Quoting: Eike

Quoting: gaboverstaRecently a German YouTube channel made a video about handheld gaming desktops and articulated that they were all infuriatingly unusable. Windows being the reason. Naturally, the Steam Deck was the exception.
This channel of Gamers gaming (and editing etc.) on Windows made a point out of the Steam Deck being great because it uses Linux and the customizability that comes with that.

We truly have come far.

Could you look that video?

I suppose it's this one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNXaGaixF7c [External Link]

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Quoting: Liam Dawe

Quoting: TuxeeAnd I don't care for Fortnite in the slightest. I'm waaaaay to mature for that crap.

Guess I'm immature then for wanting to play it on both my desktop Linux and Steam Deck. Okay then.

Come on. I wasn't serious (except that Sweeney assessment) - I have to deal with a son who plays Fortnite on a - gasp - Windows PC.

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Tim Sweeney is a prick. And I don't care for Fortnite in the slightest. I'm waaaaay to mature for that crap.

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Why oh why go they for an (already rather old) Intel APU when the AMD competitors are better in pretty much every aspect? And why DDR4?

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Quoting: grigiwhy do they always have to do the Not-Invented-Here thing all the time.

You are aware that most of the NIH stuff came before nowadays established alternatives?

upstart (2006) preceded systemd (2010).
Unity (2010) preceded Gnome Shell (2011).
Snap (2014) preceded Flatpak (2015).
And when Mir was announced in 2013 Wayland was a long shot from being remotely usable.
Even Bazaar (26 March 2005) came a few days before Git (7 April 2005 after a 3 day development).

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Quoting: morbiusI tried Steam snap when I installed Ubuntu 24.04 and it worked like ass, no games would start. I replaced it with the app from Steam store and everything was fine.

What is the "app from Steam store"? Downloading Steam from Steam? This might cause a singularity in the space-time continuum...

Anyway: The Snap version of Steam runs without hiccups on my laptop. The apt version had it's fair share of problems with launching the single game I play on my laptop (Hexcells).

The apt version of Steam on my desktop launches all games quite nicely BUT I always have to start Steam from a shell. Just clicking the icon which supposedly does exactly the same results (after showing the splash screen briefly) in a Steam icon in my indicators section but does nothing else. The only menu entry working is "Exit Steam".

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They must be desperate. After just a few months when the predecessor hit the market they are already announcing a successor. By the end of the year we should see at an "Ally 2"...

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Why a 1920x1200 120Hz display? I mean you can always turn down the resolution. But my Lenovo T14 sports exactly the same APU, memory configuration and display resolution (at 60Hz) - and let me tell you: At FHD most games are far from "smoothly playable".

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Quoting: drjomsIs it still pay to progress/win?

It is still (and always was) progress to win. After playing it for nearly 10 years I can't state that it is pay to win. In fact I am notoriously underperforming with my premium vehicles.

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Quoting: LibreTEKDarktable on Wayland is fine, but using it with an AMD gpu is horrible because of the lack of OpenCL support, and using an NVIDIA gpu on Wayland is... yep. And yes, too quickly, if it cant be a drop in replacement for X11 then it's not ready and distros are rushing it.

There is OpenCL support with AMD gpus. OpenCL support can be installed standalone from the AMD repos along the Mesa drivers.

https://askubuntu.com/questions/1406137/how-enable-opencl-on-amd-gpu-ubuntu-22-04-lts [External Link]

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