Agreed. I run UBTouch on my phone. Waydroid is cool and all, but that’s not Valves market. I’m sure they would love to be the store behind every mobile game sale of flappy bird. But that would be one hell of a side quest to try and take over Mobile game sales.

Valve’s repair policy was exceptional with the steam deck so I have reasons to believe that the battery for the steam controller will be available for a very reasonable cost.

Just to piggy back on what you are say, one of the engineers in the LTT video mentioned they want to team up with iFixIt again, just like they did for the Steam Deck. And I saw the back shell off the controller in one of the videos. The batter looks dead simple to replace. It’s wild to even imagine that a company in 2025 would be be consumer friendly.

I hear you. I agree requiring the whole back shell being removed to swap the battery is an oversight. Maybe they have a good reason for it, but doubt it. I’m not too worried about it considering, how often I’d have to swap in a new battery. I mean, even my used PS5 controller I bought 3 years ago, the battery works just as well as it did when I bought it. Still sucks compared to a PS4 controller, but that’s a whole other issue. If I’m removing the backshell once every 3-5 years, I’m really not bothered in the least. It’s just not an issue I care about.

yeah, that’s my experience. But I just plug in a remote battery and keep going. 0-100% in seconds.

Disagree. I bought the rechargeable replacement for all my xbox controllers. When those wore out, after years, I just replaced them with another rechargeable. Too Easy. I think you are making a mountain out of a mole hill.

I played WoW hardcore on Linux during Vanilla, off and on since. But blizzard always said they, unofficially support Linux. To their credit, Battle.Net and WoW always installed without any major issues or special tinkering required. Pretty much my only game, for a long long time, for that reason. Have to agree with you though, at least these days. Linux Gaming numbers have to be closing in on Blizzard official support levels. Tim Sweeney said, 15 million Linux gamers before we could expect a Linux official launcher from them. I imagine Blizzard is in the same boat in that regard. And Youtubers seem to speculate, between 5 and 10 million monthly active users. So, we have to be close.

Interesting. Bottles is usually my go to for Battle.net. I hadn’t played any Battle.net games in probably a year now when I switched over to PopOs 24.04. I wonder what’s going on. I do remember all of your tools needed to have the same flatpak version installed as the bottles version you are running, at least it seemed. Usually not an issue on first install, more like, when you upgrade one tool but not the others. Well, no biggie, at least you have a working install; all that matters.

I wonder about that. I’m probably not thinking of some very important things. Edge, Office, Active Directory, Co-Pilot, a Windows DE, userland programs(could even be GNU+Windows, don’t want to forget notepad and minesweeper), Powershell, DirectX and SDKs. I think they could do it in a year or two. I just figure, if they could improve Windows in the cloud, they would have done it. And they’ve already got a massive head start with Azure Linux.

Too much money. I worked on the Windows kernel from minkernel to onekernel. There were massive rewrites with the switch of the CE kernel out for minkernel when Windows Phone was in development. minkernel used to chew through eMMC memory in a few weeks on the first Windows Phone internal dev devices. Microsoft could, rewrite onekernel (I’m assuming they are still on onekernel), if they wanted. I think Windows is a dead man walking.

Microsoft keeps building up Azure Linux. Also they push Windows 365, the cloud based Windows OS for businesses (if I understand correctly). If I’m reading the tea leaves, Windows runs like shit in the cloud and is very expensive. Because of this, companies are switching to Linux containerization for their servers. Even on Azure, Linux is on 60% of the servers. Even I work exclusively on services containerized with Linux, never Windows. If Windows was so good, you’d think it would be the opposite.

Also, Microsoft makes all their money from Cloud, i.e. Linux. Which again is why Azure Linux is getting more and more development. So, imagine if you will, Windows 365 instances suddenly become Azure with a Windows userland ( Windows/Linux, not GNU/Linux). Most users wouldn’t even know. If you had problems, running your software, Microsoft could allow you to drop back to Full Windows. For every Azure Linux instance running as Windows 365, that would be a significant cost savings to Microsoft, especially when everybody does everything in Chrome. If that’s how it all unfolds, why would Microsoft want to put any major engineering dollars towards a kernel rewrite? They do have the money. I just don’t see Microsoft every fixing the kernel root kit situation. It’s 100% in their wheel house though.

and the victim is denied any recourse or any fun in playing the game

That is how they get enjoyment from the game, denying other players.

GabeCube was good enough for me.

It’s still happening. Just not over night.

The launch event for the new OS featured luminaries from China’s tech ecosystem pledge to support KylinOS 11 and its adoption across the economy.

Whatever “luminaries from China’s Tech ecosystem” actually ends up being. KylinOS adoption

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/what-s-new-for-generic-arm64-desktop-isos-in-25-10/66277

Maybe not that far.

I’d rather eat at an A&W than a McDonalds or a Burger King, too easy.

Software dev here. You can definitely use the Steam Deck as a work device if you also use distrobox. I would 100% use my steam deck if it had a bigger HD. My older NUC still works well for now, so personally I see no reason to upgrade the SD’s SSD and switch over. But I have used my SD for work just to see how it is and everything works great; just dock + mouse + keyboard. As it is now, do I want games on my SD or do I want work on there. Obviously I want games on my SD.

But I would also suggest, you go with an inconspicuous laptop. No reason to scare off the ladies with Nerd toys. Everyone says it doesn’t matter, but it does. Better to just fit in on this one.

All of them.

Just pick something. They are all free (nearly all of them), so you can always install something else pretty easily. Spend some time to get your feet wet and get the lay of the land. After a week or two, you’ll probably have a really good direction on what you actually want. You can also run them as live oses, so download a few with different Desktop Environments you think are interesting and test them out. Then install one.

If they like how SteamOS worked, then go with Bazzite. I’ve used Linux for nearly 3 decades now. At the end of the day, we could nickle and dime the differences and the pros and cons. I don’t think it’s worth it. Bazzite will be familiar enough, and you can add Bottles to handle other game launchers. That will give you the most kitchen appliance like device.

Dude, the knock-on affects from this video will be huge.

100% agree. Good point.