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And how do you go about that? Do you adjust your window size and extensions on a site-by-site basis?

I have a reasonable amount of faith in Valve. I think their rising tide lifts Linux as a whole, so that’s good.

I doubt Valve would back of from the openness

Not on the short term, but who knows. If SteamOS becomes a major player in the PC space, at a post-GabeN Valve–

But that will take many more years, if ever it does happen. I do think it is a legitimate reason to be somewhat cautious.

Maybe. As it stands Valve is rather open with their implementation, but who’s to say it will remain indefinitely so.

I do get the desire, though. I’ve gone to Bazzite and Fedora and – even though it’s a lot better than just a year ago – it still requires some commandline tweaking. It isn’t entirely smooth sailing yet.
Will SteamOS be? I do have some doubts.

Especially with microsoft seemingly giving up on (gaming) hardware

Those companies aren’t exactly releasing consumer-facing distro’s, though.

If you want to play just controller games, this one is probably overkill and maybe a bit bulky. I guess the HD haptics are neat.

Then again, it likely won’t be any more expensive than the scam amount of money microsoft charges for their basic, non-HAL effect, non-gyro, basic haptics controllers.

Valve has only made mention of streaming bandwidth, nothing about the game being rendered (like how PSVR2 does it). As it stands it won’t do anything for the GPU performance.
Maybe there’s some sort of API games will be able to hook into, I seriously hope so.

Not necessarily.

Ubisoft might argue that it will open up another attack vector, with isn’t entirely unreasonable. But they could support it.

They’d certainly have fewer.

I can’t say having to fiddle around with Proton versions is exactly intuitive, though it has gotten better since last I tried it a year or so ago.

It is still not quite as smooth as it is on Windows, and I have tech-normie friends who want to do nothing more than download and press play.

BattlEye supports Linux, Ubisoft doesn’t.

EasyAntiCheat and BattlEye both support Linux/Proton, though not all devs have enabled/updated it.

I shall make a donation once again

I don’t think their recent drop is because of that video. Just personally curious, whether I should try to watch again as I did enjoy some of their output.

But if Nick leaves it unaddressed I guess I won’t.

Clean your URL’s, please.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=FGW3TPytTjc

I stopped watching Second Wind after Frost’s video.

Did they ever address it?

That’s from way back when. They shut production for a week, reassessed how they make things, and came back with the promise to be more thorough and not release a video when it’s just not done that day. And they have “missed” some days since.

They’ve got to keep their profit margins, or the CEO’s and shareholders might need to take a paycut.

That’s not what he said??