Quoting: Purple Library GuyThe only way Snaps become dominant is if Ubuntu grows and displaces the use of most other distros.

This is not necessarily true. Snaps are independent from Ubuntu. If you go to the snap store you'll see no Ubuntu branding there. Canonical is marketing snap as a Linux store, not as an Ubuntu store, much like Steam is a Linux gaming store regardless of which distro you're using. So, if people have no problem installing Steam, which is proprietary and tightly controlled by Valve, why would they have problem installing snap, which at least has an open source client?

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Quoting: whizseI can't say I have a stake in this, but it's interesting to ponder that Ubuntu seems to have a habit of betting on the wrong horse, Mir and upstart, for example.

Except that this time around they are betting on the right horse. snap is more mature than flatpak (gives the user more granular control over permissions, can be used for cli apps, can be used for non-sandboxed apps, can be used with system services, etc), snapcraft is more mature than flathub (it takes me 10 minutes to update flatpak vs the less than a minute snap takes to update), and snap has much wider adoption from 3rd party app vendors.

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Well done, Valve. Those people need to be banned from all online gaming, not just DOTA. I hope they share their info with other online games so they can get banned there as well.

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As usual, Valve games just refuse to die. Maybe I should pick Team Fortress again to see what's new.

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Quoting: Perkeleen_VittupääAll already sold out??

64GB
eMMC (Out of stock - reserve now)

256GB
NVMe SSD (Out of stock - reserve now)

512GB
NVMe SSD (Out of stock - reserve now)

https://steamdeck.komodo.jp/product/steam-deck/?lang=en [External Link]

Looks like you spoke too soon, Liam. Good to see it doing well though.

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Speaking of Atari, is the VCS still in the market and is this also releasing on the VCS?

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Quoting: VardamirWell, things are moving in the right direction.
Btw, I was wondering, if Linux is not already the most successful gaming platform. If you count Android, it might already be. Does anybody have numbers on the market share for gaming devices?

I don't have exact numbers, but Android is, by far, the biggest gaming market. If I remember correctly, it was bigger than Xbox and Playstation combined!

Curious, is that number of gamers, or is that profit? Android games make stupid, almkst criminal amounts of money based on EA level of shady antics.

If I remember correctly, it was based on profit. That, however, is the combined market size, and that doesn't mean if you publish your game on Android you'll make more profit than on Playstation or Xbox. It just means the market is bigger with far more developers and far more players. Obviously, a big portion of those games are puzzle games or other touch friendly games.

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When you say it now works, do you mean online multiplayer works as well, or only the single player mode?
If online multiplayer works as well, and it was a tiny and quick fix, then what excuse do other developers have?

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Quoting: VardamirWell, things are moving in the right direction.
Btw, I was wondering, if Linux is not already the most successful gaming platform. If you count Android, it might already be. Does anybody have numbers on the market share for gaming devices?

I don't have exact numbers, but Android is, by far, the biggest gaming market. If I remember correctly, it was bigger than Xbox and Playstation combined!

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Quoting: Nico7asThe Starfighter also packs a 4K+ display

Which is more of a downside in my book. Who would need 4k on a tiny 15" screen?!

The Starfighter is also available with a higher refresh (165Hz) 2560x1600 screen as well, which is what I reserved mine with, as I agree with you about 4K and would rather have the higher refresh and lower battery consumption.

With higher refresh rate you probably won't save battery life anyway, but regardless of battery life, the higher refresh rate definitely gives you more visual improvement than the higher resolution.

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