With the magnifier, Stellaris looks surprisingly workable. I was not thinking that would be a game you'd want to play on the deck.

View this comment - View article - View full comments

Not my kind of game. Music's kind of catchy though.

View this comment - View article - View full comments

Quoting: Geppeto35That's pure communication. Like war propaganda on every side across Europe currently: it's made to forge a legend out of nothing

Certainly true. However,

Quoting: Geppeto35Either it is true, and we don't need this simulacrum; Or its false, and he need this simulacrum.

Well, no. In this day and age, in fact perhaps always, the truth doesn't just insinuate itself into our minds without help. Even if it's true (or more likely, partially true) we still need "simulacra" of it.

Quoting: Geppeto35Moreover, Gabe won't be delivering deck into indonesia, honduras or Ouganda

Well, no. He lives in Seattle. The only claim this whole thing has to some kind of naturalistic authenticity is that he decided to just go and do some deliveries where he lives.
There's a lot of imperialism behind the fact that big global companies are often headquartered in Seattle and never in Indonesia, Honduras or Uganda. But once that's the case, it would just be stupid tokenism to pull stunts in such countries, like Bill Clinton "feeling your pain".

View this comment - View article - View full comments

Quoting: GuestAwesome video.
Just something I noted some of the guys/gals, didn't know who Gaben even was

What I took away from that was, they put those in the video. There's some humility in the approach there. They could totally have left out anyone who wasn't worshipping the ground Gabe walked on, but they put them in. Classy.

View this comment - View article - View full comments

I know it's a publicity stunt. But, it still says something. I mean, at most companies it would never occur to them that the CEO doing something like that for publicity could possibly be an option. There's something grounded about the style of Valve in general and Gabe in particular that allows for that kind of idea.

(For that matter, if the CEOs of most companies did pull a stunt like that, nobody would care. A couple of exceptions, sure--they'd have cared if Steve Jobs went around personally delivering iPhones. But he wouldn't have done it, and the current guy? Nobody cares who he is)

View this comment - View article - View full comments

Quoting: AussieEeveeHonestly, I am not a fan of when people say something is "the future". Especially in the Linux space, where choice is key.

Personally, I will keep using Xorg and Pulseaudio.

While I'm fine with you using whatever, and I myself am unlikely to make a conscious choice to change but rather will just end up using whatever my distro defaults to, I think for a lot of this kind of infrastructure it's a good thing if choice is fairly . . . muted. Like I'm fine if people are experimenting with alternatives around the edges, but I'd prefer if there is a main thing that can be taken for granted that does the infrastructure task. I don't want there to be five different Wayland equivalents in competition or whatever.

View this comment - View article - View full comments

Quoting: BreizhIt literally runs on a potato.

Well, it figuratively runs on a potato.

View this comment - View article - View full comments

Quoting: elmapulactually that is bad...
i cant remember the name, but there were an console in the past that was killed because it announced it sequel too soon.
people stop purchasing thinking: why should i buy an <console_name> if they gonna relase the <console_name2> soon and the one i just purchased will be obsolete? i will wait for the <console_name2> instead!
as an result, the company stop selling <console_name> and went broke before they could relase the <console_name2>...

i'm not saying valve will go broke, but announce an steamdeck2 too soon may afect the sales of steam deck 1.

I've been browsing articles about the Deck outside of GoL, and I see a lot of comments from people saying they plan to wait--either for the software to mature a bit more, or for the next version.

Mind you, Gabe is saying they've got more demand than they expected, so that just might mean this machine will keep on getting buyers for some time.

View this comment - View article - View full comments

Quoting: Philadelphus

Quoting: Purple Library GuySay, I decided to try one of these (Ixion) and when I clicked to download the demo it wouldn't on the grounds that it's Windows only. I presume there's a way to tell it that's OK I'll try it with Proton, but I've never actually tried to do it before. Can any kind soul tell me what I should be doing?

I used to have that problem, and then someone here explained how to fix it; I think you go into Settings, then Steam Play, then under Advanced tick the "Enable Steam Play for all other titles" check box, possibly? Maybe tick "Enable Steam Play for supported titles" above it, too, just to be safe. If that doesn't work then I've forgotten. :whistle:

That worked. Unfortunately, although it worked, it didn't work. That is, I found the enable-y thing, and it let me download the demo and busily also downloaded Proton and tried to use it and . . . I'm not totally clear from the popups whether it was the demo or Proton itself that didn't happen, but yeah. Demo did not happen. Oh well. Thanks though--clearly in theory you gave me exactly the correct advice.

View this comment - View article - View full comments

Quoting: BlackBloodRumQuick question about the deck for those lucky enough to have access..

My understanding is that valve have their own Arch repository for the deck, with all their bits they need. However the OS is "just enough" for the deck right?

Do the repos contain other software or utilities?

As I understand it, yes and no, but somewhat more "no" than "yes". By default you can't do normal installs from normal repos (let alone the AUR), the OS is sort of frozen that way. You can install Flatpaks and Appimages; for the Flatpaks there's a GUI thing.
But then there's like a developer mode or something which gets you the ability to screw it up properly. :grin:

View this comment - View article - View full comments