UMPC is the actual category name for Handheld PC?

Anyone else here old enough to remember what a UMPC and Handheld PC used to be? :grin:

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This is supposed to be Valve's version of 'Fortnite: Battle Royale', isn't it?

Or is it completely different?

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At this price, I'll wait until they add Linux support or there's a generous sale on... Granted, it's not ultra-expensive; but it's more than I'd like to pay for a Windows-only game.

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Wait, SteamVR supports Linux-based operating systems now? I thought it was just a Windows thing!

I might have to pull out my PlayStation VR2 and see if I can connect it somehow... It uses USB Type-C, after all.

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Meh.

All I want is The Last of Us: Factions MP on my Steam Deck... I'm already up to 10,000+ hours on my 'PlayStation' consoles; but I'd be stoked if I could play this on my Steam Deck.

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the only real solution for that is verified boot with a signature whitelist. that would mean you can only play on popular distros with one of their official kernels

The easy solution is to have two boot modes for the Steam Deck - one as it is now, and one with a "secured" environment... If you want to play online games, just switch to the "secured" environment.

It wouldn't be enough to get Fortnite on SteamOS - Epic Games clearly have a problem with Linux itself rather than a the occasional cheater - but it would convince a lot more other developers to come across.

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If this comes to the Steam Deck - and it's somewhat playable - it's an instant-buy for me... I already have it on my "wish list" for my PlayStation 5, but I'd much rather get it for my Steam Deck / laptop.

It's got loads of eye candy, and they say it's a great game, too.

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I wish they'd make the entire (Fighting Fantasy) library available like this... I grew up reading Fighting Fantasy books extensively (I owned the first thirty or forty books!), long before Steve Jackson and Ian Livingstone were role-playing game gods or had started the Games Workshop (well, in Australia at least - I think it was in it early days overseas).

Nice to see Official Steam Deck support though, considering these are better-suited to mobile devices rather than (traditional) computers.

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I have the original "the sims" it comes with 1 CD.
Now it requires 17GB? How it comes to this?
I'm expecting about 2GB or less for the expansions. But it's insane.

I don't know what size it is and I'm too lazy to check, but I still have the entire collection of 'The Sims' and 'The Sims 2' on CD-ROM still, and it was like, six or seven discs for each (the main game plus all of the expansions)... So 17GB doesn't seem all that crazy to me.

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I wonder why they've never shown the ''Wolfenstein' games any love... Yeah, Doom is the Big Daddy of their early games; but (classic) 'Wolfenstein' is all but forgotten.

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