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Latest SteamOS Beta Now Includes Ntsync Kernel Driver

89 pointsby LorenDByesterday at 4:27 PM34 commentsview on HN

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saidinesh5yesterday at 6:56 PM

If anyone from Valve is reading this, my biggest wishlist from Steam OS is a proper general purpose browsing tab. Please make it happen ..

I currently use that web browser from Decky loader, but that keeps breaking so often. Plus it would be nice to have something that i can login my YouTube, Netflix etc.. accounts ..

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CodesInChaosyesterday at 7:59 PM

Explanation of what this kernel API does and why it's beneficial:

https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/f4cc1a38-1441-62f8-47e4-0c67f5a...

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p10ayesterday at 5:53 PM

Can you please explain like 5 year old what it means to players?

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shmerlyesterday at 7:03 PM

Nice. I've been using ntsync with Wine for a while since Wine merged the support. It works better than esync, especially for Cyberpunk 2077.

2OEH8eoCRo0yesterday at 8:46 PM

Still no 64 bit steam client?

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cyberaxyesterday at 8:42 PM

BTW, this driver is genuinely useful even for Linux code. WaitForMultipleObjects is super-helpful if you want to do sane thread cancellation without jumping through POSIX hoops.