This seems like an interesting game, which I might get at some point, but weirdly what stuck out for me is the price. I don't really follow exchange rates, but I'm used to the Euro and the Pound being rather bigger than the US dollar. Man, Europe and the UK really have been hard hit lately, eh?

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Quoting: Eike"Full Steam" [External Link] at 7% playable or better, my library at 52%.

I don't know how they're doing it... ;)
...but somehow, they know what people are actually playing and thus should be checked first.

Sales statistics?

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Quoting: TermyAnd regarding Lutris: by default it is granted full home dir access - don't know why they would do something like that tbh...

'Cause it interacts with your games? Steam games go in /home, everything I've gotten from GoG ended up somewhere in /home, odd games you just download will be in /home . . . how would Lutris function without access to /home?

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Quoting: Pirolisiwhat the heck I am suppose to do, these are the kind of thing that make me think that i should be just a windows user

In my case, that's the kind of thing that sees me sticking to Mint and not worrying about latest-and-greatest versions of things.

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Quoting: mphuZThe development of SteamOS and Big Picture is clearly not going according to plan.

A ton of patches after the release of Steam Deck suggests that it had to be postponed for at least another six months.

I dunno, I think if the plan was to get lots of positive reviews, more sales than they can manufacture units to fill, and an accelerating rate of people reserving them, then it's going according to plan.
Not sure what better outcome they could have gotten by postponing.

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Quoting: NerdNoiseRadioBased on what I see in Steam Deck groups on social media, I would have no trouble believing that it could be as many as 40% of Steam Decks have Redmondsoft on them.

The Steam hardware survey seem to contradict that theory.

Yes. I tracked down where someone first figured that out, that I'm aware of. In this GoL article about the hardware survey, mr-victory commented

If you limit the survey to Windows only and list the GPUs, you will see that there are GPUs with <%0.01 share and the Steam Deck GPU is not listed.

On Linux Steam Deck GPU has %7.57 usage, which is roughly %0.07 of total.

So few people have gone the Windows route...

This was back on July 2, I don't know how things have changed since, but NerdNoiseRadio, you seem motivated enough to maybe check yourself. However, as of July 2 it was clearly way under 40% to the extent that the hardware survey can be trusted.

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Quoting: Purple Library Guy

Quoting: AppelsinAnd it doesn’t discriminate if it’s brainwashing in favor of crazy left or of crazy right.

There is some evidence this may not be the case in practice, and this is understandable theoretically: While the radical left and radical right would both make significant differences to the average person's life should they take over, the radical right wouldn't make much difference to the prosperity of the very rich, and might actually increase their wealth and power still further. So owners of platforms have no reason to see them as a serious threat. Whereas the radical left could significantly impact the fortunes of the very wealthy even if they merely became influential enough to shift the "Overton Window" to where 70s-style redistributive taxation became feasible. So owners of platforms have strong motivation to keep left wing talk out of view.
Disclaimer: I'm a crazy leftist, so my position may be biased.

A very good point, which I do agree with.

However, this depends on what is meant by "crazy left/right". Since I do consider myself among the crazy left to which you refer (those in favour of redistributive taxation and other such policies), this is of course not what I mean by "crazy left", though it's still crazy according to other points of view than mine :grin: This is more the classical skandinavian socialist / social democratic left, to which I'm a card carrying memeber (being Norwegian, that may not be so strange).
This is, as you say, not something which the platform holders (or anyone else with lots of power and money) wish to promote. And even if it is somewhat in vogue these days, even in the US, it's not the sexiest part of modern leftism, and doesn't elicit the same emotional response as other lefty interests.

To specify what I mean by "crazy left": The modern emotional Twitter-left, which more or less acts as the current counterpart to the "alt-right", i.e. the radical (racist anti-racist) parts and offshoots of the BLM movement, the anti-biology gender crowd (e.g. in sports, "a man who became a trans-woman and have gone through male puberty doesn't hold any physical advantage over a biological woman, because there's no biological difference between men and women, it's only social conditioning"), and the "disagreeing with me, or giving me information that I don't like, is equivalent to an assault on my mental and physical person", where a heterodox view on anything is unacceptable.
Like the conspi-right, this part of the left is easly manipulated by those with the power to do so, either for profit (Youtube, Twitter, Facebook, etc) or foreign interests (e.g. it's known that Russia have used social media and the racial tensions post-Floyd to stir up and mobilise Twitter-left outrage, to further deepen the US political tribalism).

Thankfully, in Norway, we're not quite at US levels of hysteria (on either side), but we're slowly but surely importing the culture war here too, since neither far side want to miss out on the action and the opportunity to be ahead of the curve.

Ah, I see what you mean. I'm a bit of a traditionalist; I don't really see most of the identity-politics crowd as "left". For me, left and right are about economics and social class, and in North America, particularly the US, most of the most strident identity politics types are actually either centrist or even fairly right wing about economics. Frankly, IMO they have to frantically double down on the identity politics precisely because they have no real politics that would make much difference to anything.

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That is a very interesting piece of data. Onward and upward!

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Methinks they need a medieval grammar consultant.

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Quoting: MohandevirGood job Valve! Let's make the Linux market share higher than ever! :smile:

Yes, I'm looking forward to seeing them all showing up in the stats.

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