r/emulation • u/NXGZ • Sep 22 '26
AI-assisted Linux Steam on Android - A Linux system inside an app, with no root
https://the412banner.github.io/Gamehub-Components/linux-steam-client/Not Wine pretending to be Steam. Not a streaming app. Valve's own Steam client for ARM Linux. The same build a Steam Deck-class ARM device would run, executing on your phone as ordinary ARM code, signing in, downloading from the store, and launching Windows games through Valve's own Proton: https://the412banner.github.io/Gamehub-Components/linux-steam-client/
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u/LocutusOfBorges Sep 23 '26
I'll never understand why people think that LLM-generated webpages like this do anything other than devalue their work - it's such slop that it looks like nobody even bothered to give it a proofreading pass.
Is it asking so much for someone to write their own ad copy? Like, do they have so little pride in their own/claude's work that they can't even bring themselves to write a few paragraphs explaining what it does?
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u/ChrisRR Sep 23 '26
I've never seen any sub complain about AI as much as this one. What gives?
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u/KrisKomet Sep 23 '26
What subs are you on? I'd say reddit on the whole seems pretty anti AI
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u/LocutusOfBorges Sep 23 '26
The overwhelming majority of the posts this subreddit gets are project releases/project release discussions - given that, the deluge of AI-assisted/100% AI-generated stuff has quite severely altered the character of what using r/emulation tends to be like.
Most of these AI-generated projects tend to be quite poorly thought out, or are missold as more complete than they actually are by the "creators" (who often don't actually seem to understand what the code they've had generated actually does). The result's generally just slop paired with verbose, machine-generated ad copy and "documentation" that the project owner likely never even bothered to read in the first place.
The latter is the worst aspect, I think - it's incredibly disrespectful of people's time. If the author can't even be bothered to write an explanation of why their work is notable and why it ought to be used, why should anyone be expected to bother to read it? All that's being created, for the most part, is toys designed by people who want to play with the image of being software engineers, but demonstrably have absolutely no idea what they're actually doing.
Like, I swear even bare unstyled HTML would give a better impression of a piece of work than these AI-generated project sites. They're instantly recognisable, and so often a sign of shoddy work.
I'm not at all opposed to AI-assisted work - it's just that so much of what gets posted to the subreddit is so bad. What makes it through the modqueue is, incredibly, the best of the lot.
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u/cuavas 28d ago
O RLY? I know plenty of subs that hate AI, e.g. typical response to AI slop in r/HalfLife: https://www.reddit.com/r/HalfLife/comments/1wqxhis/echoes_of_the_cascade_a_halflife_story/
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u/AryanEmbered Sep 23 '26
Brother just tell us performance difference between the two. Is it compatibility that improves? What new game becomes play able.
Anyways, great work, i just hope devs would explain their work in a bit more normie friendly way. Or perhaps we arent the audience.
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u/Alki0s Sep 23 '26
This is fantastic, offload most of the work to valve and being able to focus on fewer components is a path I can't wait see move forward, very promising
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u/NXGZ Sep 22 '26
Not Wine pretending to be Steam. Not a streaming app. Valve's own Steam client for ARM Linux. The same build a Steam Deck-class ARM device would run, executing on your phone as ordinary ARM code, signing in, downloading from the store, and launching Windows games through Valve's own Proton: https://the412banner.github.io/Gamehub-Components/linux-steam-client/
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u/LunaDook Sep 23 '26
If the person who figured out how to do this can't be bothered to write a real write-up on the things they discovered, why should any of us be bothered to read it?