most ARM gpus only support OpenGL ES

Steam Frame uses Qualcomm:

Android should be closest to native and more stable than Proton because Lepton is based on actual Android Open Source code, not 3rd party reverse engineering of Windows APIs.

by your bloody metric

It’s not my metric, I merely repeated what I remembered from one of the interviews and my astonishment from hearing what I heard.

If you “wasted christmas”, that’s your metric, not mine.

they advertise the fact that it can run half life alyx natively tho

Where? I watched an interview where the guys only said that they hope to make it happen and it would stream off a PC otherwise and that they were looking into a Aperture Desk Job sized game.

The Valve reps said in some interview that the cannot even promise HL Alyx running natively on the Frame and that’s their homegrown flagship VR title. You’d think Valve would design hardware tailored to do that.

Atomic distros have a set-back of having to deal with Package Layering in the case of those that aren’t found on Flathub. That’s a bit outside of the wheelhouse of a non-tech savvy person.

Today’s non-tech savvy persons usually want Chrome, VLC, and Steam. Yes, there are exceptions but I set up Linux PCs for a few people with unsupported Windows versions recently and they are just fine with that because all they do is to access web services from Chrome, playing back the occasional downloaded media file, and some games.

the seemingly endless random named things

When you dig down for a bit, you’ll even find out that Bazzite is merely the gaming flavor of “Universal Blue” and the generic desktop (without gaming stuff installed) is called Aurora.

I am always trying to steer new users away from Cinnamon, which means away from Mint.

I’m not a fan of Ubuntu and its derivates in general (short version of the reason: Ubuntu continues to enshittify, its derivatives fight an increasingly harder battle to apply plasters to fix Ubuntu) and the reality since a few years is that an increasing number of people become familiar with SteamOS, its immutability and Flatpak use, so the old battle ground of .deb vs .rpm, where system config files are stored, etc. has just outlived itself. “A Ubuntu variant is the best because that’s what online tutorials are about” is no longer relevant for the vast majority of people.

I also was gifted a Humble Bundle game for Batman Arkham Knight.

Then perhaps redeem the game and complete the bundle at https://store.steampowered.com/sub/320795/ to play Arkham Asylum first?

And maybe you want to count in playstation and Xbox.

Xbox runs Windows.

To be fair, Windows has had standby issues forever

I have the same issues with my Intel MacBook. Maybe “background tasks can wake-up the system if needed” is not really needed on notebooks and actually a dumb concept for non-phone devices.

Modern Standby is the thing that causes your notebook to heat up when closing the lid and putting it into your backpack.

It only really works on my Surface, on my work’s ThinkPad it merely mostly works, on my private Asus gaming notebook it’s entirely broken.

Old standby on my Steam Deck is what works most reliable in my household.

If you only suspect then you never heard the entire quote and only know the memes.

Nice, downloads with screen off now stable!

It was shipped to stable a month ago: https://steamcommunity.com/games/1675200/announcements/detail/616557815194976294

No idea why they repeat it in the changelog.

Oh, the ones who made the last steam machine

Valve made no Steam Machine before the upcoming one. Are you confused and meant the 3rd party devices that were branded Steam Machines? Those were not by Valve and not by the Half-Life development team in particular.

and controller and supported them for 10 minutes

Steam Controller 1 is still fully supported and got Bluetooth firmware several years after release: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/353370/view/3931035846865617357

My wife is aiming to get a Steam Machine when they become available. This steam deck is taking the place of it until then for me.

There is a decent chance the USB-connected charger/receiver for the Steam Controller 2 could wake a docked Steam Deck LCD, btw.

Which valve? The one that made half life? Lol

No, the SteamOS and hardware teams are actually different groups of people to the game developers.

it’s for running x86 linux applications on android.

No, it’s not.

https://www.androidauthority.com/run-desktop-linux-apps-on-android-how-to-3586539/

https://waydro.id/ is the basis for Lepton.