is that supposed to be good or bad? A lot or a little?

Neither. It’s reporting, not an opinion piece.

That article seems to be making a heck of a lof of excuses.

No, it doesn’t.

The hard pivot from “the Deck is an unmitigated success!” to immediately, quietly admitting it hasn’t outsold any actual handheld console is… kinda weird.

It sold millions in a market that was up to Deck’s launch owned by small manufacturers that sold on crowdfunding platforms in production runs that may have been only in the tens of thousands. Stating that Steam Deck is a success is not a contradiction to Nintendo Switch being an enormous success.

Probably a few more but all users of the Flatpak versions are lumped together no matter if they use Arch or Fedora.

That link comes up with an error.

Probably because you use a client that tries to open the link locally. OP deleted the post and that’s why Lemmy cannot open its comments any longer, hence the Mastodon link that works fine in a web browser.

Do you know which software it is that is/was in the universe repo?

Pretty much everything except the base OS and Gnome.

How are Nvidia leaving out older stuff for Nouveau? I don’t understand.

Ancient NVidia should be supported by Nouveau by now, no?

Other than snaps, what else are they doing wrong?

Insecure software in the Universe repository.

Kubuntu comes with mandatory Ubuntu enshittification, though. All official Ubuntu flavors do.

I would even argue as long as someone isn’t messing with a niche distro such as KDE Neon

KDE Neon is dead because its developers found out that putting an add-on repository on top of Ubuntu is not reliable at all. That’s why KDE Linux is now in development.

A wrapper to use apt commands for rpm packages. It’s just there to help with muscle memory.

As long as AMD and Intel continue their open source drivers, I’m fine with it.

Hey GameStop. Just wondering: Where are Song of the Deep 2 and 3? Can’t you count to 3?

https://www.ign.com/articles/2016/01/28/insomniac-and-gamestop-announce-publishing-partnership-with-song-of-the-deep

Reaper and Bitwig Studio are familiar apps for many audio producers.

At the very least go back the first English version of the article chain.

At the very least

What you implied is that if a story originally came from a non-English source then it’s automatically suspect.

No, I didn’t. Learn to read. I stressed the regurgitation of a regurgitation of a regurgitation as a “source”.

• https://flathub.org/apps/com.bitwig.BitwigStudio

• https://flathub.org/apps/fm.reaper.Reaper

Professional alternatives exist.

Have you ever noticed how vendors who ship computers with Linux often do so at the same or greater cost than Windows?

Yeah… Even when going to Linux exclusively, it’s usually better to pick the Windows device.

As long as they don’t need nividia drivers.

Luckily NVidia is rather selling their GPUs to AI datacenters than to home consumers.

True. Wasn’t meant as a comprehensive list. 😁

Yeah, people need to get with the times. Flatpak exists since 10 years and smashed through the roof with Steam Deck (4 years).

What I find funny and I realized it a bunch of years ago: whenever consumers have actual choice of an alternative product and aren’t forced into the Microsoft product because of Microsoft’s monopolies, people tend to pick the competition.

Windows Phone: consumers chose Android and iPhone.

Xbox: consumers chose PlayStation and Nintendo.

Handheld gaming PC: Steam Deck.

Chat (MSN, Skype,…): WhatsApp and a plethora of alternatives. (Businesses use Teams because of Office monopoly.)

Edge browser: Chrome.

WMA: MP3.

Games shop (Xbox/Microsoft Store): Steam.