[HN Gopher] Valve's Steam Deck makes a brilliant case against wa...
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       Valve's Steam Deck makes a brilliant case against walled gardens
        
       Author : jeppester
       Score  : 24 points
       Date   : 2022-06-21 21:07 UTC (1 hours ago)
        
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       | warning26 wrote:
       | Everyone likes to joke about "the year of the Linux Desktop", but
       | I would argue the Steam Deck has come closer to actually
       | achieving that goal than any device before it.
       | 
       | Want proof? Go have a look at the reviews on the Discover Center,
       | KDE's Flatpak UI. Almost every review now, by a very wide margin,
       | is posted by someone with the default "Steam Deck User" name.
        
       | antiterra wrote:
       | How likely is it that success leads to SteamOS being another
       | Android that drifts further and further from being open?
        
       | jeppester wrote:
       | I submitted this because it describes very well why I'm myself
       | overjoyed with the Steam Deck. And on top of that it's an
       | interesting case to bring into the ongoing discussion about
       | walled gardens - and for instance especially Apple's resistance
       | towards opening up.
       | 
       | I'm in awe of how powerful and versatile the Steam Deck is.
       | 
       | First of all most modern games, and especially indies, run
       | perfectly well on the device.
       | 
       | Then it can emulate almost anything with very little setup (using
       | emudeck). Wanna play couch coop PSX games? Connect two
       | controllers and your TV, change the controller order and that's
       | it. It just works!
       | 
       | There is also a bunch of streaming options available for cloud
       | gaming and streaming from PC/PS4/5. I've been using Chiaki for
       | PS5 remote play, and it's great.
       | 
       | The cherry on top is that even if Steam Deck fails. It's still an
       | awesome handheld PC that I'm sure will have a passionate
       | community for a long time.
       | 
       | Had it been a walled garden, it would have lost almost all of its
       | appeal. I also own a Switch and it feels so limiting and boring
       | in comparison.
        
       | fritigern wrote:
       | 20+ years of hard work by the Wine team has paid off!
        
         | doix wrote:
         | A lot of work on Wine was done by Codeweavers and as far as I
         | know, Valve subcontracted Proton development to them. Both wine
         | and proton are open source and patches flow both ways with a
         | lot of the same people working on both.
         | 
         | I'm not an expert on the topic, and I might be wrong, but
         | nothing I've ever seen suggests there is any animosity between
         | any of the people working on these projects. This is easily a
         | 'everyone wins' story :).
        
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