Snipping The Steam Snap

Installing Steam isn’t a Snap! WINE 9.0 enables 64-bit goodness, Left 4 Dead gets a mysterious security update, experimental Nintendo Switch emulator Ryujinx goes the (expletive deleted) to sleep, and Linux needs more 3D brawlers.

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Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
00:28 Facebook live sucks
01:22 $5 milkshakes
03:58 The $5 milkshake USB capture card
05:51 Darkest Dolls
06:26 Revisiting New World
STEMS NEWS
08:07 Stop using Steam Snaps
NEW GAMES
11:45 Orc’s Bride
15:39 Mysterious Left 4 Dead security updates
17:33 The TF2 Penguin
19:00 Team Fortress 2 64-bit?
NEWS
22:42 WINE 9.0
27:00 Our ARM-y future PCs
28:43 Fresh Lutris action
30:13 Lutris syncs time with Steam
31:58 Ryujinx power efficiency
40:03 Epic working on a Linux debugger
HATE MAIL
44:26 Thanks for playing my game
46:01 AV1 works on Linux!?

Colour key – Venn Jordan Pedro

Steam: News

Steam Snap

Please don’t use the steam snap. Timo and I implore you
I mean, I’d just like you, viewer, to not use snaps in general
But in this case it’s cuz not being officially supported, it has some issues that aren’t really Valve’s problem
Canonical forcing their technologies down everyone’s throats by replacing debs with metapackages that just install the snaps is something that I expected would cause a lot more furore.
This is the Linux community.
This where SystemD was the fucking devil and pulseaudio caused almost two decades worth of sound not working in Linux jokes.
But somehow snaps don’t even deserve the mockery?
That stupid little lowercase folder is still fucking stupid, though!
Snap issues need to be filed with Canonical first, then you can file the bug report if it’s an issue with Steam.
Granted, that’s never going to happen.
And Flatpak is not a great alternative either, it’s merely less worse.

Steam: New Games

Orc’s Bride

The supposed in game footage has folks just doing roundhouse kicks and backflips in the background for no reason
We don’t normally get 3D brawlers natively on linux so this is something.
System requirements are a steam deck
Fight the concept of arranged marriages. Literally
Does this turn into a hentai game?
It uses the porn game assets, it has the porn game name, but it doesn’t seem to be a porn game?
It’s a bad sign when the one review was a freebie and it’s negative.
Apparently some gamepad presses will kick you out of the game?
This has all the love and attention to detail I’ve come to expect from cexy games.
Then again, it’s getting updates and they read like someone learning how to make a game.

Steam: Game Updates

Left 4 Hax

Vague update is vague.
Not one, but several vulnerabilities and exploits have been fixed.
I didn’t see anything publicly disclosed on hackerone.

64-TF 2

Neat, I guess?
64-bit Steam client confirmed!
The bots don’t have to worry about running out of memory.
Can we gets some native Vulkan?

News:

Wine Nine

Wow 64 😀
Reduced OpenGL performance >:(
The PE conversion is finally done though.
That took em what, a good 5-6 years?
Being able to run in a pure 64 bit environment is gonna be huge.
I wonder what the upstream impacts for something like ARM x86 emulation.
- Saves you having to juggle between box86 and box64
Native wayland rendering becomes a lot more important in the age of handheld gaming consoles using gamescope and Proton..
DirectShow decoding for MPeG-1 and WMV, means a lot more game cutscenes might just work out of the box without having to wrangle MFPlat

Lupis 15

Expand “System” tab in Preferences with more system information but less brown.
Some progress on HIDPI wayland bug hunting.
I know Strider’s been pulling his hair out dealing with it
Uninstall will completely nuke the game now
You can pin your version of wine per game now, but no support 4 u
Version 0.5.16 is already out to address some issues with 5.15
Playtimes now sync with Steam.

We have YUZU at home

Yeah, Zelda being playable on day 1 was more a factor of the early leaks giving devs the opportunity to finetune things for both Ryujinx and Yuzu.
But yeah, that list of games working on day one is by no means less impressive.
Nanosleep, son.
Lin/Mac CPU usage and power draw benefit from it.
efficiency gains with Tears of the Kingdom, Red Dead Redemption and Breath of the Wild
Seeing 15-20% shifts, and Pokémon Violet with a 75% reduction.
Better battery life and less frequency throttling on your Valve Switch.

Epic debugging