<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div dir="ltr">Preorders open this morning at 10AM AZ time, will cost $5 I think, and you must have previously made a purchase on Steam before June 2021 to qualify. They are trying to keep people from buying all of them up. </div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">I am preordering at 10AM if it all works out. </div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">There are 3 versions with varying storage and the most expensive will be like $650 bucks and the cheapest will be $350. Cyberpunk 2077 is like 77GB so if you plan to play a triple A, you’ll need the biggest one. </div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Thanks Hans. I appreciate you posting this. </div><div dir="ltr"><br><blockquote type="cite">On Jul 16, 2021, at 8:55 AM, Matthew Gibson via PLUG-discuss <plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="auto">Yes, but can I compile Gentoo on it. :')<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">It certainly is exciting to see the progression of gaming on Linux. It will be fun to see how this is received among the community.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Matt</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Jul 16, 2021, 8:35 AM Stephen Partington via PLUG-discuss <<a href="mailto:plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org">plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif">SteamOS was built for the creation of Steam Gaming consoles. And while they never quite took off as the hardware vendors wanted to steamos has not gone away.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif"><a href="https://store.steampowered.com/steamos/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">https://store.steampowered.com/steamos/</a><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif">But based on some reading SteamOS 3.0 is coming, and the way it is talked about makes it sound like arch is the thing. Although I am not seeing any hard announcement of SteamOS 3.0 yet</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif">This si also really interesting to ready through <a href="https://partner.steamgames.com/doc/steamdeck" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">https://partner.steamgames.com/doc/steamdeck</a></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Jul 16, 2021 at 7:16 AM murph via PLUG-discuss <<a href="mailto:plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">----- Original message -----<br>
From: Matthew Crews via PLUG-discuss <<a href="mailto:plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org</a>><br>
On 7/16/21 12:41 AM, der.hans via PLUG-discuss wrote:<br>
> moin moin,<br>
> <br>
> <br>
> It's Linux-based and they claims to support installing 3rd party software<br>
> and even other Operating Systems.<br>
> <br>
> That'll make games even more dynamic since NPC won't respawn, they'll<br>
> recompile :).<br>
> <br>
> <a href="https://social.gould.cx/@ted/106586487578801896" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">https://social.gould.cx/@ted/106586487578801896</a><br>
> <br>
<br>
This is a *huge* win for Linux and Linux Gaming. Here's hoping that it<br>
is popular and does well.<br>
<br>
-Matt<br>
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*May* be a huge win. Haven't we seen a few Linux-based consoles come out and not really move the needle at all? Wasn't one of them from Valve?<br>
<br>
--murph<br>
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