I also think selling the Machine without the Controller is an odd choice, given Valve’s bigger vision of it being a living room console.

People who already have four Xbox controllers probably are fine with the option not to pay for additional controllers.

This must be that “too much winning” Trump was talking about.

It’s not by default there. It’s a dedicated spin to self host an LLM. That’s completely different from Windows does with Copilot.

Debian or anything based directly on it

Debian can also run AI models. Pretty dumb reason to get mad about.

SUSE contributes to Fedora? WTF?

https://insideclimatenews.org/news/05042026/trump-interior-proposal-cancels-bison-grazing-leases-public-land/

Not copyrightable coding

Wire is still around? Tried it literally 10 years ago and didn’t like it at all.

Raise your hand if “your ecosystem” is built on free and open source software. Yeah. Literally no one else. STFU.

Funny how almost everyone else here didn’t even care to read the article where it clearly states that the source of the complaint is “Game Pass games installed through the Xbox app are locked down on Windows 11.” So typical Microsoft behaviour.

And yet, you’re being the one voted down.

You should generally always wait and see with basically all tech products. There is never really a reason to buy freshly released products except for FOMO stupidity.

Except that tech products get more expensive over time these days, not cheaper.

OP forgot to quote the actually relevant part which is in an embedded tweet:

Game Pass games installed through the Xbox app are locked down on Windows 11.

The root cause for the problem once again is Microsoft and their locked Xbox / Game Pass eco system.

Valve contributed open source drivers to Linux and SDL months ago.

I said it before and I happily repeat myself again: Just get an 8bitdo controller. The Ultimate2C is affordable and solid (Ultimate 3E for high end users) and I also never encountered a scenario where I would prefer a controller with trackpads over a good wireless keyboard with integrated touchpad and here Framework‘s upcoming one looks the most promising.

Is the whole operating system open source, or just the Linux kernel it is built on? Where do you acquire the source code?

Everything in SteamOS except the Steam Client is open source. Always has been (over a decade).

I didn’t know there was more than one movie.

I did not say it acts as a Xbox controller, but said similar to a Xbox controller.

Digital Foundry outright spells it out with a statement by Valve as to why: It does NOT act as a game controller without Steam running. It acts as a mouse! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMstfBYpdmg&t=596s

Seems like Jeff either made shit up or he accidentally stumbled on a niche scenario where it does act like a regular gamepad without Steam but if two credible reviewers say the same about it acting as mouse, just like Deck and SC 2015, this is also the reality regular customers face.

It does seem inevitable that every distro will eventually have some amount of AI generated code, if they don’t already.

100% there is plenty of undeclared “AI assisted” code all over the place already.

I switched to Fedora years ago. Linux mint has been not as good for a long time.

Countering Ubuntu enshittification is an increasingly demanding task. Then there is also the issue that accessing bug fixes for software in the Universe repository that regular Mint inherits from Ubuntu requires Ubuntu Pro.

Same BS doesn’t happen with LMDE.

I’m currently downloading Bazzite to replace Kubuntu.

Just FYI: If you don’t care for the preinstalled gaming stuff, the same people also make a desktop/workstation flavor named Aurora: https://docs.getaurora.dev/blog/aurora-spring26-update/

the inaccuracies were starting to catch up with ZSNES.

The inaccuracies made more demanding games work on my 133MHz PC, though.

And because it was the first SNES emulator to play games full-speed on a 486.

Things changed after 0.800. My Pentium PC struggled after the following release. IIRC it replaced some assembler code with C code that was less efficient.

This seems super bizarre in the face of bsnes.

You clearly didn’t even care to read the website. It has an entirely different focus than bsnes: https://zsnes.com/#super-enhancement