they allow other oses now

They don’t. It’s the same category as jailbreaking an iPhone: possible, legal, might brick your console, Sony hates it.

At this point, the distinction between console and PC comes down to the corporate side. The PS4 and PS5 operating systems are based on a BSD (probably FreeBSD but not sure), and are capable of running a desktop OS (as long as hackers find a way to bypass Sony’s locked-down firmware). XBox One and Series use a Windows-based OS, also locked down by Microsoft to only run the applications they want.

Everything about the Steam Deck is designed with gaming in mind, but in terms of capabilities, it’s no different from a PC. You could hook it up to a USB-C dock and use it for work. I’d sooner call it a handheld PC than a console.

No, we also use arch btw.

You like the gimmick, that’s valid.

Still a gimmick though.

They’ll wait for the tech to mature other manufacturers to figure it out, starve people for a few more years, then release it with a +400% markup and act like they came up with the idea. That’s how it’s always been.

Although I don’t see a future where bendable fucking glass screens become anything more than a gimmick.

(edit) oh hey, the Apple zealots are awake!

I totally forgot how completely overwhelmingly fucking beige those Fallout games were.

When you brexit so hard you start believing you’re still a maritime superpower

FOSS purists are too busy malding over systemd, and Steam being proprietary DRM, and games being closed-source.

The same guy would write a five-page essay about how much similar curved swords like scimitars and sabres suck, and might actually die if he is shown a khopesh or a shotel.

Me. I lied, it’s totally real.

It’s a doctored screenshot, it’s not real.

My setup is two screens side by side and one above. KDE Plasma 6.1 can handle it without issues, and you can make panels on any screen.

One of the most significant drawbacks of Wayland is feature fragmentation between compositors. Unlike the X11 stack of X.Org server + window manager + compositor, Wayland compositors have to implement all of Wayland in themselves. They have to serve as the display servers, plus manage window positioning, plus render the clients, and all of that within the confines of Wayland-protocols. Building a compositor is a massive task, which is why middleware like wlroots is such a big deal. It also means that WM-agnostic tools like xrandr and xdotool are more difficult, sometimes impossible to implement.

Consider that Wayland is still heavily under development, and that new protocols have to be implemented by every compositor separately, and that the development of wayland-protocols is an ongoing fucking trainwreck – fragmentation is inevitable, and some compositors will not have the same functionality as others (GNOME being a particularly nasty sandbag). Similarly, things that don’t work as expected in one compositor might work perfectly fine in another.

Right now I would consider KDE Plasma to be the most feature-complete compositor that is also beginner-friendly.

Meanwhile you get the one thing X has: It works.

You mean I’ve been doing everything, from work through CGI to gaming (with 120 FPS mind you) on a display that doesn’t work?

Wayland has many issues, sure, but it’s not even close to the point where “it works” can be used to distinguish it from other display protocols. We (and by we I mean anyone willing to dedicate their life to it) could do a lot to bring X11 up to modern expectations, but it’s just not worth the effort. X11 will outlive the cockroaches, but claiming that Wayland is not a functional display protocol is incorrect and uninformed.

X has been around forever, it sucks

That right there. X11 was released in the mid-80s and has become an unmaintainable patchwork of additions. Nobody wants to develop or maintain the code because changing one thing breaks five others.

Wayland also takes advantage of 3D acceleration, since each window is a plane rendered in 3D space. There’s no longer a choice between massive input lag with a compositor and massive screen tearing without.

Worked wonders for the Yuzu developers.

No idea, I never used it. The day I got that phone, I disabled/uninstalled all Smasnug and most Google apps.

You could try getting the APKs from APKMirror and installing them from a file manager.

They could be, easily. Sony wouldn’t likely win, but all they really need to do is bury the operators in legal fees and subpoenas.

Settings, Apps, Galaxy Store, Disable. It should revert it to the stock version and disable it. Unless your phone has some additional restrictions that prevents disabling it.

What do you suppose they should do instead? Get sued out of existence?

I’m sorry, the fucking wha– oh right, the first app that I disabled and hid on my last Smasnug.