Quoting: PenglingPutting on my portables-enthusiast hat for a moment, we really haven't had proper competition in the handheld market in decades, and it hasn't helped that Nintendo has opted not to directly compete with other manufacturers since around the mid-2000s (something the Steam Deck is probably now going to force them to do). With rumours that the Nintendo Switch's successor will be out next year [External Link] (which sounds like a kick in the teeth for the new customers in countries where the Switch has only just been released [External Link], we've got interesting times ahead.

As with anything, the best games in the handheld space always came about when competition was fierce (when naming favourite handheld titles, I always notice that they're usually concentrated around either the Game Boy or DS eras - both times when there was serious competition), and even with the Steam Deck being a general-purpose PC underneath that's still going to apply here going forward, so I'm looking forward to seeing what happens next. :grin: We should get some good games out of it!

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Quoting: PenglingThey're both up for pre-order on Amazon UK now;

Famicom version

NES version

Wow, I thought the big buttons would be extras, but you get both with the keyboard, for £90! I'm in. I'm not gonna pre-order, but this could be a sweet little christmas present from me to me this year, we'll see.

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Quoting: EikeI cannot tell you if the numbers are close to reality, but from what I've read Estonia has a strong public open source strategy.

What? :huh: I live in Estonia and i don't know anything about this. lol
at least not in massive scale. There ofc are some small initiatives here and there.
Could be i live under the rock though

Quoting: Xpanderlol 40% in Estonia
https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/estonia [External Link]

something must be wrong with this, surely :D

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Quoting: GuestI wonder how many "Linux Deck" users would use Linux outside of the Deck.

Exactly that's the point they aren't locked to steam os they could install windows but it's not designed to support the hardware. It's now different to Xbox or ps having their proprietary os it's just more capable than standard console os

Quoting: hardpenguinSome buzzkills on Reddit have mentioned that the reason is Mac gamers using Apple Game Porting Toolkit which uses the Windows version of the Steam client.

Somehow I don't think so, since even years back Steam was detecting Wine environment...

Quoting: Viesta2015for some reason i am not getting the compatibility setting... strange.

Quoting: dpanterWell, historically speaking every substantial deviation from the trend stemmed from flawed data and was typically corrected before long... but I'll take it. :)

Quoting: Tuxee

Quoting: dpanterWell, historically speaking every substantial deviation from the trend stemmed from flawed data and was typically corrected before long... but I'll take it. :)

Phoronix observed that Chinese language has dropped by 3 or 4 percent last month...