I find it interesting that Valve is getting hammered with lawsuits all over the world, just as they are about to come out with more SteamOS devices. Microsoft has had a very rough time lately, Windows marketshare has declined over 20% in the last 10 years alone, Windows 11 is generating bad headlines almost every single day, Linux performance comparison videos have started to reach even mainstream gamers. On top of that Bill Gates supposedly sold his shares in Microsoft... you round it all up and it spells nothing positive for Microsoft, or Windows.

I wouldn't put it past them to use their wealth to create legal headaches for Valve. With what they have pulled in the past this is relatively mild.

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Does anyone know a tool or method to control TDP in Steam Deck desktop mode?

That's one of the few things I really missed when using the Deck as my main PC for a few months.

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I'll make a mental note of it for when I get my Wall-E trolley.

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Godot is amazing, I just created a little 3D platformer with it for uni and got an A :wink:.

I had such a blast making the game that I actually kept going and continue to add stuff, play around and experiment with it. If only I didn't suck at creating art :tongue:.

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Quoting: GBGames

Quoting: fenglengshunFor me, Ubuntu and anything Ubuntu-based just feels archaic. I've hopped on the NixOS and Universal Blue (Bazzite and Bluefin/Aurora primarily) train, and nowadays I can just define my system through a config file. uBlue goes even further with enabling creating whole distro image and ISOs with all of my configs in it.

I have been using Ubuntu 20.04 LTS and planned to upgrade to 22.04 LTS when I was done with a project (and maybe by the time I am done I just go to 24.04 LTS). I have not heard of NixOS, but it sounds kinda awesome?

It sounds like they took the idea of DevOps and applied it to your personal operating system.

I'm not sure if I'll make time to learn it and might just stick with Ubuntu, but thanks for bringing it to my awareness.

I'm doing a presentation in uni on it that's why I installed it, but I am already loving it.

It is completely different from almost every single distro out there, there is one other distro which is kind of similar, the GNU Guix one I believe. Obviously not counting spin-offs like Snowflake OS (Which I discovered only after installing NixOS), which, from what I can tell, tries to be what Ubuntu is to Debian for NixOS, though NixOS is easy enough, if you don't mind config editing in a text editor.

It's so radically different that I can't possibly list all the things which make it special, but just as food for thought, my /bin folder only has a single binary in it, 'sh', that's it. Everything else is in /nix/store.

And yes, you can make non-destructive changes and easily revert back to a working configuration. I use Plasma 6 with SDDM, just to try it, I switched to GDM and Gnome... it just deleted Plasma while I was running it, after a while I was about to hit the power button because nothing was responding any more, right before I had the chance I saw a GDM login screen, logged in to a fully functioning Gnome desktop. I was blown away. When restarting, I selected an older boot entry (they are generated after every change you make) and my entire Plasma desktop was still there the way I left it. I love it.

Obviously all the packages are clogging up your harddrive, so you need to periodically delete old configurations and packages, which you can easily automate.

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I have a 7 year old laptop which had Ubuntu 23.10 on it up until a week ago. I then installed NixOS on it with Plasma 6 (Wayland) and my battery life, what feels like doubled... Performance has also been absolutely amazing. I don't game on it or anything else requiring a lot of performance, but online video viewing like YouTube and Rumble, some light programming (compiling) and other office type tasks have all performed better than on Ubuntu (Gnome) and again, the battery life is just mindblowing.

No idea if it's Plasma 6, NixOS, Ubuntu being bloated or what have you but I absolutely love it.

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