Not surprised. It fits them perfectly. That's Nintendo for you :tongue:

Careful, saying the trademarked "Nintendo" word might get your post taken down :wink:

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No ones going to mention the unicorn head? :huh:

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Nice! I've been running Fedora 37 Kinoite (KDE Immutable) since it hit beta on my Thinkpad! It's worked perfectly so far! :grin:

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Nice! I'm thinking.. you go out fishing overnight at a lake, and while you freeze your butt off waiting to catch real fish, you can play your steam deck catching virtual fish in this game! :grin:

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Finally, I can stop starting downloads with desktop mode to get the drive I want :tongue:

Thanks Valve! :grin:

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Quoting: LuxZgWhat actually keeps Windows from Deck (and Deck from Windows) is abysmal Windows support from Valve. They obviously have limited resources, and they're putting all the effort into SteamOS. And rightly so! But that also means Windows is bot just 2nd class citizen on Deck, it's outright unsupported.

Ha! How the tables have turned, for years this is exactly how Linux was/is treated with hardware. Vendors didn't care and if it didn't work on Linux, it wasn't there problem :grin:

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Quoting: Geppeto35The climax may be reached in the next couples of years when 1/ microsoft will end its low-cost key politics to fight against piracy and 2/ if they really make the new incoming windows with yearly or monthly subscription, as they have begun with Office and as rumor says about this next windows '12'?

I'm so glad, I don't need Windows any more, even for work. :)
Yet there have been so many things Microsoft did that made us think people would migrate to Linux... it sadly never really happened. 3rd party support, MS Office and laziness...

In fairness, it doesn't help that most people don't know how to switch their OS etc. They just use the OS that comes with the computer or have misguided beliefs of what is required of switching.

You should also bear in mind, not all gamers are techies either. Sure, they know their way around games but if you ask them to explain in detail about the basics of an OS like how filesystems, kernels and programming languages work chances are high they simply couldn't (without google).

But it's perfectly fine, they don't have to know those things, and nor should they. They just need to know how to play their games.

This is where the Steam Deck works its magic; it comes pre-installed with Linux out the box, no tweaking, it just works. And that is how you get people to switch to Linux.

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Personally tearing annoys the heck out of me. So this isn't an option I'll be enabling. :neutral:

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Gaben is so overweight. At this point, my biggest fear for Linux is not the death of Linus, but the death of Gaben!

In fairness, my understanding is that he has actually lost a fair bit of weight too and is working on losing more!

PS: We deck owners probably paid for the yacht he is on! :unsure:

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Quoting: Mountain ManMultiple displays seem to be a problem for Linux in general. I've been wanting to add a second monitor to my setup for a while, but it would require a lot of hand editing of configuration files, and even that doesn't provide a guaranteed "it just works" solution.

Huh?

I've been using two monitors now for as long as I can remember, on Linux. With AMDGPU it's pretty much plug and play, a desktop environment like Gnome, KDE, XFCE etc will for the most part do the heavy lifting for you.

With nvidia, as always it was a little more complex the last time I used it (around 2-3 years ago), but even then the binary blob used to (and probably still does?) provide a graphical interface for configuring monitor layouts and generated an xorg file for you.

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