Why cant they port the thing and why not use electron like windows and mac app
Comment on Steam Deck is getting official Nvidia GeForce Now support, with HDR
woelkchen@lemmy.world 2 months agoDoes this mean geforce now on Linux
flatpak run --branch=stable --arch=x86_64 --command=/app/bin/chrome --file-forwarding com.google.Chrome @@u @@ --window-size=1024,640 --force-device-scale-factor=1.25 --device-scale-factor=1.25 --app=https://play.geforcenow.com
It’s just an icon for the Flatpak version of Google Chrome opening play.geforcenow.com
Hardly a game changer.
Mwa@lemm.ee 2 months ago
woelkchen@lemmy.world 2 months ago
why not use electron like windows and mac app
I bet that’s what they’ll be doing for the announced “native” app, so Chrome a stop-gap for the beta and the final release will have an integrated web renderer but the actual game delivery by still just opening the website.
So no idea what the fuss is about.
Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
That’s the current setup for playing Geforce Now on steam deck/linux. The app announced in the news post will be a native app, not just kiosk chrome wrapper. They also mentioned it will support HDR which currently isn’t possible with the kiosk chrome wrapper.
woelkchen@lemmy.world 2 months ago
So it’ll be CEF opening play.geforcenow.com
Why would it not be some way to launch the website? As long as it’s x86-64 code, it’s technically native.