Obviously do what you want.

My point is I just don’t see how using Lemmy supports the person making it. I guess it kind of makes the platform more popular, but it’s not like there are any ads or anything here, so the actual benefit they get from each user is incredibly small. Just don’t donate to the devs and instead donate to whatever instance you use.

DS4 is pretty close.

In what way did I defend them? I’m merely saying that if you don’t like lemmy.ml, don’t use communities hosted there. I largely avoid their communities and my enjoyment of Lemmy went way up.

My point is there’s a lot of good here, so if you don’t like the bad, don’t join the bad.

OK, but what does that have to do with using Lemmy? Are you worries they’re going to taint the code or something?

That depends on how strong each economy is. If both sides have sufficient ability to replace the bots, it could go on for some time.

It’ll be like the Cold War, essentially an economic war.

Yeah, it’s not released or supported outside of the Steam Deck or handheld partners. So you’re probably not going to get Nvidia drivers or anything else that’s not built in to the kernel.

You don’t need it though, you can just run Steam in big picture mode on whatever distro you want.

Yup, looks just like a DualSense controller from the PS5 without the trackpads.

Yup, I love my Steam Deck and usually prefer asymmetric joysticks, so as long as it feels like the SD, it’ll be fine.

I’m not sure what the standard for large vs small hands is, but I haven’t had issues with pretty much any controller except the OG Xbox controller:

My kids have no issues with either the Xbox 360 controller or DS4 controller that I have.

Steam Box

Ahem, it’s a GabeCube.

Yeah, I’m debating getting this one as my first headset. It looks dope.

And even then, most games are available on multiple platforms, for similar prices. So you can get the same game from Steam, GOG, or EGS in many cases, plus all of the stores that sell Steam keys (and Steam probably doesn’t get a cut of those sales).

Eh, for the number of CUs, it looks fine. It looks like a slightly smaller RX 7600.

The only place I hear about him is here, so why not leave this community and avoid ml communities?

I think that’s mostly for the camera. He seems like a really down to earth guy.

Yeah, Steve is about as non-smug and non-jerk as I’ve seen in this space.

Idk, I wouldn’t really call Steam OS an Arch distro. It’s not quite as extreme as the relationship between PlayStation and FreeBSD, but it’s in that realm.

The user has very little control over the base system, which is distributed by Valve. Most of the user’s interaction is on the surface, such as through Flatpaks and whatnot, not w/ the package manager. It’s like other distros like Aeon (openSUSE) and Silverblue (Fedora) where the user doesn’t really interact w/ the distro itself.

it takes minutes on the forums to convince me what a horrible idea that would be.

The reason the forum is like that is because Arch is designed to be a system where you have the tools to solve problems yourself and not need to ask for help. That’s why the install process is so manual, the intention is that if you can make it through that, you probably won’t need much help from anyone else. The install process has gotten easier, but it’s still to a point where it generally discourages “casuals”, for lack of a better term.

I used Arch for about 5 years and I think I interacted w/ the forums like twice. If interacting w/ the forums is something that’s important to you, then Arch probably isn’t for you. Something like Debian or Fedora will probably be a better fit.

I really don’t get people’s fascination w/ Arch. It’s basically a LEGO-style Linux distro, and that’s not really what most seem to want. I switch from Arch to openSUSE because openSUSE had everything I liked from Arch (rolling release, mostly-vanilla packages, etc) and most of the reliability of a release-based distro. I still don’t recommend it for new users because the community is pretty small so getting help is a bit harder, but people are generally nicer than Arch users.

Ah, I haven’t watched TV in ages… and I’ve never watched Amazon Prime.

Thanks!

Sure, I have no idea where it comes from.