Neat - but who’s gaming on a Chromebook?
Steam streaming will probably work?
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#12Neat - but who’s gaming on a Chromebook?
Probably the millions of people who own/have access to one and don't have the ability to buy another computer.
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#14Neat - but who’s gaming on a Chromebook?
Probably the millions of people who own/have access to one and don't have the ability to buy another computer.
I guess I was initially thinking more resource intensive games, but there are lots of smaller games that a Chromebook could handle.
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#15I'd just stick to gaming on regular Linux. But I suppose it can be useful for arguing that Linux gaming market is expanding, so developers who like to excuse lack of Linux releases with market size will have less excuses now.
At this stage, native Linux releases are becoming less and less likely because of Value's efforts to improve gaming on Linux, as paradoxical as that seems. Proton is getting better and better with each release, and in many cases, is providing better performance than running native code on Windows. Why bother with official Linux support when you can just check that your game runs via Proton and push the burden of supp…
If Proton just becomes the "game runtime" for Linux, that's OK! It's still open source. There may come a time when Proton compatibility becomes as important or even more important than Windows compatibility for game developers. Not only might game developers start explicitly supporting Proton, they could even contribute fixes upstream, unlike with Windows.
Ultimately if it becomes popular enough, Proton could execute the embrace, extend, extinguish strategy on Windows itself. We'll know it succeeded if one day Microsoft gives up NT kernel development in favor of shipping Linux/Proton, just the way they ultimately gave up on Trident and started shipping Blink/Chromium. Today Windows is a relatively small and shrinking percentage of Microsoft's revenue so maybe it's not out of the question in a decade or two.
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#17Neat - but who’s gaming on a Chromebook?
Probably the millions of people who own/have access to one and don't have the ability to buy another computer.
While this was not stated in the linked post, other sources said it will be limited to x86 chromebooks that run 11th+ gen Intel CPUs or equivalent.
That basically limits it to models that cost >800$ making it a very niche product.
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#18Neat - but who’s gaming on a Chromebook?
Probably the millions of people who own/have access to one and don't have the ability to buy another computer.
Probably not since it requires an 11th gen i5 or better chrome book https://www.androidcentral.com/steam-for-chrome-os-supported...
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#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
Probably the millions of people who own/have access to one and don't have the ability to buy another computer.
Probably not since it requires an 11th gen i5 or better chrome book https://www.androidcentral.com/steam-for-chrome-os-supported...
This is whats frustrating to me. We're talking a small slice of most chromebooks out there.
I actually have used old chromebooks with crouton to install steam and play games. You have to pick "lightweight" games like Baldurs Gate, but it still opens up a lot of possibility.
So I had hoped maybe something could be brought to old hardware, but I guess not.