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Steam Deck game library now 29% larger than that of Nintendo Switch (www.pcgamesn.com)
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[–] lengau@midwest.social -2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

If it's "just a handheld PC," how do I setup cups as a service that starts on boot?

The answer: as a minimal change I have to enter developer mode and understand that the next update will wipe that away. (If I want to use it for this purpose regularly, it'd be better to install another OS, at which point you might as well call the Switch a handheld PC too.) This is a limitation of the Deck, but it's a very intentional one. It's a gaming appliance first and foremost, which makes the comparison to other gaming appliances apropos.

Are "Steam Deck has X many games that Valve have certified on it, up from Y 17 minutes ago" articles particularly useful? Only really to people who are using them for ad revenue. But that doesn't make the comparison to the Switch a bad one. In fact, comparing the Steam Deck to the Switch is a better comparison than comparing it to a gaming desktop.

[–] dsemy@lemm.ee 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Did you even read the comment you replied to? The last line was:

Whether or not you consider the Steam Deck a handheld PC doesn’t change this.

You then proceeded to try and convince me it isn't a handheld PC in your comment, anyway.

I don't want to argue the semantics of whether or not it is a handheld PC (it's pretty subjective anyway); I'm just saying since it uses hardware and software which is common to PCs it can run most games a "normal" PC can, which means it can run way more games than the Switch (even if you install Linux on your Switch you won't be able to run the vast majority of PC games, as they're built for x86 processors).

The original comment in this thread compared the Steam Deck to a PC to highlight the fact that the amount of games available on these platforms isn't comparable, so articles such as this are pointless (especially when it's wrong, as the difference in the amount of games you can play on the Switch and the Deck is way more than 29%). You replied that calling it a PC is wrong, but that comment was only calling it a PC to highlight this obvious difference.

[–] lengau@midwest.social -1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I don’t want to argue the semantics of whether or not it is a handheld PC

And yet that's exactly what you're doing, and missing the forest for the trees as you do so...

[–] dsemy@lemm.ee 2 points 5 months ago

I did this in my very first comment to you, realized it was very subjective, and stopped.

All my comments to you after that did not, in fact, try to argue this. Work on your reading comprehension.