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lunar_rover
11mo ago
If you include all the low level works needed to make them work well which is a lot, then maybe.
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lunar_rover
11mo ago
So Valve won't need to convince developers to do anything expensive and old games will also work. Most games on Steam Deck aren't tested by the original developer at all. Windows on ARM games are extremely rare. Linux native means
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lunar_rover
11mo ago
Even in Minecraft it looks bad. Some CJK characters are Serif for some reason.
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lunar_rover
1y ago
The problem is still the desktop itself. Basically none of the existing Linux desktop components are mature, either design or technical wise and more often than not, both. Deck works because most games are self contained, allowing them to h
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lunar_rover
1y ago
There are better ways to do this. Enforce 18+ age rating and mandate platform parental controls. If the parents decide to let their child pay for adult content freely that's unfortunate and on them. Going stricter isn't effective,
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lunar_rover
1y ago
Compatibility and tightly coupled legacy components tech debt catching up, ads to get revenue from free users, half baked new UIs made out of slow web tech and more. No serious effort went into consumer desktop Windows in the past 10 years,
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lunar_rover
1y ago
Notification centre has been there since 3.x era. Though it's accessed by clicking the clock so perhaps it's not very intuitive.
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2y ago
Potentially longer gaps between major updates, since they can no longer follow upstream closely. However, Google might have planned to slowly make Android proprietary, which means death to 3rd party forks.
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lunar_rover
2y ago
The World needs more Snow Leopards.
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lunar_rover
2y ago
Neither is even close to how smooth Gnome's overview is. And macOS still renders only a single desktop for some reason.