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Quoting: Liam Dawebut as of yet Valve have not supplied GamingOnLinux with one.

That's because Gaben is on his way to personally deliver a controller to you. Check your phone he's been trying to reach you all day.

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyMore stuff Mint will have to rip out. Soon it might be time for them to look at making the Debian base the default.

IMO it is already preferable to install Debian with Cinnamon desktop and Mint icons. DIY Linux Mint.

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I prefer Revenge of the 5th, thank you. But anyways... Unless some key use case comes up, these are a hard pass for me at that price point. I've got 2 Xbox Series controllers and the adapter for extra low latency. The adapter works in Linux and I can deal with just using Bluetooth on Mac.

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Quoting: PenguinReminder that PipeWire is now a Snap, so if you remove snapd, your system will be completely silent. I found that amusingly funny 😆

But seriously: packaging PipeWire as a Snap makes no sense to me. I'm not an expert though, so take my opinion with a grain of salt.

Mountain of salt. Pipewire is installed as a deb package not as Snap. It was discussed, but not implemented.

I would say that one reason is the sandboxing and containering that snap would enable for a piece of software that does decoding and encoding of lots of different audio and video formats, formats that historically are filled with security holes in their implementation.

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Being a bit more expensive than "standard" controllers I can see since this controller clearly has lots more technology in it than anything else on the market, not to mention joysticks that won't drift after a couple of months, but console game controllers are borderline scams that I hold to a very low standard so I'd be lying if I said I was totally happy with this price point. Still, it's everything I want in a controller, so it's still a price I'll probably be willing to pay once I get the opportunity.

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Quoting: MohandevirIt will probably irritate some of you, but I used AI to help me build my Nextcloud, Pi-hole and Wireguard instances. It also helped me configure my router consequently and install GraphenOS on my Pixel 7a phone. I corrected it's missteps along the way, but If I could do all that stuff with a local personnal AI, not linked to the untrustworthy Big Techs, I'd be willing to give it a go.

Nobody will be irritated if you use AI for personal projects. What irritates us is corporations shoving AI down our throats whether we want it or not.

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I saw a documentary years ago about the first game and it showed how the alien "learns" what the player does. So if you are always hiding in lockers or under tables, it looks there more often. There was more to it that that, but I thought it was the coolest feature. It forces you to always try new strategies and even then you are never safe!

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Quoting: TimeFreezeLets hope the controller works without Steam as well. I dont play only on Steam......

Would be cool if Heroic allowed access to steam input configs for steam controller so it can live up to its potential outside Steam.

Not expecting this. But hopeful.

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Quoting: DrakkerI hope the Canadian pricing is an error... because 99$ USD is roughly 135$ in CAD right now... not 149$.

Probably not. Keeping round numbers in different currency is a thing :(

For EUR is even worse 99EUR is 116 USD

It's not worse. Euro prices include VAT, so 116/1.21 = 96 USD, so it's a bit less even.

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It looks so chonky, I'm not really sold.

I guess you hold it further up when you aren't using the trackpads? But still my initial reaction isn't that positive, I would want to try one before I buy it which isn't really possible..

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Bear in mind that US prices don't include taxes, so add~ 20% to the US pricing for the actual equivalent. The UK and most of the EU actually get a small discount.

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I absolutely love that tall screen. This will for sure be the next laptop I get, just trying to figure out when.

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Sigh... Now - let me pour a bit more gasoline into this small fire, shall I? 😅

Quoting: JohnologueI don't mind it, but I also don't use Ubuntu. Honestly, the thing that put me off most in all of this was the mention of Snaps, since I've followed the seemingly popular opinion that they're Flatpaks with a vendor-locked store, etc. I am more averse to Snaps than open source, open weight, carefully-used AI.

Snaps did not come out of nowhere, you know...
Canonical needed some kind of containerization tech in order to manage apps on their then brand new & shiny Ubuntu Touch phones. It was called Clickable. And it was designed and ready to use already before 2013 - when Ubuntu Touch phones were released. "Non-mobile" version arrived later on to Ubuntu Core in a form of snaps in 2014...

So for Flatpacks - it seems to me that this is yet another technology, where Canonical was an acting technological trailblazer at the time and spawned a functional, real world tech which somebody else (looking at you, RedHat, yet again...😡) had to copy, because it worked and was cool....

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OMG SHELLY IS SO GOOD.

Seriously it's so so so so so much better than octopi. At last I can have all my natives/flats/aurs/appimages managed in one central gui that's a pleasure to use. I don't mind running terminal commands to do all that stuff, it's just SO simpler and easier this way.

If you've been on the fence about Cachy at all, with this update, there's pretty much nothing standing in your way now! Give it a try!

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Quoting: leinad965

Quoting: PenguinReminder that PipeWire is now a Snap, so if you remove snapd, your system will be completely silent. I found that amusingly funny 😆

But seriously: packaging PipeWire as a Snap makes no sense to me. I'm not an expert though, so take my opinion with a grain of salt.

Mountain of salt. Pipewire is installed as a deb package not as Snap. It was discussed, but not implemented.

Thanks for the heads-up. Good to see it didn't made to the 1.0 release of 26.04. Great news!

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I would buy one if only was available in Argentina... in latam we only get scalpers price that means like triple the price.

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If it uses ChatGPT/OpenAI in any way, then I'm switching to Fedora

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Quoting: PenguinReminder that PipeWire is now a Snap, so if you remove snapd, your system will be completely silent. I found that amusingly funny 😆

But seriously: packaging PipeWire as a Snap makes no sense to me. I'm not an expert though, so take my opinion with a grain of salt.

Mountain of salt. Pipewire is installed as a deb package not as Snap. It was discussed, but not implemented.

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Quoting: DrakkerI hope the Canadian pricing is an error... because 99$ USD is roughly 135$ in CAD right now... not 149$.

Probably not. Keeping round numbers in different currency is a thing :(

For EUR is even worse 99EUR is 116 USD

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Well, I'll be waiting on a decent sale. And some hardware revisions, probably

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With the amount of times I've put off a desktop gaming session because I couldn't remember how my DualSense differed from the Steam Deck controls, or because of the awkward way it handles gyro aiming (or how on earth that touchpad thing is supposed to work), the Steam Controller (2) is going right in the basket next week!
A shame they didn't keep the dual-stage triggers from the original Steam Controller, but at least it'll be a consistent experience from Deck to Desktop!

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May the fourth be with me soon! (it works, because I´m probaply gonna buy four of them (the first-to-third are hopefully gonna be with me soon too (yeah, we all now the best jokes are the ones you have to explain (I heard nested parantheses are great for readability!)))!)

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"HINO" reminds me quite a bit of "Neverending Nightmares" - a good thing - and "KILLA" just looks lovely in general; good start!

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I don't mind it, but I also don't use Ubuntu. Honestly, the thing that put me off most in all of this was the mention of Snaps, since I've followed the seemingly popular opinion that they're Flatpaks with a vendor-locked store, etc. I am more averse to Snaps than open source, open weight, carefully-used AI.

The best way to get most people to use less AI is to make them understand it. There are strong reasons that the bigtech AI firms target low AI literacy and try to get everyone hooked.

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Oh lord above, IT'S FINALLY HAPPENING!

Quoting: rea987Too big for my taste.

It's actually not that big, if we go by the hands on pic in this article.

...unless he's a giant or something.

https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/valves-new-steam-controller-aims-to-entice-a-broader-field-of-pc-players-which-i-fear-already-includes-me

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Quoting: TimeFreezeLets hope the controller works without Steam as well.

I bet you can also run it on electricity. I mean, some people can't get coal.

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Lets hope the controller works without Steam as well. I dont play only on Steam......

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100 US dollars will make it too expensive in my neck of the woods. Maybe next year if it goes on a good sale discount.

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Quoting: EikeStar Wars day, RLY?!? :D

May the haptic feedback be with you.

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Having a controller with back paddles that aren't just macros of other button presses would be nice. I have an EasySMX X20 and the back buttons are completely useless in the vast majority of games and since they're not emitting anything of their own so Steam Input doesn't see them.
I don't know why the controller space seems to still be basing their bindings on Xinput (which forces every manufacturer to fake an Xbox controller), Microsoft deprecated it years ago.

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