It is responsible for my sleep loss. I have gotten so much use out of my steam deck and it’s hands down the most I’ve played games in the last ten years. The operating system is great and easy to understand, the only thing I had to tinker with was downloading a proton plug in to get New World to run but that game is not even remotely made for using a controller. I’m not a Linux user and I’ve had no issues with it even in desktop mode. It might be the best tech purchase I’ve ever made.

Agreed. My kids have switches, but when I tried my friend's steam deck I was like, "Yes, this is made for adults" ... Even though it's heavier, it feels sooo much better.

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I think you may have mistaken what you read there. The idea of androids has been around since the 1800 in sci-fi. If you thought I was trying to say Android, the mobile OS, has been around long before mobile OS's you might be daft.

The Switch OS is really not linux-based at all. It uses a pretty unique micro-kernel instead of Linux. It does have similar (unix-like) architecture, but pretty much every OS other than Windows also does.

Just to be a know-it-all, the playstation OS is built on freeBSD.

I’ve used Linux before (Mainly Ubuntu and Mint back about 10 years ago) and thought about it again but being a new Dad I just don’t have time to play around with getting configuration set up and all. Maybe again one day.

I’ll say a massive help to my gripes with Windows 10’s nonsense was a Powershell script that uninstalled a ton of bloat and allows you to uninstall stuff like Candy Crush and the Xbox app.

Wild how much trash it threw out

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Here is what I tell people “A lot people call Apple a “walled off garden” and let me tell you - it’s a nice fuckin garden.”

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Lol you couldn’t be more right, the downvotes you’re getting is just the usual Apple hate. I can only imagine the engineering benefits of getting all the sensors in one place on the board instead of what I can only assume the current approach is - wherever they can fit them.

Come to Linux I just made the switch. Using PopOS

It might seem petty, but I feel the need to clarify that Android is software, and this article is regarding hardware. I know you’re using it as a general term to include everyone that’s not Apple, but Samsung, ZTE, Oppo, and Vivo are drastically different companies. Lumping them together is disingenuous.

The tech behind putting a camera underneath a screen is still a compromise. Either the pictures look foggy, or the pixels above the cameras stick out.

Apple will do what they always do and that’s wait until the tech is good enough that it doesn’t come at a compromise. It’s the same thing with foldable screens. Apple will wait until they can do it without a crease.

Steamdeck convinced me it was time to switch to Linux. Tried it years ago and failed with wine but streams proton layer is just amazing. As far as arch being the default I guess but I went with pop cause of the support

Would there be mainstream bad PR? Not saying it wouldn't be bad, just having a hard time seeing headlines about not supporting the #4 consoles. There's exclusives all the time.

You’re looking at it wrong. You don’t want a fingerprint scanner or a facial scan. What you actually want is simple - authentication that you are using the device, not someone else. You want high security with low friction. Without debating which one is actually more secure tech, let’s just agree that either one is sufficient, which means one of them is redundant. You can either give consumers the choice like Samsung and include both fingerprint and facial scans, OR you can make the decision for them like Apple did and leverage what’s already in the device - a front camera.

Both answers are acceptable, and really illustrates the design ideology between each company. They both have their place in the world.

The spirit of what you said holds some truth, but not only did you not actually name anything, but I’m not sure you know how patents work.

First, Kodak invented OLED. Not only did Apple not ever claim they invented it, but they literally use Samsung for a majority of the panels.

Second, you don’t “invent” minimal bezels or variable refresh rates, you patent a technique to achieve it.

A more accurate statement would be “Apple needs to make money, so they either wait for markets to mature, or they firmly plant their feet on how they see the future. Their are numerous examples of both.

Apple didn’t invent the desktop metaphor, but they were first to market with a consumer application because Jobs famously saw it and had an epiphany.

Apple didn’t invent the mp3 player, but the iPod put everything else to shame.

Apple didn’t invent the smartphone, or multitouch, but once the iPhone came out it clearly set a new standard forcing Google to quickly buy a little company at the time called Android.

Any reason to get a steam deck if your pc is playing everything ok already?

Really gives the term “feel the burn” while working out a completely different meaning

It's similar enough, thanks!

Dumb question. Is it worth buying now? Or will they be putting out newer models SOON?

Not much different to IE. IE was/is as hardcoded into the OS like file explorer itself.

Absolutely hardcore Windows Fan but damn even I’m tired. The amount of Win11 un-installs had to do for family… the work that goes into keeping our servers running.

Their announcement back then to not release Win11 made me cheer since it significantly could reduce permanently effort when it comes to helping end-users. Instead we now get Win11 AND the Win Server Version after 2022 "will be closer to Win11“

I’m at a point where I gladly would support switching most of our systems but windows dependencies especially in businarea is just so brutal..

it's running on a tegra so probably, let's check the wiki.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nintendo_Switch_system_software

> Proprietary OS, derivative of Nintendo 3DS system software (partially Unix-like via certain components which are based on FreeBSD and Android)

probably depends on if you consider "unix-like" to be different from "linux-like".

Could be worth a shot. It struggles when I’m flying with a headset on, mic in front of my lips, and sunglasses