And yes, they are a monopoly in gaming.

The biggest PC games aren’t on Steam. Minecraft isn’t, Fortnite isn’t, Roblox isn’t. Because of Fortnite alone, the installed base of EGS is massive, the people just choose to buy their non-Epic games somewhere else.

they are a PC gaming company, period.

And a hypothetical Steam Phone would be an ARM PC, dockable for a full PC experience but mobil use could be similar to XPeria Play. It’s not a huge leap from Steam Deck formfactor-wise.

Not even speculation, just shitposting.

Valve confirmed that there are more ARM devices in the making. The type of device is speculation.

SteamDeck doesn’t run Android, it runs full Linux.

SteamOS on Frame is compatible with Android apps because it ships Waydroid. When Valve contributions to Waydroid surfaced months ago, I already speculated that it’s probably a porting aid for Quest games to Deckard but as soon as the tech is there (which it is now), you can bet there is someone at Valve flashing SteamOS onto a Pixel phone or so, just tinker with it.

So not “on purpose”

Inventing and implementing non-standard protocol messages to initiate the display is 100% on purpose. It would be easier to just source an off the shelf board and merely design casing around it.

Seems excessive when you can just as well use RustDesk.

That’s like saying that the year of Linux came when Android release.

It’s usually “Year of the Linux Desktop” and Android is a mobile platform, not a desktop OS.

it’s a bastardized monster clone of the original.

Android developments did benefit areas like power saving, so why the hate. Android is no GNU/Linux because of the lack of glibc.

MacOS is “Unix” in paid certification dollars only.

macOS, the Darwin layer specifically, is totally a BSD. Even with the Mach bits in the kernel because Mach itself is derived from BSD.

Homebrew could provide their own casks of FOSS applications, compiled on their infrastructure and signed by their key. It’s kinda what F-Droid does on phones.

I’ve seen a lot of folks waiting for this to make the switch, it’s silly but having a familiar name attached to it gives them a sense of comfort, and SteamOS is solid for what it is.

And should they be not native English speakers, they’ll wonder why the desktop is only in English, why they can’t even check the spelling of their native language. Or why playback of WebM videos glitches.

I really like my Steam Deck and actually use it as desktop PC from time to time but you can tell desktop mode is an afterthought. Traditional Linux distributions are actually a better choice for regular users. Valve luckily open sources and upstreams everything of SteamOS other than the actual Steam client, so it’s not like SteamOS has some special sauce nobody else gets.

I have to rely on scalpers or stores who sell it for triple it’s value. I want the controller

The 8bitdo Ultimate 2 series of controllers are fine pieces of hardware. Yes, they don’t have the trackpads but they have TMR sticks (probably the very same model as Steam Controller 2) and they are even compatible game consoles.

The biggest problem is that there are four very similarly named controllers (“Bluetooth” is the highest end and compatible with all BT devices even phones) but that’s it. No need to throw money at scalpers if good alternatives exist.

PS: If it behaves like Steam Deck’s controller, it’ll be useless without Steam running and merely acting as mouse.

Year of the BSD when?

When Mac OS X launched?

When iPhone launched?

When PlayStation 4 launched?

Question, who uses the left trackpad and what for?

Every RetroDECK user

Steam Frame is their new VR headset

And Valve literally say on the Steam Frame website that it has a desktop mode running Plasma, just running on an ARM processor instead of x86, and can be used as stand alone PC.

Not sure I wanna blow battery charge on editing spreadsheets in LibreOffice in VR but it’ll be possible.

If everything is soldered anyway, there is no reason to have separate chips for CPU+GPU, especially if that hardware already exists like the AMD Ryzen AI Max line.

Cost is a factor because just as with Steam Deck the two SKUs will only differ in storage space, not in performance. Using last gen RDNA3 is 100% a cost driven choice.

There was the story recently that AMD demanded a very high minimum order (10 million or so?) for semi-custom versions of the lasest Ryzen and RDNA iterations for some Xbox handheld which is unlikely that handheld would sell.

By going this route, Valve avoided this. Surely there is spare manufacturing capacity for RDNA3 by now.

A friend of mine buys every Pokemon game and described this (tounge on cheek) as a compulsive mental illness of theirs.

This game was delisted because it lacks the age rating. For “harmless” games the questionnaire is enough, for “gore” games Valve wants an USK rating, presumably to be not liable in court. This game is not on the index of banned games: https://www.schnittberichte.com/svds.php?Page=Indizierungen&Kat=Games

The game was free before 14 November 2024 (delist day on Steam). I got it then.

Edit: They seemingly delisted the game on their own one month before delist day: https://steamdb.info/changelist/25752421/

No, Germany just requires that all games have an age rating. If a publisher can’t be bothered to even click through a short questionnaire on Steam, they don’t care about about any customer.

Rich people are only socialist until someone tries to redistribute their wealth. It’s all an act.

They don’t use Steam forums either: https://forums.playdeadlock.com/

Sure. That’s why I wrote “mostly pointless” but the runtime stack is self-contained in Steam and proprietary games are compiled by the developer anyway. There are limits to what CachyOS/Gentoo/… can do.

This is only relevant for people exclusively running open source games from the distro’s repository.

Steam games (incl. the Windows games on top of Proton) run inside Steam Linux Runtime, a container based on Debian 11 that is identical on every distribution. Use whatever distribution you like but the optimizations of CachyOS are mostly pointless.