But it requires getting more of the team on Linux :)

Get them a Steam Deck and target only Steam Linux Runtime 3.

MKVToolNix has a great cropping feature that completely lossless because it just writes an information into the file how many pixels to leave out.

The massive problem since quite some time is that I’m not aware of any media player respecting this. VLC used to support it but a decade ago suddenly stopped: https://code.videolan.org/videolan/vlc/-/issues/13982

If you have the originals, maybe encode them again. HandBrake has a nice preview feature.

Not really on console-style hardware. That’s why sales of these are so low.

If that’s the intended use case of that notebook, Windows won’t be any fun.

That said, I prefer not to touch Nividia with Linux myself after some trauma a couple of years ago.

Bazzite still has experimental support for NVidia GPUs, you should use Nobara HTPC Nvidia ISO

None of the Nvidia issues are because of Bazzite. They are all because of NVidia’s drivers and those are the same everywhere. Nothing Nobara or anyone else but Nvidia can do. See https://docs.bazzite.gg/Handheld_and_HTPC_edition/quirks/#nvidia-exclusive-issues

Is Bazzite an OS that I would use, or is it a set of drivers that lets SteamOS play nice with Nvidia?

You cannot install Nvidia drivers on SteamOS without jumping through more hoops than it’s worth because the system partition is write protected. You can unprotect it but the next SteamOS update everything will be reset.

All improvements from SteamOS eventually trickle down to all mainstream desktop Linux distributions anyway, just as all Red Hat improvements trickle down to SteamOS.

Bazzite happens to be a gaming-focused distribution but you can also just get Fedora KDE and have a good time as well. I happen to like the download assistant at https://bazzite.gg/#image-picker which more distribution should adopt.

Be mindful of Nvidia drivers, should that notebook come with a GeForce GPU. SteamOS does not support Nvidia. Use Bazzite in such a case.

Are the desktop components now finally fully localized?

CLA and copyright assignment are different things. In some jurisdictions copyright assignment is impossible. That was among the clashes European FOSS contributors had with the Free Software Foundation and Richard Stallmann in the 1990s and 2000s.

MIT license already allows this, with or without CLA.

That’s why you can also take Microsoft’s MIT code and make proprietary software out of it.

No, Windows has various subsystems. This one is for Linux.

When Windows NT 3.5 launched, it came with subsystems for POSIX, OS/2, and Win32 because in the WinNT world even the Windows frameworks are a subsystem. Disclaimer: I didn’t check if in Win11 this is still the case but I guess so.

There are also distros without the corporate ties that Fedora has. For example, Mint and Mint Debian Edition

Both are literally corporate products by Linux Mint Ltd., registered in tax haven Ireland. They make money by setting their own affiliate IDs for web search etc. (money that would have gone to the upstream projects by default). At least Fedora has people working on the distribution that are actual contributors to the Linux stack.

Also, regular Mint is based on Ubuntu LTS. For gaming more recent versions of gaming-related components, mostly Mesa, are preferable to long term support. That’s also the reason stated by Valve why they switched to Arch as upstream for SteamOS after using Ubuntu and Debian before.

So my question is will we ever get a proper signal from Valve saying “Yup, it’s now fully compatible with the RoG Ally”.

I have doubts there will ever be such formal announcements for devices that don’t run SteamOS out of the box. With more OEMs deciding to ship SteamOS, for other devices will work better as a side effect.

Trump Tariffs have nothing to do with the Switch 2 prices in Europe. Everybody incl. Nintendo is just hiking prices because they can.

This is only the Steam client itself which gets updated independently of SteamOS.

Why don’t you just shut down the Deck? Unlike suspend, there is almost no battery drain. Startup isn’t that slow for it to be a chore IMO.

April Fool’s

It’s slightly different than SteamOS as it’s immutable Fedora rather than Arch.

I have yet to try Bazzite myself but as I see it, for the average user both are essentially the same, no? Launches into Steam Game Mode and Desktop Mode is the same Plasma desktop with Discover they read about in tutorials, right?

What I’d like to see is for the “real” gamepad icon to broadly match the current one in color scheme and orientation.

Edit:

My attempt. It’s a simple color swap of https://github.com/KDE/breeze-icons/blob/559782c5f5b455646d6c012fe5717057d5eb7764/icons/devices/64/input-gaming.svg

The license requires the SVG source to be shared but for whatever reason Lemmy lets me select the SVG file in the upload picker but doesn’t then upload anything, so here it is:

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I feel like Windows tries with every change to push it’s users to Linux.

Even their core applications move to being web based.

The app announced in the news post will be a native app, not just kiosk chrome wrapper.

So it’ll be CEF opening https://play.geforcenow.com/

Why would it not be some way to launch the website? As long as it’s x86-64 code, it’s technically native.