Alt text: Trojan Horse meme, Steam Deck bringing Linux to Windows gamers
Oh my god! I thought I bought a gaming handheld but i bought.... communism!
Excusme sir, the word is now wokeness/wokeism.
Fuck, if it's easy to mod games and run script extenders, I'll be in-Stalin it this week.
I replied one too deep. Fuck.
I don't understand the comparisons people make between OSS and comunism. Comunism is a flavor of old-world authoritarianism, based upon the idea that mankind is incapable of choosing the right thing, so the right choice is instead mandated by law. OSS's emhasis on freedom, choice, and the lack of any kind of governing authrorty or social dogma, as well as the inherent trust in the majority public to choose the right (to donate or contribute) has a lot more in common with liberalism than comunism.
It's a joke because Bill Gates once called it that. Nobody actually thinks that other than some tech bros that are high from huffing their own farts.
heads up, neither USSR nor China were ever communist
There is a vast difference between communism the theory and communism the real world application as it occured in 20th century.
Comunism is a flavor of old-world authoritarianism, based upon the idea that mankind is incapable of choosing the right thing, so the right choice is instead mandated by law.
You know capitalist nations also have laws, right...?
Firstly: I feel seen.
Secondly: it's working, SteamOS is so nice. I haven't been this interested in Linux since the XP to 7 transfer. And I think imma' actually do it this time.
It's almost like an OS that wants to be useful is a better experience than an OS that wants to push you ads and steal everything you produce to feed into llm slop-generation.
I'm in the same boat. I am really not interested in Windows 11 at all, especially after using it at work. My primary hesitation has been video game playability in the past but the steam deck has really expanded how many games are playable on Linux and I also play a lot more games on consoles than I did a few years ago
It's working, I know people who don't even own a steam deck who are considering swapping to SteamOS once it's available for desktops.
I've told them they don't need to wait and can get a similar or better experience with distros that are already available, but steam's name is gold for a lot of people and it seems like the only option they're really interested in.
Knowing that with Steams' support of Linux through proton means a vast amount of games just work out of the box was enough for me to switch to EndeavourOS.
I've been on it for a week, and I'm so sold.
While this would be great, it's also a little unfortunate, since the general desktop experience on Steam Deck is IIRC currently a bit below other comparable distros, and I'd hate for people to get an incomplete picture of what the Linux desktop experience can be like. Hopefully the time that's led up to the wider release of SteamOS has been spent on getting that desktop experience up to snuff.
Desktop experience is just KDE, only part that I'm worried will trip people up is it being immutable. Usually that's fine, but occasionally you run into an issue where something doesn't work because of flatpak sandboxing, and it can be confusing how to overcome it.
Linux is the crab of the digital world, eventually everything turns into it.
Steam deck gave me the courage to dump Windows 10 for Endeavour OS. Very happy so far.
Fellow EOS user, glad to hear you're enjoying yourself. Just make sure to check the news on the Arch website before updating, sometimes an extra step gets thrown in and you don't wanna bork your system. I'd say use Informant, but it's been giving me shit
Doesn't it run on Arch? Crazy to think there's a bunch of Arch users that don't say they use arch btw
Opinion: Games that have "linux support" but explicitly check for Steam Deck hardware should have a disclaimer on the store page or even have their Steam Deck verified status revoked.
This is actually how it happened for me.
Windows user here.
Idgaf as long as it works and isn't shit. If it has lots of cool clever stuff, all the better.
Windows is shit tho. Has been for a long time now.
I'm a power user, I don't even want to upgrade or have to reinstall because of how much shit I've gone through to get it to this point. Easily a decade old install and very active use. I would lose so much random stuff if I ever had to upgrade or switch. Windows is shit and Microsoft are total bastards for that, there's no denying it. But for me, it is not so simple as one being better or worse. Maybe if I were in a stage to switch I'd consider it, but still windows is not without its own offerings/positives.
If your OS is so brittle that you can't upgrade it without "losing so much random stuff," you're not standing on solid ground, and I'd argue "it doesn't work properly either. You're basically balancing on a house of cards that, and eventually it will fall, and it won't be pretty. Do yourself a favour and switch to a more future-proof solution, now that you still have proper access to your data. Future you will most likely thank yourself.
If you have a 10 year old Linux intall you wouldn't want that to go away either. That has nothing to do with the OS.
Stop being so "aggressive" against people's and let them have their own opinion. It is not helping to get others to get to Linux. What does help is to show people how it can be done.
For new users that were otherwise scared of changing their daily driver, it does provide a nice little path for them.
Flip it into Desktop mode some times to get a feel for how different the DE is, play around with some command line stuff. Easy to factory reset, so mess it up if you want.
Then install something like CachyOS Handheld edition after a while to get a less restricted Linux experience, while maintaining game mode et all.
Hell, for the price, it's a great device to use as a dev machine if you do Cachy or similar. I use mine as my daily use "laptop" since my other laptop died, and was less powerful any way.
Gaben you sneaky devil
I used my deck as my main computer when I was traveling earlier this year (I don't have a laptop). I brought a small keyboard, no mouse, was able to do everything I needed. It's convinced me I can easily make the switch I'm just waiting to move now and get a laptop when I'm out of tarrif-land
I've loved using Linux on my steamdeck to game, but sadly I cant really switch because of lossless scaling. LSFG is too good to stop using, and there's no Linux equivalent. not even afmf2 works on linux
Use whatever you want
Don't let the Linux fans try to tell you that Linux is this amazing thing that can fix all your problems.
Yup. Fussing around in Desktop mode (aka handheld Arch) got me into it. It was weirdly easy to get Phantasy Star Online Ephinea working with luteix, and that game was easily one of my favorite Deck experiences running on 3W of power lol.
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