u/FishFace — FishFace

But have you considered installing a different OS every day and posting about which one you're going to install next?

I don't really see the problem. It's not worth double the price - anyone can go buy a computer and get the same functionality. If it's worth so much to you to have the valve logo on the thing, then that's up to you; the actual value though is in its use as a computer, which you can get by other means.

It's not like a concert ticket where there's no equivalent.

I would guess that scalpers will have to reduce their prices to shift what they've scrambled for when it comes to people actually buying them.

If it's successful, it won't be rare.

Someone linked the same URL today due to the release, and my instance's web UI groups posts with the same URL together... even 7 months apart!

lmao

Supply is exactly as limited, in this scenario, as it is now. A queue does not cause valve to manufacture more.

Why wouldn't the scalpers just fill up the queue?

Will they work properly on Linux? Will they work on a GOG game without installing Steam? Will they work on an alternative console or handheld?

If not then that sucks, and that is what they're being criticised for. Why should anyone STFU about that? It seems like a serious flaw.

As far as I understand, the original Steam Controller presented as an un-useful pair of HID devices by default, and someone wrote a 3rd-party open source driver for it. So, a similar poorly-supported situation to other hardware that the F/OSS community consistently and rightfully criticises.

How d’ya figure that one out?

What are you trying to say? Valve gets a free pass because SteamOS is based on Linux? How d'ya figure that one out?

It makes sense for Valve trying to create a walled-garden ecosystem of the kind we all rightfully shit on Nintendo for creating. It does not make sense for the consumer.

If it needs to present a KB+M device for OS navigation, it can fucking well do so at the same time as presenting a game controller device and having a way, using its many inputs, to switch between the two. Then it would work on everything that works on Windows and Proton. Then it would work on XBox, and any console that works with standard USB HID devices.

I had no problems so no idea about troubleshooting. Wired ones show up on plugging in, Bluetooth ones are detected fine. We even have an official Nintendo controller working.

Thanks so much, with this I will be a counterstrike pro in no time!

I do have a desktop so no real point. I use a dock to plug in to the TV and connect controllers though.

Can't be bothered connecting a mouse and keyboard to my deck for that kind of game.

Turns out that "that kind of game" also includes more than I expected!

Do they think valve's lawyers are not as good as Nintendo's or something?

Why would it be soldered? It's not like it's in a laptop with space constraints.

It's cool but so far I'm not really that impressed. It has had one interesting idea, employed in an often frustrating way, and now its frustrating implementation and glitchiness mean I'm probably not going back to it.

Yeah, pause menu then quit, and you'll restore into the current chamber.