Nice. Thanks Valve!

But what would be even better would be to be able to manually choose which texture pack we want to download... 4k textures on a Steam Deck... What a waste of bandwidth and storage!

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Quoting: Craggles086Valve has proved to a mass market that their idea works with the SteamDeck.

Consumers should be a lot less sceptical about what a Steam Console without windows is capable of, Proton has now proven itself capable and has been accepted as such for anything outside the anti-cheat MMO’s.

Now if they can only get the pricing right, as they did on the SteamDeck then we have a gaming computer that can play the majority of PC games, and is priced competitively with building your own PC. Also functions well as a console. Whole different story to the first Steam Machines.

I would say it will only work if Valve are producing the hardware themselves but would love to be proved wrong.

i dont think the issue was the fact that steam machines run on top of linux, playstation run on top of bsd (wich had less games than linux, outside of the console) and yet, no one cared about, because it had games and the marketing of the games noticed the fact that its avaliable on playstation, the marketing of playstation quoted the games you can play on it, and it had exclusives.

no one cares what operating system an hardware have, so longas they know there is content they want there (or the content they want is there)

The "Steam Machines 2" will probably attract the same audience that got the Steam Deck. Many of them got introduced to PC gaming via the Steam Deck. I'll be one of them because, lately, I do not have much use for a full fledged PC under my desk. It's solely used for work and it's supplied by my company. When it comes to gaming, I sit back in my couch and play with my Steam Deck, locally or via Moonlight/Sunshine, depending on the game, because I have no better solution. Hooking my personal full tower gaming PC to my TV is a no go. I'd prefer to have a small dedicated console or an egpu docking station, for the Steam Deck 2 (maybe?), to play in 1080p-60hz (minimum). I'm probably not the only one.

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Oh yes! Please! I'm holding off buying a new pc because I'm looking to buy one of these mini pcs (Minisforum or Beelink), exactly for this purpose.

If Valve wants to join the fray, it would be an insta buy; I'd ratter support them than anybody else and I suspect tighter pricing, like the Steam Deck.

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The controller for the console mode gives me Apple IIe controller vibes.

Edit: In fact, the whole thing gives me Apple IIe vibes... Probably the color scheme.

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Is there an arch based rolling release distro that's not bleeding edge? Kind of like Ubuntu stable?

I'd be willing to try that.

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Quoting: Mohandevir

Quoting: Mountain Man

Quoting: Fester_MuddGreat article! Ubuntu is highly recommended for beginners and stability seeking folk alike. It is always just a matter of time when a rolling release distribution such as Endeavour / Manjaro / plain Arch break or an update process gets borked.

User really has to pay attention to forums and such before updating their system on those type of rolling releases, and or acknowledge that there will probably be conflicting package issues and so on: delete the one for time being, pull the other package in and then return the first one. This is the reality on Arch-based distros and the "sacrifice" won't bring you any FPS really.

Have you ever actually used a rolling release distro? Because in the several years that I've been using Manjaro, that hasn't been my experience at all. Upgrades have always been smooth with nothing randomly breaking. It just works.

Be careful. Because you have a great experience doesn't mean it's the same for everyone.
Personally, I can't use Manjaro on my Desktop. Bluetooth 5 support for my Wifi card is hit and miss... Updates regularly break compatibility. Pretty annoying when you can't pair your controller anymore, on a gaming PC. After 3 or 4 times of these... Incidents, I decided to ditch it. I get the same issues with Bazzite, but Kubuntu and Pop_OS! never failed me. Go figure.

It's not just me. Every major update that is rolled out, Manjaro posts a poll to their website asking for feedback, and every time, the overwhelming majority of respondents vote "No issues".

The point, of course, is that your characterization of rolling releases as a house of cards that will inevitably collapse without warning is not particularly accurate, which is why I wondered if you had ever actually used one.

I'm not the one who wrote that, but I get your point. Generalization, either way, must be avoided. Unfortunately, Linux is still a case by case thing, no matter the distro. There are always exceptions to the rule.

This said, even the most used and supported OS, that I won't name, break compatibility on some PCs, with its updates... So...

Edit: I'm wondering how many "normies" are attracted to these polls... I didn't know about them. The "normies" that install Manjaro and hit an issue will probably just delete it and run back to "the other OS" without giving a shout to these polls. Just a tought.

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Quoting: Mountain Man

Quoting: Fester_MuddGreat article! Ubuntu is highly recommended for beginners and stability seeking folk alike. It is always just a matter of time when a rolling release distribution such as Endeavour / Manjaro / plain Arch break or an update process gets borked.

User really has to pay attention to forums and such before updating their system on those type of rolling releases, and or acknowledge that there will probably be conflicting package issues and so on: delete the one for time being, pull the other package in and then return the first one. This is the reality on Arch-based distros and the "sacrifice" won't bring you any FPS really.

Have you ever actually used a rolling release distro? Because in the several years that I've been using Manjaro, that hasn't been my experience at all. Upgrades have always been smooth with nothing randomly breaking. It just works.

Be careful. Because you have a great experience doesn't mean it's the same for everyone.
Personally, I can't use Manjaro on my Desktop. Bluetooth 5 support for my Wifi card is hit and miss... Updates regularly break compatibility. Pretty annoying when you can't pair your controller anymore, on a gaming PC. After 3 or 4 times of these... Incidents, I decided to ditch it. I get the same issues with Bazzite, but Kubuntu and Pop_OS! never failed me. Go figure.

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I made the same choice. Kubuntu 24.04. I was on Manjaro, but found out that "bleeding edge" KDE is a PITA. Switched back to Kubuntu and it's "outdated" libs and got a pretty great experience. The only thing I did was add kisak stable repo for my RX 6600 and I'm pretty happy with it. Everything else seems quite theoretical, to me, because it gets the job done with much less assle.

But "to each their own", they say...

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Quoting: KlaasThere hasn't been anything that has tempted me into buying, but I'm still busy with Steamworld Quest which I bought on GOG a few weeks ago.

Do I need Brotato if I'm still not done with Vampire Survivors and Halls of Torment?

Quoting: MohandevirLego Pirates of the Caribbean

Nice game, but there are a few locations that are quite crashy. I've played it last year (?) for the first time.

Quoting: MohandevirWolfenstein Youngblood

I don't have that one, but it has quite a reputation for being very janky.

Youngblood was the cheapest of the lot... I guess I don't have much to loose.

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Just got Lego Pirates of the Caribbean, Orcs must Die 3 and Wolfenstein Youngblood. All of them under 10$. In fact, 2 of them under 5$. Pure nostalgia or to complete my collections.

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