It's pretty obvious at this point that Valve has everything needed to make an optional cloud gaming subscription if they want to.

• Remote Play for Streaming


• Steam Input for HW independent input


• Steam itself for subscription/game license management (e.g. Games and EA Play)


• Steam TV for Broadcasting


• Cloud Save to keep your savegames across multiple VMs


• (Proton for Linux based VMs -> less overhead and simpler to manage)

A lot of things like Steam Remote Play doesn't even require the dev to make any changes. So they would have a huge catalogue right from the start.
In contrast to Stadia, you get to keep the licenses to play on your own HW, similar to GeForce Now. I think optional Game streaming can be a good thing (for example to bridge the time with GPU shortages)

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Quoting: TheRiddickWhats WinRT support related to? that anything to do with kwinRT?

Windows RT is the discontinued ARM 32bit version of windows 8.

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Quoting: Rooster

Quoting: jrtGreat! Same goes for FOSS applications on the Windows Store like KDE [External Link].

In this case, I don't think it's a good think. I had to use Windows on my work laptop for a while and can tell you, Okular was terrible there. Really slow and clunky.

My brother uses Okular from the windows store when he boots into windows and it runs pretty good on his computer. Maybe that's just Windows doing Windows things?!

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Great! Just like Krita [External Link], Godot [External Link] and Blender [External Link]! It reaches people who never knew there is something like Free and Open Source Software! Same goes for FOSS applications on the Windows Store like KDE [External Link].

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This looks like a lot of fun for a free update!

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Quoting: Patola

Quoting: jrtI'm on Arch with Linux 5.9.1, Nvidia X Server Settings shows 455.28, and games work fine.

Do that:
 
$ dmesg | grep uvm
$ lsmod | grep uvm
Also, try running Blender, go to Edit → Preferences → System, and see if you have your GPU detected at the "CUDA" tab. If you don't, you don't have the CUDA driver working.

...however, it seems that there are some 5.9 kernel builds for Arch with some workaround for the driver to work.

I'm not talking about CUDA and the article does not explicitly say that this is a CUDA driver issue.

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I'm on Arch with Linux 5.9.1, Nvidia X Server Settings shows 455.28, and games work fine.

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Oh wow, a VR only game with a native version? Definitely gonna try that.

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This is going to be the best "year of Linux on the Desktop" yet! :D

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Quoting: BeamboomEdit: It's still only listed with Windows as supported platform though?

I think the product page update takes time until they refresh the CDN cache.

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