That’s like saying that the year of Linux came when Android release.

It’s usually “Year of the Linux Desktop” and Android is a mobile platform, not a desktop OS.

it’s a bastardized monster clone of the original.

Android developments did benefit areas like power saving, so why the hate. Android is no GNU/Linux because of the lack of glibc.

MacOS is “Unix” in paid certification dollars only.

macOS, the Darwin layer specifically, is totally a BSD. Even with the Mach bits in the kernel because Mach itself is derived from BSD.

Homebrew could provide their own casks of FOSS applications, compiled on their infrastructure and signed by their key. It’s kinda what F-Droid does on phones.

Early Valve was totally pro Windows tech. Back when HL1 launched, it was the first idTech-derived game with a Direct3D renderer out of the box (yes, Doom95 existed but that wasn’t the default, DOS was). OpenGL was still a massive force on Windows and yet Valve decided that what their fork of GLQuake needed was a Direct3D renderer.

Valve’s stance only changed after Microsoft’s attempt to force Windows Store on everyone and Valve’s subsequent “Faster zombies” experiment (because DirectX was stagnant as well).

Hopefully he helps turn the team around

I have yet to hear a single sentence from Hamilton that suggests that he has enough technical knowledge to develop the car.

I’ve seen a lot of folks waiting for this to make the switch, it’s silly but having a familiar name attached to it gives them a sense of comfort, and SteamOS is solid for what it is.

And should they be not native English speakers, they’ll wonder why the desktop is only in English, why they can’t even check the spelling of their native language. Or why playback of WebM videos glitches.

I really like my Steam Deck and actually use it as desktop PC from time to time but you can tell desktop mode is an afterthought. Traditional Linux distributions are actually a better choice for regular users. Valve luckily open sources and upstreams everything of SteamOS other than the actual Steam client, so it’s not like SteamOS has some special sauce nobody else gets.

I have to rely on scalpers or stores who sell it for triple it’s value. I want the controller

The 8bitdo Ultimate 2 series of controllers are fine pieces of hardware. Yes, they don’t have the trackpads but they have TMR sticks (probably the very same model as Steam Controller 2) and they are even compatible game consoles.

The biggest problem is that there are four very similarly named controllers (“Bluetooth” is the highest end and compatible with all BT devices even phones) but that’s it. No need to throw money at scalpers if good alternatives exist.

PS: If it behaves like Steam Deck’s controller, it’ll be useless without Steam running and merely acting as mouse.

Year of the BSD when?

When Mac OS X launched?

When iPhone launched?

When PlayStation 4 launched?

It’s yet another development branch, this time for beta testing.

Ive Been using KDE Plasma after upgrading Debian which it now officially supports but I’ve been experiencing crashes and bugs… This surprises me on a Debian machine.

Doesn’t surprise me. Debian’s definition of stability is “stays the same”, not “free of bugs”. In Debian Stable packages are frozen and only severe bugs are allowed to be fixed which doesn’t necessarily mean crashes but security risks.

Then there is Debian Unstable. The name already says it. It’s unstable, it’s the development branch.

For some time Ubuntu was the middle ground of a regular, bugfixed snapshot of Debian Unstable but that Snap infested POS is no longer suitable for regular users.

A friend of mine buys every Pokemon game and described this (tounge on cheek) as a compulsive mental illness of theirs.

Rich people are only socialist until someone tries to redistribute their wealth. It’s all an act.

They don’t use Steam forums either: https://forums.playdeadlock.com/

That looks like Bazzite Desktop with a different name. Even the contributors overlap.

FAQ says: “Bazzite, Bluefin, and Aurora all came in at different times, the result of organic growth. Don’t overthink it” … Very helpful.

Most people first installing Linux will dual boot to try it out first before fully committing

Good look having a newbie set up a dual boot system in times of BitLocker. Chances are they end up with single boot Linux because they cannot downsize the encrypted Windows partitions.

imo ubuntu is a good recommendation.

The reality is that SteamOS shaped the majority of developments for home users.

They expect to just get the stuff that’s on Flathub even if they don’t even know what Flathub is. Facts are:

• Out of the box Flatpak support has been banned by Canonical.
• Ubuntu 25.10 shipped with broken Flatpak support. That was known before release but Flapak is in the unsupported Universe repository and bugs in Universe software are not release blocking.
• Juggling PPAs is complicated.

Fact is also: Because software in Universe is not supported, whether or not a community member backports bugfixes is a coin toss. Mint, pop_OS, Zorin, etc. are just as affected by this and as such software used may contain severe security issues.

Rules of thumb I use:

• Good upstream support, so not a hobby distribution by guy or two
• No reliance on add-on repositories that can mess the OS up like RPMFusion, PackMan, EPEL,…
• App store-like software management. Users shouldn’t have to see traditional package management if they don’t explicitly look for it. Default repo and Flathub is enough for the vast majority of people.
• Good internationalization. Languages other than English shouldn’t be an afterthought (even SteamOS falls into this trap in desktop mode)
• Plasma Desktop because that’s what regular users are most likely to know or at least heard of or seen in videos about SteamOS
• No Ubuntu or derivatives (bad support by Canonical and derivatives fighting an uphill battle)

Currently that means Fedora KDE. I did not yet try Kinoite or Bazzite myself but I do like the download assistant on the Bazzite website that guides users through picking the correct ISO.

Fair use is a US concept, F1 is a British company

YouTube is US American, Liberty Media is US American.

Trump obviously was never campaigning on or making a promise to shut down the government, so the first condition of LAMF (supporting the politician’s promise to do X) literally can’t be met.

But he’s the self-proclaimed world’s best deal maker, no?

Linux gamers often say stuff like “it’s literally one toggle in [insert game engine here]” but that’s never the case. Doesn’t mean new devs don’t fall for it.

If developers (those that come from Windows) fall for anything, it’s the myth that Proton is already perfect and native ports have no value.

With Steam Deck the hurdle for game developers to dog food native ports of their games is lower than ever. SteamOS comes with Podman and Distrobox, so installing the Steam Linux Runtime SDK on Steam Deck’s desktop mode should be doable after reading a howto.