Not being bristly at all. Your comments seem to assume: 1) People don’t already know (check the thread you’re in) 2) Valve is doing something wrong, and/or 3) They are somehow at fault for something, like stolen valor or not giving credit where credit is due.
You suggested your comment was pedantic, and I confirmed, and it’s because of your tone. I’m not rage replying to your comments, just correcting the context because I feel you have the wrong take.
Nope. Anything ARM. Meaning tablets can run x86 games with Proton+FEX if that be the case. Also getting the MacOS segment back into the fold. ARM laptops, hell, maybe even Apple portable devices, who knows.
It’s not just about their own hardware, but my thinking is that the Deck 2 will be ARM for power consumption reasons, so this all makes a lot of sense. The Frame isn’t really just a VR devices, it’s also going to be SteamOS, so that means a virtual desktop and all the usual Linux apps and such. I’m sure it will sell on its own as a productivity device as much as a gaming device. No reason it can’t fill the market gap that awful Apple headset screwed up so poorly.
Yes, pedantic. Wine existed before Proton, and Valve made it more suitable for use in its own ecosystem with funding and developer time, but also still open and usable for the community writ large.
They’ve also been funding FEX since it’s inception, and likewise commiting development resources for the same purpose, to further their product reach on a wider array of devices.
They aren’t simply gobbling up these fledgling FOSS projects for use in their products as you seem to suggest, they’ve had a long term plan to make milestones and goals that have gotten them to where they are now. That’s the point.
They aren’t gatekeeping anything. They simply have the resources to give these projects they are interested in a boost.
This is specifically about ARM64 if you read the posting. The only other ARM hardware out there that runs Proton are these random Chinese brands that make emulation focused handhelds. That’s not a segment of the user base that EA would care about.
Now, Valve is turning the entire ARM ecosystem on its end by building out an entire suite of tools to make an emulation layer that makes running Proton on ARM almost entirely possible for the full range of games that already run on Steam, which is huge. That means any ARM device can now run Steam, Proton, AND FEX without much in the way of a barrier. This brings Steam on mobile potentially into olac, MacOS back to the table…etc.
It’s not about Linux users and SteamOS singularly, but the coming expansion into the ARM space.much larger than 4-8%.
This is certainly driven by upcoming Valve hardware. I don’t think any of the smaller devices out in the wild really sell enough units to make them go this far.
Ars is owned by Conde Nast who has multiple whistleblowers saying AI is being forced on them. Think that’s kind of relevant.
Then maybe they shouldn’t be using these tools in the first place. Other Conde Nast employees have already been blowing the whistle about this, which is funny because they sued all the AI companies for stealing content.
Whether there is a news article about it or not, these shitty tools are being shoved down everyone’s throats. From developers, to authors.
The problem with your attitude towards this is that these companies are forcing “AI” down everyone’s throat. It’s a requirement now to churn out more bullshit than humanly possible.
This person was simply fired because they didn’t catch the false information, and not because they used the tools forced upon them.
Guess it depends on the theme. MacOS had it since OSX. FVWM back in the day. Just changes from time to time. If I’m in a bright ass room, sometimes it can be more comfortable.
I’m pretty sure you just have an old and degraded disc.
Not sure what the actual question is here, but if the files are there, the filesystem is mounted properly using hfsplus, and you can read the files, then any incompatible characters will be properly substituted, and the files can be copied.
Your friend will just have to put some work into properly renaming then afterward.
That’s not an actual OS. It’s an app-backed secure storage device more than anything. The app you launch on your devices accesses whatever you have on the thumb device and runs it on your phone. Mostly just marketing, but certainly not an actual self-contained OS.
Literally doesn’t matter
Sorry to say, but no, it’s the most problem solution.
I won’t even get into the details, but it’s like a heart replacement, and there are many issues by simple swapping packages from the default in this sense. Everything is shipped expecting whatever distro defaults, and just swapping things out doesn’t work that easily.
It sounds like you probably had issues with specific apps that didn’t properly support Wayland, and you couldn’t tell the difference between the entire composition environment, and a single app having issues because it only support X11.
Wait, huh? Where’d you get this idea from?
Good to know!
Literally anything. There is no functional difference between distros at almost any level but package management anymore. This honestly sounds like an environment and driver problem to me.
What’s your hardware set look like?
Hit ALT+F2 or F3 to see if you get a console. Make sure your GPU drivers are installed and loading with nvidia-smi. Blacklist the Nouveau driver if necessary.
Solid point on the “single purpose” nature of some devices, but that’s also the legalese going to work here in that “Depends what the meaning of IS, is” sort of way 🤣
Making laws with vague definitions will get challenged, as you point out.
Classic