But also it has been accepted by the “community”, by and large.

How does Linux it self or some other software on Linux address what Crowd Strike is doing for Windows?

Well, it usually drops to a black screen and kernel panics, but lately there’s been a bit of a push for parity with windows.

Did a full shell swap on mine:

The thing with the screen is you have to pull on one corner (with heat) until that single corner comes up just enough for you to slide some kind of tool underneath to slice the adhesive and separate them better. Then you can move the heat gun around a bit more and move the tool with it to keep cutting through the adhesive.

I don’t play, but perhaps it has something to do with either Proton or Linux? (I’m assuming you’re mostly a windows player outside of the deck).

You could try running it with DXVK, which does work on Windows, though it’s not officially supported or anything.

Got mine about 3 hours ago~

It’s the Limited Edition, and while most of what the reviews said was spot on, it seems either QAM and Steam buttons on the LE are a bit different or something, because they’re ever so slightly raised above the body of the deck.

Mine just updated about an hour ago, so yours should be soon, if not by now.

Mine shows as shipped on UPS, supposed to get to me on Wednesday

Limited Edition here.

Honestly this is a good thing, IMO. If we ever want devs to optimize for a given device, they need to know that it won’t be obsolete immediately. Hopefully seeing that Valve isn’t rushing to make a new device will give them confidence in that.

I like Linux better

All the other reasons don’t really matter.

The rumored standalone VR headset from Valve

The APU thats in the deck already has “RT cores”. At least, inasmuch as any RDNA2+ device has them.

Though I really doubt this is an updated deck, and much more likely to be “Deckard”.

I was only talking about your claim that they’re selling at a loss, nothing about success or not.

We don’t know their BOM so its speculation that they’re taking a loss. (Unless I misunderstood your claim)

Valve are only successful or even exist at all

Only as successful as they currently are.

They would have still been successful based on their games, I think, and without steam to “distract” them, they might have counted to 3 by now.

The deck is only successful because Valve is already successful enough to take the first loss on a console

This may be true(and I wouldn’t doubt it being the case, at least on the $399 model) but it’s pure speculation on your part.

Oh for sure. I’d have to upscale instead of actually use 1200p, but the colors are supposed to be better so It’d be a nice upgrade for me

Yeah, I was hesitant too, but I figured if I screwed up, the most likely part would be the screen.

And if that happened, it’d just be an excuse to get the 1200p screen!

Green is nice looking too, I think if I hadn’t had my heart set on atomic purple I would have gone with the opaque blue/purple color shift one.

I’ve put one on my deck and so far I love it!

The steam and … buttons are raised more than the stock ones, so you can find them better (though there’s no “Steam” text on the button, presumably for legal reasons).

Also on the stock deck I had the B button issue where it could get stuck sometimes, no such problem on the Extremerate one.

The fit is also very good, and it feels good in the hand.

I used to have the jsaux back, but I wasn’t fond of the metal “heatsink” and the back didnt seem to mate to the front properly, so there was a slightly raised point I had to sand down, though I did prefer the jsaux raised back buttons.

Edit: I will add that having a good heat gun is recommended, and if I had to do it again, I may skip the trackpads, they were harder (for me) to do than the screen, I felt like I was gonna break them. AND the difference in looks is minor since there’s a sticky black pad under them.

You have a few choices:

1. You can join other instances
2. Don’t be a dick
3. Keep doing what you’re already doing and just whine more.

In short