Happy birthday Linux!
I'm glad I'm not this old, I'm exactly 7 months younger than it haha. It's kind of a big brother to me. :grin:

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This kinda sounds like a petty personal victory to me. So here's the lame anecdote:

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It recalls me about friends who are self-appointed linux experts who still daily use windows, who were giving me shit because I wasn't on Debian and it didn't make sense not to be on Debian, because Debian was by far the best out there, and I actually doubt they ever tried any other release. But anyway they became livid when I told them I could barely bear with Debian only by using sid but it was still painful so I eventually moved to a more rolling-release-ish distros early on.

Anyway I do respect most distros, and totally understand versions-release scheme match use cases, it just doesn't fit me.

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"Btw, you've been using arch"

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If they want to make a game specifically for Steam Deck it will have to feature clever gameplay around the fact its handheld, either that or some really addictive mobile gasha game. And for them to really playtest the project it will come much later after the actual release of the Steam Deck, same as HL:A came some time after the Index but actually quite a long time after the first consumer grade VR headsets such as the rift and the vive.

The other challenge is their engine, as they've always been quite friendly with FOSS tech and standards such as OpenGL, their old games are on Linux because they've included an OpenGL renderer, though those only support Vulkan thanks to native DXVK integration, and it's likely they'd have used zink otherwise. I am not aware of the current vulkan status on their source 2 engine, which I thought would be released by now (can't wait for a new golden age of HD mods), but despite HL:A being of masterpiece of VR gameplay and being gorgeous as f, the engine still does load separate levels, there are no level streaming we've been seeing in pretty much any other open world AAA game these past 10 years.

So unless they've been planning and hiding for a long time, I don't expect much in the near future. Though I do trust them to always come full of surprises, for Steam and Valve to be what they are today, Gaben (and his teams) have always been the "man with plan".

(That's just my profane and humble opinion, feel free to correct me on that.)

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A year from now, I'll probably be buying 2.

One for me as I've already bought the steam link, the steam controller and the valve index, I'm not fond of the switch so wasn't much interested in the steam deck but let's face it, this is way too cool.

And one for my niece, so she can play pretty much anything she wants while having a computer to do her own stuff like homework or entertainment as far away from windows I can ever ask her to be.

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This is it.

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I was going to comment on the Linux playing unreliability of CSGO, but ended up ranting about the full thing.
I guess it just broke my heart.

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CSGO has been working unreliably for a long time on linux. (at least it's native on linux but well...)
Crashes because of gamepads, occasional permanent lags during gameplay, alt-tab'ing take it to its knees...

And while I understand they got make money out of it, it's just a massive printing money machine, all their new content is timed exclusive and scarce so they get players with FOMO, they had operations and even a battle-pass but they can't even keep up to it, not to mention lootboxes and overprices keys. And now a monthly subscription for gameplay analytics they have anyway and came for free in most fps game 10 years ago ?!
Oh and by the way, when it got released it was just a re-skin of CSS but (free) mods and custom servers were turned into (paying) market items and lousy official game modes.

They've removed great original maps for no reason other than they overhauled their engine, so maps were maybe slightly incompatible. Which makes impossible to fulfil achievements on the stand-alone game, you have to download those through the workshop and, launch with bots, pray you'll get the map you're looking for or bring the console.

I'm offline farming the last few achievements I have left and I'm f****ing done with any multiplayer game from Valve until HL3.

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At last good news on the nvidia side, too bad I finally got my hands on a AMD GPU.
Farewell green team, you served me well over the last 2 decades but your time is up.

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Got a friend of mine a whole new rig, except he's been stuck with his geforce 750 for 7 months now.. The situation is ridiculous.

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I am very interested in what kind of new interfaces and desktop environment VR is bringing or might in the future.
The SteamVR lobby is lovely but I was thinking of a rather morebusable interface to browse files, watch content, design stuff, run commands, browse the web (or maybe someday some kind of evolution of the web specifically crafted for VR).

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