This is standard business tactics.

Do not fall for it.

An absurd change followed by rolling it back to an “acceptable” version that is still worse than their original position prior to the initial announcement.

This is a psychological manipulation.

And more to the point it ignores the issue of their violation of trust and consistency.

This is still precedent, they still showed their hand.

They want to have “passive income” at your expense.

Learn Godot.

GoogLe

That is the opposite of never forgetting.

This is a FUD panic article. Trying to invoke the steam machine debacle to make the steamdeck fail is a poor tactic.

Confusion and inconsistency alongside varying prices and compatibility made the steam machines fail.

There is one* SteamDeck. Valve only advertises The Steam Deck.

We’re not getting an Asus deck or a Gigabyte deck. And I’ve heard people in the wild talk about the deck in a positive light. The Steam deck is never going to be like the steam machines.

*one in the sense that there is one model without drastic changes in design. Although the Glare-resistant screen is an outlier, most consoles have tiers of storage and even a pro/normal variant model.

I mean it is tho. It’s just not easy to get working when your system uses Nvidia graphics.

Why is it not “risc it for a biscuit”?

Mario

Mario

Green Mario

Not Mario

Wumbo Mario

Mario

On one hand it’s sad to see all these people laid off for Asus’s failures.

But on the other hand I saw this coming miles away. You can’t just sell mobos that kill expensive processors, and provide a warranty breaking solution. (which didn’t work btw) And then be surprised that people are upset with you for basically trapping them with losses and a broken product.

Asus did this to themselves, and it’s a shame their employees take the hit for what was clearly a failure in management.

Maybe in a server environment it may be. But even in my home server setup, arch just works.

I even took the easy way out with archinstall for both.

I know that’s not very “I use arch btw” of me, but my server’s hardware literally died before my arch install did. And then I just dropped it into new hardware and it just worked.

I’ve been running that server for 2 years, and my Desktop for less than 1 on raw arch. I used to use Manjaro but I switched to Arch because Manjaro’s packages were always annoyingly neglected. The amount of Times I had to circumvent Manjaro’s repositories to install the latest discord was rediculous. But even with Manjaro, my install never bricked.

I’ve had Debian based installs like Ubuntu and Pop Os all brick before. Trying to do Qemu or edit some grub options and poof broken.

Don’t know why, double, triple checked what the guide said.

But it still broke. And I think that’s mostly because Unlike arch, most user friendly distros assume the user either isnt going to use these power user features or can just use online guides.

Problem is online guides frequently go out of date.

The arch wiki is always pretty consistently up to date enough not to cause issues. That random no-name website article is not.

Pop_OS - Fragile Beginner Distro, this is fine to use so long as you’re not a power user, but you’re using Linux so…

Manjaro - Maintain your damn repos, why is it whenever discord updates, the repo is so far out of date I literally have to circumvent it and install it through some hacky bullshit?

Ubuntu - Snap? More like Thanos Snapd off my damn drive thank you very much.

Fedora - just overrated, nothing terribly against it, just don’t think it’s all it’s cracked up to be. It’s just a RHEL adjacent Distro.

Linux Mint - aside from Debian edition, its pretty overrated. It’s easy compatible Ubuntu. It’s not super Ubuntu or anything.

Pop_OS!

Manjaro

Ubuntu

Fedora

Linux Mint

TSMC doesn’t make everything.

There are morally abhorrent chip manufacturers in South Korea and Japan as well.

The likelihood that windows doesn’t have a back door for the US government is irrelevant.

No windows user can guarantee every part of their OS is clean.

Linux users have the advantage of Open Source.

If you run Linux, you can audit the code. Can’t do that for windows.

Nintendo sweats over homebrew on a discontinued, decade old handheld instead of updating the best selling switch original.

The steamdeck can easily handle switch emulation 1:1 if not better.

They’ve had this coming.

I use Kdenlive.

They had crash’s source code but not Spyro.

Activision is just a terrible company to ask to archive data.

Penguin People

Penguin People

I’ll have you know I’m and Arch Oligarch tyvm.

Welcome to the machine

Pro-tip: Linus torvalds won’t ban you from using Linux if you use emulators

This could really get the ball rolling