A little bit more than just hardware, it’s also official support from Valve, who are also the creators and maintainers of both Steam and SteamOS. We’ll see how much that counts for, I think Valve doesn’t have a great reputation for their support.
I think a more reasonable assumption (than trying to destroy the fediverse) would be marketing or propaganda - somebody creates users using LLMs, gets them accepted, legitimizes them by generating interactions, then either sells the accounts or uses them to sell a service to have them promote something, with a history that looks like a real user.
I don’t know about youtubers, but as far as I know SteamOS wasn’t meant to be installed on non-deck devices, being distributed only as updates (not sure how those work) and recovery images for reinstalling on your deck, with no support or even instructions for installing it elsewhere.
It’s not about SteamOS being stupid, it’s about it not even being meant to be an option - it had less support than those “random” other distros.
In addition to aforementioned current pricing problems, the steam machine also comes with a small form factor (which is difficult to build to work well, might need specially made parts to fit it) and a preinstalled easy to use console-like OS for gaming, presumably with support.
If you don’t care for those, then sure, not the target market. I’m not planning on buying one, but if I ever want a small form factor PC, this is going to be a serious contender - even if I end up putting a different distro on it, there’s real value in the form factor and presumably having hardware that’ll work well on Linux.
The screenshot looks like it might be a cloudflare verification page, which would put another layer of separation between the site owner and the QR system.
His brother, Iroh, was a better dad…and he got his son killed!
You know, I didn’t think about this and don’t remember if it’s been talked about, but was Iroh a good dad? He was a fierce general (or something) and a great warrior, until his son died, after which he changed. He’s an amazing uncle, of course, but that’s after his son’s death.
In defense of preorders, even if they can’t run out of stock, servers can get overwhelmed. If they also do preloading and don’t fuck up a day 0 patch, you can ensure you can play the game immediately.
I still wouldn’t preorder this kind of game, I wouldn’t trust them not to botch it every way imaginable, but I’m reminded of the Silksong release, which I would’ve trusted with a preorder and could’ve avoided dealing with Steam going down when trying to buy it ;D
I would have to learn […] what packages I need, what are the ups and downs of the various packages
I consider that important knowledge for just using and troubleshooting your system, and one of the great reasons to go through the installation process - knowing what you’re using and why means when you want to change the behavior of something or figure out why it broke, you’ll know what software to look for.
Not just something to do for fun, or to have precisely the right things, but so you understand what it is you truly do have. This isn’t to say your approach is invalid, but for me it’s a reason to recommend Arch for people who want to go through the learning process.
Also someone sent me a two hour long video on exploiting goomba behavior in Super Mario 64 for glitches
Pancake man strikes again! I think part of what makes pannenkoek’s videos so enthralling is how they all build together towards the ABC - it’s not just random bugs in an old game, it’s bugs that are being found for a cause by a community of enthusiasts.
Bro’s trying the genocide route now
I might be missing something, but the order I know and have always seen recommended is REISUB. Terminating processes might write data to disk, so it seems to me like you should sync after, not before. Though this is also generally unimportant with modern filesystems and storage media.
I use Arch personally, and as mentioned you should restart every update - but you can just not update everyday (updates don’t even come at a scheduled time, it’s just packages getting new versions whenever, so by the time you finish updating there could be another updated package for you)
I think updating weekly and as necessary is a good schedule, though if you don’t update frequently and try to install something new, the version pacman will try to install will be based on your local repository information, matched to your other packages, and might no longer be available in mirrors. And you shouldn’t install an updated version of just one package, because if it pulls in the wrong updated dependencies you could break your install.
I recommend starting with SysRq+E before that, there’s a chance it gets whatever the shutdown was waiting for. And if that fails… REISUB my beloved.
It is very much a puzzle game, but the way its puzzles are structured involves exploration.
I’d generally say it’s a rule discovery puzzle game, which is a searchable term, structured in a metroidvania style. I love rule discovery games, the core idea is that the game doesn’t tell you the rules, and discovering the rules that govern gameplay is part of the puzzle.
People looking up alternatives doesn’t mean they actually want to use them. Switching to an alternative necessarily means some pains, in terms of changed interface, functionality, and community. You can’t just magically switch between platforms and have all the people follow you there, and that’s a dealbreaker for many.
As far as I know, the fediverse is growing, just not explosively. We can hope that at some point it reaches a threshold that convinces a lot of people to move over, cementing it as a “proper” platform.
Rain World is brutally uncompromising, but there’s a certain kind of satisfaction in that.
If you’re interested in recommendations based on Animal Well, some games with similar puzzle style would be Tunic, Toki Tori 2 and Outer Wilds (be careful with spoilers for those kinds of games)
I don’t remember what the shell and terminal emulator situation looked like, but I do remember that the installer specifically asks you to choose how you want to partition, so it seems unfair to me to complain about it being the “default”.
I put it on my laptop, which I barely use, and just had it still running Win10 until the SSD died. It seems really nice for that purpose, to just get a quick and easy install for a secondary device, while keeping access to everything else I like about Arch.
CachyOS is more than just a nice installer, they also have additional repos with packages built with optimizations for specific architectures and some simple utilities to make common operations easier.
It’s still fundamentally Arch with extras, but I think that’s mostly a good thing.
I do think the R6 Siege situation is a bit different, to my knowledge it was about Ubisoft adding a new cheaper “Starter Pack” option that lets you access a multiplayer-first game on different terms. It seems scummy to give users playing the same game on the same servers different terms on different storefronts.
I suspect Valve knew what they were doing, and while they probably care more about having prebuilts with Steam preinstalled and convenient to use, they included desktop mode in SteamOS and made sure the steam deck was open to tinkering.