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I bought Steam games and a Steam Deck just to support Valve... and I'm not really a gamer. However, the Deck has turned out to be a pretty good computing device.
I was thinking of doing this - how do you like it? How's coding on it?
Linus at DebConf 2014 https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=310&v=Pzl1B7nB9Kc&feature=yo... >I’m on a record saying, that maybe Valve will actually save the Linux desktop. And it’s actually not because I think games are important! I don't care, I don't play games. I think some people do, so games maybe important. But the really important issue is I guarantee you Valve will not make 15 different binaries. And I also guarant…
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Nix is effectively transforming dynamic binaries to static ones. Might as well skip the step, stop pretending that drive space is expensive, and link everything statically.
Huh, never heard it put this way. I guess it's true though. Anyone disagree?
But multiple derivations can share dependencies, which does save space and also makes it easy to identify dependencies of a given derivation, where statically linking would make that opaque.
Also, the story goes way beyond binaries, as dependencies often carry additional resources not bundled into the binary.
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They actually did in the past, but they've realised that many game devs can't be trusted to maintain Linux builds as a second platform. They're often left outdated, require dependencies they didn't ship with or simply have worse performance than the Windows builds running on Proton. These days they check both builds if available and suggest the devs which one to use by default; often the Windows builds over Proton ar…
The same devs that most likely are also shipping Playstation or Android versions of their game....
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Id rather have static binaries than a flatpak/snap for "universal distribution", personally.
Given the choice I prefer native package -> AUR package -> AppImage -> Flatpack, in that order. (snap, you'll notice, is absent) Arch is pretty good at making the native packages work, so that's always ideal. The community is generally pretty good at competently packaging AURs, and they'll do it for slightly less free things, so that fills a lot of gaps. AppImages and Flatpaks are great when they work, but opaque and…
Is Valve the only company in the world that is not universally hated by the HN and reddit crowd?
There are many. Mozilla isn’t universally hated. Apple is another. I’d say Valve comes close to being universally loved here, though, and that is pretty unique.
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Many games rarely update, though. They put out the original version, and then maybe a few patches to fix game-breaking bugs, and then that's how they exist from then on. If you're expecting them to update to address vulnerabilities, you're going to be very disappointed. That said, if the library changes the API or functionality at all, dynamic linking is going to break the game, and that's not good either. So gamedev…
For single-player games, I doubt it matters if there are unpatched vulnerabilities.
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Right now I'm stuck with nVidia's Jetson line of products which is vendor-locked to Ubuntu. The problem is that while you can extend them with a large SSD drive, these products have a really small disk used for /. I could run another OS inside a Docker container, all to avoid this limitation in snap, but of course things will not become prettier.
You can change the root parameter in extlinux.conf to point to whatever block storage you want it to Or reconfigure U-Boot to load extlinux.conf (and the kernel image, initrd, etc) entirely from other type of media. IIRC NVMe, USB and external SDs are all supported