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One of the two Ravi Varma paintings we had hanging on our walls growing up. And by far less creepy than the other one!
I've been using a Steam Deck as my only PC for almost a year now, for work (graphics design, web dev, illustration, some Blender) as well as play ofc. Aside from my suboptimal dock options (Valve doesn't sell any hardware in my market) It's been a very smooth experience, and I've not even had to disable immutability at any point.
I would like to support the point that Game Mode is one of the most important features the Deck has, and losing out on it by installing Ubuntu feels like a loss.
But I would also like to note that Steam OS now has Distrobox built in: for most use-cases you can just set up all the software you need inside an Ubuntu container without much hassle.
Ultimately though, the form factor is the main difference. If I only needed to keep it docked all the time a Deck would not make much sense. But I love shifting to my bed after a workday and playing anything and everything I would have needed to sit at a desk to do before!
Skyrim, Limbo, Stardew Valley.
Bismuth is better for those of us who want dynamic tiling.
Unfortunately, the developer no longer wants to maintain it, and while it's still working through KDE gaining a tiling API (that doesn't do anything dynamically, also what Polonium uses) for the most part, who knows how long it'll last...
The sooner the second one comes out the better. Won't have to worry about further repeats...
And here I thought it was federated. An easy mistake to make I suppose...
:Nervously raised hand: SteamOS 3.5...?
I still haven't finished Bastion because I didn't want to break the loop.
I still haven't finished Planescape: Torment despite playing it over many years because I had too much fun reloading and exploring parallel branches.
Could it be that Android is closing Firefox in the background like it often does?
I also used to think the woman in the picture was Shakuntala, and that made the lore even more confusing...