Capcom shows off official video of Devil May Cry 5 on the Steam Deck

Quoting: MohandevirBut what I would like to know is how many people, in Steam user pool, are like me:

One computer for work, supplied by the company that hired them and a personnal gaming rig that is used only for that: gaming. Everything else is done on smartphones nowadays... My daughter has a Win10 laptop and it's barely used anymore. Little gaming, here and there and all else, from video editing to photos/photo editing is done on cell phone too... Similar for my son, except he's more of a gamer. Are we weird phenomenons?

I hear the eternal "photoshop gig" to explain why Linux is not catching up on the desktop, but is it still that much true? I have the feeling that we are in an era where the versatility of desktops is mainly exploited at work... Am I wrong to think so?

Ah yes, every single Windows user out there seems to be working in advanced design and imaging considering how often Photoshop is brought up as as stop gap :). Meanwhile not a single person at my office have ever opened any image application ever...

I think that you probably represent how most people use machines today, young people tend to use their phones the way we older people use laptops basically. Myself I cannot stand to use a phone for most things and use a computer for everything but I know that I'm the exception.

Quoting: Mohandevir

Quoting: F.UltraNot really sure what ARM vs x86 have to do with the issue either since all Android apps are written in Java/Dalvik and not ARM anyway.

Imo, this is too technical for newcomers. What they want to know it's if it's going to run on their computer, plug & play style. Not what tech it uses. If the answer is yes, there is an hardware interrelation. If not, the chain is broken and they will stick to Windows. As simple as that.

Sure thing, if the Steam Deck is successfull and it doesn't translate into Linux desktop gain, nothing will. It's going to be a good indication, imo, that aside from tech savy users, Linux is best suited for dedicated hardware with single use mindset.

Well I'm not sure that the Deck will drive Linux adoption, it will help us Linux gamers for sure since there will be a lot of publishers wanting to be part of the launch event making sure that their games work in Proton or natively, something that in some way of course could drive adoption but I don't see a launch of a new console as something that will make a big dent in the Linux desktop adoption.

Linux desktop adoption is simply a long long process, if lucky we will some day reach macOS numbers but we will never reach Microsoft levels. That war was lost before Linux even existed when MS made sure with their shady business tactics that they got a large enough monopoly that PC equals Windows in everybody's mind.

Which is why I hate when people like LTT make claims like "if GitHub is only for developers then that means that Linux is only for developers" when the whole frakking reason we don't have hardware support for his GoXLR in Linux is due to the shady practises of Microsoft. Its a hill that we have to climb up, but the thing is that the hill is artificially created and keep on getting steeper and steeper as we climb it.

Deck might or might not boost Linux adoption on the desktop. It's anyone's guess. But what Deck already DID was giving Valve a reason to throw substantial funds at a piece of software allowing us to run (almost) every Windows game on Linux.
At this point I am not even fussed about how many native ports we're getting. I don't care, as long as the games I want to play on Linux do run on Linux. And with exactly one notable exception, they do. Even if our market share never grows beyond 2%, we've already won. MS no longer has a stranglehold on gaming, because we're no longer forced to rely on devs to take pity on us and actually release a port of their games. We can run most of them without even asking them. And THAT's what Deck gave us.

Because what it tells me it's that if, at some point, it's possible to play all games on the Steam Deck (meaning third party launchers too) as simple as click install (no matter how it's done), we might see the Steam Deck eating into the Steam desktop market share, no matter the OS. In the long term, the Steam Deck might just replace a portion of the desktops that will have started to collect dust... Would it be bad?

Obviously it's only applicable for those that use their PCs exclusively for gaming and are interrested in the Steam Deck.

By the way, I dislike doing anything on my cell phone too, but sometimes, it's at arms reach and easier to pick up, just like the Steam Deck will probably be (only the arms reach and easier to pick up parts, I mean).


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Quoting: F.UltraWhich is why I hate when people like LTT make claims like "if GitHub is only for developers then that means that Linux is only for developers" when the whole frakking reason we don't have hardware support for his GoXLR in Linux is due to the shady practises of Microsoft. Its a hill that we have to climb up, but the thing is that the hill is artificially created and keep on getting steeper and steeper as we climb it.

To add insult into injury, Github is owned by Microsoft. Github sure does have some usability problems, it doesn't matter if you're developer or not. Linus is just taking the mentality that he doesn't want to be developer bit too seriously.

Github just happens to be the place where the projects start. Some projects don't even bother with packaging and let distributions handle that.

I guess the difference is that with Windows, projects that don't have any kind of infrastructure yet, get way less attention. It used to be bit complicated to set up free development environment for Windows. With Linux all you need sometimes is just GCC and text editor, possibly Make on top of that.

As for GoXLR, somebody with Windows can be valuable. I think one of the first things to do with when creating new USB driver is to snoop the traffic between the Windows and the device. I have no idea how easy it is to just record the traffic and replay it on Linux without creating a driver first.

Optimally there would be official driver, but I would assume getting it accepted into kernel might take few rounds of reviews as it might take a while get used to the conventions.

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Quoting: F.UltraWhich is why I hate when people like LTT make claims like "if GitHub is only for developers then that means that Linux is only for developers" when the whole frakking reason we don't have hardware support for his GoXLR in Linux is due to the shady practises of Microsoft. Its a hill that we have to climb up, but the thing is that the hill is artificially created and keep on getting steeper and steeper as we climb it.

To add insult into injury, Github is owned by Microsoft. Github sure does have some usability problems, it doesn't matter if you're developer or not. Linus is just taking the mentality that he doesn't want to be developer bit too seriously.

Github just happens to be the place where the projects start. Some projects don't even bother with packaging and let distributions handle that.

I guess the difference is that with Windows, projects that don't have any kind of infrastructure yet, get way less attention. It used to be bit complicated to set up free development environment for Windows. With Linux all you need sometimes is just GCC and text editor, possibly Make on top of that.

As for GoXLR, somebody with Windows can be valuable. I think one of the first things to do with when creating new USB driver is to snoop the traffic between the Windows and the device. I have no idea how easy it is to just record the traffic and replay it on Linux without creating a driver first.

Optimally there would be official driver, but I would assume getting it accepted into kernel might take few rounds of reviews as it might take a while get used to the conventions.

Capturing the USB traffic is easy enough without a driver but you must also correctly interpret it and there is nothing that prevents a vendor from communicating with a device over an encrypted channel (not that I think that GoXLR does but it's a possibility). And for GoXLR in particular they handle everything in the application, the device doesn't even have memory to store the configuration between resets so you have to also rewrite their entire application. The exe alone is 16MB and then there is a 4MB driver as well (just tested it in a W10 instance in Virtual Box).

Quoting: F.UltraLinux desktop adoption is simply a long long process, if lucky we will some day reach macOS numbers but we will never reach Microsoft levels. That war was lost before Linux even existed when MS made sure with their shady business tactics that they got a large enough monopoly that PC equals Windows in everybody's mind.

You'd think that. But in some ways Microsoft has been too successful. When my wife got a Chromebook, and I was helping her figure out how to use it, it became apparent that she did not in fact really know what Windows was. She also didn't understand the distinction between a web browser and an operating system, or indeed between software and the OS in general. So the idea that the difference between her new dinky cheap laptop and her computer at work had a lot to do with the difference between a thing called Windows and a thing called ChromeOS, just didn't immediately have a meaning to her at all.
There are a lot of people out there like my wife. If some big computer manufacturer starts selling their computers with Linux on, an awful lot of people won't really get that there's a difference.

Quoting: tuubiBut my phone I only use when I absolutely need to. It simply feels silly to try to do anything productive on a tiny touch screen when I've got more powerful hardware with better input methods and larger screens at hand. A smartphone has its advantages, mainly to do with it being small and easy to carry around with you, but it's never my first choice for getting something done or entertaining myself.

I don't actually own a cell phone.
But if I had one, my main stumbling block when it comes to using it for computer stuff would be, real keyboard. My main thing is word processing, walls of text on GamingOnLinux and the occasional spreadsheet. I want to type on a keyboard for that kind of stuff. I've typed texts on cell phones; my wife'll be doing something and says "Could you answer that, I want to tell her XYZ". It's painful.
(Maybe you wouldn't know the difference if you never learned to touch type, which it amazes me never became standard school curriculum. It just takes a term and you're set for life--I got a C-, but the skill was acquired, might have been the most useful thing I learned in high school)


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Quoting: Purple Library Guy

Quoting: F.UltraLinux desktop adoption is simply a long long process, if lucky we will some day reach macOS numbers but we will never reach Microsoft levels. That war was lost before Linux even existed when MS made sure with their shady business tactics that they got a large enough monopoly that PC equals Windows in everybody's mind.

You'd think that. But in some ways Microsoft has been too successful. When my wife got a Chromebook, and I was helping her figure out how to use it, it became apparent that she did not in fact really know what Windows was. She also didn't understand the distinction between a web browser and an operating system, or indeed between software and the OS in general. So the idea that the difference between her new dinky cheap laptop and her computer at work had a lot to do with the difference between a thing called Windows and a thing called ChromeOS, just didn't immediately have a meaning to her at all.
There are a lot of people out there like my wife. If some big computer manufacturer starts selling their computers with Linux on, an awful lot of people won't really get that there's a difference.

Well here's to hoping. Wish I was a billionaire so that I could invest tons of money into creating the perfect Linux computer that was as slick as a Chromebook and have it been sold in normal stores. We need a new Canonical anno 2004 to pour resources into moving Linux closer to the customers.

Quoting: F.UltraWell here's to hoping. Wish I was a billionaire so that I could invest tons of money into creating the perfect Linux computer that was as slick as a Chromebook and have it been sold in normal stores. We need a new Canonical anno 2004 to pour resources into moving Linux closer to the customers.

It would need to be someone bigger than Canonical was. They did pour resources into a slick Linux device, worked out software packaging and distribution, took cues from Android about how to avoid the cruft of X11, developed an interface paradigm for convergence with the desktop... and then ran out of money, had to fire a bunch of people, and had to give up. So like Canonical, but with sufficient resources to be able to survive, say, 5 years more burn.