u/notfromhere

So beta branch is their development branch. But who is doing the testing and where? If they have automated testing, the coverage sucks and they need better regression testing and to ideally follow test driven development where they add tests for every bug they fix.

Do you want to run on beta to see if they fixed some issue you have, but they broke something else that’s not broken on mainline? I’ve been there, done that. The reason there’s so many fixes lately is because they’re gearing up for Deckard release. I see no evidence that their development and testing practices have changed, and they need to or we’ll be right back where we were for the last several years of minor update breaking something major and not fixing it for months/ years.

I won’t ever trust valve with VR until they change their development practices. They push out untested changes. Things sit broken for days, weeks, years. Where the fuck is the testing?

It can for sure. Biggest challenges come from 3rd party app launchers because it chains the application and can “confuse” Steam remote play especially if you make use of the Steam input mapping. If that’s a concern, see if you can launch the game without the separate app launcher (if that’s applies) or just deal with the limitations. This is a few years old knowledge so maybe it’s improved since then but I doubt it.

It looks like they ran Linux apps inside a virtual machine on an Android phone. That has been possible for a long time now. That is certainly a route Valve could go down, but it won’t be a very good user experience.

The difference there is it likely builds on the work they did for the Steam Deck and SteamOS. Writing a full Steam client for iOS or Android would be a huge amount of work independently from that.

Honestly, I would back up all of your downloads, documents, pictures, videos, browser history/passwords/bookmarks, and anything else you want to save to an external drive or to The Cloud (or multiple, e.g., most/all browsers have a sync function, and OneDrive/Google Drive/Dropbox, etc.), and then download and test drive multiple different distros until you find one that you like and has good community support. Nearly all distros today will let you test it out without installing (kind of a try before you buy). Once you find one, install it while wiping the Windows install, then load your graphics drivers and Steam. Steam will handle the rest as far as running your games (some caveats apply, i.e., some multiplayer games will not work because the developers are assholes).

I always called that a `soft brick` when it could still power on, but couldn’t load the main operating system, but it could receive a reinstall of the system.

`Hard brick` was the one where it was permanently disabled either from not able to power on or was incapable of reloading the main OS without essentially “brain surgery” of the device.

I guess brick could extend to broken components until a reboot (such as a broke WiFi driver or such). What type of “brick” would it be? How about `glitch brick`?

Charts like that are great, I love to see them. However, they need to have a year for the inflation-adjusted dollars else it’s nearly meaningless when referred back to.

Valheim actually has a decent sail simulator.

Yes, I have definitely noticed the enshittification. Hopefully it reverses.

I don’t know about pay, but the changes to the Steam store have definitely had an impact from what I can see. As a consumer, I have a hard time finding anything new or obscure. Their old store had much better controls for that (still there if you know where to look). So for exposure of devs on the store, I think Valve is either playing games or are incompetent these days, unfortunate either way.