Quoting: AllyTheProtogenI wonder what it is that they're getting at here. If I had to guess, they're bleeding money into the red like every other AI company, so wtf is up with sending out even more? And to Blender of all things?? Seeing how they're amoral enough to support AI in the first place, I highly doubt they're doing this out of the goodness of their hearts.

I suspect it makes sense in a sort of complicated way, it's fraught, sort of a my enemy's enemy thing from the POV of an open source project.

What Anthropic wants, is to be the tool for all development everywhere.

If you're them, having something like Blender, that collects no licenses, crush something like Unity, that does, is great.

Because then the money shops were spending on Unity . . . goes to agents instead. See they weirdly want all royalty free development platforms too, just . . . maybe not for good reasons . . .

They may also just be burning cash at an absurd rate and want their logo out there, it's just marketing. They think it will create goodwill with people who will become customers.

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One of the coolest things Valve has accomplished with the Deck actually has nothing to do with Linux, it's just getting PC developers to optimize for low end hardware for longer. BG3, Doom, Death Stranding now, I'm sure there are plenty more.

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Quoting: LeprottoStill no controller support though.

I've been playing it with a Dual Sense controller, working great.

What's missing?

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Quoting: mr-victoryI feel that the GabeCube *ahem* Steam Machine will be DOA due to anti cheat, I hope to be proven wrong but Windows on ARM laptops being frequently returned item on Amazon doesn't give me confidence, those laptops' game compatibility issues are not that different from ours... the advantage Deck had was being a handheld so who cares if an fps doesn't work.

If the Deck wasn't DOA because of anti-cheat, why would the cube be?

That just makes no sense. Will it be a bit limited? Sure. Will there still be tons of people who don't care about games like Battlefield? Clearly the answer is yes.

It's not expected to sell 50 million units, even 5 is a . . . huge success.

I'm not sure they're right, but I do see their point: People expect different things and play different games on a handheld.

When I buy a handheld, I expect the handheld games to work (like on Switch). And I wouldn't want to play FPS on it. On a box on the other hand, on a "real PC", I'd expect "every game" to work.

Yeah, and I should have been clearer, but when I said "Clearly the answer is yes" I really meant when you combine the Deck with this data in this article, the ridiculous growth of the desktop, it just doesn't make sense.

The Cube will most certainly sell pretty well, inline with the deck at least. To think it's "DOA" given all those things, just seems like a crazy stretch. No, it isn't going to outsell the PS5. Yes, it will outsell the original Steam Machines many times over.

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Quoting: mr-victoryI feel that the GabeCube *ahem* Steam Machine will be DOA due to anti cheat, I hope to be proven wrong but Windows on ARM laptops being frequently returned item on Amazon doesn't give me confidence, those laptops' game compatibility issues are not that different from ours... the advantage Deck had was being a handheld so who cares if an fps doesn't work.

If the Deck wasn't DOA because of anti-cheat, why would the cube be?

That just makes no sense. Will it be a bit limited? Sure. Will there still be tons of people who don't care about games like Battlefield? Clearly the answer is yes.

It's not expected to sell 50 million units, even 5 is a . . . huge success.

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The trend is insane.

10% by 2030 or so seems inevitable now. I think at that level, it's the point where people can largely stop caring.

I mean, if you just want to see Microsoft lose OK that won't be done.

But at 10%, you'll be able to buy a mouse or a monitor or whatever, and assume its firmware is on LVFS. Any game publisher not bothering to at least test with Proton, will be truly an outlier.

From the consumer's point of view, pragmatically, it'll be about the same as 50%.

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Quoting: scaineIt's hard to be upset at the Hyprland donations, I suppose, in the face of the all the good they're additionally doling out on a monthly basis. Still wish they'd drop Gnome for KDE though (and by extension, also drop Hyprland), as this feels like the direction of travel these days.

I might just be blinkered there though. I suspect Gnome still has a huge mindshare, probably as a combined result over decades of Ubuntu and Fedora.

KDE is in there, but they support their conference rather than just a KDE line item.

But GNOME has a lot more than just mind share. It's just not as popular with gamers right now.

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I think it's fairly likely what will happen in the next 2-3 years is they'll make EAC work on Steam OS. Essentially all it needs is to boot in secure boot mode with a signed kernel and a module that does the verification. It will piss off a lot of purists, but it can happen. It won't work on all Linuxes of course, but it can work on these devices.

But even if that doesn't arrive soon, the Deck has already proven this isn't that much of a barrier to success, even if it is a barrier to world domination.

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It's pretty crazy. 8-10% in another five years does not seem unreasonable at all, though it seemed completely impossible for the last twenty years.

In my opinion a bit over 5% is the point where it's entrenched. It's when, to the individual Linux user, it stops mattering how much higher it goes. Peripheral and hardware manufacturers will take notice and start supporting Linux as the rule rather than the exception, you'll be really able to buy stuff and just expect it to work.

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It's pretty wild, the tone around Linux among gamers has changed dramatically in the last twelve months.

All over Reddit, all the cool kids are running Linux.

The biggest thing I've noticed, is in lots of conversations that basically go "but I can't do $x, Linux will always be a toy" the response is often just "that's fine, the growth is so fast now, it's totally cool if you run Windows, no one cares" and the conversation just sort of stops, often that guy comes back like "no no I can still run it, I'm cool too." A year ago, that would have baited a bunch of people to talk about how you just have to install such and such for hours.

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