Foxlet @FoxletFox

The ears absolutely help! foxlet.furcode.co Earth Joined July 2013

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Foxlet @FoxletFox

2 months ago

@MalditoMP @jimkoutso2008 you joke but I'm definitely keeping my AMD setup, am glad that more folks will have access to Linux though :)

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Foxlet @FoxletFox

2 months ago

imagine SteamOS with no AMD in sight (it's NVIDIA😅) (with help from @jimkoutso2008)

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2 months ago

@Sezamn_ @jimkoutso2008 emulators are definitely an edge-case for driver conformancy, regular games are far more forgiving, plus the good thing is that in either case it doesn't crash :)

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@valeradx @valerieslop @QuantumV3 it'd be better to say that nvk is the Vulkan abstraction layer that generates commands that an NVIDIA GPU would expect, while nova is what actually resides in the kernel and sets up hardware/queues up commands from nvk... nvk works with either nouveau or nova as the kernel driver

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Foxlet @FoxletFox

2 months ago

the first signs of SteamOS on NVIDIA are materializing now that nvk is being included in recent builds of SteamOS 3.9.x (as of a few days ago) 👀

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Foxlet @FoxletFox

2 months ago

@jimkoutso2008 for context, Valve started including the open source nvk driver with SteamOS as of a few days ago; this is after the announcement that they're working on NVIDIA support in the background, and it seems that they are indeed making good on that promise

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2 months ago

@OyasumiBastet @jimkoutso2008 yea, it's very much in the realm of a technology demo; the desktop works great but games absolutely need a ton of work (and tuning) before it's ready for prime time

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Foxlet @FoxletFox

2 months ago

@pixel_brush @jimkoutso2008 the 3.9.x image data is up on steamdeck-images.steamos.cloud/steamdeck/2026…, but if you just wanna try it on an internal/external SSD, then write gofile.io/d/Yu5Qqw with rufus or dd or win32imager to a drive and boot it, pretty simple

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Foxlet @FoxletFox

2 months ago

love the homage to vgui in the Inkterface app (the Linux-side companion that serves stats to the eink display for Steam Machines)

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Foxlet @FoxletFox

2 months ago

@d3_crescentia @ujicosnail this was all that was posted iirc

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Foxlet @FoxletFox

2 months ago

@Fancy2209Real the Steam client proper is the recently released arm64 native build, yea

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Foxlet @FoxletFox

2 months ago

still very early but finally got SteamOS (Holo) running on ARM64 (on Snapdragon 778G-based hardware!) kudos to Valve for finally putting it out there 👀

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Foxlet @FoxletFox

2 months ago

@fzorbie @shrub706 it's based on an upcoming official port of Arch to aarch64, there's a private fork being worked on between Arch maintainers, Collabora, and Valve, that has not been upstreamed yet

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Foxlet @FoxletFox

2 months ago

@SadlyItsBradley it's fundamentally different from Proton in that performance degradation is a lot harder to run into (compared to having to replace every WinNT syscall with an equivalent, and then additional replacement APIs on top)

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Foxlet @FoxletFox

2 months ago

@SadlyItsBradley I wouldn't call it a translation layer so much as it is an entire "system container" with Android libraries inside... both Android and desktop Linux run on the arm64 Linux kernel so there isn't exactly much of anything *to* translate, all the Android bits coexist in its own box

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Foxlet @FoxletFox

2 months ago

@wreckmyshit afaik the SM6475 doesn't have a mainline Linux port, your best bet would be to check against one of the SoCs in this list linux-msm.github.io/mainline-statu…

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Foxlet @FoxletFox

2 months ago

@CyberStudios808 @RetroHandhelds yes, Adreno is well supported by Mesa (Valve's preferred graphics stack) and the browser experience (in Firefox at least) is pretty much the same as with other contemporary PCs

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Foxlet @FoxletFox

4 months ago

@intlinux That's not going to do very much without setting up SteamRT 3c ARM and running Proton with sRT4 for games. This is something I've already gotten working and you should check out SadlyItsBradley's server if you want to see out all the development work being done rn