Quoting: Guestwhat's the point of providing a windows 11 layout? Not even windows users want that. The first thing I see them doing is to try to find the setting to put it back in the corner.

Uh... Old people already accustomed to that windows if I had to find a use case.

When I "forced" my father to linux I gave him Zorin and it made the transition smoother since GUI issues are factored out. After the conversion is done it's surely possible to move on to more functional interfaces.

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Quoting: einherjarLooks interesting.
But when I hold my arm like this and move it around "mouselike", it seems hard to imagine, that I land a single kill with such a mouse on CS:GO.

It is surely a matter of weeks, to get the same precision, you are used to, isn't it?

The only real difference I found was that those mouses have usually a max of 1600dpi while when gaming I was used to 6400. Since then I stopped playing "competitive" games so I don't really care anymore. Mouse agility is not a big deal when playing EU4 or the likes. It might become an issue again the day I embrace 4K monitors though. That I can't tell you.

At work instead all we had available were 800dpi garbage shit. To give the idea: the old man running the IT had a box of mouses were he was storing all the mouses that were "rejected" by employee because of malfunctioning. When he had to give out a replacement he took another one from the very same box. So in order to save $ necessary to buy new mouses, the issues were never resolved. They were just being passed around from employee to employee so they could continously affect the performance of $$$$ paid engineers. So yeah, there the quality of life improved quite a lot.

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And FYI, Trust also recently started to sell one of these but it's a bit smaller than the CSL and personally for this reason I find it less comfortable than CLS even though I have relatively small hands.

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I started using that Anker 5 years ago. The office premises were awful and I was kept being moved from desk to shittier desk as my team was being repeatedly demoted thus moved here and there at whim.

Eventually my wrist started to be in pain. Alarmed from the perspective of getting carpal tunnel syndrome in my early 30ies I bought it on Amazon for 20 euros. Pain disappeared after a few days.

Now I have the same model at home too for gaming. Even got a wireless one for the lapboard. Ofc I changed employer as well and ofc I bring my vertical mouse with me wherever I go.

I'll never go back using a regular mouses.

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Quoting: sub

Quoting: Eike

That led us down this path of Proton

Yeah, "down" seems fit for me...

Still excited for what will happen this time.

Let's also not forget that while Steam Machines were a failure, Proton wasn't available at that time and WINE was simply no match.

That one was the defeat condition for SM. It still is for the Deck unless they can bribe or work around EAC somehow.

Then the Deck needs also to be "usable" enough with games with poor GUIs. The annoying situations where the dev just took for granted that you have m+k in additiona to a controller. From having the mouse arrow annoyingly sit in the middle of the play screen (and no easy way to tell Steam that you need mouse control just to get rid of that), to your average useless cancer launcher, just being impossibly tedious to work through and always sitting behing the "launch game" button and your damn game.

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Postage included. It's a steal!

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Quoting: ShabbyXThe goal doesn't justify the means.

Lol. This is a cliché.

The thing is that means always tell about the actual goal, which pretty much always differ from the PR friendly, publicly stated one. And that's one of the major reasons why civilized people invented propaganda.

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Quoting: CatKiller

Quoting: LoftyIt's a momentary relief that it cannot be installed on a screen size lower than 9", but windows 10 is still going to be 'technically' supported until 2025. And maybe people will find a way to install windows on a smaller screen, although the more complex the procedure the less likely the average windows user is likely to try.

I don't think many people will bother. It's going to be a hassle, and they're likely to get a worse experience as a result.

Agree with this.

All these windows fears are based on the fact that many games don't work on linux, i.e. Proton doesn't deliver. But if proton doesn't deliver, Steam Deck doesn't deliver and it will be a failure like the Steam Machines (and for the very same reason).

Just suppose Valve learnt from the past and actually delivers what is promised. Why would people replace SteamOS with windows? Whatever performance they might gain from removing the thin wine layer they lose it with windows itself, plus all the hassles of running a OS not meant for the device.

Imho there are two potential issues for deck success.

First is OS independent and happens also on windows that is bad/lazy PC game implementation in terms of usability. To many games once started present you a clunky launcher and only then let you go in game. And to many other have a confusing implementation of the controller interfaces that Steam overlay only partially mitigates. Ideally all should use Steam Controller API and with that show the player the buttons of the actual controller model they use and have a list of actions in the overlay for customizing input. There are also many titles that despite having controller friendly mechanics, GUIs and adjustments on console ports, on pc ports just regress to messy interfaces because who cares, people with m+k don't deserve good interfaces. Valve voluntary lack of "control" on the quality of stuff sold in Steam is virtuous in many ways, but when it comes to user experience can become a serious defect and scare away many users. Especially console users, those that are used to press a button in the menu and play in seconds, not start being harassed by a number of free hassles.

The second ofc are non steam windows only *killer* games. Like Activision, Ubisoft and Riot stuff. And everything Tim Sweeney might be able to touch. Granted, this device might still the best bet to play those games on the go once SteamOs is wiped out for the time being. But switch like portable pc aren't exactly a novelty. Soon there will inevitably be some better options in the market.

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I always found these titles interesting but of impractical fruition.

Enter the Steam Deck.

Gotta go to the bathroom. See you later! :grin:

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Quoting: Liam DaweHeck, even Tim Sweeney of Epic Games appears to love the idea:

Quoting: Tim SweeneyAmazing move by Valve! A handheld PC/console hybrid running the SteamOS fork of Arch Linux, and it’s an open platform where users are free to install software or their choosing - including Windows and other stores.

Hell. Why not?

Steam Deck will be a gaming console with low to null profit sales entirely financed with the subsequent 30-70 software sales. Like for Xbox, PS and Nintendo. And this is fine, actually no, this is awesome! It's the model Tim defended, glorified and advocated for in front of federal courts!

Men, this is it. Who could have imagined that? It's finally over! We thought EGS would force Valve to adopt a healthy 12/88 instead of asking unjustified 30/70. Instead Gaben outsmarted everybody and started to produce consoles to actually justify that 30/70 we otherwise used to hate. This is great!

Obviously EGS is not needed anymore. Soon Tim will close it for good. And soon after weyou will also play Fortnite native on linux.:woot::grin::tongue::grin::happy:

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