I'm skeptical of this project because they'll have a hard time convincing a lot of people to use it, even if it's good. This is like the situation we see today, where Bluesky is an alternative for X/Twitter but isn't gaining a lot of traction to pull away anyone that's already using X/Twitter.

I'm also sceptical, but the situation is quite different to X: Social media makes so much more sense at the place where the other ones are, too. For a search engine, this doesn't matter.

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The only thing governments ever offer as a solution is more control and less freedom, and that's rarely a good thing. Just look what happened to this site. I'm honestly surprised that comments to articles are still allowed.

The EU forces Apple to open up for other stores.

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I imagine at some point soon, this will need to diverge. As I recall, there are some games that are flagged as Unsupported on Steam Deck, due to "graphics settings cannot be configured to run well", or something similar, even though they have native Linux versions, or have good compatibility ratings on ProtonDB.

SteamOS devices might be as weak as SteamDeck or weaker... The only way I could see that happen would be some coarse grained performance classes.

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How cool!

When you go month by month from HL2...
"No new games released on Steam this month." :grin:

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(I already mentioned that me and my kids are new to Minecraft and...)
It's just some days ago that I found out (and hardly could believe) that you can't craft saddles!

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Not using something like ProtonDB is the right way to go for Valve. Ordinary customers want to play, not tinker. And people wanting to tinker will find ProtonDB anyway.

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I'm not playing much with it myself (I do prefer a bigger screen, and my eyes don't seem to get better...), but my children love to play Minecraft together, one on PC, one on SteamDeck. From time to time I'm even allowed to play with one of them. :D

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The recent PewDiePie video¹ was nice to watch, yet all the arguments he mentioned why he switched (and so should others) are the same arguments as ever. Yet great to see how he appreciates Linux and all the stuff he can do with it.

Thanks for sharing!

PewDiePie posting about Linux, this should be quite big in the gaming community?!?

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But people still on Windows 10 are not necessarily unhappy. They just want to hold on to it and not move to something slightly different. The stop from W10 to W11 is not bigger than W95 to W98 was.

Yes, they want to keep it - and so there is a problem.
* They should not keep it due to security reasons. (I fear though many people will ignore this.)
* Windows 11 has higher hardware requirements - for no good reason. (Which is very different from the situation back in '98, when computers did get faster all the time and higher requirements did have a good reason.)
* Many people will be surprised to find that they might need to actually buy the new Windows. The free upgrade from Windows 7/8 does not constitute a Windows 10 licence and thus they might not be able to use it for a free 10-to-11 upgrade.

I'm not saying the big exodus will be happening. But even people happy with Windows do have reasons to change this year.

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I don't doubt that - but what does that have to do with this article?

Well, Liam did ask "What's your next most-wanted feature for the Steam Deck?"
I'm sure he thought of software, but then... :)

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