I am waiting for Arch SteamOS desktop to be released before trying Linux again. Hopefully sooner than later, since I want to cleanly migrate before DOGE starts to wander the halls of Microsoft.
this post was submitted on 13 May 2025
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Finally, the year of the Linux Desktop is upon us
Well the year of the Linux desktop will have to wait a few years considering Valve time.
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Give me the desktop version! I’ve got an old SFF pc ready to become my home console, since I never got an Xbox Series or PS5
Steam box v2 in a few years. PC gaming is cannibalizing the PC and handheld market damn
Honestly I thought the Steam Machine V2 would drop this summer. It would really be a great time for it. Definitely take some pressure off Valve to release a Steam Deck 2. I'm holding off not building my own console just in case.
It's pretty awesome that the steamdeck is now basically a viable and far less limited alternative to consoles for around the same price as one.
It's about the only affordable gaming PC right now.
As an added bonus, maybe devs will keep targeting lower end hardware because of it.
This was already true for x86 handhelds, companies like Ayaneo and GPD have been around for quite some time. However, removing Windows from the equation and the huge resource overhead it causes, and making Linux a viable alternative with their work on Proton, has absolutely shaken the industry up. It looks like Microsoft is going to try and release a hybrid Windows/Xbox OS for OEMs. I did try out Win11 on my Lenovo Legion Go for an hour or so and it was just awful compared to Bazzite (that uses the Steam Deck UI). So all up it's a pretty exciting time for handheld and low power gaming!
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Related to the image, not the article: I find the asymmetrical thumbstick layout to be terrible, ergonomically - the layout on the Switch sometimes causes me physical pain. I'm very glad that Valve didn't go that way.
Some like it, others don't. It's more important that consumers have options rather than absolutely everyone being forced to agree on one way being best.
this philosophy applies to many things, not just controller layout.
Absolutely. I'm happy that people have options.
Valve and Sony are the only ones that did symmetrical. Symmetrical was actually first with the DualShock for the PS1, but the 360 controller being popular and commonly used for PC apparently made googly sticks more common. The Switch at least has a justification in that the joycons can be removed and used by themselves, necessitating the stick placement.
Nintendo switched from symmetrical to asymmetrical after the Wii U 
Oh, good point, I forget about that! They actually went asymmetrical first with the Gamecube, then symmetrical with the Wii pro controller. The Switch is asymmetrical out of necessity, and the Switch pro controller probably is because the joycons are. So it really is only Microsoft always preferring asymmetrical.
I'm assuming they're all desperately trying to avoid Sony's layout, even though it's the best.
Insert "God: what the hell is this??!" meme with n64 controller.
I'm quite worried that the quality of experiences with Linux gaming in the eyes of Joe public will go down the drain once every random crap by some Chinese factory will be seen as "a steam deck" because it runs SteamOS, just like how Samsung is dog shit and gives android a bad rep because of it's weird bloatware.
The same fallacy of someone buying a $200 android, complaining it sucks, then getting a $700 IPhone, to confirm in their mind that all androids are cheap crap. Ignorant consumers are gonna ignorantly consume.
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Samsungs hardware is not crap, their locked down UI might be but apple and Samsung hardware are among the best. Also fuck Samsung and Apple.
-sent from my Galaxy S23 Ultra.
Bloatware = software. OP is not calling out their hardware. Just that Android gets a bad rep because Samsung keeps bloating their OS with useless software.
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