Too bad it's not the 6000 series (the one with RDNA graphics).

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Quoting: 3zekielIt sure seems to be going smooth. Compare to the time of steam machines, we have clear momentum and hype, I am confident millions will sell.
I don´t think the number of Desktop linux user is going to skyrocket, but I expect that as the steam deck gains popularity, and once valve releases SteamOS on the desktop, we will see more pc-building enthusiast go for it. I would'nt be surprised that we rise above the 5% mark in 2023. Not a very big number yes, but MacOS managed to have more ports than we did with half that - and combined with steam deck that would begin to give us a big enough market.

There is no way the Linux market share can hit 5% in only 1~2 years. 5% in a PC landscape is a huge number and there is no way Valve can produce this much Steam Decks in just 2 years. And desktop/laptop Linux machines won't change much since there are still no ready made Linux gaming machines that are good enough to sell in masses (and most people would just use whatever the system comes with).

However, Linux doesn't need to hit a percentage higher than other platforms; it only needs to hit a percentage where it becomes a profitable platform for all developers to not ignore, and that seems to be well within reach in the next year or two.

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Quoting: denyasisValve is definitely in the Extend phase of EEE for Linux and wine, and I can see at some point they may consider making the jump to Extinguish (pairing steam off of Linux into it's own thing), but I don't see that as likely or feasible.

1). They lack the resources. Valve is 100% dependant on the free labor of the open source communities. While they've done great work, most of the heavy lifting was done long ago by others.
2). Linux being open source, it simply can't be tossed out, the way Microsoft or Apple can get rid of stuff since it's all in house.

You forgot the most important point, which is that Valve's business model depends on selling games through Steam, not selling the hardware. So, it's in their best interest that the games that work on Steam Deck also works on regular Linux as that simply means more market for them. This is why Valve is trying to support as much platforms as possible just as we recently saw with ChromeOS.

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What a bunch of hacks. One can only wonder about the performance and memory impact of this. Google could've simply made ChromeOS a regular Linux distro and built their own custom DE for it, just like Valve did, instead of this mess.

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Did they mention if all those components are open source?

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The most polished open source game, by far.

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Quoting: DribbleondoSurprised Hitman 2 isn't on that list; hell Hitman 3, considering both run under Proton pretty well.

Just a matter of getting someone to verify it. I'm pretty sure the number of titles that work well on the Deck is at least 10 times this list.

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Is this going to be the biggest console launch lineup in history? It sure looks like it.

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What is Amazon Prime Gaming, is it another game streaming service like Stadia?

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Quoting: TrainDocI understand the frustrations with a lack of amd gpus in high end laptops but I feel like one of a few who very pragmatically concedes that nvidia makes the best gpus you might be able to buy. Mind you, I hate their drivers and am very well aware of their still continued anti-competitive practices but again I struggle to justify the costs of a worse GPU. Unless AMDs drivers for their graphics cards (open source ones of course) improve the performance in my games so much over my 2070 Super, I don't understand the insistence on AMD only.

The insistence on all AMD comes from the fact that performance isn't the only thing to be concerned about. nVidia GPUs may be faster but the difference in performance does not justify the shortcomings in other areas like external displays, which so far is rubbish on nVidia gaming laptops.

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