Curious to see if we can get some data on shipping time. My index took a week and a half from Chicago. I'm guessing they'll be shipping from Steamdeck from Chicago as well.

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Quoting: LinasWhat Putin is doing to Ukraine is pure insanity. Pointless destruction and death with no goal. A sick power play by an absolute madman. The old man has completely lost it, and millions will suffer because of it.

The man has the tsazr's emblem on his palace. Read into that what you will.

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Godspeed. не залишай надії.
Слава Україні!

Spoiler, click me

We stand with you.
Slava Ukraini! (Glory to Ukraine!)

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Quoting: poisond

Quoting: pbI totally expect a standalone VR device from Valve, based on their experiences with Index and Deck, powered by SteamOS. :wub:

Still waiting for the wireless Index adapter :/
IMHO standalone is just not there yet regarding hardware capabilities (Unless you enjoy retro graphics and 'experiences' instead of proper games).

Well you're liable to be waiting for the rest of your life, Valve never committed to making one and I don't ever see them making one for any reason unfortunately.

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Quoting: STiAT

Quoting: TrainDoc

Quoting: STiATThey will be doing a TF2 update. I am pretty sure about that, but since they flagged it only playable, it's certeinly coming after the release, but they will do it. Most likely just too much to do to get it in time.

That's some wishful thinking right there.

I do not think so. I do not even play TF, but valve has a record of bringing their IPs very late to new engines and often still rely on outdated features which are pretty much deprecated even using the current engine (or things which were in place since former engines did not support it and they never migrated to the capabilities provided on the new engine), in end they always did it, late, often years later but they did.

It will not take years this time. The time invested and devs are peanuts for Valve, and they do have a reason to do so.

Whatever you need to tell yourself man. Valve continually shows a utter lack of shits to give when it comes to TF2, often actively forcing developers off the team to work on other more """"valuable"""" projects. But, if you want to believe in them... Sure go ahead.

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Quoting: STiATThey will be doing a TF2 update. I am pretty sure about that, but since they flagged it only playable, it's certeinly coming after the release, but they will do it. Most likely just too much to do to get it in time.

That's some wishful thinking right there.

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Quoting: GeamanduraRepresenting all the noobs out there, and taking one for the team.

Could anyone kindly explain the difference between this, and DosBox? As long as I can run Transport tycoon and Sim city 2K and Mortal kombat in DosBox, what can I use this tool for?

Super over-simplification:
DOSBox is for running games mostly from the late 80's to the mid nineties etc. This if for when you want to your software to think you're running some sort of IBM PC or PC Compatible (Clone) which did run DOS but also ran any number of other tools. Think of this as more of a VM like platform rather than a games playground like DOSBox.

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Quoting: GuestBuy from Valve, support Valve! They are the ones that deserve our support!

No company is your friend. Regardless of how much they invest in your preferred ecosystem.

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Quoting: soulsource

Quoting: inlinuxdudeGenital Jousting? Haven't heard of that one... it sounds.... interesting.. haha

I haven't played it yet, but seen some gameplay videos. It looks absolutely hilarious.

And it has a fantastic message as well: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=AxfuhLbECf4 [External Link]

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Quoting: iiari

Quoting: TrainDocA brief aside, when did 16:9 stop being a desirable screen ratio? ... I just feel like the moving target has moved, and I didn't see it move so I'm curious why.

@Catkiller above has some of the financial reasons for why the 16:9 move happened, but there's more to it as well. 3:2 has a lot more vertical space which gives you many more rows of text, numbers, spreadsheet rows, website vertical viewing, etc. Earlier laptops were closer to 3:2 for productivity, and 16:9 only roared onto the scene given the economic advantages plus the public prioritization of video watching as being paramount.

Personally, excepting my S76 laptops (used more for gaming and with our Wacom tablet), I've been on exclusively 3:2 laptops for work for the last several years since the '15 Pixel Chromebook in 3:2 and I'm never going back. My professional software is oriented towards the vertical space, and 3:2 is a huge advantage there. I can see in one page what coworkers are constantly scrolling to view. Every time I go to a 16:9 laptop, I feel like I'm squinting.

Lots has been written online about this as well. You didn't miss the big shift, as it hasn't been that big, and it's only been in the last, say, year that 16:10 and 3:2 have been coming back (excepting the Surface laptops and some Huaweis, which have been 3:2 for years). The latest models of a few makers (Asus, Thinkpads, HP, LG, Framework, etc) have had 16:10 and 3:2 display options. Like most passionate minorities, vertical space fans are vocal online :).

However, what I would say has changed for what's sometimes called the hypercompetitive ultraportable, or Dell XPS13 class, laptop market, is given the proliferation of more vertical screens and solid 9-10 hr battery lives (or about 15 with the Apple laptops) if you're not hitting those specs you're somewhat seen as being behind...

Quoting: sarmad

Quoting: TrainDocI understand the frustrations with a lack of amd gpus in high end laptops but I feel like one of a few who very pragmatically concedes that nvidia makes the best gpus you might be able to buy. Mind you, I hate their drivers and am very well aware of their still continued anti-competitive practices but again I struggle to justify the costs of a worse GPU. Unless AMDs drivers for their graphics cards (open source ones of course) improve the performance in my games so much over my 2070 Super, I don't understand the insistence on AMD only.

The insistence on all AMD comes from the fact that performance isn't the only thing to be concerned about. nVidia GPUs may be faster but the difference in performance does not justify the shortcomings in other areas like external displays, which so far is rubbish on nVidia gaming laptops.

Quoting: Purple Library Guy

Quoting: TrainDocI understand the frustrations with a lack of amd gpus in high end laptops but I feel like one of a few who very pragmatically concedes that nvidia makes the best gpus you might be able to buy.

At all price points?
I feel like if it's that cut and dried, shouldn't AMD have been forced to drop their GPU business long ago?

Maybe AMD just don't make cards that are good for laptops? Because one can certainly get desktop computers with AMD graphics cards, yes? I mean, I have one, it must be possible. And it's well known that AMD graphics cards are popular among the Linux community. Which implies, again from a pragmatic perspective, that if you are a company like System76 making computers preloaded with Linux for use by Linux users, that you could sell many units of a laptop set up with the brand of card that your market tend to want.
Something must be stopping all these computers-for-Linux companies from selling what their target market want to buy, and I really find myself wondering what. I don't think it can be that they think NVidia cards are just better--if their buyers disagree, one would think they'd follow the money and give the buyers what they want. I figure it must be either that there just aren't any AMD cards that are workable in laptops, or they're not really making laptops from scratch but rather kind of rebranding and tweaking laptops from some manufacturer that doesn't make their stuff for Linux particularly, and it's the broader industry that isn't making laptops with AMD GPUs.

Appreciate all of your insightful responses. I'll definitely be watching for these things in future. Personally I'm interested in any Linux first laptop that gets made since we have so few of them but (to be fair to everyone else) I am more of the "just happy to be here" kind of user. I'm keeping my high hopes for reasonable specifications into the future.

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