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Quoting: LoftyBut the biggest question i have is at what cost is EAC / Battle-eye being integrated ? AFAIK these are extremely invasive pieces of software that many consider to be basically spyware.

It's not going to be integrated into the kernel. There isn't time between now and December to get that done, even if were an uncontroversial thing that everyone agreed was a great idea.

They could roll their own kernel though, without integrating into mainline. I don't think they will, but that could be done all fine in the background already.

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Quoting: denyasisI think the simplest and easiest thing to do is for valve to treatt it like another platform on Steam. Have a "Deck" icon for Linux+whitelisted+supported games.

Other wise I think you'll have disappointed people.

Hopefully it'll be the Linux (SteamOS) icon, otherwise I think they'll have disappointed me.

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The problem with supporting "all games" is not only that it's hard. Additionally, it's a moving target. Even if you manage to support everything out now, there'll be new games coming out before Christmas, and I doubt even Valve had got the power to make all of them run great. Or make all of them run, even. You'd need to get your hands on the game early enough before the release I'd wager.

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Quoting: Matombo

Quoting: LinasFor. Academic. Purposes.

F.A.P.

*lol*
Didn't see that one "coming"!

Quoting: Matomboonly with the "research" patch available from the dev website ;)

Is there a way to know the research patch has been successfully applied easily, like in the main screen or menu or such? Or do I just have to wait for the research results?

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I always wanted to take a look at such games and couldn't resist the one buck bundle...

:blush:

... of course only because 15 Cents go to GoL!

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Quoting: ObsidianBlkI'm excited by this device and am very tempted to put that $5 for the option to buy one! I'm opposed to pre-ordering, they're not asking for the full bank up front, so, if, as the months go by, warning signs start cropping up, I haven't wasted much money at all.

None at all, it is refunded at any time:

if you cancel within 30 days of placing your reservation, you'll get refunded via the payment method you used for your reservation. Anything past the 30 day window gets refunded to your Steam Wallet.

https://store.steampowered.com/steamdeck [External Link]

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Quoting: dubigrasuI'm pretty sure many will do that, basically almost all the Steam Machines (old and new) were stripped of SteamOS and went full Windows, the same with many Atari machines.
The poor game selection was definitely a factor for that, and hopefully it will be not the case for Steam Deck, but many gamers are enthusiast tinkerers and installing a familiar and proven OS is the least of their worries.

Hm. While I'd be confident to change OS on a Steam Machine - a PC box -, I'd be less confident to do so on a specialized integrated system like the Steam Deck.

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Quoting: einherjarHopefully you are right. I am fully aware, that I am not statistically relevant with my own needs.

I am more eager to get a new graphics card and a Valve Index - after sitting the most of my work time, VR games would be cool for me - and I have about 3,5m x 3m of space for it :-)

I'm totally unsure what will happen, and I'll probably not get one. Happy enough with my desktop.
Hopefully it gets some of the attention the Switch has got (which I didn't see coming back then).

I'd also put my money more into VR - if I just had the time to make proper use of it. :D

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Quoting: SonataOne thing that makes me wonder though with Valve pushing proton so hard to the devs: Does that mean that Valve will put more and more work into fixes for proton (maybe even as a service to the devs? which sounds kinda crazy to think about)

Yes. Getting enough native Linux support failed, so they're making enough Linux support via WINE.

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Quoting: einherjarBut I miss the "killer feature" - why would one using the e.g. switch buy this device? I am not sure what the audience will be - people that like portable gaming devices surely have one - people preferring to play on the PC with a big monitor may buy one in addition - but is that enough? IDK!

That's why I was sure nobody would ever buy this "Switch" thing! :D

Why would one buy this device, though? If they can do with Proton what they seem to be very optimistic about, this got way more games available than the Switch. Plus, the average PC gamer already got dozens or hundreds of games for it before even buying it. Plus, you can just continue your game session when starting or ending travel, at your PC. It does have some advantages that people seem to like when buying the Switch, plus some of its own... minus Zelda, which totally might be important.

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