Quoting: finaldestThere is only one way to ensure that Ubi and other big publishers bring over their games and that is to support Valve and Linux by doing the following:-

Buy the Steam Deck.

I am doing my part, I have pre-registered for the top tier unit with a Q2 2022 order/delivery estimate. Cannot wait to get my hands on one. I have heard on the web that over 100k units have already been ordered. If this is true then this is an brilliant start.

Looks like I got Q1 2022 for mine.

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Doesn't UbiSoft still release games through Steam, they just require the Uplay to be launched? Just like Origin games?
Not sure why they don't all just give in and except their Valve overlords...

Ha, legit everyone hates Uplay and Origin anyhow... I know EA finally gave up and started to sell games through Steam again.

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Quoting: TermyNice gesture, but personally i only care if they open source their driver (or at least the blob for reclocking), CUDA or DLSS...

Kind of seems like a slow process for sure. But I'm not going to be of the 'well why not the driver? screw you nvidia, do the driver!' We should say "This is great, more open source the better. Please consider open sourcing the driver bits.'

Maybe if we ask nicely they'll do it. I think one of the reasons they haven't done it in so long is because, let's be honest, their closed source support has been great, and their cards had been more performant than AMD's for years.

For me, the open source method of having to get the latest drivers are far more annoying than getting nvidia's closed source ones. Usually requiring a kernel update and newer mesa libraries. Things that are not okay if you're shooting for a stable desktop that you can suggest non-technical people use.

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Quoting: Shmerl

Quoting: damarrinTo rain a little on everyone's parade (mine included), people on another gaming website I go to have been saying en masse how it's an instant Windows install for it to be even remotely useful. That's what the "general public" thinks, unfortunately :-(

I think realistically only a very tiny percentage of people are interested in installing OSes at all. And many of those who do, would prefer Linux. Regular user simply isn't interested or not even sure how to install an OS, no matter Linux or Windows. So I wouldn't worry about the above at all.

So if you want to analyze the "general public" - it's a major plus that device is coming with Linux preinstalled, because that's what they'll be using.

Yep. You want figures on roughly how many people will install a new O/S? How does roughly 1% sound? :grin:

Looking forward to hearing stories of people bricking their £500 toy trying to install Windows on it. The Win10 kernel is a bit better with some stuff these days, but it still needs drivers for a pretty high number of components. Basically installing Windows is much, much harder than installing Linux, even putting aside the 100Gb+ you need for it to actually work.

No thanks.

Would be hilarious if they didn't release drivers for it, and it ends up being how most people still view Linux (the hardware is lacking drivers, hard to use because resolution isn't right, etc).

Really hoping I get mine near my B-Day, that'd be sweet. I truly don't see most people installing Windows on this. There might be a small percentage of people that do. I honestly don't know why you would, unless someone thinks the game pass or whatever is worth it, but from my recollection, wasn't there a way to do that through Linux now anyhow?

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Quoting: fleskI would have reserved the medium model day one, but unfortunately it's not available in the EEA countries. :sad:

Quoting: slaapliedjeIt has been pointed out that the person driving the car in the image with the kid in the back seat at https://www.steamdeck.com/en/hardware [External Link] is driving it wrong. That isn't how you drive a Tesla!

How so? I've only been driving a Tesla for a couple of weeks, but I can't tell what's wrong with the image.

EDIT: Assuming it's this image we're talking about: https://cdn.cloudflare.steamstatic.com/steamdeck/images/factorio-cover.jpg [External Link]

That looks perfectly normal to me.

Ha, I don't know a co-worker who owns a Tesla, demanded I post it somewhere. He rattled off something about it does driving correction and you basically only have to have your hands sort of touching the wheel or something. I was too busy reading specs on the steam deck or something else. Did think it was funny.

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Quoting: Bogomips

Quoting: slaapliedje

Quoting: BogomipsOk new big stable NVIDIA driver is here. Now waiting for the release of Bullseye after the full freeze…

Worse situation is it'll be in backports. But I'm betting it can hit the exception for making it into Bullseye. Maybe?

For the NVIDIA drivers I'm outside the repos, every time I tried it was clunky at best.

sudo apt install -t buster-backports nvidia-driver

That's too clunky?

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Quoting: BogomipsOk new big stable NVIDIA driver is here. Now waiting for the release of Bullseye after the full freeze…

Worse situation is it'll be in backports. But I'm betting it can hit the exception for making it into Bullseye. Maybe?

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Sweet! I was planning on beating this eventually.

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Ha, I actually bought the dungeon crawl one at some point and played it a little. Totally reminded me of Shining in the Darkness on the Genesis/Megadrive.

Quoting: Matombo

Quoting: LinasFor. Academic. Purposes.

F.A.P. Ofcourse, only with the "research" patch available from the dev website ;)

I died laughing when the firewall guy at my last job named a device Firewall Access Point and labeled it F.A.P. and knowing the guy, he most likely did not know what it meant...

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Quoting: Tuxee

Quoting: sub

Quoting: GuestWin 11 on Steam deck 64BG version...
No, no possible (ok its possible but no free space for any game left)

I mean there must be an option to attach some (yeah, rather slow) USB3 stick/HDD to it with a Steam collection anyhow.
64 Gb won't get you far even with a slim Linux distro.

Yes. It is called SD Card.

Ha, USB3 is going to be faster than an SD card.

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