Quoting: fagnerlnSteam deck looks perfect: size, ergonomics, weight, etc... But would be nice if they invest in some external gpu solution in a newer version.

For 5 potential customers out there?

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Quoting: pb> "this is impacting us so heavily"

ok, but what if people who go to such extreme measures are from other poor countries that *don't* have regional pricing and instead are paying "regular" prices in usd or euro? and it's their only realistic alternative to just pirating the game?

No such thing. Humble Bundle registered illegal copies of their one Dollar/one Euro bundles. There might be some "in need" using this "workaround", but I am absolutely convinced that the vast majority are people just feeling good, that they could rip off someone else.

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Quoting: fenglengshunas an accountant, every time i see a keyboard without numpad, i just feel so scared...

As a developer I am turned off by a keyboard without dedicated function keys, no insert key and no numpad (which is actually very handy with games like War Thunder, too).

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Quoting: BlackBloodRumWhat about Doom inside the inner Doom, that's running inside doom? Doom-On-Doom-On-Doom?

This will inevitably create a singularity in the space-time continuum. And what that means has already been shown in a game named "Doom"...

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Quoting: GuestI agree it seems super rushed... If Valve expects a lot of 3rd party hardware vendors jumping in they need to start a verified process, so junk companies don't make SteamOS look bad. Just to clarify I don't mean they should block other vendors, but have a list of tested hardware from vendors they trust for us customers.

How? SteamOS is open source and can potentially be slapped onto any hardware out there.

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Quoting: slaapliedjeThat is a weird, random one to target. This day and age it is no longer paranoia, someone is out to hack you.

Why should this have been a deliberate and targeted attack? I suppose pretty much everyone (more so on Windows machines) can catch malware and become therefore compromised.

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Quoting: scaineDrives me nuts, just so much hypocrisy.

Spot on. Sorry for pretty much just re-iterating your point in my post a second time.

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Quoting: slaapliedje

Quoting: scaineWeirdly though, when Canonical do this, suddenly it's "they're not collaborating", or they suffer from "not invented here" syndrome.

Maybe because they are not collaborating? Microsoft has upstreamed more code to the Linux kernel than Canonical has, for example.

U serious? Comparing a company with 180.000 employees to Canonical? Besides, MS pushes upstream whatever fits their very own agenda (which is perfectly fine). And I assume MS commits automatically translate to many lines of code.

Instead of pushing Wayland forward, they create Mir. When Gnome-shell first started out, instead of adding some coders to the pool, they decided to do their own thing with Unity, etc. They keep claiming they can do it better / faster, when they should have treated these core components as a community and pitched in.

Since Wayland/X11 replaced Mir in 2017 AND the alleged lack of commitment and upstream activity by Canonical: Would it had made ANY difference? And Wayland way is still NOT the default protocol/server/compositor on many distributions.
As far as Gnome Shell goes: Are you equally vocal towards the Cinammon developers? Or pretty much all other DEs out there aside from maybe Gnome and KDE? Gnome Shell had it's initial release in April 2011, Unity about one year earlier. So why should Canonical have abandoned it? Why did everyone "embrace" the Red Hat alternative (apart from the Cinnamon and MATE people)? (Do I get the "t'was the licensing" answer?)

But instead all they do is divide people.

No. Actually not. I'd say the majority of Linux users don't give a shit. I never felt the urge to pop up in some Red Hat/Fedora forums and bash away at flatpak. I use whatever I consider useful (and which gets its fair share of support) - and I hope I share this sentiment with most other Linux users. BTW: Did you blame Red Hat for "dividing people" because of systemd? Are the people behind Cinnamon dividing people?
Just to be clear: I really couldn't care less, what DEs, packaging system, init system, file system, whatever people use. Hell, I even talk to Windows folk. But whenever Canonical "intends to do something" (let alone does something) people get all mad as if their very existence depends on a distribution they presumably don't even use. That's just... tiring.

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Quoting: 3zekielWhy, oh why ... The flatpak'd steam has been around for a couple years already, with flatpak 1.11 and up it is now fully usable, so why would they go and add their snap now ? Why not just update their flatpak in base distro, and use that ? SteamOS/Steam deck is also going all in on flatpak. So why can´t they just learn to give up ? They iterated over and over again in that canonical cycle (upstart, unity ...)
 
while(is_alive(canonical))
{
    do_somthing_on_our_own(rand());
    try_to_shove_it_everywhere();
    see_that_everyone_else_is_using_smthg_else();
    push_on();
    give_up();
    leave_an_ugly_mess_for_others_to_clean_up();
}
Maybe it would be time to break out of that loop.

You should be more precise: upstart was introduced by Canonical in 2006 - years before systemd was even a thing. At some point even Fedora used it.
Snap intends to do (quite) the same thing as flatpak but has its advantages and disadvantages. And snap is Canonical's thing. Just as quite a few other technologies are Red Hat's thing (though Lennart Poettering frequently takes the blame and not his employee). Snap was introduced in 2015/2016 pretty much at exactly the same time as flatpak. The situation is NOT that there was flatpak and THEN Canonical decided to do their own thing. It has been pretty much the same situation with Mir vs. Wayland or Unity vs. Gnome Shell. (Also I am not aware who these others are, who have to clean up the mess - when they ditched Unity... there was nothing to "clean up".) Also: These decisions are obviously not rand(), but they seem to address pressing problems. Because otherwise there wouldn't be competing solutions emerging at pretty much the same time.

I wonder how ppl would have dealt with the deb-vs-rpm situation if social media would have been a thing back in the days...

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Quoting: Boldos

Quoting: TuxeeProbably those days, when games occupied megabytes. Not 50+ gigabytes. I agree that for small applications the overhead of flatpaks or snaps is sometimes ginormous - OTOH something like KiCad is huge already and the flatpak overhead is no longer relevant, same goes for the blender snap.

I quite disagree. The flatpack thing, with just a couple of small basic packages installed, takes GBs of root space. This drives me totally nuts.:sad:

That's pretty much what I said, no?

Right now I have only one small tool installed as flatpak: the Gnome Extension Manager - which is only half the size of the .deb install (which pulls in two dependencies) BUT relies on the Gnome Platform which eats up a measly 750MB. OTOH KiCad itself already takes 600+ MB and its libraries around 6GB. The 500MB of runtime barely matter - even less so since it is shared with Hugin. Consequentially the more flatpaks (or snaps for that matter) you'd install the less this overhead would be.

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