I know these guys catch some flak over on reddit but if they can get solid support for that new ASUS device early-on they could really fill a needed niche.

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Quoting: MohandevirAvailable at BestBuy... Physical presence or only online? This could hurt the Steam Deck.

As someone else pointed out, I doubt if Valve cares much. They're investing in linux and proton to keep Microsoft honest about trying to do a walled garden app store for windows. They make their bajillions of dollars off of Steam, so the more people gaming on PC the better for them. The Steam Deck is irrelevant to their bottom line.

Quoting: slaapliedjeWonder how many people go into retail stores these days. I'm a terrible example, I don't go into retail stores very often anymore!

Same. Whenever I see a good deal at Best Buy I do the curbside pickup option so I don't even have to go in the store.

Quoting: melkemindThat's because you don't have Windows chugging greenhouse gasses underneath the hood. The Wired magazine review of the Ally said it was drawing like 6 watts just idling, which is all the Steam Deck draws even when it's running Stardew Valley.

This is a good point. My Steam Decks draw 1.9w at idle on a dock. 29w peak in an all-out gaming session.

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ASUS generally makes good to great hardware. You can't really go wrong with their motherboards and they were the makers of the legendary Google Nexus 7" 2013 device. Their cell phones aren't bad either. One are where they've fallen short in my opinion is on the software side of things. I do not have great hopes for this being a good experience since it's ASUS software trying to interact with Windows 11. I may look at picking one of these up second hand once linux support is solid for the device.

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Quoting: Julius"Open-Source"... to a very limited extent since it uses the Unity3D engine.

You might want to change the head-line as "Free and Open Source" usually refers to FOSS, and this isn't FOSS at all. Even the assets are under a restrictive NC license.

I disagree. Code under a FOSS license is still FOSS. This also applies to the assets, we say happily things like OpenMW and OpenRA are FOSS but they also need proprietary assets. One part not being FOSS doesn’t mean the part that is FOSS suddenly isn’t.

You can argue about the assets, but the code is to 90% non-FOSS as it uses the Unity3D engine. There is no way this code can be used without it, so the game really does not qualify as FOSS.

Discussion about pedantic naming conventions are always the best! While you have a point, I think it's fair to say this is an open source project (I agree it shouldn't be classified as FOSS due to just being the source that builds on top of Unity), and since it's available for free, the "free and open source" blurb in the title is fine, since it is both.

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Metronomicon requires the use of a GE variant of Proton, thus the silver rating.

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Man it's a shame Epic Games Store and all of their paid exclusives cut into Steam's market share so drastically.

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Quoting: TheodisThe only thing that's going to keep twitter from turning into a complete crapshow is that advertisers do not want to be associated with the worst of it which is why Elon's first announcement was pretty much begging the advertisers to stay telling them that he won't let it get too bad.

Spoiler alert: He's going to let it get that bad.

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I never liked Twitter and I never used it and it's main purpose in recent years seems to be trying to push fascist agendas. This is good news as far as I'm concerned.

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Quoting: hardpenguinRIP

It is hilarious to watch that intrusive anti-cheat will never be as intrusive on Linux as it is on Windows...

I'm ok with that. To me, at least, nothing of value has been lost here.

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Quoting: kit89I wish they had stuck it in the 200-250 bracket on price.

I think this is where the 580 will eventually settle? I agree though this used to be the sweet spot for price/performance in GPUs and since the bitcoin mining craze it's been a deadzone.

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