Ahhh yes… So steam deck like… It has a control and a screen and everything… That’s basically the innovation in that device… For sure…
Still not going to get me to try any Windows handheld. Steam Deck or die for me.
Nah, fuck Windows 11. I’m in the beginning stages of a win10 migration to Mint, and as soon as I understand how things actually work beyond the install, MS will be completely out of my life.
I just set up an Ubuntu dual boot last week. Valve has really made Linux gaming easy. Just one checkbox to enable Steamplay. I don’t see myself going back to Windows any time soon. Good luck with Mint.
No idea where you are in your trek, but if you can find the time learn how to use virtual machines (or use an old laptop) so you can test stuff without fear of breaking a machine you rely on.
When I want to use a new package or make a change to my setup I will do it in a virtual machine as many times as it takes until I get it right, then use my notes to do it on my daily driver. I went from a Windows only user to daily driving Linux in about a year thanks to keeping good notes.
No thanks, ill stick to steam OS
Good News for the Linux gaming world
Don’t need Windows anymore, thanks to Proton. Bless Lord Gaben.
Wine*
But anticheat still gets in the way
Wine definitely deserves credit but without Valve’s support of Proton, Linux still wouldn’t be viable for most gaming.
Meh, I’m fine not playing games that require kernel level access to my system to prevent cheating, or games by devs that are able to set the anticheat to allow Linux users to play but just don’t.
Swapped to Linux mint a week ago, and is it just me or does it unzip files like 20x faster
It probably does because Mint uses less CPU than Windows. That’s just speculation on my part though.
It’s honestly insane. I zipped up a bunch of files (mainly emulation and modding) to total around a terabyte. I moved it to an external hd and then to Linux, and it only took about an hour to unpack it. I’ve never had something unpack so fast
For a smaller scale example, I had a ~2GB file that unzipped in about 10 seconds as well
Sure, it took me 15 minutes to scrounge around online trying to figure out why my .rar file wasn’t unzipping properly, but after that I saved all that time and then some
Unsurprising, but knowing Microsoft they’ll still fuck it up somehow.
My crystal ball says Gamepass device. Comes with a free subscription for the first 6 months… Hard to see, it might be a free year.
They can hardly avoid screwing up, really.
The whole draw of Steam Deck is that it’s a carefully curated experience where everything from the OS upwards is crafted to play nicely together and “Just Work” to bring that console-like experience to PC gaming.
Whatever Microsoft are putting together isn’t going to have that end-to-end consideration. It will be nothing more than a skinned launcher on top of Windows 11, and no matter how shiny that launcher looks you won’t be able to hide from Windows for long. All the normal Windows bloat will be there, and I wouldn’t be surprised if you spend as much time messing around in actual Windows as you do playing games.
“I can’t wait for my PC to load the classic Windows UI elements, the Metro elements AND THIS NEW UI all at the same time regardless of what applications I’m running. It’s not going to put unnecessary strain on the hardware or introduce annoying bugs and instability at all!” -Somebody, probably.
They tried doing something that would have fit with Windows 8 and they ROYALLY screwed that up.
I don’t know how you don’t think about how people that use Windows Server and how they have difficulties reaching the start menu. Seriously, trying to go into the top left or side with your mouse makes no sense. They have so many project managers, QA and process and somehow they screwed up that hard.
I a calling it now they slap metro from windows 8 on it and call it a day and stills has forced reboots
But I neither want a “like” experience nor windows 11 – pass.
Would you like to open that in the browser? In the app? On the desktop? Would you could you on the desktop?
Can’t wait to play league of legends on joysticks and run it down
Windows still hasn’t decided what it’s configuration windows should look like, there are still dialogs with the 30 year old W95 design language. I doubt that they were able to put together a seamless gaming UI over that past x months or years.
