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  • The thing about the Steam runtime is it’s literally just a different way of packaging it as far as the dev cares, and overhead for containers is much smaller than a full VM, so performance impact is minimal. Containers were originally created to make cloud deployments easier to automate because all the most important dependencies are packaged and there’s a stable interface to the OS regardless of host, and it replaced heavier virtual machines for most autoscaling web apps. Doesn’t need full virtualization and or guest kernel, etc. Easy to suspend for hibernation too, which is great for portable gaming too.




  • Literally the Steam runtime is a Linux container environment with standard dependencies available for packaged applications and games

    Anything supporting the container format it uses can run it

    Containers is a method of presenting a system environment which looks the same across any computer you run it on, even if the underlying systems are wildly different, it’s like a sandbox but designed for efficiency (less resource overhead)



  • My entire point is that while there are absolute properties of spacetime, all we know are rough measurements and all our derived laws are calculated as ratios and relations between different properties, which is precisely why it’s possible to insert scaling factors in our math and change every number with no visible effect in behavior despite drastic changes under the hood.

    Like how a few physicists describe expansion of the universe as objects in the universe shrinking, and the math ends up essentially identical. Because both formulas describe the exact same ratios and proportions so the behavior is the same but the mechanics causing it is different and we can’t not tell the difference.