Quoting: GuestI hope by the time the Steam deck 2 is out I would be able to buy a Steam Deck 1 in Argentina XD lol

Yep, same here in Australia... Whenever Valve Software releases hardware, it takes 3+ years before we see it on Australian shelves.

Personally, I think they're doing themselves a disservice, because the longer they leave it, the less interested I am in the Steam Deck and if it's gonna take them 3+ years to release, well it's likely the long-rumored "Nintendo Switch Pro" will have released by then.

Quoting: tpauFor Deck2 it would be nice if we get a sim card slot and 5g compatibility. So you can truly play on the road without having to go through the hassle of creating a wifi hotspot with your cellphone.

Given how long it takes Valve Software to release hardware in Australia, I don't think this is a good idea - we'll probably be looking towards "6G" be the time a "Steam Deck 2" releases in Australia, rendering such a feature useless... Of course, Australia is completely irrelevant in the world of gaming, at least according to Valve Software, so the fact that this feature will be useless by the time a "Steam Deck 2" is released in Australia is itself irrelevant.

Quoting: BlackBloodRumMultiplayer on a sim card? Yikes it'd be lag city on the UK networks, where I am we have flaky 4G that often drops down to 3G or even 2G :tongue:

Gee, your cellular networks must be pretty bad over there then - here in Australia, I can play the likes of 'Fortnite: Battle Royale' on my Sony PlayStation 4 Pro without issue when using my Apple iPhone 12 Pro Max as a 'hotspot' with Australia's smallest network (Network Vodafone)... It's a totally different story when it comes to fixed broadband - our infamous National Broadband Network ("NBN") that is - and lag / drop-outs / etc are commonplace.

Quoting: AussieEeveeAnd yet Steam Deck 1 is still unavailable here :(

Don't worry - 2024 is approaching and we should see the 'Steam Deck' by then... Right about the time the rest of the world is seeing the release of a "Steam Deck 2". 🙄

Quoting: TheRiddickJust give up and wait for SD2.. I'm in Australia also and unless the SteamDeck gets discounted I'm not going to bother.

I'm starting to think Valve REALLY doesn't like AU/NZ for some reason... either that or middlemen at blocking its import. (just go via amazon, worked for Quest)

Considering Valve Software seem to be one of the few exceptions when it comes to (significantly) delaying the release of new products in Australia - for those outside of Australia, we typically wait three years or more for Valve Software to release hardware in Australia - I'm guessing it's the fact that Valve Software seem to have something against Australia...

Quoting: ShabbyXWe keep making the same jokes, but Valve's obviously changed. They are quick now, and things can get a version 3.

You say that, yet it takes three years or more for Valve Software to release new hardware in Australia... Meanwhile, almost every other consumer electronics company - from itty-bitty companies all the way up to companies comparable to Valve Software - seem to be able to release new products in Australia in a timely fashion.

Yeah, nothing has changed, "Valve Time" is alive and well.

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Quoting: Cyba.CowboyAnybody else having problems running the Sega Mega Drive and Genesis Classics collection?

I'm trying to run it and after seeing the Sega logo briefly, it consistently causes my entire system to freeze...

The issue relates to multiple displays... If I disconnect my external display and disable one of my laptop's displays (my laptop has two built-in displays), the game runs perfectly, without issue.

I can reproduce this consistently, and I have submitted a bug notification to SEGA via both 'Steam' and their (SEGA's) 'support' website... If anybody else is running multiple displays with this game, I encourage you to make a comment in the 'Steam' thread [External Link] and / or by submitting a bug notification to SEGA [External Link] also.

It looks like the developers have been semi-active in addressing bugs mentioned on the 'Steam' forums over the years, so if enough people bring this to their attention, who knows, maybe they'll take the time to address this bug also?

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Quoting: sudoshredSega lived long enough to see themselves become the bad guy. Screw you Sega for this nonsense. "Character Animation in the Menu" WTF is that BS. I hope no one gives them a cent until they fix this garbage.

Initially, I was going to preorder this, because I loved the 'Sonic' games growing up. I have quite literally put thousands of hours into the "classic" games.

But looking at that chart, I don't see any real benefit to the "deluxe" version... I might still get the "deluxe" version, because I work for a GameStop subsidiary and thus, I get staff discounts on my game purchases; but your comment also makes me reluctant to do so, because you're not really getting any extra value for the "deluxe" version and I shouldn't be encouraging such poor practices.

Quoting: superboybotAs an aside, I think it's wild that Sonic 1 is thirty years old and still hasn't hit the public domain (and probably won't for another 200 years).

Whilst it varies from country-to-country, it's gotta be more than 100 years for copyright-protected stuff to become public domain in America, unless a company can prove that a trademark is so closely associated with their company that their company is the very first thing people think when they see that particular trademark... This is why Disney have been smashing out the 'Mickey' merchandise over the last few years, because it's nearly been 100 years since the character was created.

There was a lot of talk about this when Disney started to (significantly) ramp-up all the 'Mickey' merchandise a few years back... I never realized that a company still operating could lose ownership of their intellectual property, but apparently they can after a set period of time and a certain set of circumstances.

Not too sure how I feel about that, but there you go.

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Anybody else having problems running the Sega Mega Drive and Genesis Classics collection?

I'm trying to run it and after seeing the Sega logo briefly, it consistently causes my entire system to freeze...

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyFar as I can tell, right now the two are comparable... ...The real reason to switch to Wayland, though...

Thanks for that... As vague as it was, it answered the question in my eyes. 👍🏼

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"Added support for laptop privacy screens."

What exactly is a "laptop privacy screen"?

They only ones I've ever heard of or seen are those things you physically stick to the display... But I don't know why you'd need software support for that, so obviously they're referring to something else here.

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And I've upgraded, under a "clean" installation with Snap nowhere to be found! 😀

Oh, and I love the new 'power profiles'... Not only do they make it super-easy to quickly change a variety of settings for various usage scenarios, but they seem to make an awfully big difference in how long the usage times on my laptop are (even if, under the default settings, it does make my laptop a little difficult to see under indirect sunlight)!

Having left Ubuntu after 18 years though, it's gonna take me a day or two to get used to the little "quirks" which are unique to Pop!_OS (such as the default keyboard shortcut for Terminal, which is "super" + T under Pop!_OS).

Definitely loving it (Pop!_OS) though, and I'm already considering it a big upgrade from Ubuntu 20.04 LTS... Hopefully I'll say the same once the so-called "honeymoon period" is over.

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So unlike Ubuntu, Pop!_OS stuck with X11 for this 'LTS' release (Ubuntu went with Wayland as the default for AMD users and in a future update in the near future, it will also be the default for NVIDIA users)...

The windowing system as I understand it, is the part that actually "draws" everything on the screen under Linux-based operating systems - but I don't understand the advantage of one over the other.

Out of curiosity, what is the main advantage of Wayland over X11 or vice-versa?

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Ugh. Why go with older standards (USB Type-A)?

The whole world is moving towards USB Type-C, albeit slowly... It would have made waaay more sense to include multiple USB Type-C ports, and just one or two USB Type-A 3.1 ports (it's just silly to use superseded standards).

I really don't understand the logic here... Not that it matters, because Australians can't get the Steam Deck anyway, and by the time we will be able to, USB4 (the latest standard, released in 2019) will probably be commonplace. 🙄

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Quoting: Cyba.CowboyI quite literally just finished manually backing-up my data (by copying-and-pasting to a "spare" storage drive - I don't trust "automatic" back-up tools), and now I'm just waiting for Pop!_OS 22.04 LTS to drop, so I can do a "clean" install (I always do a "clean" install when a new 'LTS' release drops, to rid my system of any unwanted junk)...

Copy and paste? May I suggest the following:
 
rsync -avxHAX [src] [dest]
You will get all the permissions and stuff that way.

I'm all done now, but thanks for this!

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Quoting: XetalI`m waiting for Pop!_OS 22.04 LTS Version.:tongue:

This.

I quite literally just finished manually backing-up my data (by copying-and-pasting to a "spare" storage drive - I don't trust "automatic" back-up tools), and now I'm just waiting for Pop!_OS 22.04 LTS to drop, so I can do a "clean" install (I always do a "clean" install when a new 'LTS' release drops, to rid my system of any unwanted junk)...

Looks like they still have twelve issues outstanding [External Link] (at the time of writing), and they've only made it through two of the QA issues today, so we could be waiting a few more days for Pop!_OS 22.04 yet...

Quoting: EhvisBeen on Ubuntu for 18 years now. Had it ups and downs, but for the most part it's been reliable.

I've been using Ubuntu since the very first public version, 4.10 ("Warty Warthog"), because one of their reps had given me an install CD at some trade show I attended... I'd always "dabbled" with Linux-based operating systems before this, mostly Red Hat Linux and occasionally S.u.S.E. / SuSE Linux, but Ubuntu was the first time I'd given Linux-based operating systems a real look.

In saying this, I did dual-boot until about 2012 / 2013, before finally making the decision to switch to a single-boot setup... Controversially, I didn't actually think that there was anything wrong with Microsoft's 'Windows 8' operating system (besides the privacy concerns) - I would even go as far as saying I liked it; but Ubuntu was my 'primary' operating system (by this stage, I was really only using Windows 8 for gaming) and I have always found the performance of Ubuntu to be superior to that of Microsoft Windows-based operating systems.

So I made the jump to a single-boot setup.

And with minor exceptions, I've briefly "dabbled" with other Linux distros over the years, I've stuck with Ubuntu in all that time.

I am planning to change to Pop!_OS when 22.04 LTS drops though... I dabbled with Pop!_OS back when it first released and wasn't too impressed; but I recently tested it on a "spare" computer and felt that the experience was vastly improved over Ubuntu.

The final "nail in the coffin" though, is the fact that Pop!_OS does not support Snap "out-of-the-box", instead offering native support for Flatpak "out-of-the-box"... People can say what they want about Snaps versus Flatpaks, but in the Real World, there's not really all that much difference in the performance between the two - Flatpaks are slightly more "open" though, and there are significantly more distros supporting or planning to support Flatpak "out-of-the-box", so that's where I'm putting my money for the eventual "winner" (though I use that term loosely, because Snap does have its advantages, too).

My current Ubuntu system has a whole "Frankenstein" Snap / Flatpak thing going on... It's just "neater" and otherwise more logical to go the "Flatpak only" route with Pop!_OS going forwards, particularly when it is pretty likely Flatpaks will eventually come out on top.

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Quoting: Cyba.CowboyHow is 'Surviving Mars' not supported?

The reason is given on the page, something along the lines of "Valve is improving Steam Deck support of the game" - whatever that actually means. But for sure it's gonna be Playable of Verified later.

It's probably something trivial, like the controls or something... I was watching a video from @TheLinuxGamer on Odysee a week or two ago, and he was saying that one of the reasons a game may not be considered "verified" is because of the control setup.

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Quoting: PhiladelphusUp to 27% for me, with just Ultimate Chicken Horse and Supporting* Surviving Mars unsupported.

How is 'Surviving Mars' not supported?

I have the 'GOG.com' version - which natively supports Linux-based operating systems - and a quick check of the 'Steam Store' page shows that it is listed as natively supporting Linux-based operating systems in that store, also... Even ProtonDB lists it as natively compatible, and there is the occasional comment from somebody that has tested it on the Steam Deck directly, confirming that it works on the 'Deck too.

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