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This brings me back to Indie Game: The Movie, where Edmund and Tommy were a big part of it, and I think Edmund talked about Mewgenics after the success of the movie and Super Meat Boy. Nice to see it getting a release soon.

Quite some nostaliga coming up... as back then Linux gaming was very special, with Humble Indie Bundle being a major source of native Linux games.

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I wouldn't care for ray tracing, but as the negative reviews mostly are due to performance, some scaling might help

There is TSR and adaptive scaling in the native version, but yea kinda weird that they did not add FSR or DLSS.

I believe the Linux version uses software ray tracing on the higher graphic settings, but I have to compare to the Windows version more to be sure.

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Yes, one in each hand, rest your hands wherever: on your lap, on the back of the couch, to either side of your body, on top of your head. It's very comfortable and freeing and makes gyro mouse very simple.
At risk of exaggeration, the "tyranny of controller design" locks out hands together and our shoulders and arms in a certain position. Split joycons like these permit you to adopt any comfortable position you like. No shoulder or elbow strain!

Don't get me wrong, the general idea of a controller that's half in each hand seems like a perfectly good idea. But those specific things do not look like they are designed to be ergonomic when used that way.

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I'm a little unclear what you're supposed to do with the controller bits once you pull them off. Do you stick them together? That would be weirdly narrow. Do you just use them as separate bits, one in each hand? I feel like they'd shift weirdly in your hands while you were trying to use them. I don't get it.

So, you typically lay on your belly like a snake, with your elbows rested on a pillow in front of the TV with the controller docked, showing your ass crack off from having your pants a bit too low for comfort. Extra points for wearing a beer hat with a straw feeding you your favorite creatine supplement drink, enabling you to gather the arm strength to one day hold the controller above your head like your bench pressing two whole steam decks for 45 minuets. Only then will you be able to say " I have conquered the Legion "

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No lore? But I wanna crash into a yeti.
The demo was pretty good and relaxing (ran great on deck) but I hope they push the limits more in the final release and future updates.
I just like the fact theres a first person view for driving with.

I'd love to see it have seasons and be a little animal crossing engaging.
Er old animal crossing not the new one with all the grind and animals defaulting to only happy.

Just wanna drive and get to know the locals, and the spooks.

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I'm a little unclear what you're supposed to do with the controller bits once you pull them off. Do you stick them together? That would be weirdly narrow. Do you just use them as separate bits, one in each hand?

Yes, one in each hand, rest your hands wherever: on your lap, on the back of the couch, to either side of your body, on top of your head. It's very comfortable and freeing and makes gyro mouse very simple.
At risk of exaggeration, the "tyranny of controller design" locks out hands together and our shoulders and arms in a certain position. Split joycons like these permit you to adopt any comfortable position you like. No shoulder or elbow strain!

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Hey it has a nice trackpad! The pricing sucks. Nobody wants handhelds to go the way of cellphones towards the $2100 flagship prices. The attraction of these from the get-go was being less than half the price of a gaming laptop with better ergonomics.

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I could get into this.

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Nothing strange going on, huh? Can't put my finger on why, but somehow I don't trust these people's promise.

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So you're going through hell, trying to arrange to end up in Poland in the 1980s. I'm not sure I see this as a big payoff.

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I'm a little unclear what you're supposed to do with the controller bits once you pull them off. Do you stick them together? That would be weirdly narrow. Do you just use them as separate bits, one in each hand? I feel like they'd shift weirdly in your hands while you were trying to use them. I don't get it.

Also, this thing costs how much?! And all you get for your expense is a thing running a crappy Windows interface?

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Cool, fuck technofascist CEOs. *cough* Musk. *cough*

Hang 'em high, I say! ✊

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Because SteamOS is not a desktop OS period. It's a dedicated for-gaming OS. The reason Bazzite gets brought up is because it's closest thing to SteamOS that is infact for-desktop.

Why do you think Raichiori would be searching for something else than a dedicated for-gaming OS when asking about SteamOS?

And Comandante Ñoñardo made clear they were talking about a PC box, not a PC dedicated to desktop application use.

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..can someone please explain to me why no matter where I am on the internet, whether it reddit or gaming on Linux, there are people who try to shove Bazzite down your throat every time you mention SteamOS?emojiemoji

Because SteamOS is not a desktop OS period. It's a dedicated for-gaming OS. The reason Bazzite gets brought up is because it's closest thing to SteamOS that is infact for-desktop.

It's good that some knowledgeable people are correcting the false hype created by posers around SteamOS in online discussions. Maybe one day we won't see those "once SteamOS releases for desktop, I'm switching over!1!1!1!!"

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When I said desktops, I mean the typical PC you can assemble at home, like the original SteamOS was.

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...can someone please explain to me why no matter where I am on the internet, whether it reddit or gaming on Linux, there are people who try to shove Bazzite down your throat every time you mention SteamOS?

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The title is likely a reference to Don't Invent the Torment Nexus.

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Hard pass. I want my handheld to be as cheap as possible. I already have a PC to play more demanding games; I just stream them to my Steam Deck if it can't run them locally or when I dock my Steam Deck to play in my living room.

Edit: It doesn't mean that I wouldn't like my Steam Deck to be more powerful, It just means that I'm not willing to pay a premium for that.

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I totally agree, this pricing is the wrong direction. I tend to use mostly low-power demanding games on my deck, because if i go for big 3D games, i tend to prefer my laptop anyway.
That is why i love these tiny retro-emulation handhelds (like the miyoo mini etc) next to my other stuff - they are so ridiculously cheap and light, i literally can take them with my wherever i am. Doing a handheld with the weight and price of a gaming-capable laptop should have a hard time finding a decent niche.

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The native Linux version sadly does not support Ray Tracing, dlss, fsr or xess like the Windows version does.

From what I remember XESS never got a Linux release. Just a Windows DLL. The other things are baffling though. Trying to make a proper Linux version is appreciated. But it should at least be comparable to the Windows version.
Also, I wish Valve forced Proton on games with bad/unsupported Linux versions. It can give a bad impression when some games perform horribly just because it runs the worse version.

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The native Linux version sadly does not support Ray Tracing, dlss, fsr or xess like the Windows version does.

I wouldn't care for ray tracing, but as the negative reviews mostly are due to performance, some scaling might help here...

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Last time I checked they were targeting 23.0 for fully functional Wayland session. So, in about a year.

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The native Linux version sadly does not support Ray Tracing, dlss, fsr or xess like the Windows version does.

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The detachable controllers are a silly gimmick and the layout of the controls is stupid.

Detachable controls are great for say some Mario Cart with two players on the Switch.

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They'd have turned off the machine.

https://d2nzqyyfd6k6c7.cloudfront.net/have_you_tried_turning_it_off_and_on_again.gif


for some reason i can't embed a picture :/

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2.02 pounds

That's 916 g. Which is quite a lot. The Deck OLED is 640 g, for comparison.

8.8" WUXGA (1920×1200) OLED

That's something I'd be interested in for the Deck 2 - assuming the performance to drive that resolution is there by then. Text legibility has been an issue for some games on the Deck, and game devs often don't test their games at resolutions lower than 1080p.

The lack of trackpads on this machine is a major disadvantage when it comes to playing PC games. Does it even have gyro? The detachable controllers are a silly gimmick and the layout of the controls is stupid.

Having USB sockets both top and bottom probably gives some flexibility for use cases without having to be docked.

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 Sadly though, Desktop Linux PCs are still limited with lower resolutions and bitrates.
Even on the official Steam Deck app?

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And still no beta version for desktops ¬¬

SteamOS is not meant for desktops (and most likely never will be), it's a very specialized operating system that only officially supports 2 handhelds. It's missing a ton of stuff you'd expect a regular desktop OS to have (like Nvidia drivers, printing support etc...). If you're looking for one, this is not it, you'd be better off with something like Bazzite that was inspired by SteamOS, but unlike the latter it works on nearly everything:tm: including virtually all x86 handhelds

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Z2 Extreme (and Z2 even more so) is a bad joke, 10-20% better performance than Z1 Extreme in games. It's not even RDNA4 so it can't use FSR4 upscaling. Lenovo you learn nothing from Valve. Don't just make a whole new device just for the sake of making a new one. There needs to be ACTUALLY A MEANINGFUL PERFORMANCE BENEFIT for people to even bother with a new handheld especially when it's so extremely expensive. Sorry Lenovo but ~+5fps in games for a new chip, that's absolutely not worth it at all. The Z2E is still made on the same 4nm mode and uses the same TDP than Z1E which explains the meager uplift. Basically the only benefit that it has over Z1E is 4 more graphics compute units.

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I'm very surprised!

By having such a graphical intense game native on Linux nowadays in the first place,
by it being an Unreal Engine game, which we have not seen many native games on,
and by it being from Bloober Team, who had their last native game, Layers of Fear, back in 2016!

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