Currently it does have an issue where swapping the mode during a match may crash it. Nice to see!

Yes, it is indeed nice to see.

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A new Proton Hotfix is up and it makes the game run again.

I see no option for FSR on Steam Deck, though. Just TAA (like before) and XeSS. The latter improves things, but comes with problems all its own (shimmering opalising effect on textures). I remember this well from Robocop...

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Someone in the freedesktop bug says they reported this to Bethesda and got back "This issue is likely occurring due to Indiana Jones and the Great Circle not officially being supported on the Steam Deck. We understand this answer is disappointing and apologize for the inconvenience."

So, yeah, it's all on Valve as usual.

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Except that in contrast to Valve, pretty much everyone hates M$, and people STILL don't switch. That's how hard it is to convince people to move away from an established product when there is no compelling reason to.

Do you have a source for that, or at least some stats? In the Linux bubble "pretty much everyone hates M$ (sic!)" is a given, but how many people is that, some 3% of "PC users"?

In my RL experience, the vast majority of non-tech people (and that's the vast majority of all people) don't have any opinion about MS, it's just "what's on the computer", and the rest (of non-tech people) actively loves them for giving them the wonderful tools that let them do their jobs every day.

And people actively prefer to pirate Windows and MS Office instead of using a free alternative because it gives them the perception of having saved money. A free product is worh exactly zero, a paid product used for free - now that's value right there.

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If you want to compete in an established market, against a company that's massive and (on the whole) quite well liked

We, Linux users, know this very well, don't we?

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Plastic? Huh.

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Oooh, does SteamOS have a builtin battery health indicator or how did you get that value? Would be cool to know. :)

KDE shows this is desktop mode.

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Stellar Blade is lovely. I know it's frowned upon in some parts of the West to appreciate pretty girls these days, but luckily the rest of the world doesn't care.

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I would love to have a steam deck v2 that has a dock to which I can attach an external GPU. I could still enjoy handheld mode with lower resolution and lower graphics settings but also have the option to play on a big 4k screen with higher graphics settings when docked.

Exactly this. Nintendo has shown a handheld/living room hybrid is an excellent proposition and thus a Steam Machine could be composed of a SD2 and an (optional) dock with a GPU hooked up to the TV. None of that DIY nonsense, an official dock with a single GPU config supported by Valve. I'd be all over that.

Also, while they're at it, they should get rid of the 16:10 screen ratio, it's only causing problems. Peoples' TVs are 16:9 and a _gaming_ handheld should retain that.

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It seems that ray-tracing will be a requirement, so be prepared for a "non compatible with Steam Deck".

Indiana Jones requires ray-tracing and runs on the SD just fine.

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