What gave you the impression that I thought it would?

What gave the completely irrational impression that filing a bug report before commenting was a requirement?

Didn’t know they disabled it

Right but presumably they chose the names?

I don’t know.

It’s not a requirement to file a bug report before you comment on anything. Don’t be silly.

It’s not a requirement but if anything is silly it’s acting as if an alpha version is the final release and complaining in a random forum would change anything.

Normally when people develop a feature they do it once and then it’s “done”

The feature (boot manager) was not developed by KDE. They rely in systemd components which are all in active development.

So did you file a bug report or are you just being negative in a forum the developers will probably never read?

You really think they’re going to revisit this?

I reserve my judgement until a final release is made.

That’s not really how software development works.

How does it work, then? Have you filed a bug report?

I really don’t understand why people have this little awareness of usability.

It’s an alpha release.

Is it really ready?

It’s an alpha release.

Unfortunately, it hasn’t updated in nearly 3 years, which doesn’t bode well for future Android release compatibility.

Commits to the Github repository keep going but the developer doesn’t seem to realize the importance of more regular but smaller in scope releases which attracts users and more users mean more contributors.

Samsung TVs run Tizen. If they have an AMD APU, running Steam natively would be possible. The biggest challenge is probably heat management.

My wife said it’s a Samsung Frame TV with SteamOS streaming built in…

While I think such a device is plausible in general, I don’t think Samsung would want to hand a “Frame” related TV trademark to a 3rd party.

with proton baked in

Finally a way to play all those Windows Phone games!

Just get another handheld then, maybe a used ROG Ally, and install SteamOS or Bazzite. It’ll be fine.

I don’t know who those “we” people are but benchmarks have repeatedly shown that in low wattage situations the performance difference between Deck and the newer handhelds is negligible, so this prediction is hardly a surprise IMO.

Depending on our use case, one of the newer 3rd party SteamOS handhelds may be a better option. Steam Deck does not ramp up performance when connected to a power source, for example. OTOH, if your use case is mainly portable with long battery life (so not ramping up performance by spending more energy), the performance difference to the newer devices is non existent any more, even skewed slightly towards the Deck.

Do yourself a favor and get the OLED model. The OG Deck’s LCD screen is really bad by today’s standards. The OLED screen and the dual touchpads are the two features that still stand out compared to the more recent competition. I don’t use the touchpads that often, though. For me personally, there are no must haves.

That is until companies move on to supporting other operating systems like FreeBSD or RedoxOS and leave Linux to its fate.

Until? So when will that inevitable event happen? They didn’t care about the BSDs 25 years ago either. Mesa is not a Linux project. FreeBSD uses the same stack.

So far Linux is only growing, especially with gamers.

Your comment has no basis in reality. It looks like wishful thinking by a Linux hater.

Baby steps

No, because a Nintendo console is not a PC. Steam Deck and the other SteamOS devices have a literal “Enter Desktop Mode” feature and desktop use is (as seen in the promotional picture) an advertised feature.

What‘s non desktop equipment?

Gamers will not make Linux better

Gamers as a customer base is literally what‘s driving GPU driver developments. Valve and their contractors are among the main driving forces in development of the FOSS Linux stack.

the company has been pushing forward with its flagship phones for the betterment of the entire Android ecosystem, rather than just its own benefit

Pretty sure making it harder to install a custom ROM (potentially without GApps) on Pixel phones is mostly driven by its own benefit.

Yeah, but don’t they tend to incorporate any apps in the GNOME desktop if they deem it worthy?

If there is mutual consensus to join forces, yes. I’m very critical of Gnome and their UX demands but in this case I don’t think Newelle as any chance to be mainlined into Gnome without some changes. I don’t think Gnome developers would be interested in an AI assistant that connects to Google and OpenAI. https://raw.githubusercontent.com/qwersyk/Newelle/master/screenshots/3b.png