I don't have a cell phone, don't really want to be available to people at all times or pay monthly for a plan (Canada--some of the most expensive cell phone plans in the world). But that also means I don't have a little handheld computing device, which I do sometimes miss. This could be just the thing.

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I'm too picky about games, my strike zone too small. So my chances of getting something I'd play are worse than a lot of people's. I won't be doing this.

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Quoting: BlackBloodRumSome of us just want the simplicity of doing it yourself. (snip)

It's just convenient.

Doing everything yourself . . . ah, this must be some new meaning of the word "convenient" that I hadn't heard before. :grin:

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Quoting: MadWolfNo Microsoft is still the most evil company but this is getting off-topic

I dunno. There's a lot of very tough competition out there.

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I use Mint, but I probably wouldn't want to say it's the best gaming Linux. It's the best desktop Linux. For the kind of gaming I do, it's good enough . . . but I do mostly turn-based, or strategy kinds of games; if there are things moving around in real time it's probably 2d kind of stuff, like a Survivors-like or some such. So I don't play games that require bleeding edge high performance, so I don't need to worry about the latest software or Gamescope or what have you. If I did, I might not be using Mint because I'd want the latest and greatest and Mint wouldn't give it to me. But it's fine for the stuff I do; any shortcomings from a gaming standpoint are not, for my use-case, nearly important enough to give up the very comfortable desktop experience.

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Dunno. I've had mixed feelings about a couple of Arcen's previous games. I seem to have liked them better in theory than in practice. I played The Last Federation for a while, and had some fun, but never finished a game because . . . like, you clearly had an overall objective, and you were like researching technologies and stuff, but I found it hard to tell if I was doing well or badly. It was like, OK, I've done some cool starship fights, and I'm taking in enough money to keep the operation going, but is my tech progress fast enough or is it too slow and I'm going to find myself behind the 8 ball in a while? Dunno. Am I making the kind of progress I need on the diplomatic front? Hard to tell. Are the moves I'm making even the kinds of ones I need to be making to get where I'm supposed to end up? Not sure. So my play sort of petered out.

And AI Wars I started a game and kind of bounced before I really got going. But in theory it seems like totally my kind of game and lots of people like it, so probably I'll try again, maybe after watching a video about it or something.

So their new one . . . maybe. I'll wait and see what people say.

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Quoting: CaldathrasOver Blizzard's lifetime, I have watched Blizzard devolve into the greedy, anti-consumer corporation it's is now. I had hoped that Microsoft buying them might signal a change in direction to Blizzard's attitude

Bwahahahahaha!!! I needed a good laugh this morning.

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Quoting: Purple Library Guy

Quoting: elmapulthis number may be good, but the number of games on steam grow much faster than the number of games that valve is able to test, so the % of games that run on linux get smaller and smaller everyday.

Well . . . the % of games that officially run on Steam Deck.
Proton just keeps getting developed, so the % that run in fact on Linux, on a normal form factor PC, probably keeps growing.

i know, but people might not know the games they want to play work.

Point.

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Quoting: elmapulthis number may be good, but the number of games on steam grow much faster than the number of games that valve is able to test, so the % of games that run on linux get smaller and smaller everyday.

Well . . . the % of games that officially run on Steam Deck.
Proton just keeps getting developed, so the % that run in fact on Linux, on a normal form factor PC, probably keeps growing.

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So, I'm imagining Steam Deck, dock, TV, and Steam Controller 2 working together very smoothly to give you a kind of Steam Machine without a Steam Machine.

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