Zen has been pretty cool too, if you don’t mind the atypical UI

Completely from scratch?

Oh, no. Certainly. It’s just interesting to me that it’s those “inefficiencies” which make the language sound so much more natural, regardless of accent/pronunciation.

I have heard before that, regardless of pronunciation, not using such pointless words really makes a foreign speaker stand out.
Yeah, you can convey yourself just fine, but it is noticeable.

Are the images generated or are you training it to generate images?

I certainly know that the goggle street view is used for training models.

And how do you go about that? Do you adjust your window size and extensions on a site-by-site basis?

What’d they do?

I have a reasonable amount of faith in Valve. I think their rising tide lifts Linux as a whole, so that’s good.

I doubt Valve would back of from the openness

Not on the short term, but who knows. If SteamOS becomes a major player in the PC space, at a post-GabeN Valve–

But that will take many more years, if ever it does happen. I do think it is a legitimate reason to be somewhat cautious.

Maybe. As it stands Valve is rather open with their implementation, but who’s to say it will remain indefinitely so.

I do get the desire, though. I’ve gone to Bazzite and Fedora and – even though it’s a lot better than just a year ago – it still requires some commandline tweaking. It isn’t entirely smooth sailing yet.
Will SteamOS be? I do have some doubts.

Especially with microsoft seemingly giving up on (gaming) hardware

Those companies aren’t exactly releasing consumer-facing distro’s, though.

If you want to play just controller games, this one is probably overkill and maybe a bit bulky. I guess the HD haptics are neat.

Then again, it likely won’t be any more expensive than the scam amount of money microsoft charges for their basic, non-HAL effect, non-gyro, basic haptics controllers.

Valve has only made mention of streaming bandwidth, nothing about the game being rendered (like how PSVR2 does it). As it stands it won’t do anything for the GPU performance.
Maybe there’s some sort of API games will be able to hook into, I seriously hope so.

• innovation (Steam does not innovate Steam, they r&d othe products)

But do they not?
Proton is a clear innovation they’ve implemented into their store front.
They have new lab experiments every so often, currently there’s a release calendar.
Family sharing.
Game recording.

For some of those you could argue it’s an already existing concept, but even so. The implementation is certainly novel. And they are certainly continuing to improve a store front unmatched in features by any other.

all other platforms target devs shareholders

GL-PvdA en de meer progressieve standpunten van D66.

Not necessarily.

Ubisoft might argue that it will open up another attack vector, with isn’t entirely unreasonable. But they could support it.

They’d certainly have fewer.

I can’t say having to fiddle around with Proton versions is exactly intuitive, though it has gotten better since last I tried it a year or so ago.

It is still not quite as smooth as it is on Windows, and I have tech-normie friends who want to do nothing more than download and press play.