005) work

Does it work with gstreamer as well or is this something new?

I had hoped for some (more) examples of things that suddenly work, but nevertheless I think that ffmpeg will be a more reliable option going forward.

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Quoting: PenglingThere's some irony there, I'm sure.

Like Disney, re-using public domain stories for (almost) everything while lobbying for longer copyright protection (for their own stuff).

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Don't expect Flatpak's sandbox to protect you – is my modus operandi.

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Quoting: MurrayI doubt the maps themselves include the proprietary assets.

Then look it up, please! You don't know what you're talking about! I hate it when everyone bangs on about something they don't know anything without checking.

Quake wasn't done the way that makes sense in hindsight.

The maps really contain a copy of every texture used, not a reference! Ask John Carmack why he has done it that way, but it it was he did. A copy of the wad containing the texture (what you need to use an editor) isn't even included in the game. The textures are only kept in the map files.

Last post – If you want to embarrass yourselves by keeping up correcting things without checking the facts, please keep going without me.

Edit: Since apparently everyone does not want to do a little search – here are the first results of a trivial search:
First paragraph on https://quakewiki.org/wiki/Textures [External Link]
Paragraph 4.2.1 of https://www.gamers.org/dEngine/quake/spec/quake-spec34/qkspec_4.htm [External Link]

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Quoting: amataiI checked on the project page, Quake is already open source since the 90s, LibreQuake intends to replace proprietary assets.

Yes, but that isn't related to the issue at all.

A copy of the proprietary assets, i.e. the textures used on a map is included in the distributed map. So all the back catalogue of old maps contains parts of the original game.

Textures made by LibreQuake will only be used by new maps that are made with LibreQuake. All other maps use the non-free textures.

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Well… this will always be sketchy since Quake (unlike Doom or Quake 3 – not sure about Quake 2 without checking) includes a copy of the used textures in the compiled map file. So if you use maps made for the original game, you use the original textures even if you use this project as a base.

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Yay. Zen will be killed off.

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Quoting: RandomizedKirbyTree47But that's not what's happening. Sony isn't merely ignoring Linux.

Exactly. Actively sabotaging something is completely different to “not supporting” something.

Quoting: ShmerlAnd Tim Sweeney can move to Canada and get lost.

So… was this about his infamous tweet where he compared installing Linux because Windows was garbage to moving to Canada or was it completely random?

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Quoting: PenglingI never even got close to being given that much pocket-money in a month when I was a kid!

Don't forget inflation. Non-existing things have become a lot more expansive than they used to be.

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