Quoting: MohandevirI don't know what you think about that, but something is telling me that the screen on this setup doesn't run in 4k. Might be wrong... :grin:

Edit1:
Just found the exact same screen:
https://eyoyomall.com/products/eyoyo-small-touchscreen-monitor-10-inch [External Link]

Nope! Doesn't run in 4K. Nice touch screen though, good price.

Edit2:
Mmmm... Connecting that kind of screen to my GTX 1660 Super rig, to be used as a in-home streaming server, for my futur Steam Deck, in native 1280x800... Wow! It would make it a powerhouse!

I was just going to ask what that tiny adorable monitor was. :wub:

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Quoting: Hori

Quoting: ShabbyXValve is pretty clearly delaying this so they can finish Half-Life 3 as a Deck-only game.

I wouldn't mind that (in fact, I think it would be good for the Deck and for Linux in general), but only as long as it's just a timed exclusive which will eventually find its way to other platforms and also other stores (not just Steam).

While I obviously said that as a joke, it's not too far fetched for them to release a game that's highly specific to Deck's controls to the point that it wouldn't be really playable on desktop. They did that for VR after all, didn't they?

I was trying to think how that would work considering it's much more similar to existing controls than VR controls are, but I guess the Deck does have

• Gyroscope,


• Touch screen,


• More buttons on the back than most controllers,

so I suppose if someone really wanted to they could make a game that only really works on a Deck.

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Quoting: gradyvuckovicIt's easy to be disappointed by the first episode of this series and view it as a disaster.

I found it to be absolutely hilarious. I don't care about petty squabbles. No distro is perfect, linux is not perfect, but that is not why any of us use it. I also find it funny how the linux community as a whole seems to behave like a corporate PR department, thinking of this in terms of a PR disaster.
I for one am excited for the rest of this series. I had a blast watching the first one.

Yeah, from my point of view it was a cautious success, and left a nice supportive comment on the video (which I'm sure will be lost among the 7,000 others) to let them know there are those of us cheering them on in their attempt. It's easy to overlook with Linus's situation, but Luke gets Linux Mint installed, gets Steam installed, and runs a game with no issues. In the first episode. His experience was basically boring (seeing as how no one is really talking about it), which is really encouraging! Meanwhile Linus manages to bork his first choice within fifteen minutes, yes, but instead of giving up for the day (an action I wouldn't blame anyone for doing at that point) he gives it a second go and gets a second distro installed. Sure it's got a sound bug, but that's probably something he'll be able to fix after a good night's sleep and a few hours of Googling, and will probably be straightened out in the second episode.

The overall tone was quite levelheaded and even, with no one smugly proclaiming Windows' superiority or Linux's inferiority, and no one angrily swore off Linux for life. I suspect (or at least hope) that with the public challenge to keep them using Linux for a month, by forcing themselves to stick with it they'll get over the initial hump of difficulties everyone new to Linux encounters and get into the smooth sailing regions well before the time is up. I'm sure they'll probably try playing some AAA games that don't work or maybe some complicated streaming setup that fails or something, but on the whole I expect the overall experience to be pretty painless after the initial few days.

Quoting: F.UltraI just wish they would get out of their "nobody should ever have to use the terminal mindset. The terminal is perhaps the thing that I love the most about Linux...

Stephen Hawking said that, when he was writing A Brief History of Time, his publisher told him that for every equation he put in the book he would lose half his readership. He ended up including only a single equation, and the book became a phenomenal bestseller.

I suggest a corollary: every time you require use of the terminal, you lose half your potential user base. Let's face it, the majority of computer users are only barely comfortable handling a GUI in the first place. Requiring such people to use the terminal is like requiring people who are barely comfortable with arithmetic to solve non-linear partial differential equations. I absolutely agree that the terminal is one of the best parts of Linux, and people should be able to use it as much as they want; but I also believe that people having to use will probably see Linux's fraction of desktop usage never break a few percent. (This is where different distros come in; you can have a range of distros from "never need the terminal ever" to "doesn't have a window manager", and that's fine as people can self-sort according to their comfort level as long as there are beginner-friendly distros for them to start off with.) So I don't think that's an unreasonable point of view for a new-to-Linux user...

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A shame, but I suppose that's true about more time to work on Proton. I wasn't expecting mine until like June anyway, so what's another two months at this point?

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Quoting: GuestOn the other hand, the video did nothing to highlight all the warnings that what was about to happen could damage the system, plenty of opportunities were provided to back out, and an admin password I'm sure needed to be entered (checking....and yes). From the command line. That's up there with "here's a random .exe from an email, just open it" on Windows. Don't unless you know what you're doing - and that's something that really should've been given more emphasis in the video rather than saying how terrible everything is.

I suppose the thing to remember is that humans aren't born with instinctual knowledge to avoid doing either of those things, but once we've learned to do it it's easy to forget that fact. "Don't open a random .exe from an unsolicited email" seems like a no-brainer to you or I, and yet it happens (many, many times) every day, because it actually needs to be taught, just like learning which parts of the terminal output are important and should be paid attention to. I agree that it'd be great to see this used as a learning opportunity with some sort of follow-up. We'll see how it goes, I suppose. Maybe I'm just optimistic, but I suspect once they get through the initial hurdles of installing and getting drivers set up it'll be mostly smooth sailing unless they're trying games that don't work on Proton or very unusual use cases or something.

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Interesting, I've been contemplating FPV drones recently, but can't quite afford a new hobby for a few months and everything I've seen says to get as much time as possible in on a simulator first. Hadn't heard of this studio before, but maybe this would be a cheaper way to find out if I'm actually interested in FPV flying. :smile:

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I'm not entirely sold on the visual style, but it's certainly an enticing idea for a game.

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You had me at "literal finger gun." :)

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I tried the demo from earlier this year and quite enjoyed it, so I'm looking forward to playing this as soon as my computer arrives from moving overseas. The demo only went 30 turns so you couldn't really get into the terraforming much (you could build terraforming buildings, but they wouldn't do much in that length of time), and I'm interested to see how that layers on top of what's there already.

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Quoting: BeamboomBut three of those titles (Bioshock, Hitman, Saints Row) are Linux native and have always worked?

And Civ 5. Or at least, it had a Linux version by the time I switched in 2014, don't know if it had it from launch. But hey, more Proton compatibility is always good.

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