Quoting: LoftyCan't we just have nice things. The amount of plastic these things use is fractional compared with other products available on the market. Not only that but buying these is supporting an individual with a cottage industry and not some giant mega corporation.

I'd agree with you if the new controls brought new functionalities/features, or were significantly better than the old ones... but its only for looks. The correct way to do this would be for Valve to allow you to customize your Deck from the factory (yeah, yeah, I know its not that easy...), ideally using the parts from the small business as an option.

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Quoting: DrakkerThey look great, yes, but its still more plastic waste for the planet... no one is going to re-use your old black controls...

I keep repeating we should go back to using wood for electronics!

I don't know about durability, but it would sure look great haha.

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They look great, yes, but its still more plastic waste for the planet... no one is going to re-use your old black controls...

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Quoting: AustinBut when I want a simple modern desktop out of the box, and I just want to get my work done, I would go with Budgie.

Just curious: How does Budgie stack up against Xfce for this use-case?

If you want an honest opinion from a long time XFCE user... I moved to Budgie a few years ago. For a while in Xubuntu a lot of things were broken, notably the damned keyboard switcher applet that kept breaking every few years, to then be ignored and not fixed for years at a time. I don't remember what other problems I had, but XFCE was getting neglected badly back then. I tried Budgie, it wasn't instant love, it needed a lot of tweaking, but it was every bit as fast as XFCE and didn't get in my way, just like XFCE. Every once in a while I check the progress on XFCE and hope to get back, but I keep Budgie because it just works, even though its not perfect.

Honestly, I think XFCE's pretty much done, there's little development efforts going on (only a few very dedicated devs who have no way of keeping up with modern desktop development pace). Unless a lot of people decide to work on it, or a lot of funding magically materializes, its not likely to be in any usable state on Wayland soon, and that's probably what is going to kill it.

So, there you have it. In my opinion Budgie is not better than XFCE at all. It just happens to be in a better working state.

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There are plenty of options in Budgie, but they are scattered around in multiple places. For some tweaks you must use dconf too. While I've been using it for a while and got used to it, I think it could use a settings overhaul.

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Yeah, the game has been fixed, bugs were rare in 1.6x and the game crashed on me only once in my over 60h play time. Glad I waited to buy it, hopefully the expansion won't be so buggy, but I'm going to wait until its a bit cheaper, it will give them some time to bugfix it. :)

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The previous entries in the series were so good, this was an insta-buy for me.

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I don't have Windows. I got B4B in the ukraine bundle, around when proton was updated to support their anti cheat. Works fine. All my friends are on windows and we have zero problems in multiplayer. I ended up buying all the expansions and they all work fine too. The only problems is with the in game movies, they start to stutter after a while, but its a very minor problem and once you have seen them, you always skip them afterward anyway.

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Same here, I don't get all the hate that Back 4 Blood gets. Sure, its not as polished as L4D, the physics are really basic and bodies and items won't fly all over the place, but the gameplay is solid. It's a lot more hardcore than L4D, you need careful consideration when crafting your deck, and a bit of grinding is required to get all the better cards, but there are so many possibilities, L4D can't do that. Of course, if you only play casually once in a while with other casual players, stick to L4D, its a way better game for casual play. L4D is way easier to learn for new players and doesn't require a considerable time investment to craft decks that will allow you to survive on the harder difficulty levels that B4B offers. I think both games are great, and both have their places. I know I will continue to play them both for the years to come.

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What's the point? It's not like the display is super large to start with... everything's already tiny on there. The stock display resolution is appropriate for the size of the Steam deck. This just looks like more e-waste to me. What will people do with their stock displays when they upgrade to this one? Trash it because there will not be a market for second hand Steam Deck displays?

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