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Kann mir jemand erklären wieso ein Brief geheim sein darf, Chatnachrichten aber nicht?
Das eine wird von Kinderschändern und Terroristen benutzt, das andere nicht. IST DOCH LOGISCH!


Google is developing a Linux runtime for Android, Valve are making an ARM version of Steam, so it could be usable but I don’t think it’ll light the world on fire.


Sure, you get an A for answering the question, but my point was that the hate they get today on Linux is misguided because people only have vague or non-specific complaints.
Not learning from the past means repeating the same mistakes. I see little evidence that NVidia’s overall approach changed. It’s always that everyone has to adapt to their way of doing things and rarely that NVidia seek collaboration first. That’s why it has taken years and three entirely different memory management technologies.
With NVidia it’s always “This is the last piece of technology and then everything will be perfect.” ExplicitSync is only the latest episode. Now that ExplicitSync is there, compatibility on Linux is still a crapshoot with NVidia.
When Nvidia announced that they were going to move the proprietary parts of their driver into the GPU firmware, and open source the kernel module, there was a lot of hate about how they’re being assholes for not releasing the whole thing as open source, relying on proprietary blobs, etc. Yet that’s stupid, because it’s literally the exact same thing AMD and Intel do for their much beloved drivers.
Where is the closed source user space of Intel and AMD drivers? It doesn’t exist because they use Mesa for the best possible compatibility. NVidia don’t. I’ve read comments by people bashing the recent Baldur’s Gate 3 Linux release and being full of graphics glitches. Then they list their hardware as proof how great it is and they all have NVidia GPUs.


Afaik, their drivers support GBM today so it’s kind of outdated.
Well, of course. I literally said this was a fight over years, so of course in the past. You wanted to one example of why the hate and I gave you one example of why the hate.


Can you give an example?
Trying to push three different technologies years after AMD, Intel, Mesa, … agreed on GBM.


In case you aren’t aware, Nvidia was the main driving force behind getting explicit sync support into Wayland, which is a feature that greatly improves performance for modern graphics APIs.
In case you’re not aware but it took years of fighting NVidia for them to finally conform to standards and conventions agreed by everyone when NVidia didn’t care to participate.


The issues may be totally valid but yeah, Nvidia can be expected to have patches ready.
Looks similar to the Google ffmpeg situation where Google AI file bug reports, bury the developers, and don’t send any patches at all.


Patches welcome
Most sales happen on Steam
I literally already wrote that.
except those few rare examples.
Those “rare examples” combine to a massive revenue. In case of EGS and Fortnite, it’s very clear that EGS is installed and actively used on a giant number of PCs, so the installed base is there. It’s not a Steam monopoly if the user base signed up to and uses EGS for Fortnine and such.
And yes, they are a monopoly in gaming.
The biggest PC games aren’t on Steam. Minecraft isn’t, Fortnite isn’t, Roblox isn’t. Because of Fortnite alone, the installed base of EGS is massive, the people just choose to buy their non-Epic games somewhere else.
they are a PC gaming company, period.
And a hypothetical Steam Phone would be an ARM PC, dockable for a full PC experience but mobil use could be similar to XPeria Play. It’s not a huge leap from Steam Deck formfactor-wise.
Not even speculation, just shitposting.
Valve confirmed that there are more ARM devices in the making. The type of device is speculation.
SteamDeck doesn’t run Android, it runs full Linux.
SteamOS on Frame is compatible with Android apps because it ships Waydroid. When Valve contributions to Waydroid surfaced months ago, I already speculated that it’s probably a porting aid for Quest games to Deckard but as soon as the tech is there (which it is now), you can bet there is someone at Valve flashing SteamOS onto a Pixel phone or so, just tinker with it.


Seems excessive when you can just as well use RustDesk.


Homebrew could provide their own casks of FOSS applications, compiled on their infrastructure and signed by their key. It’s kinda what F-Droid does on phones.


Weil Trump dadurch erpressbar ist.
Muschi-Grapscher Trump hat keine Scham und prahlt mit sexuellen Übergriffen.
Das Problem damals war, dass das Lizenzkonzept auf Aufführung in linearen Medien ausgelegt war, wobei ich persönlich damals schon nicht so wirklich Mitleid mit YouTube hatte, denn konkurrierende Plattformen hatten viel eher entsprechende Abmachungen getroffen.


Übergewicht ist gesellschaftliche Integration!
Aber Donnerratte klingt ähnlich zu Donnerlittchen


Sure. That’s why I wrote “mostly pointless” but the runtime stack is self-contained in Steam and proprietary games are compiled by the developer anyway. There are limits to what CachyOS/Gentoo/… can do.


This is only relevant for people exclusively running open source games from the distro’s repository.
Steam games (incl. the Windows games on top of Proton) run inside Steam Linux Runtime, a container based on Debian 11 that is identical on every distribution. Use whatever distribution you like but the optimizations of CachyOS are mostly pointless.
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