SavvyWolf

I use it for “light” games (the 2D stuff, Balatro, Dicey Dungeons, Whisker Squadron Survivor) while sitting in bed. Honestly when I got it, I wasn’t expecting to use it as much as I did.

Slay the Spire is the “original” Rougelike Deckbuilder and IMO got the formula down perfectly.

I get that, but I’m wondering why people looking for that wouldn’t just get a Switch? Even the Steam deck can be used as a “console” if you just own Steam games.

They’re trying to complete with two companies that have huge amounts of resources whilst also not bringing much new value to the table.

PlaytronOS, meanwhile, won’t even have a desktop mode. Speaking to The Verge, Playtron CEO Kirt McMaster says the goal is to offer a more console-like experience that’s easy to use, allowing handhelds to feel more like a Nintendo Switch than a full-fledged PC.

What. Isn’t one of the selling points of the Steam Deck that you could run normal software like emulators and Discord on it. What target audience are they after? People that are into PC gaming, don’t use Steam and don’t want to customise things. But also don’t want a switch?

Licenses will be around $10, making PlaytronOS much cheaper to install than Windows (which can cost as much as $80 per device).

Not for OEMs! It costs them about ten dollars, and if you talked to the right person in Microsoft, you might be able to get them cheaper if your hardware can give them an edge against Valve.

Take the L and move on. You made a reasonable mistake (it’s an old phrase that not many people recognised, iirc), learn from it and let it go.

Honestly just an edit in the post saying you didn’t know the phrase’s origin would have been enough. No need to make it into a “thing”. That’s probably where the downvotes are coming from.

Part of being a good person is realising and accepting that people make mistakes. Anyone that still keeps giving you crap over this after you’ve apologised probably isn’t worth listening to.

Consume the Fumes

I’m sure Valve would be very happy to let people use a Vulcan to Metal translator if one existed.

I’m not asking Epic to hire anyone to add Linux support, just asking that they let Linux users try it out and get it working on their own.

There’s an interesting issue here that shows Linux support is a cultural thing, not a business thing.

They’ve presented it as “it doesn’t make sense to financially support Linux due to low player count.” But they don’t need to provide official support, they just need to tick a box and say “yeah, we don’t support this, do it at your own risk.”

From a purely financial point of view, Linux support is almost free. If you release your game, a bunch of developers off of your payroll will just add Linux support. You don’t even need to give them technical support because they use an unsupported platform.

To use business lingo, blocking Linux support is just leaving money on the table.

But I think a lot of companies feel like they have to have full control of everything. That everything they do most be fully supported and approved by them. That they are scared of letting the community take charge of things because it might tarnish your brand or whatever.

They are worried that there’ll be graphical bugs or something and that’ll make Fornight look bad, so it’s better for their brand image to just block everything they don’t have control over.

It’s a worrying pattern I’ve seen in a few places, including Mozilla of all things.

… Or maybe it’s just that Epic are too stubborn to accept help and contributions from anyone else, especially their “enemies”.

I have been wondering why they don’t just take Heroic launcher and add a skin around it to make an “official” launcher. It’s probably just because they are too prideful to support anything open source or Valve. They think that they need to make their own thing, rather than using existing code.

Sorry for the rambling post, but I think this situation is more due to an unhealthy company culture than “lol 2% market share” as they present it.

Yeah, the fact that it just works and comes with the hardware is good.

However I think the article is suggesting a world where gamers go and install SteamOS as a regular distro. I think that’s going to be a lot harder and more error prone than just installing Mint and putting Steam on it.

People will do anything to avoid installing “linux”…

My understanding is that the Steam Deck itself is sold at a loss, so if there is a sale it’s likely to be only 10%, like it was last sale

They had higher discounts on higher tier devices last sale, but I think it’s more cost effective to just buy the lowest tier and a third party ssd.

If it’s something you’re worried about, you can move the data files to another location or your cloud storage of choice. I can’t think of why it would get erased, but bugs and mistakes can happen.

Emudeck seems to store its files in the “Emulation” folder, in a subfolder named “saves”. It seems that’s next to where it keeps your ROMs. Using the file explorer in Desktop mode, you can copy-paste this folder somewhere else (or pull it off the SD card entirely), so if the Emulaton folder does get reset, you can just copy things back into it. Although some emulators do use links to other folders (think like shortcuts), so check that out for any specific systems you emulate. If it has a small “link” icon, then you’ll need to copy the files inside directly.

Of course, this is all if you want to be paranoid and 100% sure. I’d be very surprised if Emudeck erases any user data on a reinstall.

I mean, why not, right? Readily available hardware with a screen that you can just slap your own software or OS on.

Must have been real nice for the developers building software for it, considering it’s just Linux as opposed to some proprietary nonsense.