I came to the conclusion a while ago that if I'm ever in the need for a new laptop (I have a few for different purposes already that should last me a few years), I'm totally getting a Framework one. They support Linux builds, and the engineering on them means I won't just have one sitting around collecting dust when I can basically infinitely upgrade it...

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Quoting: ElectricPrismI bought 6, I figure most people who wanted one have got one at the moment.

I know there is chatter about a refresh, but I have to agree with Valve's employee remarks that it is not coming for a while.

It doesn't make sense for them to cannibalize their achievement, what I mean by that is increasing hardware specs will mean developers have 2 targets instead of 1 target, and it will mean that games will choose target 2 instead of target 1.

So everyone who bought Steam Deck 1 will be upset if there is Steam Deck 2 if developers don't design their games to hit that target.

So, Valve would be shooting their balls off to produce a Steam Deck 2 that increased CPU too soon. Increasing the NVME size, Screen to OLED, Battery, swapping out the Wifi card for current gen, or other non-spec things would be fine. Maybe even the Ram.

Increasing the CPU or GPU would be working against their own interests. Therefore I don't expect a real Steam Deck 2 for maybe 3 to 5 more years realistically.

It's in their best interest to cultivate a robust growing market, condition buyers to buy their products, condition developers to target specs and have generations of games that target those specs, and then when the time is right for Steam Deck 2 it's gonna explode their player-base. (Similar to PSX -> PS2, Xbox #1 1999/2000 -> Xbox 360)

But in the meantime they have to be patient. It would be okay for them to release Deckard VR in the meantime as it wouldn't compete or cannibalize but enhance their existing player-base.

I was dumbfounded by people talking about Steam Deck 2 at about 6 months after the original one was finally in the hands of the early adopters... too many PC-based gamers are used to refreshing their hardware every 6 months to a year. Kept telling people that the Steam Deck should be thought of as a gaming console. Gaming consoles are typically at least 4-6 year refreshes. And to be fair, most PC games can actually work just fine with 4-6 year old hardware. People love to claim they got 10 more FPS than their friends though, which has driven nvidia to be able to charge absurd prices.

At least doing things like swapping out the wifi and nvme are fairly straight forward, from what I've seen of tutorials. I was thinking of doing the wifi on mine at least.

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Quoting: salamanderrakeCrystal Dynamics already remastered Tomb Raider I, its called Tomb Raider: Anniversary https://store.steampowered.com/app/8000/Tomb_Raider_Anniversary/

Yeah, they simplified a lot of it, and cut some stuff out. I had fun with it, I've beaten Anniversary, I have not completed the original game...

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Quoting: slaapliedje

Quoting: NouserSo, the Tencent money is finally drying up... I just hope they'll release UE as open source before going bankrupt.

Technically the source for Unreal Engine is 'open'. https://docs.unrealengine.com/5.3/en-US/downloading-unreal-engine-source-code/

I'm not sure what the license is, but you can download it and mess with it now.

My understanding is it's "source available". You can't fork it or redistribute it.

Yeah, that's why I put 'open' in quotes, like you can view it. :P

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Quoting: StoneColdSpider

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Quoting: tuubiThe trailer really does evoke some traumatic memories of dig dug. The style is spot on. I bet I'd be very bad at this one as well.

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Quoting: PenglingI love Bomberman

Until you said that I never knew.......

I thought she just looked like bomberman! Aren't avatar images supposed to be accurate representations of us? I feel deceived...

(I totally look like a happy penguin. Ask anyone!)

And im a happy fat penguin with full belly of food....... Ask anyone....

I definitely look like the Chubby Green Yamo.

I transitioned into a bee with a V8 engine and wheels......

Quite the metamorphosis.

You are looking a little pale. Need more pep in your coffee? :P

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Quoting: Termy

Quoting: slaapliedjeThe huge difference between AUR and snap? You can see exactly what the AUR PKGBUILDs are doing...

They're generally built to snag from the upstream repo that you can verify, it verifies the hash against the tarball release, and you can see in the PKGBUILD if anything is being injected into it after that fact...

Yeah, the issue is the combination of AUR-Helpers (or even integrating AUR into the graphical package manager...looking at you, manjaro...) and Arch-based distros targeting 'beginners'.


I don't want to sound elitist, but the concept of the AUR is fine in the context of Arch and its intended userbase. At least it's more likely that 'real' Arch users actually read and understand the PKGBUILD before installing/updating.
But of course now with more and more people just blindly installing AUR-Packages it's becoming more attractive to malware-scum and it's only a matter of time that we'll get some more malicious packages there i fear...

I like how Garuda does it. They have a curated list of packages that they build binaries out of. Granted I'm not sure exactly how those are picked and built...
But yeah, Arch is, I feel, not a distributions for beginners to use in the first place. Even the archinstall thing should be for intermediate users. Garuda gets close to being a user friendly Arch based Linux, but the customization they do is pretty extreme.

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Quoting: NouserSo, the Tencent money is finally drying up... I just hope they'll release UE as open source before going bankrupt.

Technically the source for Unreal Engine is 'open'. https://docs.unrealengine.com/5.3/en-US/downloading-unreal-engine-source-code/

I'm not sure what the license is, but you can download it and mess with it now. I had a random thought this morning about AmigaOS... if Gateway had just open sourced it back in 2000, I wonder how different the computing landscape would have been...

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Quoting: clatterfordslimI remember when Snap Packages were just being introduced. At that time I was running Peppermint OS 8 and was helping people out on the Peppermint Forums. The amount of hate for Snap Packages, for them not installing properly, excluding a lot of features, that the original Deb package has. We sent people to Canonical to complain there and directed people to install the original Deb package, as it will take up far less resources and work straight away, along with all the features.

Then about a year later Malware was found embedded in a Snap Package. My hate for Snap Packages evolved from the amount of complaints and for the fact they run slow, take up way too many resources. Flatpaks at least actually work, AppImages are even better in my opinion, as everything is together in one single download file. Kdenlive AppImage for example is made by the KDE team, so you can run the latest version. I wish for a world without Snap Packages, that's why I run Linux Mint Xfce edition.

The only thing missing with AppImages for me is that they don't all seem to create a proper .desktop file automatically. Other than that, they're okay. I think the other complaint I have about them is that you have to download a new one to upgrade (for most? At least Cura definitely does it that way) and so you end up with a bunch of different versions of it on your drive...

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Quoting: pleasereadthemanualIt's a joke. I'm an Arch user. I have never actually said that to anyone, and you are the first person to take offense to it in my 2 years of using this site.

OMG, I really should have more coffee before I read stuff... I thought for a minute that your user name was 'Pleasured the Manual"

Arch has the best Wiki of any distribution, pretty much no one even remotely close. Well Red Hat's info is supreme as well, but you have to have an account with them.

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Quoting: StoneColdSpider

Quoting: tuubiThe trailer really does evoke some traumatic memories of dig dug. The style is spot on. I bet I'd be very bad at this one as well.

Quoting: StoneColdSpider

Quoting: PenglingI love Bomberman

Until you said that I never knew.......

I thought she just looked like bomberman! Aren't avatar images supposed to be accurate representations of us? I feel deceived...

(I totally look like a happy penguin. Ask anyone!)

And im a happy fat penguin with full belly of food....... Ask anyone....

I definitely look like the Chubby Green Yamo.

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