Quoting: gradyvuckovicGood to see Valve taking this initiative. Never underestimate the value of localisation. About 95% of the world don't speak English as a first language, and 75% don't speak English at all.

Would be nice to see some more Linux distro websites translated as well. Hard to promote your distro to the majority of the planet if the majority of the planet can't read it.

For a quick sample, the following websites are only available in English as far as I can tell from looking at the homepage of their websites:
- https://linuxmint.com/
- https://manjaro.org/
- https://ubuntu.com/
- https://archlinux.org/
- https://www.centos.org/
- https://endeavouros.com/
- https://getsol.us/home/
- https://www.gentoo.org/

Shoutout to these websites for having numerous translations available on a visible dropdown on their homepage:
- https://getfedora.org/
- https://www.debian.org/
- https://www.opensuse.org/

not to mention that some programs arent even tested on other languages.
for example, here i have an directory called "Music" and another called "Música" and the same for documents, pictures, videos and so on, why? because i installed some program that didnt considered the possibility of my system not being in english and created those directories as result.
i have no idea what program did that, i think it was libre office snap or something like that, something that definitely had to be tested (it wasnt too niche of an application) but wanst .

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Quoting: constthe wii u showed them that they can't build another generation on gimmicks

i wouldnt call wii and ds gimmicks, sure wii didnt had many good games, but the idea was good and someone had to try, unfortunatelly most developers dont want to make games that only run in one platform, and not every game franchise work in this type of controler, not to mention the under powered hardware, but think about it, if motion sensors were invented before gamepads with buttons and joysticks, how the industry would be nowadays? most games would be made for motion, they would have nailed the motion controls, polished it, perfected it, they would know what work and what dont with this type of controls, and when someone made an controller with buttons and an stick, that would be the one seeing as gimiick.

im not saying "motion control is better", im just saying that part of the reason why it didnt worked was that the market for traditional games was much more mature than motion controls, not to mention it was easier to make traditional games, so we couldnt exploit the full potential of this, and... wii mote had a lot of problems.
i wouldnt call that gimmick.

ds on the other hand, had A LOT of great games that only made sense in the controls they were designed for+great traditional games too.

WiiU? well, it had mario maker and that was the only good use that i knew for it touch... oh and splatoon made a nice use of the gyro sensor, but it was indeed an gimmick console, it was more powerfull than an ps3 so technically it could have great looking games... but it was relased to late so that power wasnt a big deal anyway.

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" I'm not sure how they plan to improve on that"
they can make steam open source, but i doubt they will.
they can also improve the modularity of the hardware making it easier to repair/upgrade, but i doubt its easy to do, maybe its not even possible.

interesting notes:
1)they said that steam and steam games will be avaliable for all chromebook users, are they serious? i think that was a miss comunication, i doubt they can make it work in the first chromebooks launched.
2)they said they will learn from the users, but there are a few negative aspects with that aproach, for example, wii and ds would never have being invented if nintendo just relied on "telemetry" on seeing what already is popular, what already work.
i saw an video from valve channel for developers, where they said they used telemetry to see how people are playing their games and noticed that many people mute the music on their fps to better listen to the sound of fire arms and figure out where the shooting is coming from, or because they got tired of listening to the same song over and over again, their conclusion was that they shouldnt make more musics, because people will mute then anyway, honestly i think that is a bad aproach, as someone who listen to basically anime/game sounds, i would hate to see more companies follow that trend, instead they should make more/better music so people wouldnt mute then, i can understand that this isnt possible for some competitive games like fps, but imagine if they followed that trend on all their games?

3)holyshit, look at page 20, they did an great job at highlighting some of the games you can play, i mean, not only things that are popular in general, like cyberpunk2077 but specifically things that are popular on asia.

Resident evil, yugioh, final fantasy, guilty gear, project diva (vocaloid/hatsune miku), tales of, sekiro, eldenring, ace combat, Dragon Quest, code vein, musedash, scarlet nexus, meltblood, something i cant read, persona, yakuza, king of fighters, atelier, metal gear, devil may cry, nier, and maybe klonoa, im not sure

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steam deck is doing everything i wished android did back in the days it was a newthing.
i mean, android support gamepad, good luck finding good games on playstore to use it.
not to mention the contribution its doing to the linux ecosystem.

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Quoting: Pendragon

Quoting: GuestCue the post obligatory post on Odysee comment with all the other Open Source / FOSS people. ;p

Youtube really does suck though ... case in point: look up "Totally Not Mark" on Youtube

i dont get it, whats up with this channel? its a plagiarism or something?

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a lot of the video was dedicated to the logo...
i thought tux would be a playable character at least twice, when i saw the thumbnail of the video and when i saw it at the video itselft, its a shame its not the case, i would love to see some hand draw animated game where you play as an penguim, think something like cuphead with an different art style and a penguim as the mascot...
or maybe something like pingus, extreme tux racer , super tux and super tux kart... but good, like pingus.
its a shame its not the case, but good to see we being celebrated anyway.

as for organization room, wow never expected some one would make a game about this.

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QuoteWe are very interested in helping with any underlying resource constraints.

i understand that those projects need funding, but didnt that create an incentive to create problems so they can charge for an solution? not only on that project, but in others that listen that there is money to be made on breaking stuff...

QuoteMeanwhile, you can still write and run winmm[1] applications on Windows 10, and they will work in almost all cases. It's simply the case that the win32 API is more stable than Linux userland APIs, so it's entirely plausible that games will run better in Wine, which shares that stable ABI, than they will on Linux, especially as time goes on and Linux userland shifts yet again.

i said that a loong time ago, and people insisted that i was wrong.
hell even linus torvalds complained about this.

i wonder how the world would look like if we didnt had windows and as result wine, or how it will look like if windows die in the future, and if it didnt had consoles, retro gaming would be history...

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omg, its offtopic, but i sent an video recomendation by e-mail and now i just saw that it was 1 year old...

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Quoting: constIf a Switch2 had backwards compatibility, that would already be a big win for consumers. I doubt it.

I love my Deck to pieces, but there are quite a lot of reasons it can't really hurt the Switch.

1. Obviously availability just isn't there. How many Steam Decks are out there? Nintendo probably sells these numbers in weeks.
2. The Deck is a device for adult(ish) gamers for now and Switch is a family device. I bet >80% of the weekly Switch sales are birthday/christmas gifts to children, then maybe 10% for parents whose adult children hope they'll exercise with some sport game and then some replacements for old units. The whole childrens birthday/childrens christmas market is totally out of the decks reach and frankly, Valve doesn't seem to care about that market at all.

I have the impression the Deck opened up that niche on Steam, so developers targeting Steam will more often consider making family friendly games and developers making family friendly games for Switch will consider a PC port, yet that might just be a a shim...

....but frankly, there are other tasks to be tackled before that. And also, we don't need the Deck to gain any kind of dominancy. If SteamOS based devices sell 5 Million units (like 5% of Switch), we as Linux gamers would already be in a position we couldn't even imagine a few years back.

i couldnt disagree more.
0)switch 2 will have backward comp for sure.
0.5)deck can hurt switch for sure, nintendo isnt so strong when do have proper competition, if it was an completely different market then playstation/xbox sales wouldnt affect nintendo success during n64, gamecube and wiiU era.
1)avaliability is the only part i agree, but unless you plan to buy both devices, i think many consumers might wait insted of purchase something else when they have an clear preference for something that is yet to launch.
2)i agree that deck isnt good for children, its too big and heavy for then, but i disagree that switch only appeal to "family games", they even acept nsfw games, i dont think they can reach 111 milions of units focusing only on kids, sure their exclusives are family friendly, but as i stated before, exclusives arent enough to explain that many sales.

and finally i disagree we dont need deck to sell a lot, sure we wouldnt have the same problem to play as we had before, all games on steam and many from other stores will work on linux so there isnt a big reason to care what the rest of the world is using.
yet, without marketshare i dont see the other anti cheat solutions working on linux anytime soon, valve worked togheter with 2 companies then what about the rest?
not to mention other sofwares like substance painter etc, other niches that might not support linux.

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Quoting: MisterPaytwickThanks for the link tho, I'll try to consult it every now and then.

its not an perfect source, they dont have good data about digital sales for example, but i dont know any other/better source.

as for nintendo power, well we saw during n64, gamecube and WiiU era that exclusives arent enough to sell consoles, i mean, sure they sold a lot despite not having support from third parties, but those platforms also showed that they are also dependent on thirdy parties, unlike some people like to claim.

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