Hey Liam,

Can you update this article to mention ProtonUP-Qt can be installed from the Discovery App?

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Quoting: GuestWhile my understanding of the meaning of "simple" cannot include the need to perform many steps to accomplish one thing, I can understand that it can still be easier for some to perform what I personally call complexity, instead.
Sure thing is that anybody would agree that Valve should really provide a multiplatform solution which is simple and easy to perform such task out of the box.
Maybe via usb cable to avoid network troubles too.

6 Easy Steps to accomplish an unlimited* number of things.

*Once you've gone through the simple setup, you can sync an infinite amount of files.

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Wow! After watching the trailer I was excited, then I checked reviews and it was confirmed. This is an instant-buy for me. Thanks Liam!

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Speaking of desktop mode, I saw Liam wrote it was pretty stripped down. Has anyone seen a list of default installed apps anywhere? I'm curious.

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Quoting: Mountain ManI have almost decided to get a Steam Deck, but that's quite a chunk of change to throw down.

No harm in reserving a spot in line for the small fee, it'll be many months before yours would be available so plenty of time to set money aside bit by bit. If when your time comes you decide against it, you can get your deposit refunded. Go for it! 😎

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Quoting: Alm888P.S. It is hilarious to see how some "Just Use Proton"™ fans are getting riled up by such a small detail. As if they perceive the notion that Proton™ is a commercial product of a in-for-profit company as something insulting. :)

Dear Alm888®,

Please, for future reference I prefer to be referred to as a "fanboi". 😁😎

I love the power of open-source, in the hands of a for-profit company they benefit themselves and also millions of other people.

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It looks amazing! Thanks for bringing it to my attention!

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Quoting: Alm888Proton™

Hey Alm888™, that are you on about with that?

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyBut nobody not expecting to profit from the game sales could match Valve's price point

Valve wants to expand the handheld PC running SteamOS market, they could subsidize other manufacturer's hardware to keep the cost down. How much more incentivized would a manufacturer be to release such a device if they got 15% of each game sold though SteamOS installed on their device? How little profit would they be willing to take on the hardware if this were the case? As we know Valve has gotten 30% of each game all along, they could really afford to do this and it would align their long term and short term goals:

• More users on Steam
• Less dependence on Microsoft's closed source platform
• More users on SteamOS
• A ubiquitous console-like PC gaming platform running SteamOS
• A new product category [External Link], the console-like handheld PC linux gaming device
• Other manufacturers releasing hardware in the handheld PC linux gaming market
• Overcoming the catch 22 / chicken and egg problem with the relationship between the linux market share and game devs targeting linux
• Incentivizing other industry movers to help with the catch 22 / chicken and egg problem (they've already made huge strides with proton to mitigate this intractable problem)

I think it would be a brilliant strategy on their part.

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Quoting: saturnoyotheir controller was discontinued, probably because of the mixed reception it got

I think its more likely due to the patent issue and that an update with newly available technology is inevitable. Capacitive touch thumbsticks? Grip inputs as buttons (avoiding the patent issue) rather than paddles? Faster poll rate for the touchpads and gyro? Idk, probably plenty of other things which could also be updated and improved but the Deck already demonstrates some of the updates that can be made.

Have you seen the amount of robotics Valve invested in to manufacture the controllers? It was a lot. [External Link] They didn't make that investment without a long term goal in mind. Those manufacturing robots can be reconfigured to assemble a new controller with different parts. Honestly, watch the video, it's cool.

Here's the caption: "When we first started designing hardware at Valve, we decided we wanted to try and do the manufacturing as well. To achieve our goal of a flexible controller, we felt it was important to have a similar amount of flexibility in our manufacturing process, and that meant looking into automated assembly lines. It turns out that most consumer hardware of this kind still has humans involved in stages throughout manufacturing, but we kind of went overboard, and built one of the largest fully automated assembly lines in the US. Our film crew recently put together a video of that assembly line, showcasing exactly why robots are awesome."

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