Original comment is such an off topic, disconnected and edgy tirade that I don’t really think I should be doing any more explaining given extremely heavy handed delivery in my response.
You seem to understand subOP better though. What was his point? He recommended Linux handheld running proprietary storefront and proprietary games, with 3 hour battery life, in place of a high end TV console. Also said normal people play on PC which means what for console gamers? Maybe I’m missing something.
It didn’t seem off-topic to me because the article for this post is about a console only allowing proprietary controllers, so they were suggesting an alternative setup in which that would not be an issue. I think that’s in keeping with the general theme of a lot of tech/gaming Lemmy instances following reddexit, i.e. don’t lock yourself into an ecosystem, “enshittification” bad, that kind of thing.
I think it’s valid to disagree with that – there are lots of reasons to prefer consoles; play whatever jollies your Roger. For me, this sort of thing isn’t an issue because I haven’t bought or used third-party controllers. Maybe one could be in support of this change because it could help prevent use of controllers with unfair functionality like macros or what-have-you.
Maybe the steam deck (or ROG ally) is a decent replacement for a console, when it’s docked it’s functionally the same, I haven’t tried it so I’m not sure. It’s such a PC thing to do suggesting anything other than PC gaming is abnormal, anyway. The point is there’s a lot of interesting things to discuss about it, so it’s a waste to focus on what they call normal or not, you know?
Didn’t subOP argue for locking yourself to Steam storefront though? Yeah, you’ll get bigger choice of hardware (which comes with cool stuff like shader stutter) but you’re still at mercy of commercial entities in many ways.
I play on many different platforms (or should I say - lock myself into multiple ecosystems?), Linux included, so it’s supper funny when people go full Linux jihad on me. It’s annoying that it happens so often here and I know it’s a bubble but in an ideal world that should lead to honest discussions and not doing sales pitches for increasingly niche solutions nobody asked for.
That’s a good point, though I’ll say you can play non-steam games on the steam deck (even switch emulation!) and upgrade some of the hardware yourself like the SSD, so there’s some wiggle to that particular lock. In any case, I hope you enjoy whatever your setup is, proprietary or otherwise.
Original comment is such an off topic, disconnected and edgy tirade that I don’t really think I should be doing any more explaining given extremely heavy handed delivery in my response.
You seem to understand subOP better though. What was his point? He recommended Linux handheld running proprietary storefront and proprietary games, with 3 hour battery life, in place of a high end TV console. Also said normal people play on PC which means what for console gamers? Maybe I’m missing something.
It didn’t seem off-topic to me because the article for this post is about a console only allowing proprietary controllers, so they were suggesting an alternative setup in which that would not be an issue. I think that’s in keeping with the general theme of a lot of tech/gaming Lemmy instances following reddexit, i.e. don’t lock yourself into an ecosystem, “enshittification” bad, that kind of thing.
I think it’s valid to disagree with that – there are lots of reasons to prefer consoles; play whatever jollies your Roger. For me, this sort of thing isn’t an issue because I haven’t bought or used third-party controllers. Maybe one could be in support of this change because it could help prevent use of controllers with unfair functionality like macros or what-have-you.
Maybe the steam deck (or ROG ally) is a decent replacement for a console, when it’s docked it’s functionally the same, I haven’t tried it so I’m not sure. It’s such a PC thing to do suggesting anything other than PC gaming is abnormal, anyway. The point is there’s a lot of interesting things to discuss about it, so it’s a waste to focus on what they call normal or not, you know?
Didn’t subOP argue for locking yourself to Steam storefront though? Yeah, you’ll get bigger choice of hardware (which comes with cool stuff like shader stutter) but you’re still at mercy of commercial entities in many ways.
I play on many different platforms (or should I say - lock myself into multiple ecosystems?), Linux included, so it’s supper funny when people go full Linux jihad on me. It’s annoying that it happens so often here and I know it’s a bubble but in an ideal world that should lead to honest discussions and not doing sales pitches for increasingly niche solutions nobody asked for.
That’s a good point, though I’ll say you can play non-steam games on the steam deck (even switch emulation!) and upgrade some of the hardware yourself like the SSD, so there’s some wiggle to that particular lock. In any case, I hope you enjoy whatever your setup is, proprietary or otherwise.