Quoting: rcritSounds similar to Fedora Silverblue [External Link].

The concept is similar, but the implementation is different. Silverblue depends on ostree to implement atomic updates while still depending on RPM. Ubuntu Core does it differently: it breaks down the system into smaller components and packages each of these components as a snap, so there are no DEB packages any more. This has some advantages over the Silverblue approach because you can control these components individually. For example, you can opt to switch your kernel to the "edge" channel and you'll get the latest kernel without having to build it yourself and without losing automatic updates to that kernel. Same can be done with Gnome Shell or Mesa or any other component in the system. You can also easily install multiple desktop envs without messing the system since each of these DEs will be a separate snap, which likely means there won't be different flavours of this, just one flavour with all DEs.
This also means Ubuntu can, hopefully, provide a better install and update experience since it'll have one package system instead of two, so the devs can focus their efforts on getting this right instead of having to maintain two separate package formats.
All of this, however, is theoretical potential. It remains to be seen whether Canonical manages to get it right, but if they do I bet it'll make Ubuntu an attractive distro to a lot more people.
Personally, I hope this will encourage someone to fork snap and make it properly open.

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I wish they reveal how much of these 500k are on Linux/Steam Deck.

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I have played it on PS5 and I really recommend it. A lot of fun; much improved over the previous version.

Although, I doubt this will work smooth on the Steam Deck. It's a game that requires a pretty performant GPU and NVME.

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"fragmented platform"

What a silly excuse

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I'm guessing the difference between this and the one in the Steam Deck isn't big enough to warrant a 2nd gen Steam Deck yet, otherwise Valve would've rushed to use it as well.

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Quoting: GuestThe reason why linux is not popular in china is simple: piracy, piracy and piracy. China doesn't care about copyright stuff at all. If you don't want piracy, there are "smuggled" windows oem keys for as low price as 2-5$. Some chinese fake company pretends to make 100000 windows tablets, and issues the same amount of oem codes from microsoft, then sells it. And as they don't care about open source, or the philosophy behind it, there is no any need or desire for them to adopt linux in any way. Also the asian culture is way more conformist-ish. Windows is the standard thing, and most of people use it without questioning. And let's admit it for once, it is a bit easier to use, and has more hardware support.

So we have multiple factors that set things as they are.

Piracy has little to do with this. The vast majority of those who use Linux have no problem shelling out $100 for a Windows license; they choose Linux for reasons other than cost. The reality is that the culture of open source almost does not exist in China, nor anywhere else outside of Europe and North America. For some reason people there simply do not understand the reason why openness is important, or just do not care.

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Quoting: edoIts now on amazon, you can now buy it anywhere on the world that amazon can reach

Looks like it's not official. The 64g model is selling at $524 at amazon.com compared to the official price tag of $400.

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I think the numbers are not as good as it could've been. The device has a very good reputation and it could see much more success if Valve does better marketing for it. For example, why isn't it being sold at retail stores or other big online stores like Amazon? Why isn't it being sold in the rest of Asia, South America, and Africa? I think what's holding the device back is simply Valve being slow.

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Quoting: sarmadI think for the same price you can get higher specs from MSI with better build quality.

I'm not really much of a System76 buyer as I generally shy away from any +512 EUR laptop personally (my work laptop is a different thing...), but why do you think MSI does better builds? AFAIK System76 does *not* just re-brand Clevo clamshells. Also, the MSI won't have proper open firmware and as-high software quality.

From experience. I have owned two System76 laptops in the past and now I'm using an MSI laptop, which just feels more premium. For example, the Darter Pro had a very annoying keyboard flex and you can clearly see a bump in the keyboard in the middle as if a screw is missing. The other annoying thing in System76 laptops was the fan curves, though my Darter Pro was the version with the closed source firmware; not sure if the fan curve is better with the open firmware. On the other hand the open firmware in System76 laptops is nice. So I guess it depends on whether open firmware is higher priority to you than build quality.

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That's a big difference from the 1.2% market share reported by the Steam Survey. Maybe this specific game is more fitted for playing on the go?

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