You don’t want a Steam Deck maraca

LOL.

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Quoting: pleasereadthemanualCounter-point: streaming.

The early, more comprehensive, catalogue of Netflix wasn't because they'd cornered the market, it was because they were small. The rights holders just got free money for doing nothing. It was only when Netflix got bigger that those same rights holders worked out that they could get more money by rolling their own streaming service that had exclusive access to their content, or by playing the different streaming services against each other with exclusive contracts. The issue is the exclusivity - the monopoly. The music industry has compulsory licensing: people get to use your music and you get a royalty (whether the specific implementation is good or not is outside of the scope of it being a solution that exists). Video streaming will need similar, or at least regulation to prevent exclusivity, if video streaming services are to be able to compete. Far from being the solution - as you're arguing - monopoly is the problem.

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Quoting: EikeI was thinking about the same (and after this kind of support, I will buy the game either way).
Do you already have an idea for which age this might be suitable?

My little one's 6, and I'm sure it'll be fine for him now. It's just that he's got a lot of other games on the go already and needs to fit in a bunch of other real-life stuff too, so I'm holding off on revealing it to him till he's got a bit more time. He does particularly like puzzles, though: he completed The Talos Principle a few years ago.

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Sweet. I got that for my little one shortly after it released, but I've not put it in his queue yet.

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Quoting: junibegoodalthough the news seem promising, I don't think stopping Microsoft from buying Blizzard now will prevent someone else to buy it later,

This deal is for $69 billion. The largest acquisition there's ever been in the games industry was Take Two buying Zynga for $12.7 billion. No other games company could afford to buy ABK. Only a tech platforms company like Microsoft, Google or Apple.

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Quoting: ExpandingManWe don't know what the next LTS version is going to be, do we? I would stay on latest if it weren't for nvidia, but the nvidia drivers always make me nervous about updating the kernel.

Since DKMS became a thing, the Nvidia driver doesn't really care about kernel version. The module gets built against the kernel you have. Every now and then there's an issue with the driver having problems with building against a kernel that's newer than expected, but a new driver version tends to get rolled out quickly when that happens.

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The Rust support is going particularly well, since the new M1 stuff is being done in Rust and Linus himself is using an M1 machine. He said that the Rust support would have to be used so that it would actually be tested properly, and he's in a position to do that personally.

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I have more faith in the EU regulators than the FTC. The FTC (like Brazil and Microsoft fanboys) are only really considering Call Of Duty, and the effect that might have on Sony. The EU complaint is (correctly) looking at how this deal is intended to get Microsoft a tighter grip on the Windows ecosystem with the Windows Store and Game Pass, leveraging that to get their Windows Store on Android and iOS, and getting a stranglehold on the game streaming market. Sony is small beans: Microsoft could buy all of Sony Group (PlayStation, phones, TVs, record labels, film studios, and all) with just their cash on hand, just like they're doing with ABK. it's not Xbox money they're using.

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Quoting: ChronariusI'm not surprised that Ubuntu is the number one Distro on Steam. SteamOS was based on it before the switch to Arch.

It wasn't. SteamOS 1 & 2 were based on Debian. Wheezy for SteamOS 1 and Jessie for SteamOS 2.

The Steam Linux Runtime was (and is) based on Ubuntu.

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Quoting: samurroValve agrees.

Valve feel that using Arch as a starting point for their own distro is better than waiting for Debian's package approval process to conclude. You aren't making your own distro, and you aren't waiting for Debian to pick up your upstream changes. Joking or not, your "answer" is nonsense.

By your logic, everything apart from Gentoo for non-technical use is not "best". Google agrees.

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