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Quoting: AnzaThey fixed lot of issues later and while Safari is more of an open core project, the Webkit engine is usable outside Safari. It just isn't very popular, people are mostly building browsers based on Chromium instead.

Blink, the Chromium renderer, is a fork of WebKit.

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Quoting: slaapliedjeHaha, what? Besides, why couldn't you run pirated games on the Deck? Removing the copy protection generally makes it easier to run things.

Google translate [External Link]

Therefore, although G fat verbally supports Windows (it seems that he has not found the source), some people think that G fat has lofty goals and ambitions in all directions. But I think you Naive, the pattern is broken, and you don't understand the logic of capital. Think about it, selling a hardware that supports Windows 10 to a player who plays pirated games without making money or even losing money, what does he want, just a smile from Bojun? No capital is going to lose money and make a profit.

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Quoting: ElamanOpiskelijaAnother thing that it's a serious question from me and I still don't get is: what is this device offering that is so important, that a small laptop cannot? What is the use case?

These devices let you play games while you're just holding the device. Laptops (especially gaming laptops) don't: the operation of those is the same as the old luggables - you can move them from one static location to another, which is an advantage over a big desktop, but you can't just play on them wherever.

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Quoting: eldakingBut I must say I find these expensive devices kind of a dead end.

It's a question of scale. The price per unit is vastly different if you're buying a thousand compared to if you're buying ten million, multiplied out by every component in your device.

Of course the price that Microsoft will charge you for an OEM licence is also a lot different if you say, "actually, we're thinking of using Linux instead," so the visibility of SteamOS will help these companies even if they decide to stick with Windows as a differentiator from the Steam Deck.

Quoting: kit89I think a lot of these handheld game device manufacturers are ecstatic over how the Steam Deck has legitimised the PC handheld game space.

Not all of them: the GPD boss went on a public rant about how the Deck was terrible because it couldn't run pirated games. I think he was feeling rather threatened by it.

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Quoting: TheRiddickThe back-order is likely 6+ months at this stage........

And the rest.

People who put their reservations in within the first hour have still got 4-5 months to wait till they get theirs. Then there's an additional eight months of people making reservations in the queue ahead of anyone that's only getting round to making their reservation today.

"6+ months" is really understating it.

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Additionally, could we please stop slapping a launcher on everything?

That definitely gets my vote.

Unfortunately, Valve seem to feel that they need to woo the big publishers, so they're barely recommending against interstitial launchers at all, and are merely offering tools in the hopes that publishers will choose of their own volition to reduce the jank.

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Quoting: CatKiller

Quoting: adibuyonoWonder how many titles noted as unplayable?

775 [External Link].

Do we have means to filter these (or get counts) by reason of being Unsupported?

You can tell SteamDB's filter to exclude any that are VR-only (although you still end up with some VR games in the filtered list) which is the majority of the Unsupported ones. But of the remainder there's generally just a non-specific "Valve are working on it" as the reason.

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Quoting: adibuyonoWonder how many titles noted as unplayable?

775 [External Link].

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Quoting: CatKillerBecause I like numbers:
65,237 [External Link]. Today.

Is that only games? How many of the total number are GNU+Linux native?

You could just click the link.

Yes, just games. Although the number's gone up to 65,240 in the time between my prior post and now.

9,705 of them are Linux-native.

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