I wonder if a Google image of male pattern baldness would pass?

Even more curious... What picture would I have to show them should I be a woman? A pic of one's Danielle Steele collection🤪?!?!

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Quoting: slaapliedjeMy other worry is all the people that will just buy this and install Windows on it... seems to defeat the purpose of the Deck for me; as who wants to deal with another Windows install...

I think very few people will, and the ones that do will have a miserable time; the reviews of other handheld devices that come with Windows have been universal in saying that Windows is terrible for a device like this. But for the ones that do, and get utility out of it, good luck to them; it's their device to do as they wish.

I don't see the os being that big of an issue. Both will autostart with steam, which will run in BPM or something. Both os's can do that with no issue. Ideally, if this thing is meant to be a success, the average user shouldn't even notice or care about the OS, just like every other console.

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5 DLC's at the same time?

I guess it's not micro transactions... Or annoying in game messages to buy a bunch of DLC...

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Good job by Epic and Valve. I'm sure back porting everything wasn't super trivial.

Quoting: Guest

Quoting: elgatilMmm, I was wondering.. Step 2 is just placing a certain file in a certain dir so, couldn't proton take care of that?

EAC being proprietary, I don't think Valve or anyone could distribute it without a license, even a free (as in beer) one...

Also, there are multiple versions, as mentioned in the instructions. A script in Proton works have to detect and download the correct version, and every future version.

I can see that as a potential support nightmare, since a customer would only see a broken game, and likely blame the developer, which would have been taken out of the process, and has no way of fixing it.

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Quoting: pbSo what's so special about this box that it costs $60-70 more than the one with preinstalled Windows? I appreciate that they're trying, but I fail to see the point.

"Rebranding"?

Or

"Valve"?

That would be my guess.

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Quoting: Arten

Quoting: nullzero

Quoting: Arten

The Steam Deck is interesting, as any developer / publisher we've seen actually receive a devkit unit has been practically universally praising the device. Seeing is truly believing then.

It's called selection bias. Only developers interested in steamdeck try to get one and so they are more likely prise it. Ones who are more likely criticize it don't want it, so they don't have one.
I expect great device, but but this survey shows that our view can be influenced by the fact that we hear only positive news.

Thing here is those devs didn't buy any. The units simply poped up in their mailbox, courtesy of Valve Inc.

The bias here, is trying to figure out how many devs got it, and posted no evidence online! :cry:

They still need ask Valve for one. That is somethink only devs with interest do.

And, if you think about it logically.... That "special access" likely came with conditions, implicit or explicit. If you want further access to cool things in the future from the store that gets you most of your sales..... Well, you better play nice....

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Quoting: ShmerlI think by today's standards HDDs are horribly slow for boot times anyway. Why would you want to boot from one? Booting / startup is the most I/O intensive phase. SSDs are totally a huge benefit for that.

I have many computers around still using HDDs and with no plans to upgrade, they are totally usable with Xfce or Mate. My main desktop computer uses mostly SSDs except for the home partition and it is able to start any software instantly, except KDE and Eclipse.

Even the bloated Gnome is able to boot much faster than KDE on the same hardware, but I won't insist on the topic since many people seem to be okay with that. It's a feature, not a bug. :wink:

I actually just switched from a HDD too a SSD on my 2013 laptop. Went from 60s+ to about 20ish. It was XFCE. I was very impressed, although, since the HDD was failing, I suspect the boot time was likely inflated from what it could optimally do.

Quoting: GuestIt's a physical limitation, not a code one. I.e. if you want to use rotational disks, I don't see a need to complain they are slow

I can see I'm non optimized code as a reason that not times on a HDD are slower than in the past, but I'd also argue that, our OS's are also much larger and complicated than in the past. We ask a lot more of our systems today than in the past, even on light weight DE's.

There's a lot more to load. But that's ok. I like the new features and KDE is a DE.

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I think this is a terrific idea. I remember a long time ago, Ubuntu did something similar. I think they called them "papercuts", which I thought was a nifty way of explaining them.

Those little things really matter, especially to new or learning users. You only get that first chance at a good impression and it seems silly, but those impressions can really stick in people's minds.

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Quoting: denyasisI'm actually curious about the log4j. I thought that was an Apache server vulnerability. What kind of server does this run? Or am I not understanding it right?

log4j is a project under the Apache Foundation (along with many others, including OpenOffice). It's a logging tool written in Java, and used by a lot of Java apps. I assume Slay the Spire is written in Java.

Ah. Ok. Thanks. I think I understand. I though it was more server specific, like apache2. Thanks for explaining it for me.

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Quoting: rustybroomhandle

Quoting: einherjarPortal 3 would have been the cooler announcement.

Just saying...

This was not an announcement, just some steamdb data mining.

LOL, yeah sorry, I had to make clear that I am talking about the news here on GOL.

I guess it's news, because it's the first. I wouldn't say it's much in the way of a big hurdle. It's an 11 year old game with that already runs great on Linux. The only surprise would be if it didn't work. I'm glad that didn't happen.

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