Take the screen out of a steam deck and call it a day.

Almost. Also put the dual stage triggers back in.

SteamOS users

Yeah, was using vanilla arch before my desktop stopped working. My deck with a dock works, but discover was inadequate.

I use it from a distrobox.

I’ve never played any of them, so I’d want to start with the first one. That being said, if I do play them it would likely be years before I got around to the 4th one.

I’ve never watched him, but isn’t he just a Twitch streamer?

I don’t think I’ve even used bookmarks since Vista.

You don’t need to reboot to switch either. Just log out.

Popular FOSS also tend to have multiple GUI options.

A dock and kb+m when I know I’ll have space, a DeckMate used to attach a battery pack when I don’t

Bluetooth dongle

The deck has Bluetooth built in.

If I don’t have it docked I use the right one for anything first-person. I hate aiming with a thumbstick, so it gets used as a mouse. The left one usually gets used as a hotbar.

Yeah, how is it that none of these so-called “rivals” have even a single touchpad? I personally wouldn’t even consider a device that forces me to use a thumbstick as a mouse.

What advantage would federation bring to a database? Federation is a cool concept, but it doesn’t belong everywhere.

Needs to not have a big learning curve and be something we can just play for an hour or two when we have time.

So no on Factorio

You’re thinking of *nix.

The Deck does have desktop mode. I use it almost exclusively on mine.

You can buy them used if you can find them. I bought 2 directly from Valve before they were discontinued then a 3rd on Ebay.

I read Tim Sweeney’s name for the first time in this thread and don’t care enough to look him up, so I can’t comment on him. I don’t play a lot of multiplayer either, so Proton has been pretty great for me.

Pretty much the only remaining hurdle to Linux gaming is kernel-level anti-cheat which may be going away in the near future.