Just saying

  • Nasan@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    11·
    6 hours ago

    Next week:

    • One of the products cancelled
    • SteamOS 3 renamed SteamOS: Freeman
  • adavis@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1471·
    19 hours ago
    • Steam OS v3
    • 3 products announced today
    • steam machine is a cube. Cube is three dimensions.

    Half life 3, Team Fortresses 3, Left 4 Dead 3?

  • XM34@feddit.orgEnglish
    613·
    9 hours ago

    Finally, an arch distro where there’s a chance for some actual support and without a community that consists entirely of basement dwelling, self-righteous wankers, who have never learned social human interaction!

    Seriously, Manjaro is kind of bad, but every time I’m tempted to install Arch, it takes minutes on the forums to convince me what a horrible idea that would be.

    • droans@lemmy.worldEnglish
      101·
      7 hours ago

      without a community that consists entirely of basement dwelling, self-righteous wankers, who have never learned social human interaction!

      Well, it’s made for gamers soooo…

    • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      31·
      7 hours ago

      Idk, I wouldn’t really call Steam OS an Arch distro. It’s not quite as extreme as the relationship between PlayStation and FreeBSD, but it’s in that realm.

      The user has very little control over the base system, which is distributed by Valve. Most of the user’s interaction is on the surface, such as through Flatpaks and whatnot, not w/ the package manager. It’s like other distros like Aeon (openSUSE) and Silverblue (Fedora) where the user doesn’t really interact w/ the distro itself.

      it takes minutes on the forums to convince me what a horrible idea that would be.

      The reason the forum is like that is because Arch is designed to be a system where you have the tools to solve problems yourself and not need to ask for help. That’s why the install process is so manual, the intention is that if you can make it through that, you probably won’t need much help from anyone else. The install process has gotten easier, but it’s still to a point where it generally discourages “casuals”, for lack of a better term.

      I used Arch for about 5 years and I think I interacted w/ the forums like twice. If interacting w/ the forums is something that’s important to you, then Arch probably isn’t for you. Something like Debian or Fedora will probably be a better fit.

      I really don’t get people’s fascination w/ Arch. It’s basically a LEGO-style Linux distro, and that’s not really what most seem to want. I switch from Arch to openSUSE because openSUSE had everything I liked from Arch (rolling release, mostly-vanilla packages, etc) and most of the reliability of a release-based distro. I still don’t recommend it for new users because the community is pretty small so getting help is a bit harder, but people are generally nicer than Arch users.

  • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 @pawb.socialEnglish
    49·
    1 day ago

    I was thinking about this in another thread where someone made this joke: With how much stuff Valve does outside of gaming, are we sure they have never done a 3rd iteration of something before? Like, they do business stuff too and are into a ton of random tech related things like BCIs. We only ever really hear about the game related stuff, tho. Or possibly when Gabe gets a new boat since they interview him on it.