In 2018 windows 10 was still going to be viable for years to come and windows 11 didn’t exist and valve hadn’t made proton awesome with Linux and less than 2% of gamers used Linux.
By the end of 2027, not supporting Linux will actually cost you them a noticeable amount of money.
I’ve been using windscribe for the past few years. Haven’t seen any bad news about them yet, work good on android and PC, and I at least have been getting mine for just $30 a year. Totally recommend them .
Lol. Do you miss out on all the shader pre caching by doing that? I’ve played the same game on my steam deck with shader pre caching and without, and there’s a pretty noticeable difference in gameplay quality.
I’m sure I’d be happy with it. My desktop is like 95% just a gaming and Internet video viewing system. I have a laptop for work stuff and it’s been on Linux mint for quite a while. My desktop is still rocking windows 10. I’ve avoided 11 completely. I’m sure bazzite would do great and it’s going to get more popular due to what you’ve mentioned and that gamers Nexus uses bazzite for their Linux gaming testing rig. But I believe SteamOS will ultimately end up a better choice for gaming and usage between my PC and steam deck.
Also, steamos didn’t have printer drivers for the longest time… Well yeah, but up until like a month or so ago people weren’t even supposed to be installing it on a desktop. It wasn’t “released” for a desktop PC yet.
I plan on trying out SteamOS pretty soon. I have a desktop with all the most compatible bits of hardware for it. I do wonder if I’ll be able to get my Intel wifi\bluetooth and my old brother laser printer to work with it.
I want to know if it will run my wifi\bluetooth card, though.
I prepped for this a long while. Right down to having an AMD CPU and AMD rdna 2 GPU.
Think about it. Right now, windows is a fucking hog of an OS. It takes up huge space, gas huge overhead, and needs huge amounts of ram. Ram and storage are expensive as hell right now.
Linux can run well on a laptop on decade old tech (One of my old laptops is literally from 2016 and runs Linux mint butter smooth).
So by promoting Linux, HP can sell a laptop with less ram and less storage, that doesn’t run like shit. Saves them loads of money. They may not give a flying fuck about Linux. This still helps their bottom line.
Well fuck
It’s supposed to have Linux drivers. Fuck windows. No problem here.
Like bttf 1 and 2 where filmed back to back and then released a year apart from each other. That was ambitious. Nothing based on books or prior proof. They just knew they had such a banger they did 2 movies right out of the gate.
You bet. It’s the tits.
I figured it would be at least $100. PS5 controllers are like $70, and this has 4 paddles, bigger battery, magnetic charger\high speed dongle, touch sensors, track pads, and the thumb sticks are like 2 generations ahead of sonys.
It’s more like a cheaply priced “pro controller” than an expensive normal controller.
Do you play first or third person shooter games? if you do you should give setting up the gyro a real go of it. I configure mine to only turn on when holding down L2 (aim down the sights) and it works so damned amazing compared to just thumb stick aiming for shooting stuff. Especially sniping or compensating for full auto weapons raising up. I liked using it so much on my steam deck that I had to go buy a PS5 controller to use for my PC just to get the gyro. Setting it all up correctly on your steam deck is a bit of a pain to tweak just how you like it, but well worth it. So much fun using some clapped out sniper rifle in a borderlands game with gyro aiming.
I’ve had my steam deck LCD and then OLED from the start. I absolutely love those 4 paddles on the underside and the gyro customization you can do. Setting those paddles up to do things like reload or throw grenades or whatever is just so much nicer than taking your thumb off a thumb stick or reaching up at R1 and L1. Right now I’m mostly just playing Enter The Gungeon and I set my back paddles up to release, flip tables, and dodge roll. I’d hate not having those paddles, so this will certainly be my next controller purchase. Bonus points to it that LinusTT was a bit of a bitch boy about the controller.
Ah, Star wars day. Gaben; you’re a fucking nerd, and I love you for it.
You’re a bit of a dumb one, eh?
Study more history. This isn’t the thing with the most dead, the most raped, or the most cruelty, or the longest lasting. It was really fucked up, sure. But the worst thing humanity has ever done?
Hell… Religion might be the worst thing humanity has ever done.
Use it, like it, or hate it, I don’t know why you wouldn’t be in favor of almost everything getting Linux support.