Shame about toxicity around this subject matter. This will have to happen eventually, but it is gigantic task, so I understand chicken and egg problem here.

I hope Valve team has some plan to move away from 32 bit completely, but again, I don't know complexities involved.

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So they can decided they will try to shut down competition like this. Sigh. Nintendo, sometimes it is ok to stand down your lawyers for once.

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Pure and utter investor scam. Hope they crash and burn in hell.

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Do not forget excellent Disco Elysium, works perfectly on Steam Deck!

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Quoting: Guest

Quoting: PeciskDisclaimer: I have a problem and name of the problem is Halo Infinite, it is currently my 12 min addiction game.

It works really well on Linux. And yes, EAC announcement took me by surprise, however, same team have EAC enabled on Chief collection for Proton and it still works.

So yeah, played for 4 hours, can confirm, no issues. Can't say anything about improved network code, but it at least did not make my experience worse.

The problem with halo infinite is that only controller works. I can't play it with M&K, which i vastly prefer over controller for games like these.

I have 350 hours in HI and I am playing with keyboard/mouse very effectively :)

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Disclaimer: I have a problem and name of the problem is Halo Infinite, it is currently my 12 min addiction game.

It works really well on Linux. And yes, EAC announcement took me by surprise, however, same team have EAC enabled on Chief collection for Proton and it still works.

So yeah, played for 4 hours, can confirm, no issues. Can't say anything about improved network code, but it at least did not make my experience worse.

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It is not criminal offense, but this feels too much on nose. Yes, there are tons of clones of very popular games. But this developer has very clearly stated that it's goal is to profit from estabilished formulas, and is very ignorant about effects overall. Yes, it is legal, but it is just not cool.
Fact that corporations try to do verified formulas is one thing, but openly stating that is your goal kinda invalidates me ever checking your games.

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Quoting: PeciskI like innovation format and hardware, however at some point vendors will have to accept that shackling to Windows license IS holding them back. SteamOS is just way more superior environment.
Yes, Microsoft might throw billions after Valve new project, but I doubt they gonna redirect serious software resources to it, considering shareholders scream for moar OpenAI.

Anyone else ever think that shareholders seem on average kind of dumb?

They are just playing by the rules laid out by system. System is very primitive, dumb, shortsighted and will destroy us if we won't do something about it soon.

Fact is - and it can't be understated - Steam Deck is possible because Valve is privately held. That's long and short of it.

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Quoting: enigmaxg2Yet another Wincrap-based handheld, and guess what? It will be available in more markets than the Deck.

Valve needs to release SteamOS 3 and make the Deck available (oficially) in more countries.

Usually it is not how it works. Vendors usually will claim wider availability to lock in people's attention (Ally is still nowhere to seen in the wild, despite the claims last spring). However no one's gonna bother because of options already available out there. Valve seems to prefer vendors who care to sell their hardware instead of just dumping it - most likely lessons learned from previous iterations of their kit.
Despite all hype, scaling up production of kits is very hard and sometimes economics is just not there. Yes, Windows handhelds seem to try to corner more expensive niche, but Steam Deck just keeps being "common man" PC handheld. Number of friends who gotten SD because it's price around me is just ridiculous. Also everyone has Steam account so setting it all up and using it is just as easy as Switch.
Funny thing is vendors could just adapt SteamOS and get on with it. They don't have to pay anything to Valve. But those Microsoft deals are way too sweet and they long given up to sell actual hardware to people - they are selling Windows users to Microsoft and eye balls to software. In their defense selling PC devices and having a profit these days is really not possible - due of competition margins are very thin.

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Only thing I am mostly interested is secondary market with SteamOS polished and installed on these devices. Then it might be worth to check it out.

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