I haven't heard good things about Manjaro, but this is the most promising Deck alternative I've heard of yet.

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I'm not a Manjaro fan, but I've heard good things about Orange Pi SBCs.

Plus, unless I'm mistaken, this is the first Deck clone I've seen to actually have trackpads. It baffles me why this isn't more common.

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For me, the big deal is Intel Arc getting Vulkan sparse support in the i915 driver.

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-ANV-i915-Sparse-Mesa-24.0 [External Link]

This should enable my Arc A770 to play games like the Resident Evil 4 remake, and perhaps Palworld.

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I was really into Shadow the Hedgehog when the game came out because I was a fan of Shadow since playing Sonic Adventure 2. The game wasn't very good in hindsight, but I did genuinely enjoy it when I first played it.

Interesting that they're doing a sequel. Can't say whether it will be good, but I'll at least give it a try.

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Quoting: PublicNuisanceI always try to use the packages in my distro's repo but Flatpak has become my go to when that's not a viable option. AppImage isn't bad either.

I'm the opposite. With the exception of tools like my file manager, archiver, partition manager, etc., I grab all my programs as Flatpaks from Flathub.

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My friend and I tried playing this earlier but it kept crashing on us after the first chapter. I'm sure it's good though, just needs the bugs worked out.

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I still buy music CDs, DVDs and Blu-rays.

I don't do streaming. Games are the only thing where I've almost entirely made the switch to digital, and that's because I switched from console to PC.

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My favorite Tetris is Tetris Plus for the PS1, but Tetris Effect is pretty good. I'm glad to see Steam Deck specific optimizations.

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Even if I didn't already dislike Fortnite, I still wouldn't play it simply due to my dislike of Epic and Timmy.

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I miss old-school Sega so much. This is cool.

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