Quoting: Narvarth

Quoting: TeodosioI think this is good news, Feral ports were usually not very good: lower performance, delayed patches, additional bugs, etc.. The very idea of "porting" smells of a sub-par product.
I like to see *native* releases; it they cannot provide that, ensuring good compatibility with Proton may be better than a port.

The last Feral ports (i.e. Vulkan) run better than the proton/dxvk version. See for example total war here or Shadow of the tomb raider.

However, these comparisons were taken quite some time ago. Presumably the native ports stayed where they were, Proton evolved and might yield more competitive results today.

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Quoting: dubigrasu

Quoting: Tuxee..They have a device with a pre-installed shiny working frontend and - say - 80% of their games working. For the extra 20% which might work you have to prepare boot media, drivers, put up with no frontend designed for the device...

The Deck frontend is the BPM redesigned, which means it will be available for Windows as well.

Is this fact or just guessing? Anyway, you are viewing that from the Linux user perspective which pretty much always has been forced to install an OS and setup the system. This is something rarely ever happens to Windows users.

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Quoting: michabut the issue is: people will just install windows on it.

No, they won't. Not by a tangible number. That is way too "complicated" for most users in 2021. They have a device with a pre-installed shiny working frontend and - say - 80% of their games working. For the extra 20% which might work you have to prepare boot media, drivers, put up with no frontend designed for the device and still can't be sure whether everything will run smoothly.

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Quoting: ageresI wonder whether the cheapest eMMC model has an M.2 slot...

https://www.steamdeck.com/en/tech

"All models include high-speed microSD card slot"

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Quoting: sub

Quoting: GuestWin 11 on Steam deck 64BG version...
No, no possible (ok its possible but no free space for any game left)

I mean there must be an option to attach some (yeah, rather slow) USB3 stick/HDD to it with a Steam collection anyhow.
64 Gb won't get you far even with a slim Linux distro.

Yes. It is called SD Card.

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Quoting: dubigrasuI hope they'll put up also a polished installer for the new SteamOS 3.0.

I can easily imagine that many will just strip SteamOS out of it and install Windows, but at the same time others might be impressed with SteamOS and tempted to install on their PC.

Why would they? Most Windows users never ever install an OS at all - that's something for the Linux crowd. In addition setting up Windows on such a fully integrated device is far from "super easy, barely an inconvenience" while OTOH you already have a shiny nice frontend running which serves the purpose perfectly. After all we are talking about a console.

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Quoting: Appelsin

QuoteCurrently it's limited to United States, Canada, European Union, and the United Kingdom with more regions becoming available in 2022.

Nothing for Norway then (or Switzerland, or Iceland or Luxemburg)? Or is this just a ploy to make us join the EU?

Last time I checked Luxembourg was still part of the European Union. Did they leave in silence?

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Puberty is next. Congratulations!

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Just ordered one. Let's see how it lives up to my expectations...

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Quoting: scaineI wonder if this is like Overload, where the native game just wants to launch on the monitor and ignores my Index. But if I switch the game to force Proton, then VR suddenly jumps into life.

War Thunder is a great game, but it's pretty overwhelming. One of those games you really need to invest in to get the best out of it, I think.

I am at level 100, I have maxed out my main tree and slowly working on top tier grind. There is no end in sight. Every time they add a new vehicle I need to grind more.

Invest time to Invest more time for a minute of good fun. Truly a hell of it's own

I have been playing WT for years now, but I rarely do top tier and prefer the mid-tier encounters instead. Way less frustrating, way more varied gameplay. I find it much more enjoyable to try out all the different nations.

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