It’ll be awesome to see the improvements Valve makes to ARM compatibility just like they did for Windows compatibility. Would love to see a handheld (by anyone) that utilises AMDs Sound Wave APU to create the king of low-spec, long battery life, indie-gaming.

What mode are you using? I’ve found D-input works better than X-input.

Linux has actually hit 5-6% marketshare. Your point is still valid though, but they could always just say “It might work on other Linux builds but we can’t support them”.

There’s no reason it shouldn’t, but otherwise it would pawbably work with a Larian account as that does cross-saves between console and PC.

Doxxing them implies releasing their personal information, and if you think cheating in a video game is that serious there’s something very wrong with you.

Yeah I mean, I don’t know why they wouldn’t after the Go S? I guess if it wasn’t a success but these are the closest you’re getting to a Steam Deck 2 for a while it seems so I don’t know why folks wouldn’t jump on it.

Depends on their tastes I guess. Stardew Valley is cheap, you can put hundreds of hours in and it does “couch co-op” off a single PC. It also doesn’t require very good hardware either.

As other people have mentioned, I’m going to recommend 8bitdo! They have quality controllers for super reasonable prices, include niceties like rear paddles for much cheaper than Microsoft or Sony include those, and you can get Xbox clone controllers with or without official branding. Those are both US$70, have bluetooth as well as a 2.4GHz adapter and include a nice looking charging dock for setting up on your TV unit or similar.

Their Pro 2 controller is also great, I’ve had one for three or four years now and can highly recommend it. Though it’s just been replaced with the Pro 3 that like above includes a dock and 2.4GHz adapter. One thing I liked more about the Pro 2 is it has a removable battery pack that you can replace with a couple AA batteries.

I’ve only ever had one repack completely fail to install and I just got an unpacked dump of the files and installed the crack manually.

Definitely over OpenGL, it’s kinda garbage in comparison to DirectX. Vulkan is its successor that’s supposed to even the playing field, and is pretty good at that. Baldur’s Gate III has a Vulkan option and I think it runs better on Linux through Proton personally, than the DirectX version. WINE/Proton is still needed to process the Windows API calls, but DXVK isn’t needed at that point.

Well, Krita is multi-platform, so how could it run well on Linux?

So, therefore, you believe apps like Krita are doing a shoddy job of supporting Linux, right?

NM is multi-platform, ie, linux is an afterthought, after Windows.

That’s what you said, right? That multi-platform apps put Linux last. Seems pretty clear you don’t know what you’re talking about.

What makes a multi-platform app default to treating Linux as an afterthought? If that’s the case, it’s true for most KDE apps as well; most notably in my mind would be Krita.

It’s not just about the processor fee, though I don’t know why the hell you would use stripe when they’re one of the outfits screwing over itch right now. It’s about the fees to convert into crypto for the buyer, and convert out of crypto for the seller.

I mean there tends to be overhead and fees that are greater than most other payment processors, no?

As far as I’ve seen they all fluctuate wildly, is that not the case with some?

I haven’t used a Legion Go S, just my original Go, which has a roomy enough trackpad. The Go S looks like it’s barely the size of the top part of my thumb and review have widely panned it as useless. I do have to lift my thumb still to mouse entirely across the screen, so I can’t imagine what that’s like with the smaller trackpad.

I use it for kb+m games where I have the keyboard set up on the controller, I use the scrollwheel on the back heaps when that’s faster than whatever that control is bound too normally, and I just use it a lot in desktop mode when I’m setting up non-steam games. I’m not sure what you mean by lifting my finger but I only very rarely use the touchscreen, it’s honestly leas important to me personally than the trackpad.

None at all. I think you’re confusing immutable with a non-persistent OS like Tails. No files at all wipe at any point. The /home folder is a normal read/write partition that works just like on a non-immutable distro, and that’s where Steam installs your games. The system files are in a read-only partition that you can’t modify directly. They aren’t modified in normal operations, so they don’t need to be wiped. The biggest benefit to this is that the system keeps itself in a “known-good state” so it’s always ready to play games.

I don’t have any experience running Bazzite on a GPD device, but I know with my original Legion Go that everything except the microphone works and is supported to an OEM-level. As for if the hardware is worth it, it all comes down to the games she’s wanting to play. If you get a refurbished 2023 model with the 7840U, that’s the exact same silicon as the Z1 Extreme that’s in the legion go, but it has double the RAM at 32GB. Handy because system memory is shared with the GPU and the 16GB of the legion is the biggest thing holding it back. That chip will play Baldur’s Gate 3 at 1080p30 on medium settings just fine on Bazzite. If she’s not playing anything too taxing then the newer models with the 8840U are gonna be overkill for her.

That said, if she doesn’t need the hardware keyboard for anything, then the original Legion Go is a great device, works fantastic on Bazzite and can be had for pretty cheap these days.

I found these two pages by the way. They seem to say that the 7840U/8840U Win 4s have a suspend/resume bug but that everything else is solid:

https://docs.bazzite.gg/Handheld_and_HTPC_edition/Handheld_Wiki/GPD_Handhelds/

https://github.com/aarron-lee/gpd-win-tricks

I used the aarron-lee git page on the Legion to make my purchasing decision so his info is really reliable and up-to-date from what I know.

Edit: I should have added, the Legion Go S with SteamOS looks alright, but I would strongly recommend the Z1 Extreme edition at a minimum. That said, I wouldn’t go for it because the trackpad looks pathetically small and I use it heaps. The Steam Deck’s chip is also just horribly outdated at this point compared to its competition. My rec is the original Legion Go w/ Bazzite.