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.
Does this mean geforce now on Linux
The “installer” is just a set of scripts. Quote from the “NVIDIA GeForce NOW” bash script:
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 https://play.geforcenow.com/
Hardly a game changer.
Why cant they properly port the thing and why not use electron like windows and mac app(Maybe their using chromium embedded framework idk)
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.
The official app for it comes later this year.