Software support is basically identical across any Linux distro. It’s not really a concern when choosing a distro to use. Of course some are easier to install stuff on than others.

I agree, really anything with KDE Plasma will feel basically the same because the Steam Deck’s desktop is basically stock kde.

George Floyd protests had more than that (closer to 8%) and they didn’t really change anything.

Game design is a big part of this too. Particularly first person or other fine camera control feels very bad when mouse movement is lagging.

I agree with what the other commenters are saying too, if it feels awful at 45 fps your 0.1% low frame rate is probably like 10 fps

I recently switched to Android. IPhones work great, the hardware is all there, the software is probably more polished, etc… but on Android you can get the phone to do basically anything with a bit of effort. There’s an app that lets you easily install most linux packages, and one that can emulate most Windows apps and games. There’s a ton of open source software, and you can actually find apps that don’t shove in-app purchases in your face (because devs don’t have to pay $100 a year just to stay on the store)

I got PrusaSlicer to work on my phone, through the Windows emulator, and sliced one relatively complex 3D model with it. For some reason it crashed every time I tried to start it after that, but it’s still pretty neat that it worked at all. PrusaSlicer has a linux build for ARM so whenever I find the time to set up one of those linux desktops on my phone I’ll probably try that.

Mac not being able to play any games forced me to mess around with other operating systems on it

They don’t have to be faster, they just need to be in front of the fighter jets and small enough that they can’t be seen until too late

There is a lot more improvement that can be made to drones (Coordination, guidance, speed, etc) and advancement in battery technology seems fairly inevitable

If you plan on plugging in a monitor and keyboard and using it as a more general computer it’s a lot easier to justify

lol, I switched to a steam deck from using a linux-ified chromebook for travel gaming so I see what you mean

How powerful is it? Just based on the graphics of what I’d seen I assumed it was around the same.

Anyways, I think the switch can get away with worse hardware as every game is specifically optimized for that exact soc, while the steam deck has to play games optimised for a PS5 or a midrange gaming PC for example.

I have a steam deck oled and love it, but the SOC is slightly old now and was never the fastest. If you’re playing slightly older games or are fine with slightly lower settings, than it’s still great.

SteamOS is great, but I think you can install it on other handhelds as well. It sounds like current competition isn’t great unless you’re willing to pay a bit more and the steam deck 2 isn’t rumored to come out soon, so the steam deck is probably still worth purchasing tho.

The ti-84 plus is based on the zilog z80. From 1976. The calculator is still being made, and still costs $100.

Better calculators just use floating point math with a few tricks on top to pretend it isn’t floating point math.

The game I most recently bought is Trackmania United Forever, still $15 on sale even though it came out in 2008. I suppose my purchase of that is less though than of what they get from a user playing their new subscription based (!) racing game for a year.

I think the only games I’ve played in the last month or so have been Trackmania United Forever and bonk.io

No, they said 67% at 6y or older, but 92% at more than 2 years old

I wouldn’t call a game that came out in 2023 “old”.

Is there context here that I’m missing? I’m confused

Like “I need to lock in and finish this essay” sort of thing