Quoting: CybolicFor comparison, that's more than were ever released for the N64 (~300) and the Nintendo Wii U (~150) put together. Pretty nice launch already! :D

393 for N64
783 for Wii U

From Wikipedia. Not sure how comparing to a game system released in 1996 makes much sense though. Totally different eras from economics, technically, and socially. A more reasonable comparison would be a more recent console, the Switch (4337), or Playstation 5 (465).

I still agree with you. At 309 Verified, it's still a very nice starting launch.

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Quoting: OneSubtractOneI dunno if any of you have ever gamed on a laptop with a touchpad, but if you HAVE, you'll know how frustrating it is to be mid game, and hit the touchpad by mistake with your palm, and then die horribly cos your character is spinning or something.
Is this gonna be that, only intentional? Cos that would be horrific.

I literally was thinking almost the same thing!! Except instead of gaming, I was thinking of the times I've been typing a report only to realize I accidentally touched the touchpad, moved the cursor, and my last five sentences are now in the middle of a different paragraph....

It was so annoying to me, I actually bought a laptop that had the touchpad above the keyboard!

Maybe I'm being to cynical...

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Thank you for the article Samsai

It's nice to have a calm voice amidst the hyperbole.

I do wonder if a possible solution may appear: volume.

Technical concerns seem to amount to the possibility of an increase in the ratio of cheaters to players.

I can see that as being a very sensitive topic to Epic. If cheating is presumed inevitable, then the concern that anything come potentially upset that ratio and effect the "experience" is probably very real. I expect it forces them to be very conservative when looking at new platforms, especially one like the Steam Deck, where there are no usage statistics. They have nothing to really make an informed decision with and don't want to risk damage to the brand at all ( even if remote).

Now if the Deck is a huge success, I can see Epic re-evaluating. I just don't see them doing anything that could even remotely jeaopordize their cash cow.

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Quoting: JarmerI'm surprised the Steamdeck team chose KDE for the DE, and not something simpler and less resource heavy like XFCE. Being that it's a battery powered device (sometimes) I would think they'd want to squeeze every single compute cycle they could and isn't KDE the heaviest DE out there?

I used both on the same system:
XFCE on Manjaro: ~700-800 MB RAM
KDE on OpenSuse (TW): ~1 - 1.1 GB RAM

Pretty comparable, I'd say. As much as I prefer the simpler XFCE, KDE does have more modern features and support.

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I think KDE is improving though. The frequency of breakage is lower than when I first starting using it.

At least for me, the most common breakage is during updates, which would be negated by the Steam Deck's image update plan. So it's not a big deal. Besides all it really needs to do is display Steam, pretty sure all the DE's can do that with no fuss. Everything else is extra, in a sense.

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This just occurred to me ...

How do the DE based UI package managers work? Like are they separate from the system package manager, or do they send in generic command into the package manager? Or perhaps share a backend (like the database)?

I will say, it looks very nice. Kinda has the same vibe as your phone app store, which should be familiar to a new user.

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I know it's trendy in certian circles to use that language, complete with that spelling and phrasing, but....

Maybe I'm just becoming a grumpy old person.

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Hrm. I think I own the first one. I might have to give it a spin. Looks like it could be pretty fun.

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Quoting: kaimanGuess it's nice if people are motivated to put a few hours in on Saturdays and Sundays, but to me that doesn't feel healthy nor sustainable

From the job posting, remote work:

"No set hours or unreasonable demands"

Given it's an office setting, I'd imagine it's by choice due to family schedules, etc. So, it seems like they are standing by the work-life balance claim.

Besides it's 2022. People work weekends. It's no big deal.

If I had any concern, it would be the lack of pay rates, raises, or benefit increases? How do you know it's worth applying if they don't tell you how much the work is worth? Am I missing it?

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I guess I'll be the dumb one and ask. What's the difference between this and Lutris? It seems more generic focused in lieu of gaming, but reading the webpage, I can't figure out how.

Quoting: MasterSleort...they see a need and then share their work for free. It really is something we need to appreciate a lot more

And do a lot more, both on and off the computer!

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