Quoting: edoIts now on amazon, you can now buy it anywhere on the world that amazon can reach

Looks like it's not official. The 64g model is selling at $524 at amazon.com compared to the official price tag of $400.

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I think the numbers are not as good as it could've been. The device has a very good reputation and it could see much more success if Valve does better marketing for it. For example, why isn't it being sold at retail stores or other big online stores like Amazon? Why isn't it being sold in the rest of Asia, South America, and Africa? I think what's holding the device back is simply Valve being slow.

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Quoting: sarmadI think for the same price you can get higher specs from MSI with better build quality.

I'm not really much of a System76 buyer as I generally shy away from any +512 EUR laptop personally (my work laptop is a different thing...), but why do you think MSI does better builds? AFAIK System76 does *not* just re-brand Clevo clamshells. Also, the MSI won't have proper open firmware and as-high software quality.

From experience. I have owned two System76 laptops in the past and now I'm using an MSI laptop, which just feels more premium. For example, the Darter Pro had a very annoying keyboard flex and you can clearly see a bump in the keyboard in the middle as if a screw is missing. The other annoying thing in System76 laptops was the fan curves, though my Darter Pro was the version with the closed source firmware; not sure if the fan curve is better with the open firmware. On the other hand the open firmware in System76 laptops is nice. So I guess it depends on whether open firmware is higher priority to you than build quality.

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That's a big difference from the 1.2% market share reported by the Steam Survey. Maybe this specific game is more fitted for playing on the go?

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I think for the same price you can get higher specs from MSI with better build quality.

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Quoting: slaapliedjeI bet you if there could be alt stores to snap, no one would hate it as much as they do.

Well that is the situation today but people still hate it as much as they do. Now there AFAIK does not yet exist such a store, but there _could_ do since everything needed to build it is available, it's just that no one have bothered and that is hardly Canonical:s fault.

I'd like to be proven wrong, but I'm pretty sure their backend is tied very much into their client.

The URL to the store is most likely hardcoded in the source code of snapd, but the code is open so it can be forked and so far we don't know how Canonical would treat a patch that changes that to a config value under say /etc/snap.d/.

Right, but who would want to bother when you can just use flatpak? :)

Of course, but then perhaps also at the same time stop the hate for snap? I mean that was the context, not that you had to use it ;)

My actual problem with snap is how difficult it is to remove it from an Ubuntu system... well less about how difficult it is, but it's annoying that it breaks the Ubuntu Software Center when you do. If you want to just use flatpak / debs, you're basically going to be using gnome-software (if you want gui).

I think with time it'll become harder and harder to remove snap from Ubuntu because it looks like Canonical's plans are to move in the direction of Ubuntu Core where system services are installed as snaps. This obviously will make Ubuntu more solid since there is less chance for packages to step on each other, but will pretty much force every Ubuntu user to use snaps.

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Is this a Clevo laptop as well?

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Quoting: SchattenspiegelSo, there is a working .deb of Steam provided by Valve and then Canonical decides, nah, that is working to well on our distribution, let's introduce additional points of failure by wrapping it into lot's of additional bubble wrap with our personal logo this totally open and free packaging standard that everyone could use if they went a little bit out of their way and accepted a few performance and efficiency regressions - on it an then ask the community - assuming said community can fit the 'improved' product's more ...chunky... dimensions into their existing gaming spaces and time schedules - to QA it because otherwise to big a task?

At first glance one might be tempted to ask: Why?
But then I remembered something that is easily forgotten these days: this is Linux! So if someone is doing to do some crazy and unnecessary Stuff - just because!- , you take a casual, fascinated glance at this marvel, offer a barely audible, but heartfelt 'Neat!' as commentary, and move on with your life.

Well, we don't actually have a .deb package. The .deb package is just the Steam installer, not Steam itself. When you run that .deb package you actually run the Steam installer which then installs/updates Steam for you and runs it. If the Snap package saves that step and makes the Steam installs and updates happen through Snap itself then that's a welcome move as that'll mean reducing the package formats on Ubuntu from three (deb, snap, and steam proprietary package) to two (deb, snap).

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Quoting: LinasI don't have anything against snaps as such, but the way Canonical are pushing them onto users feels disrespectful. Like if you apt install firefox, it will pull in snapd, and install the snap package of Firefox. Not quite what I expected the system to do.

I personally like Snaps, but what you mention is definitely wrong behaviour. If you don't want to maintain the deb package then just remove it from the repo and let people know that they need to install it from snap or just install it on their own from somewhere else.

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Very impressive. Although the end result didn't seem much different to my eye from this video, it's still great to see ray tracing work in the first place. Seeing it working and still hitting over 30fps is even greater. The next step is to make Portal RTX work, and with Portal the visual difference is huge and is totally worth it.

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