Wasn't there other emails where Sweeney asked Apple for special treatment in regards to their store and with "hope" it would trickle down to other developers too? And Apple told him to get lost hence the lawsuit?

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Quoting: PenglingI maintain that clear plastic is still 90s-cool, and I'll not hear otherwise. :tongue:

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Though this is cool to see, in a sense it's a pity that there's not also an official option for something like this - I think that a translucent "smoke" colourway would look really smart on the Deck!

It's also practical, you can get a glimpse of the inside and see if the visible parts are intact and in correct positions or a fall from table has lead to damage or parts coming loose or/and bent.

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"Why now?"

It's because prior to Steam Deck there was no inexpensive and amazing PC handheld with major backing. Aya Neo was expensive and Windows handheld experience was not great. With purchases of Windows handhelds causing fragmentation even. But with Steam Deck emulator devs can optimize for one capable device that has a large userbase. Not only that but Valve is right there in trenches looking to how to streamline and improve emulation. This culminates into a greater ease of use for emulating games on Deck i.e it's closer to plug and play.

Already Switch hardware is outdated with emulation giving better experience. People's main argument for Switch is it's ease of use. But if Valve and emudevs make ease of use for Deck almost the same as Switch..why buy Switch and have worse performance and freedom?

Also before Windows handhelds emulation was done on a variety of different PC configs; that kind of fragmentation has a major effect on how optimized and user friendly devs can make emulation. Nintendo didn't need to worry about the threat of emulation as they could just point to their hardware being seamless as to why you should buy their hardware. Dolphin on Steam would be another step towards making emulation on Deck more seamless, maybe even make use of Steam's API for multiplayer too.

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"Anyone can create an alternate store that supports snaps. The API is completely open as is snapd. Having a centralized store is actually one of the strengths of the ecosystem. ISVs want that single trusted source for apps. I think the tremendous success we’ve had with ISVs adopting snap is in no small part due to this concept. And I ask, is it really a problem? Snap is completely open, anyone can see what’s being executed on your system. The internals of the store that handles metadata just isn’t interesting."

This quote is from interview. If having a centralized store is good, why do we need to have a snap and a flatpak store? Why can't we have one (Flatpak)? And why is it not a problem? Wouldn't Flatpak or Snap become better if everyone was focused one one of them, instead of having dev resources and attention to bugfixes and improvements being divided between the two? Developers resource are finite, it's one of the major reasons why Linux developers (WINE and others) couldn't keep up with Microsoft ecosystem changes to the degree that WINE compatibility became stable and less volatile, as it has become with Proton.

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Let's guess which game will get anti cheat enabled this month. Surely at least one may be enabled. Glory, fishes and a trip to north pole for the winner. One guess only! Feel free to elaborate on game you guessed.

My guess is Rainbow Six Siege. Ubisoft likes money, asking to have BattlEye enabled seems like a easy way to make money for them.

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A chance for Canonical to show their quality. Hopefully they will not hijack gaming to be all about what they want but what everyone wants.

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Quoting: GuestIt's amazing how when a company senses a marketing opportunity like this suddenly the impossible can happen.

Releasing on GNU/Linux can't be done!
Oh, Stadia appears? Sure, not a problem.
Steam Deck appears? Sure, not a problem (especially when someone else does the work).

But, to be clear, I see this as the same case with Stadia. Capcom might well support (or not) the Deck officially (and if they're putting it on their official youtube channel, they support it now!) but it's only the Deck they support. It's not GNU/Linux desktop, and they aren't going to magically make native games available.

And I know that, for now, if it works on the Deck then it's likely to work elsewhere (so long as Steam is there). With Stadia though there was a community expecting more to come of it, and there wasn't. I think it's the same - the game is still a Windows title, Capcom isn't supporting GNU/Linux, they are only supporting their Windows game running on the Deck and nothing more.

Not trying to be a buzzkill; whether this is overall good or bad I won't comment on (I do have opinions there, but not writing them here at the moment). I'm just trying to get perspective on what the deal really is: to Capcom this isn't GNU/Linux, this is something closer to Just Another Console(tm).

Anyone telling themselves companies are posting videos for sake of GNU/Linux are fools. They are doing it because of Deck. But Deck isn't same as Stadia. Where Deck has direct benefits, e.g Proton which is available for desktop, Stadia has little. Proton also counts as a purchase for Linux desktop. Stadia resulted in no native builds for Linux and every purchase there goes towards the business of streaming replacing local play. As opposed to a future of gaming where streaming supplements local play. We aren't stupid people, we know what will happen when companies like Google come on top. They would pull a tactic that would cement streaming as the only way to play games. It would gradually happen as years go by. I still find it so funny how their moto is "A place for all ways we play" yet their gaming platform (Stadia) is so limited.

Deck on other hand:
- Emulators
- Lots stores
- Lots streaming options

If I believed Stadia would not negatively affect gaming, hell I believe Netflix's offering will too, I would not say a word. But I dont believe Stadia and Netflix's offering will better gaming. With or without these big companies, streaming games has a strong future. So streaming advancements with or without these companies, who want to have their hands on streaming's life pulse, would just be delayed. I rather that happen than put at risk local play by giving money to these companies who want their greedy hands on gaming.

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Quoting: MohandevirIt's just sad... Bad timing. The problem is solved, I read? Took what? Couple of hours to get a fix? How much time would have been required, on Windows, to get a fix for a similar issue? Next tuesday patch? Next month? I must admit that I never witnessed a Windows update bricking a PC or generate a BSOD, either... :huh:

But it's Linux, it doesn't have that margin. It must be nothing less than perfect, accross the board, on all distributions simultaneously, to convince mainstream users.

It was bad timing, but a valueable lesson for Linux platform; terminal needs to have safety guards or/and explain in a language beginners can understand. It doesn't have to do that for every single command, but for system breaking commands it's wise to do so.

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I find it annoying how people think the issue is terminal and also forget why alot of things are terminal based. Making GUI is additional work and what Linus did is not fault of the terminal by itself, it's a UI and information issue. Linus experienced a issue then all of sudden everyone are wise about "We need more user friendliness!". First of all, installing Steam from software store should have been possible. That's something that needs to be there.

But when you go and use terminal, what led Linus to make the mistake is also a UI issue. Let me illustrate.

Following packages will be uninstalled:
Pop-os desktop
gnome-control-center
gnome-shell
You are about to do something potentially harmful. To Continue please type "Yes, do as I say"

Following packages will be uninstalled:
Pop-os desktop
gnome-control-center
gnome-shell
You are about to do something potentially harmful. Before continuing with uninstalling packages write down the command "sudo apt install Pop-os desktop", in the event you want to reverse the action
To Continue with uninstalling please type "Yes, do as I say"

Linux will continue to be largely dependt on terminal, because as I said UI takes more time to develop and there is no simple switch you can press where GUIs appear everywhere for everything. Making terminal more understandable and safer for beginners is more realistic.

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Valve is holding Deck event (12th Nov?). It seems clear the event is there to help and motivate devs to come on board, optimize their games and enable anti cheat. BattlEye being so easy to enable for devs will result in many games being it enabled. With devs who use EAC I think they need convincing, so they are probably waiting for Deck release. Enabling EAC is probably not difficult, and devs and companies are simply waiting for sales. Nintendo Switch, according to a report, sold 2.4M worldwide in it's first month. If Deck sells less than half of that, say 700K, devs will see a growing market for it. What makes Switch and Deck different? For Switch they have to develop natively, but with Deck their games already run with Proton. All it needs is a "simple" EAC patch. EAC support not being easy lessened my excitement, but with BattlEye being effortless my excitement has been renewed. 700K Deck players at launch + 900K+ Linux desktop = sizeable market to tap into by simply communicating to BattlEye to enable the support.

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