That’s the case with any game console.

Why wouldn’t you gift a child a Steam Deck?

So yeah, the last reservations would be delivered around April 2027.

So maybe someone will have hacked the Quest 3 by then to install SteamOS.

I post both this and DeckDroid. This here isn’t for phones, DeckDroid is.

Shuffling the order queue means that even ordering one with a scripted bot is senseless because it’s not first come, first serve.

Not happy myself that I’m in the 2027 group but maybe some hero ports SteamOS to the Quest 3, then I could cancel my order and save money. I genuinely want one mainly as an unencumbered VLC player with a giant virtual screen.

Why even bother with the whole waitlist/reservation thing in the first place?

Disincentivize scalpers.

This is a port of SteamOS, Armada is not.

FYI: I changed the link of this post to the beta 2 hotfix because beta 1 had a booting bug.

I’m sure if AMD or Intel don’t get their act together and produce something that more efficient than whatever Qualcomm have in the pipeline, that’s what’s going to happen.

I just hope Valve will have stated by then to entice ARM native games instead of wasting performance on emulation.

I think you’re right. Initial SteamOS 3.0 release as shipped on the first wave of Steam Decks was broken trash by today’s standards. Even the first 3.0.xx updates made a world difference.

I’m not the developer but my guess is that they want to distinguish this from Armada which is something like Bazzite but using Arch Linux where everything is recompiled.

They take the binary SteamOS image and add a different kernel and some other auxiliary stuff to port Valve’s image to new devices.

That’s broadly similar to what Linux Mint does to Ubuntu or Bazzite does to Fedora. Sometimes this is referred as a remix instead of a fork.

Edit: typo from wrong autocorrect

From the headline alone I would have thought it’s a VR capability Wii emulator.

Too bad it’s a bit too much of a hassle to remove the pancake lenses if you don’t need them.

Yeah, it absolutely answered questions I had, specifically regarding desktop mode.

FYI in case there’s confusion: not a video by me, that’s just the title.

Good idea, but not worth the risks

Reminder that much new code in all major operating systems is vibe coded these days. Linus Torvalds explicitly permitted LLM code in the kernel several months ago.

the owner couldn’t be assed to either write the code

If you’re so happy making demand to others: Why can’t you “be assed” make a better alternative?

If anything is super toxic attitude among open source consumers like you is demanding work of unpaid volunteers as if you were a paying customer.

I’m not defending LLM generated code but your attitude is the worst.

3rd party batteries exists for reasonable prices.

Hard to blame AI data enter demands for this…