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As per [1]: > “We worked closely with Valve and the Xbox Cloud Gaming team to bring support for Xbox Cloud Gaming (Beta) with Xbox Game Pass Ultimate through M

As per [1]: > “We worked closely with Valve and the Xbox Cloud Gaming team to bring support for Xbox Cloud Gaming (Beta) with Xbox Game Pass Ultimate through Microsoft Edge Beta for the Steam Deck,” says Missy Quarry, a community manager for Microsoft Edge. Then there is a tweet which links to this reddit post. That reddit post has you install the Microsoft Edge flatpak. If you search using DDG or Google for "edge runs on steam deck", you will see that there are multiple news articles reporting on how Microsoft has worked with Valve to get Edge running on the Steam Deck. All of these use the flatpak mentioned in the post. I can absolutely see why the author of the flatpak would want at least some attribution instead of Microsoft announcing that they alone have gotten Edge running on the deck. Also, it is worth it to read the Wikipedia page on flatpak if you don't understand what flatpak is. It is a really important technology if you want to understand why the author is mad. [1] : https://www.reddit.com/r/MicrosoftEdge/comments/th77w9/microsoft_edge_beta_the_browser_for_xbox_cloud/ https://www.reddit.com/r/MicrosoftEdge/comments/th77w9/micro... [2] : https://www.reddit.com/r/MicrosoftEdge/comments/th77w9/microsoft_edge_beta_the_browser_for_xbox_cloud/ https://www.reddit.com/r/MicrosoftEdge/comments/th77w9/micro...

jahewson 5y ago
None of those sources back up your claim. They all say that Microsoft has worked with Valve to get Xbox Cloud Gaming working on the Steam Deck and that this work utilises Edge. They also imply that Edge Beta includes explicit support for the Steam Deck controls, but I was not able to verify that. If so, then that would presumably be what Valve and the MS Edge team were collaborating on.
ViViDboarder 5y ago
One thing in noticed is that they say to install “Microsoft Edge Beta”, but the author seems to maintain “Microsoft Edge” on Flathub. Maybe I’m not following how releases work on Flathub, but is it possible that Microsoft actually does have a Beta version that they are publishing for the Deck?
- kirbyfan64sos 5y ago
  The Edge Flatpak discussed in this post is on the Flathub Beta channel, and I have confirmation that the only Flatpak repos on the Deck are Flathub stable and beta. I.e. there is no other Edge Flatpak. Even if there were, it would have to rely on either the Flatpak Chromium's downstream patches or Zypak anyway (unless they used --no-sandbox, which would be awful).

jahewson 5y ago

None of those sources back up your claim. They all say that Microsoft has worked with Valve to get Xbox Cloud Gaming working on the Steam Deck and that this work utilises Edge. They also imply that Edge Beta includes explicit support for the Steam Deck controls, but I was not able to verify that. If so, then that would presumably be what Valve and the MS Edge team were collaborating on.

ViViDboarder 5y ago

One thing in noticed is that they say to install “Microsoft Edge Beta”, but the author seems to maintain “Microsoft Edge” on Flathub. Maybe I’m not following how releases work on Flathub, but is it possible that Microsoft actually does have a Beta version that they are publishing for the Deck?

kirbyfan64sos 5y ago
The Edge Flatpak discussed in this post is on the Flathub Beta channel, and I have confirmation that the only Flatpak repos on the Deck are Flathub stable and beta. I.e. there is no other Edge Flatpak. Even if there were, it would have to rely on either the Flatpak Chromium's downstream patches or Zypak anyway (unless they used --no-sandbox, which would be awful).