Prove_your_argument

I’ve been marathoning the old twilight zone episodes and it’s amazing how much today’s reality feels like we’re living in one of those episodes.

Makes me wonder what Rod Serling would say today.

American “conservatives” are anything but conservative.

They’re hyper liberal. They’re ripping up precedent left and right to institute how the think things “should be” as if it’s 250 years ago. The billionaires want slavery. They want to eradicate all minorities and anybody who isn’t white. They don’t have the support to do all of this all at once, so they’re starting with the people who will never support them first. Take away the support of the opposition and more and more unpopular actions can be taken to push things towards an oligarch controlled white christian nationalist organization.

They’re spending money like crazy but only in ways that support them politically. They’re trying to drive out anything that is remotely left ideologically until the middle is the left, and then they’re next.

This is zombocom

I wish this was a likely outcome but realistically steam hardware is too small a userbase. They are most likely to get performance profiles for their hardware due to the standardization and free steam marketing of compatibility, but windows users are still a supermajority.

I wonder if it would be easier to go the other way. Run an 11 and build 10 in it. Build 12 and put the 11 containing 10 in it… etc etc

Now I want to undertake this entirely pointless task. Maybe next week when things are dead.

There’s no display, no battery, no controller included, no OS fees… I think it could be cheaper than $800.

Because it’s all custom hardware we don’t really have a great basis for comparison. I’m going to guess that the cheapest variant will be something like $650. Doubt more than $700 though.

This absolutely must be a skin for the fucking thing. If they want to be baller they can include a handle that sticks on too.

Don’t stop, keep going.

Fedora 40 https://archives.fedoraproject.org/pub/archive/fedora/linux/releases/40/Workstation/x86_64/iso/

Fedora 39 https://archives.fedoraproject.org/pub/archive/fedora/linux/releases/39/Workstation/x86_64/iso/

Fedora 38… https://archives.fedoraproject.org/pub/archive/fedora/linux/releases/38/Workstation/x86_64/iso/

It’s fedora all the way down man. If you’re gonna keep going back the archive goes back to fedora 10. Where will it break?

The worst part are all the games that have anticheat that totally works fine on linux, but they simply don’t allow it to function in their game. At least there’s a list https://areweanticheatyet.com/

It can’t really replace mouse and keyboard though. Not unless developers start designing games to work that way, and these touchpads are exclusive to an ultraminority of the hardware market share. The deck gives you that virtual keyboard which kinda works with the touchpads but it’s not ideal.

There’s no shortage of amazing games that are fully compatible with controllers though, thankfully.

Btw have you tried a trackball? i’ve been using a thumb based one like a logitech M575 for the better part of 30 years, ever since I saw one at CompUSA. Professionally 100% of my time is spent with one, and I used to have top tier KDR in counter strike 1.X back in the day (though I use normal mice for gaming usually nowadays.)

I think there’s also some overall ignorance about how linux works with drivers too. They assume they’re going to have a steam deck-like experience that is easy and just works, but they don’t realize the valve chosen hardware’s drivers are built into the OS by valve.

Everybody wants an OS that “just works” - it’s the least interesting part of computing for users. It’s simply the thing that lets you actually do what you want to do with comptuers. Be it a HTPC, a console-like experience or something else. Drivers ruin all of it though especially when you’re bringing your own hardware.

I don’t see any likelihood that we’re gonna leave the existing driver-hell for a more streamlined experience either. It’s definitely gotten better over the years but for all of microsoft’s attempts at getting it to “just work” on their own OS, it constantly breaks. They released AMD drivers earlier this year with weird fucking versions that fucked people with AMD GPUs, requiring some manual intervention of DDU + Reinstalling a proper driver version. I’ve seen the same thing over and over again in userland for Intel graphics, intel audio and wifi and other popular and unpopular brands too. It’s one of the biggest reasons I swapped to linux, because there’s no fucking windows update lol.

Because normies can’t get Fortnite running easily on linux (afaik anyway), or other popular competitive titles like battlefield 6 or call of duty 2025 to run at all.

Most of the normies probably already have a console with some licenses that will carry over. PC gamers have a desktop system (often in addition to a console.) It’s just not the same.

Consoles just work. You don’t need to understand much. The deck has definitely not been a painless process but obviously it’s pretty good, especially if you stick to green checkmark titles. Having to research what games will work, how well they work, and how to make them work if not by default is too much for a lot of people.

I’m glad it’s coming though. More people running linux means better support overall from hardware vendors and software developers. Gaming on linux is in a great place today but it feels more like how gaming was 20 years ago where you sometimes have to look something up to get something working, and installing an OS is simply too much for a lot of people.

GPU performance, unknown OS compatibility issues, performance profiles for normies.

I love NUC like devices and I already run linux, but i’m confident the steamos implementation will just work on their hardware because they’re building it for it.

If you’re on an AMD GPU and not at least dual booting linux you’re missing out imo. Only a handful of competitive online games need windows for anticheat/drm.

Why do you want SteamOS and not just linux?

I swapped over to pop a couple months back and things just work. Gaming stuff outside of steam works too.

There’s other immutable distros for people afraid of messing up their system but in the modern world of flatpaks, lutris prefixes and wine/proton I have found I really don’t need to mess with my system too much. I find it hard to justify the immutability because of that.

I doubt SteamOS will ever support most hardware versions. Nvidia by itself is still not where they need to be on the linux side, and that’s the majority of gamers’ hardware today (and why all steam hardware is AMD gpu based.) Then there’s all the weird audio and network gear that has very limited support because a system integrator chose some oddball model or brand that nobody else uses.

~$25 for an 8bitdo ultimate 2c! The price is just too good. I know it doesn’t have TMR or the extra buttons, but it just works and feels really good to me compared to the xbox elite controller that got the shoulder button issue within 3 months for me.

The trackpads are unnecessary imo. Games made for controller aren’t going to expect the deck touchpads, they’re gonna expect xbox and playstation controllers without it. The touchpads just fit a very specific niche of people who want to play with the steam deck on a TV in games that are not fully controller supported and don’t have a keyboard and mouse paired for that use case. Always better to have options I suppose.

You dropped this: )

My magic 8 ball says they’ll release an oled refresh to up the price $50-100 and not much else before switch 3, which is still many years away for either to happen.

As-is the thing has sold a ton despite no new games existing really.

The monkeypaw says they will stop updates for the java edition or release a new version that doesn’t work on the java edition.

They probably see how many sales are generated from the free work done by modders though. If someone wants to come along and do for free the thing you might have to actually pay designers, developers, artists and all the support staff for and they still need to pay you to play it, you’d be foolish not to encourage the exploitation of free labor.

MHWilds suffers from a lot of weird decisions.

I don’t like crossovers or scifi stuff in games that are supposed to be hardcore human-vs-dinosaur “monsters” - I know this is widely popular but it’s just offputting for me, a veteran from the OG PS2 release. I’ve played FFXIV and still have no interest in FF content in MH or any other game I play. It fits in games like smash bros though or other games that are all about crossovers, MH has never been that for me.

Also not much of a fan of the current implementation of open world. They could have done so much more, better things with it. You should be able to setup a hunting party and chain-hunt monsters and have rewards pile up for whenever you cash out with bonuses for sticking out beyond an initial hunt. They could have had hunts that include more than 4 players and even included a mode where it’s a competition between different hunting parties to rack up the most kills - with all players getting the rewards. There’s so many possibilities in this kind of open world, but as-is there’s little reason to engage with the open world at all. Even the story doesn’t utilize the open world elements effectively imo.

The forced story/tutorial with loads of unskippable content was infuriating. I’m so glad I finished the main story… I will never start over unless they patch in some way to skip all the childish reaction shots and other bullshit. I wasn’t a fan of Rise but being able to rush through the ranks was a better experience.

The performance doesn’t bother me so much because I have bleeding edge hardware but most of my friends are alienated. I do believe in modern games being able to deliver graphics settings that current hardware cannot support when all is enabled to the fullest - but you should also support a good looking quality setting that runs on older hardware, which this just doesn’t. The highest settings do not look great. It’s capcom’s own engine so there’s no excuse, it’s not like they’re some tiny indie studio using an off the shelf engine.

We also haven’t seen a new weapon type in a long time (charge blade and insect glaive in MH 4.) Why?

I suspect in a few years when the inevitable expansion drops accompanied by the next generation of GPUs and CPUs we’ll get some good framerates and a lot more content to help this shell of a game.

If game performance is what makes games better then consoles will never reach the heights of PCs.