All it needs is a 3d printed case to attach it to the deck so it is like inserting a cartridge into your deck.

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I would have bought the jsaux. But the fact that the steam dock is upgradable using steam os is very important. So now I will get a steam deck dock.
I've seen enough crappy devices to know that a good device is half the USB problems. Especially since USB used to suck on linux when it comes to devices that did not follow spec, or that time that de USB host driver writers interpreted the spec wrong.

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Quoting: Purple Library Guy

Quoting: mr-victory

Quoting: jordicomaIt has M key support and not M key support.
So some M key work and the others not?

On bottom left picture, there is a long connector on the left and a short one on the right. On bottom right it is opposite.

If I knew nothing about these things, which I don't, I'd say the picture is a rather elaborate way of saying "This Way Up" :grin:

You are correct though, 1 is the M key and the other is the B key.
The right bottom is a B-key only.
B-key defines 2xPCIe, a sata and usb 3 and a few others.
The M-key defines 4xPCIe and not the few others of the.
As the standard does not say you have to *have* that pinout, it says you have to *expect* those signals.
Combining M+B makes sure you only have PCIe (up to 4x) and sata I think.
Just the B-key sounds almost like a full featured PCIe bus (as PCIe also has usb and other lanes available).

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Oh thank you very much. I was trying to get debootstrap working on the deck, but it seems to only really work from a debian system.
But a complete lx(c|d) system is all that I wanted to get my deck to be 100% useful for my work.

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Meeh, now I don't have a special status anymore as one of the chosen few with a Deck. Now everyone will have a deck.

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The best thing is they added icons to trackpad menus. So PAGE_DOWN will not look like a html form field that's too small to hold 3 letters, it will actually have a premade icon. It really looks good.

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Quoting: TermyBut changing it an hoping no one will notice is bound to be perceived as deceptive and not taking the customer serious...

Whilst this is an extreme it's the same principal and should be be illegal without it being WELL publicized. Especially to those that have pre ordered.

Well, obviously Valve has clearly published it. There is nothing deceptive going on.

Now there are manufacturers that do have a lot of hardware with totally different specs and you don't know what you get until you buy it.
Especially in the phone market, Qualcomm still has a patent grip on the US wireless market, as the US decided to go for Qualcomm patented protocols instead of GSM standards. And with that strangle hold, they are able to force phone manufacturers to use Qualcomm.

Netgear sells a lot of access points which have a lot of hardware revisions in the same model and series. You don't know what you get until you look at openwrt.org, and make a deal with the seller that you get that or that you are free to return it if it turns out to be different.

Valve has always been the most upfront about this. So yeah: they published it, no one cared.

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They also started collecting the backerkit fee. Of course my card info was already a few years obsolete...

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After loki left the building, and no others were to take their place, GOG came and promised to relieve the biggest hurdle on playing licensed windows titles on linux: that fucking DRM that everyone hated.
As such I bought a lot on GOG.
Then Valve got a steam client that worked on linux.
And then they got games working on linux.
And then they threw everything they had on linux.
So yeah, Valve first, GOG next.
Valve is doing good, GOG is doing good. From the 2 Valve is doing better good than GOG.
But if the gog installers embedded in chimeraos lists more games on green (about all games I have on gog are not supported in the chimeraos GOG installer), I would start accidentally buying on GOG again.
Because throwing money on GOG is not bad. Throwing money on Valve however is currently better for the near future of gaming.
I actually have original linux games that I can't play anymore because the DRM requires me to mount the original CD (Shogo MAD ported by hyperion).
Both Valve and GOG prevent that from ever happening again.

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I can totally understand GPD though. They had a "mediocre" device with virtually no support at all in a niche market. Despite no support and mediocre (still very good though), they did good for a "small" company.
And now they will be swept away by a company that delivers way more for half the price, completely open in a way GPD can't compete. Of course they will be angry and feel backstabbed because it was their niche.
But they can't compete with Valve on 2 things:
1) The device is open. Much more open than any GPD device ever
2) Service. Selling to Europeans from Europe means european service.
If GPD could have serviced my gpd's, ok.
But they can't, so I have 2 dead GPD's (a WIN and a WIN 2) that were barely used and that in total is more than twice the price of the premium deck version.
And most of the time I was waiting for replacement batteries.

If GPD can fix their support line and starts supporting steamos, then I will see them as viable again.

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