Seeing Horizon: Zero Dawn on that list is so... I lack the word. A graphically demanding PlayStation exclusive advertised with full compatibility on a Linux handheld. Absolutely amazing. The fact that I can just barely run it on mid-to-low settings on my main PC is a little depressing by comparison :tongue:. I hope I get to see actual footage of it being played on the Deck, but this kind of game endorsement is helping tip the balance in favour of buying one.

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A quick note from the reservations page for the people comparing availability times and how long it took them to order:

the reservation queue and expected order availability times are specific to each region.

As for me, I’m kind of hoping my slot comes up later than sooner. Still on the fence about how much I want one and would love to see more videos of people using it for things other than gaming to help make up my mind about that price tag.

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Quoting: CatKiller

Quoting: BlackBloodRumWhat to do?! :cry:

What I do is to wait for a sufficient discount: the developer gets some money by virtue of their game not being broken on Linux, but they'd get more money if they'd made a properly-supported game.

Would be neat if Steam had a slider for revenue share. Give maximum amount to Valve for Proton games, and maximum amount to devs for native games :)

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They couldn’t even spell Otiluke right... :angry:

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Intricate puzzles? In Dark Alliance? Please, the closest thing to a puzzle I can think of is that one place you have to jump to the right platform before the one you’re on collapses, in the thieves’ guild. Everything else is pretty much all fightin’ and lootin’ and occasionally looking for keys or quest items.

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Quoting: CatKiller

With this release you're getting Kernel 5.4, a packaging base of Ubuntu 20.04

That seems really weird. Most Ubuntu 20.04 users are going to be on 5.11 already because of Hardware Enablement. If you're going to go through the effort to make a new downstream release based on that, why wouldn't you pick up the newer supported kernel from upstream?

I’m a little disappointed with the older package base myself. I was hoping for updates to some applications I don’t want to use AppImages or FlatPacks for (or compile).

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My only experience with KDE Neon+Plasma was buggy and I couldn’t find a way to change the visual aspects that bothered me the most about the default look, so I have not been impressed so far. It’s hard to tell how much of that was Plasma’s fault; sometimes the OS wouldn’t even boot. It also messed with my GRUB big time and I nearly lost access to my other partitions when I uninstalled it.

Maybe the Deck will change my mind. So far, Cinnamon and MATE are the only DEs I know that look good by default, have the panels where I want them and allow enough customization to make them my own. KDE has a lot of great apps though and I’m glad I can use them on other desktop environments.

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Quoting: elmapulomg, they will miss the christmas! this is a HUGE deal, most of the sales happen in christmas!
source:
https://www.vgchartz.com/tools/hw_date.php [External Link]

i hope not many people cancel their pre order because they were planing to give it to someone else as christmas present, and cant anymore!

1. Nobody was going to decide to buy it this holiday season and get it before next year anyway; the reservations were already booked months ago.
2. If anyone expected to have it delivered before Christmas, they were delusional to begin with. Valve’s original plan was to start taking actual orders from the reservations and shipping them sometime in December, and we all know that global shipping is fucked at the moment, not to mention the usual end-of-year congestion. Basically, if that was their plan, lucky for them that they found out a month early that it was definitely not going to happen.

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No surprise here, and no big deal. Gives them more time to show it off, and us more time to put aside the dosh without digging into our Christmas budget.

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Well, we’ve already seen CDs sold in fake books, thumb drives as keychains, and flash drives in credit cards to make them easier to carry and find... I wouldn’t be surprised to see something similar being done for the Deck if it reaches a sufficiently large userbase, if only as a collector item or Kickstarter exclusive. Pretty hard to make an anything-themed microSDXC considering the form factor and the fact you won’t see it while it’s in use, but as a piece you take out of a bigger collector item, it could work.

I imagine the appeal would be bigger for heavy 100 GB+ games in places with slow/capped Internet, though in this day and age the files would already be outdated and require a patch by the time they reach consumers anyway. Besides that, it would just be a more expensive drive to store more games on. GameCube memory cards served a similar function but you could see their stickers while they were plugged in, and on some of them write down the games (saves) within.

I could imagine them being used to sell bundles of smaller Linux-native store-agnostic games, or with accompanying Steam keys, e.g. "20 kid-friendly games for you child’s Deck" or "the complete [insert franchise here] collection on the go", but just typing this makes it sound gimmicky as hell, like those cheap movies and games in cereal boxes back in the day.

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