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[–] Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz 4 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

Oops, thanks. Fixed the old article link.

[–] Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz 16 points 3 hours ago

It takes a lot less money and knowledge to tear things down than it does to build them up. Especially if the members are willing to die for the cause.

 

This is a counterpoint to this article posted here a few days ago.

Issues with kernel anti-cheat are the biggest barrier to linux gaming being able to play everything, so it's easy to get overly excited about changes to how windows implements it hoping for an improvement. However that last article was probably unrealistically positive about the changes, and this article probably has a much more realistic perspective on what the changes will actually mean.

[–] Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz 3 points 8 hours ago

Definitely get it RMA'd.

 

He specifically cited bad battery life on the ROG Ally and Lenovo Go, saying that getting only one hour of battery life isn't enough. The Steam Deck (especially the OLED model) does a lot better battery wise, but improving power efficiency should really help with any games that are maxing out the Deck's power.

[–] Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Honestly I think it's a stage of life thing. As I got older, got married, and had kids I found it increasingly hard to find time to play on my PC. The steam deck is perfect for short sessions you can stop and resume anytime, and I don't have to fight the kids for the TV or abandon everyone to sequester myself in the office.

[–] Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 day ago

Well also the change to pixel based screens from CRTs meant that you needed higher resolution for the picture to look comparitively good.

[–] Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I probably would have bought a "PS4 in portal form factor" for twice the price, but streaming isn't worth it.

Which brings us back to the Steam Deck, which can also stream PS5 games like the portal, except in HDR (if you have the OLED).

[–] Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz 12 points 1 day ago (7 children)

Even if it's priced too highly, the PS5 Pro will probably sell pretty well. The Playstation Portal is very overpriced for what it is, and yet it's sold very well. There's a lot of Playstation fans with money to burn apparently.

[–] Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz 5 points 1 day ago (2 children)

20 years ago was pre-bluray, so the most common video media was dvd with resolution of 720 × 480 (480p). So 720p was really good 20 years ago.

[–] Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz 5 points 1 day ago

API calls would still be a lot easier to replicate through wine/proton than completely uncontrolled kernel access.

[–] Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz 3 points 3 days ago

Yeah I agree. The only reason to get the 64GB here is if you plan on install a 1TB SSD or something like that.

[–] Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

No, Steam families is now out of beta and is the default for all users I think. I'm not sure how long you can keep using the existing family sharing, but I'm guessing at some point you'll be forced to swap over.

[–] Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

The only risk is that if someone gets banned using your copy of a game, you'll be banned too.

So if you owned Rainbow Six, and your brother and as playing with your family copy and he got banned, you would be banned as well.

 

On sale until September 26th

 

This was previously available as a opt in beta, but is now available for everyone.

 

This is different from Bazzite and some of the other SteamOS similar operating systems by being as close to vanilla SteamOS as possible.

According to the devs:

It's a SteamOS based distribution that is intended to be as close to 1:1 compatible with upstream SteamOS as possible while making changes to support a wider range of hardware. It originated as a fork of HoloISO but it has been majorly overhauled to eliminate things like post-copy operations (as much as possible), introduce our own signed package repositories, add an automated release process, and provide many bug fixes and refinements. The focus has largely been on handheld gaming consoles, but it's in use on a variety of AMD based mini PCs as well.

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