You get to change wallpaper maybe.
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.... Compared to what?
If you compare to MacOS, then yeah, maybe.
Compared to whatever the Switch 2 runs...yeah 100%.
Good point.
Enjoy your extra 20% battery drain with windows.
Was more than 20%. Battery life was like 2.5 hours on Windows and about 7 on Linux (on an undemanding game)
Presumably Windows is pricking about in the background, and not letting it go into an energy saving mode.
If all you know are walls, windows will feel like freedom
Interesting. Obviously Valve has them spooked. When was the last time MS came out with a product that at least made an appearance of caring about what users want?
Honestly if I was them I would be very worried. As people move away from the Microsoft ecosystem Microsoft slowly loses control of the market.
The Steamdeck is flying off the shelves. I hope that many other companies start going Linux outside of value as the more companies involved the less likely one will ruin everything.
Not even sure they care any more. They make so much money from corporate Office use and Azure that everything else could disappear tomorrow.
Half the world went from applications to web based stuff years ago. Them and Amazon are now running most of that, regardless of you using Windows or Linux.
The Windows ecosystem is an abominable pile of half-finished apps and dark patterns that should be slam dunked into the trash. The problem is in the leadership that is laser-focused on milking business users who are used to Microsoft's abusive practices.
There is a reason Adobe software doesn't have a Linux version
Affinity suite is dirt cheap and is a single purchase, none of that licensing crap.
laser-focused on milking business users who are used to Microsoft's abusive practices.
The funniest thing I notice is how IT departments have to enforce all kinds of group policies and custom scripts and things to crowbar Windows into shutting up and just being a work OS.
It's just standard practice at this point to fight the thing into submission to get an install image that's not nagging users or trying to upsell them on cloud nonsense and whatnot.
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Best estimate that I’ve been about to find on Steam Deck sales is somewhere between 4-6 million, which considering everything is astounding. I’m on my second Deck (upgraded to OLED).
I actually decided to sit out the Switch 2 launch because I’m so satisfied with the Deck (and a lack of groundbreaking Nintendo games at launch).
Assuming you are right that's about half of the total Wii U sales
Small compared to well known giants but this is really the first real successful console Value has launched
That's the thing, it's not an established console line
And also, half of Wii U sales is fucking massive. Yes the Wii U was considered a failure, but it was still well known
Is this really that though? They've called it an Xbox and it only runs PC games.
It's not even their own hardware. Replacing Explorer.exe with a custom launcher is an absolute bare minimum effort.
That's basically what the Xbox UI is. "Xbox" is short for "DirectX Box".
You can even force a Xbox into CMD haha
I prefer freedom from windows to freedom of windows
I also prefer windowless basements
Freedom from windows. Thanks.
First thing I would do if I got that thing would be to wipe it and install SteamOS on it for the best user experience. Way better and faster than whatever garbage micro$oft put on it.
You already can, it's the same handheld they've been selling for years.
This is a bit like the Playstation slogan "play has no limits". No limits except for, well, everything
"Play has no limits, but your credit card does. Let's aim for that."
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Let's see if they can optimize W11 for this and challenge SteamOS 💪
Even if I root for Linux, competition is always good and drives Innovation.
competition is always good
/me gestures at the hundreds of streaming platforms
good for who?
In a way, streaming platforms aren’t truly competition because they’re founded on the idea of exclusivity. If they all had the same content, it would be good for the consumer.
As always, copyright rules cause innovation to be slowed, exactly the opposite of what capitalists claim.
That's actually a good point and I hadn't thought of that before. A bajillion streaming services would be fine if they all had the same content.
Music streaming services seems more like true competition. For the most part, they all have the same music.
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Lets see how much better it will run when Linux comes into the picture.
Assuming it’s gonna be a mostly normal windows OS, this will have an idle menu battery life of 1 hour
Charge it in the morning and it's dead when you go to use it. Good news is: your bag is nice and warm now. That's what you wanted, right? .... right?
This has happened to me way too frequently back when I had windows on my laptop lol
She actually said that live during xbox live. This is exact moment. https://youtu.be/_M3QwLBrg8g?t=2351
I was watching with one eye when she said that and I was like waaaat ?
I mean IDK maybe they mean the "freedom of Windows" compared to like, some bastardized Android sometimes found on third party "gaming handhelds"?
Lol
"Device battery life is like air conditioning. It becomes useless once you open Windows."
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