This is my solution, as well. Let the windows application do its thing, sandboxed effectively. I’m no purist.

GTX 750 Ti was an absolute champ even for playing games at 1440p, and I would argue the GTX 1060/1050 were worth spiritual successors.

20 years ago you’re looking at an MX440, over AGP if you were lucky.

In think they had many market segments covered, even with their Shield products.

It’s clear that where they are going, tech enthusiasts/consumers won’t sustain them, though. They will have to overextend themselves in Corpo bullshit, and either behind just another nightmare conglomerate, or die trying.

That’s the thing. Steam didn’t do ANYTHING to traditional distribution channels. They all put themselves out of business, or out to pasture.

Aside, I just wanted to say that this was really pleasant. I’ve spent way too much time in the last week or so trying to share relatable and geeky experiences with these technologies, in various subreddits that really just feel like flame wars.

So this was a breath of fresh air

I use it almost daily, and it works great for anything but twitchy,online Bro Shooters. Apollo/Artemis over Tailscale runs better than Steam Remote Play // Steam Link, and they handle client resolution switching for you.

I literally just downloaded the oh Yakuza game last night to test this morning! Are you me?!? 👋🏻🤣

Seriously, I would much rather talk excitedly about all the crazy ways we get this s*** to work, and tear down people in our circles.

I’m realizing this cold November morning, that I need Lemmy to be what Reddit was 15 years ago and 10 years ago. Because I just spent the last hour responding to posts in /r/sbcgaming and /r/steam asking “why tf are we being so mean to each other?”

When we are essentially in the same teams.

Anyhow, slightly more on point, I was absolutely flabbergasted last week, to discover that I could run ‘Ghostwire: Tokyo’ on my PC at home --> ‘Moonlight’ stream it over ‘Tailscale’ --> play it on an ‘Ayn Thor’ Android handheld 450 Miles away --> ‘Chromecast’ it to the 8 years old ‘Nvidia Shield TV’ I set up in my folks living room, and play on their tv with low enough latency to actually progress my story, and the only configuration required was putting my device on the same network as the TV set top box.

This is the future I was always trying to cobble together, and honestly it feels like it would not have been possible without steam making so many of the underlying software services and links.

Thanks. I have the lite app and I’ve submitted a few compatibility reports of my own, along the way.

I really, REALLY want to get Ghostwire Tokyo working at a thing near 30fps so that I can ditch my Steam Deck and travel with just my Ayn Thor, and that’s why I’m watching the evolution of the Frame, and of this space, with baited breath.

It’s still worthwhile to stream from a more powerful computer over the Internet when service is available.

Edit: I’ll add that I have been shocked at how great a game can run on an Ayn Thor, like BioShock infinite and Batman Arkham City are both happy to hit 60fps at or above 720p. A year from now it’s plausible my 2019 games could play nice!

This gives me tremendous hope for more x86 game emulation on Android devices, because Valve have been throwing resources behind the development of FEX for emulation on ARM for the Frame.

I am absolutely convinced that my existing phone and retro gaming handheld have enough horsepower for 3D games from 6 years ago once this compatibility layers are built out a bit.

Gross oversimplification of Private vs Public. We are really taking about three kinds of ownership models, if arguing in good faith.

1. The people that are invested in the company, usually the people that built it, are at the helm.

2. The people that built it took a payout from Private Equity who now have ownership stake, and who now set the growth agenda.

3. The compant is now public, and given to the irrational whims if the ENTIRE marketplace, while at the same time primarily being at the whims of the board and the largest few investor stakeholders.

Steam has largely existed exclusively in the first category. So have most of the oldest businesses in the planet, which are often family-owned and maintained operations across generations.

🙄 first of all, I carry a very limited wallet with me most of the time, and I only have to carry a keychain when I’m in the US.

I was replying to the dismissive person above asking what to do when he loses his phone. Which is absurd in itself.

I will say that it is incredibly liberating to have my one device do almost everything else I care about, mapping, calendaring, communicating with people in meeting with, conducting my purchases, and providing podcasts or tunes all at the same time. I love that I have open source software for almost all of the functions, and well essentially all conglomerated businesses are evil, I trust Visa way more than I trust, say, Bitcoin, or BNPL vendors like Affirm, or Klarna.

I’m not going to handle cash money if I don’t have to because exchange rates are terrible and take margins at EACH transaction, are bulky, are prone to loss and are dirty, while my CC/Debit cards offer zero forex fees.

I value my privacy, and I make reasonable efforts to frustrate the algorithms’ models of me, but quit pretending we all have to be Mennonites, and purity testing your community …

Taking the CC out of the sock drawer, at home. That’s an edge case though. That’s not what we are solving for the other 99.99% of the time …

Yep. One of my friends don’t realize that he got very… Let’s say Libertarian … Very quickly.

Thanks for sharing all of this and I’ll have to take it for another spin.

Quest is a whole SOC, a beefy Snapdragon computer that has its own environment, and needs software to link it with the desktop housing SteamVR.

I’ll have to try Steam’s maybe platform and see if I can forego Virtual Desktop. Or at least dual boot

Thanks, kind stranger, and I might take you up on that, in the days ahead.

I get that it won’t be turnkey like in Windows and that I’ll probably need a Windows partition (or a dedicated system) for some time longer.

Just so we are clear, you are able to play Steam PCVR games and use the SteamVR environments on your Kubuntu system?

Added monkey wrench, I just use ‘Virtual Desktop’ for streaming 100% of my PCVR content to a Quest 3 wirelessly. I assume handling the controllers and telemetry is all software for Steam and not needing obscure system calls or api’s that will have driver complications?

'Cause in hella ignorant. Lol.

Can you please provide further analysis? Are you saying the Linux growth is more or less meaningful, and showed by regional players’ participation? Or… Something else?

And yet, here we are. What are you even doing, responding to everyone on this group, if you just want to do work and just want to use Windows?

How is this informative, edifying or fun for you?

Bazzite feels so close to feature complete, but there are still corners I stub my toes on.

I have to care about whatever Wayland is, because RustDesk on Bazzite fights me (it’s my backup for remoting to fix a machine when moonlight or Steam Link is misbehaving), and I miss Steam PCVR hosting, but both of those are edge cases for most folks and I can forego on most systems.

Meanwhile, the lean, light, singularly focused environment is great and I really do like not having to bother with Windows. I never want Edge to barge in on my day again. I will never subscribe to OneDrive. I don’t want an AI companion modem Bonzai Buddy to “help” me remember anything, and memorize my SSN or Birthday along the way.

Can you do me a favor and block me, too? Please? Because I’m also tired of your vitriol and just want to talk about how much I like gaming in Bazzite and on my Steam Deck.

The things that keeps me coming back to Windows in my gaming rig is mostly VR, which I haven’t been able to get working on Bazzite.

Though I steam my games with Apollo/Moonlight to Mac’s and handhelds, so I rarely need to look at Windows at all.