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Do you know if the capacitive grips have configuration or are they just binary?

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I finally got 1 after 30 minutes of smashing the continue button… the world would've ended for me had I not gotten 1 😭

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Here's to hoping they can manufacture another batch soon.

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Finally managed to order after 40 mins. I literally tried to order at 6pm on the dot.

Valve need to come up with a better solution for when the Steam Machine goes live as the servers were hammered the second the buy now button went live. In the end I just decided to spam the buy now button.

Funny as it was almost as difficult to log in here as it was to place my order for a steam controller.

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Quoting: ThibugPretty sure we broke Steam the moment it got released, they never learn 😆

It's likely not Valve. The only part of Steam that broke was payment. Like most vendors, they are not likely doing payment processing in-house.... meaning they are limited by whatever bandwidth their 3rd party processor(s) gives them AND those 3rd parties aren't going to take down other customers just to account for Valve's increased traffic.

The site itself wasn't broke, just the payment processing system. Which is why I'm saying there's nothing Valve can do in that case unless they bring the payment processing in-house..... which is generally not worth the additional in-house cost and legal liability that goes with that.

Oh, and the Steam Controller is already sold out. Left my refreshing session for 5 min and the error changed to it being an "Out of Stock item"

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Out of stock now! 😫

Wasn't able to get one.

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Quoting: detroutI finally got through, but there was a warning "Delivery delays expected due to high order volume" once I got to the confirm my purchase step.

I've heard that the wait is now about 10 business days, but I don't know how true that is.

I'm still holding out hope that I'll luck out, and get it by Friday.

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Quoting: detrout"There seems to have been an error initializing or updating your transaction. Please wait a minute and try again or contact support for assistance".

Anyone else having trouble buying a steam controller?

Is there a digital thundering herd buying them all?

Spamming the continue button a lot actually worked for me. Like 40 times really fast.

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I finally got through, but there was a warning "Delivery delays expected due to high order volume" once I got to the confirm my purchase step.

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Quoting: detroutAnyone else having trouble buying a steam controller?

Is there a digital thundering herd buying them all?

Just keep hammering the continue button until it lets you through. If you end up accidentally ordering 300 extra controllers, sell the rest on Ebay with a $5 markup.

...no more than $5 though. Don't be that guy.

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I got one after spamming for 20 minutes. But now they sneakily increased the estimated delivery from 3-5 days to 6-10 days.
I'm glad I got it but now I have to wait longer, dang 😆

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Quoting: detrout"There seems to have been an error initializing or updating your transaction. Please wait a minute and try again or contact support for assistance".

Anyone else having trouble buying a steam controller?

Is there a digital thundering herd buying them all?

Got that message...just keep pressing the payment button and at some point it will get through. That's what happened for me...

Now waiting for the day it arrives...and the Steam Frame and Steam Machine release!

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This is incredible. I recently had to set my 144hz 4k monitor to 120hz due to the limitations of not having access to HDMI 2.1 . I understand it's critical for the Steam Machine too.

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Yeah, lots [in our Discord](https://discord.gg/AghnYbMjYg) reporting the same issues buying it, Steam is getting hammered again.

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"There seems to have been an error initializing or updating your transaction. Please wait a minute and try again or contact support for assistance".

Anyone else having trouble buying a steam controller?

Is there a digital thundering herd buying them all?

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Pretty sure we broke Steam the moment it got released, they never learn 😆

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I got this game on Early Access (after having a great time with the demo) and I was waiting for the 1.0 release to play it. Thanks for the reminder!

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That's why we need intellectual property laws to be improved, so entities like HDMI cartel shouldn't have control over software implementations. You produce physical connectors, take your $0.99 and get lost, from people writing software support for it. It is twice as bad as it should be, as not only HDMI cartel doesn't write software support for Linux, but also forbids others to do it. What's the point? To make the world a worse place? This is plain evil.

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This is the developer who brings Claude generated code into AMD Mesa drivers since March.

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Quoting: Mountain ManIs it finally happening? Is this the Year of Linux?

Depends on the context.

For games, it may be that this is the year that Linux has a serious push into mainstream numbers - among hardware insane prices (due to AI datacenters - mostly running Linux!), Microsoft stellar advertisement (for Linux, of course), and Wine/Valve/GE/Vulkan/Mesa/etc. doing a ludicrously good job with the Wine environment.

For HPC, every year is the year of Linux since November 2017, when 100% of top500 was all Linux systems for the first time, and remained so ever since.

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Hm, sounds like more of a gadgetbahn tycoon, but still interesting.

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Quoting: Mountain ManIs this the Year of Linux?

You are a year too late. 2026 has nothing special other than riding the wave of 2025. Around 3% is required for the success of a political movement, which was reached last year. And on top it became a mainstream topic and W10EOL accelerated the increase by 555% in average.

But hey, if people want to continue that joke: "2026 is the year of Linuxphones" - we can say it for at least next 20 years. ^-^

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Is it finally happening? Is this the Year of Linux?

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Quoting: mrdeathjryeah some of them tested with d7vk however indiana jones is emperors tomb* from gog (candidate for test)

*now can work in my case with this registry key:

<SNIP>

save before text as for example indy.reg and after this can import using wine registry editor

😀

I have not played the emperor's tomb actually, I will save this registry file in my folder with other indy-games!

Also help me out, I recognise an icon but can't for the life of me recall what game it is. Second from the bottom, left side, smug green man looking at us. 😅

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I think a lot of people here are overthinking it. This isn't going to be published in a scientific journal. See it like a fun little experiment. For a while now we've seen that the linear trend line doesn't fit the data. The exponential trend line fits the data much better (though its not perfect and doesn't need to be). The growth is closer to an exponential curve right now, which is great and fun to know. It will change at some point of course. It may even go down back to 1% (certainly hope not!), then no simple trend line will explain the data. Which is ok. Let's have some fun and not try to model the (very imperfect) data too seriously.

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Quoting: mrdeathjryeah regressions is a true story, in my case happend with test drive unlimited 2, transformers devastation and others

😀

Did you encounter these issues only after updating to Wine 11.8? Asking so I can run further tests and file a bug report.

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Well, then... gotta look for EarthBound to test a little bit by the time SUPER ZSNES comes out. 😇

Oh, the YouTube video didn't show a Linux build, but that's already on the website. Time to test.

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Quoting: PlayingOnLinuxphoneThere is no real exponential trend. I did the math some hours ago and there was a linear trend before Steam Deck release, than an accelerated trend between Steam Deck Release and Win10 EOL and a 5.5 times increase after Win10 EOL. Steam Deck OLED did not change the linear trend. November and December 2025 had exactly the same 5.5 times increase as the whole 2026 until April. January and February were Chinese New Year, March somehow bad data, so these should be ignored.

If it would be a real exponential curve, March data would be real and April even above that. So it would be better to use 3 linear lines, clamped between those relevant dates.

PS: If it is linear we will see on Windows 10 extended support end of life. It should be around 6%. It should be far above 6% if it is exponential.

Perhaps, you are correct, you certainly seem to have a point. Not bad news anyways, as the current linear trend still looks insanely optimistic, comparing to GoL trend line.
Regardless of exact growth pattern, there are two things I care.
1. Does it grow at all? Yes it does, good.
2. Does it grow faster than before? Looks like it does.

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Quoting: mattaraxiaIt's really wild. 10% by ~2030 seems just about inevitable now.

Even as someone who's used Linux for literally decades now, I'd have never thought this would be such a thing.

10% by 2027

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Quoting: Cley_Faye

Quoting: BrandonGeneNot being open source (and especially being based on Unity) makes this almost DoA, doesn't it?...some of those features are pretty neat, but that seems like a very odd choice in today's emulation landscape.

Really? How many games are people running that are closed source? I'm not gonna say "all of them", but unless we're talking about niche gamers, I'd say the vast majority of them are.
I'd rather have things opensource, but it's not like I'm putting all my personal documents in there. It's an emulator.

It is more that all the other big active and currently matained SNES emulators and cores these days are open source, so releasing a closed one is a bit silly at this point in time, work with the community and not against it, unless your planning on monetizing it at some point.

Edit: Just realised the Android (and likely iOS version when it is out) are pay so this is likely the reason for the closed source so others can't just take there code and release apps on those stores. Don't have a problem with that, but just come out and say it. Tried it, don't really like it that much, will keep using bsnes.

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