I got this in a mystery key-bundle a little while ago and still haven't tried it out - thanks for the reminder!

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What a trainwreck this comments-section is - you've all gone right off the rails this time!

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Quoting: BlackBloodRumand so if you don't keep the older console or if it fails, your old games are nearly useless.

Relevant recent news-article about the Nintendo Wii U's suicide-NAND.

Quoting: BlackBloodRum(PS: Yes I'm aware of emulators to play older console games, but I'm talking strictly about the consoles themselves in this instance)

Emulationville is a big landmark in Linuxtown.

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Quoting: BlackBloodRumOof consoles. I'm glad I got away from them!

Same here. I also feel that part of that is because consoles got away from their strengths, though - seems funny that the Steam Deck, literally a PC, is the hardware that's making an effort to leverage that!

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I've gotta say, this is the least-surprising news I've seen in a while, but that's a good thing!

Hopefully they won't do a mid-lifecycle refresh with an OLED screen before I can get a Steam Deck for myself, though - those things hurt my eyes, and I also don't want to waste money on a display that's guaranteed to die, since that goes against the ethos of keeping hardware in service for as long as possible by optimising properly for it.

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PC ports are still sometimes afterthoughts for these types of developers, so this doesn't surprise me too much.

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Ooh, this looks like it might be my sort of thing, and now I'm kind of surprised that I hadn't heard of it already! Thanks for the heads-up, Liam!

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Quoting: sgtnasty369

Quoting: StoneColdSpiderThanks Liam...... I thought it was a FIGMENT of my imagination that there was a free game on Steam.......

need a new flag for dad jokes

Or at least one for Spider's jokes!

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So, you're telling me that we have a rhythm-game (a genre that largely got killed off in the console space due to the push for HD displays before they were lag-free, with only handhelds occasionally bucking that trend in the years since), which also happens to be a spiritual successor to Nintendo's long-abandoned Rhythm Heaven series, AND it's now got a native Linux version? Sweet! I must have it!

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Quoting: denyasisI've thought about getting my child an Rpi4, but the more I think about it, I think I'd rather get a NUC (or something similar). X86 and upgrade options keeps a lot of doors open. The price on this one seems a little high, but over 8 years of schooling, it's only $100 a year, which is pretty reasonable.

The NUC is by far the better deal - Raspberry Pi OS often has issues with updates being pushed out to the public when they're not ready for prime-time, which gets tremendously annoying if you just want to get things done. Also, on at least one occasion that I know of, they auto-added and auto-trusted a third-party repository without user permission or interaction, as part of a standard apt update.

I used a Raspberry Pi 4 as a daily-driver for some time, but called it quits after they managed to break monitor-detection, requiring a week or two of troubleshooting until the solution became known, followed by manual config editing on another machine in order to get it to output anything. I've been using Linux since 2007 and that experience left me feeling that it would easily give new users a false first impression of where modern-day Linux actually is - you can't even do a dist-upgrade when a new version is released, and have to write your microSD Card afresh.

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Quoting: denyasisWithout a dedicated GPU, gaming seems like a stretch? But its way overkill for streaming? Non/lite-gaming desktop use maybe?

I look at this and see a great little box for light gaming and emulation. If I were to purchase a desktop machine (something that I don't have, as I exclusively use portables), this is exactly what I'd want, personally, as what I enjoy playing doesn't need vast amounts of power.

That said, I know that I'm an oddity for a geek in that my computing requirements are quite light and have, in essence, remained virtually unchanged since my days with the Commodore 64!

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