Quoting: elmapuli rather have 800p OLED instead

Seconding this. My Pixel 7 (and Pixel Watch) have AMOLED displays, and it's not bad, I have to say. I'd be open to something like that for the Deck.

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Another controller with asymmetrical analog sticks. Pass.

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Quoting: miroWhat the actual fuq?
Is this for real? You do know that this is designed to kill people, not in a cs-fashion but for real. And all with the currently f'ed up narrative and politics, you are cracking jokes with it.

I can not believe this, what a shame.

I take no pleasure in the death of human beings, but I have no sympathy for invaders; especially those who commit war crimes.

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Cool. I love Flatpak. My preferred way to install programs on desktop Linux these days, no doubt.

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The specs suggest to me that battery life is likely to be atrocious.

People will disagree with me, but I think Valve nailed the best compromise for a handheld PC with the Steam Deck's specs. 720p and 60hz is, IMO, what you want. 720p looks great on a screen designed for it, and 60fps is still plenty smooth; especially for someone who grew up with consoles, like me. At a $400 price tag with an additional $40-50 dollar for a 512GB SSD upgrade, the price-to-performance ratio is excellent.

You want more power? You'll have to pay for it; literally and figuratively.

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I don't like some of the decisions Canonical has taken, like requiring their flavors to drop Flatpak and only push Snaps.

But Ubuntu is still, IMO, an excellent distribution alongside its flavors. Kubuntu is still my daily driver on my desktop due to my preference for KDE and Plasma, and I am also a fan of Xubuntu.

Due to various reasons, I ended up on 22.10 on my desktop, so I will be making the upgrade to 23.04. I am considering staying on point releases going forward, as they've been pretty stable during the periods I've used them, and point releases offer a nice middle ground between LTS and rolling distros.

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Quoting: mr-victory

Apps will need to use GTK4 though, so hopefully plenty will.

Ouch, IIRC Firefox still uses gtk3.

I don't think this is an issue if you use something like the Firefox Flatpak, which uses. I know that, ever since I switched to the Flatpak, Firefox has always used the KDE file picker OOTB without me needing to do anything; unlike when I used the .deb package.

Honestly, the file picker is one of the reasons I left GTK behind for KDE/Qt. I was never a big GNOME user, but I was/am a fan of Xfce (Xubuntu); the lack of thumbnails in the file picker always bugged me.

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I am personally not a fan of Snaps, so I wouldn't use this. I prefer using the Steam Flatpak.

The Steam Flatpak, in my experience, works fine about 95-98% of the time. The only explicit problems I've had with it is that modded VtMB using an older version of Proton doesn't work; and sometimes I've changed distros and found a game (Sugar Style and Dokyusei) no longer working and/or launching DESPITE using the Steam Flatpak in BOTH distros! I ended up putting both games on my Steam Deck, because that was easier than trying to solve the issue on the Steam Flatpak.

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I still play on my desktop 95% of the time, but I do love my Deck for when I'm stuck in bed. It can also play some games that my desktop has problems with (possibly due to my use of Flatpak Steam, hard to say).

I have modest gaming needs, so my Deck is fine as is. Frankly, I'm debating moving away from large desktops with large graphics cards to using one of my laptops, or a tiny PC, for computer stuff with devices like my Deck becoming my primary means of gaming. Building my desktop PC took time and money, and my dislike of most modern games makes building another one not worth it. As long as I can use emulators up to PS2 and play the dozen or so Steam games I want to play, then I'm fine.

I left consoles behind for PC gaming back in 2021, but my PS4 still has a place for games; one of the benefits of consoles is that I can boot up a game and I know it will run. I'm debating getting a PS5 sometime this year to complement my Deck, should I choose to move away from large desktops.

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I prefer Flatpak for most (not all) programs, myself. I like having a stable base with Firefox, Thunderbird, Steam and the like installed as Flatpaks. What I'm unsure about is having an immutable base + Flatpaks. I can understand the idea behind an immutable filesystem, but there have been times I needed to mess with the root filesystem.

Anyway, I'm not smart enough to start analyzing the long-term ramifications or whatever of all this. All I can say is that I like Flatpak, I like Flathub, and anything that helps both grow, and makes it easier for people to contribute, sounds good to me.

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