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joshstrange ◴[] No.42726760[source]
At this point I'd be hard pressed to consider this over my Steam Deck. We will see the specs later but I doubt it will really compete processing-wise or screen-wise.

The openness (full arch desktop) of the Steam Deck is also awesome while having a great UI that you never have to leave if you don't want to.

EDIT: I mistakenly called it "fedora desktop", my bad

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irrational ◴[] No.42726902[source]
Isn't the point of owning a switch to play games that aren't on the Steam Deck? Zelda, Mario, etc.?
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joshstrange ◴[] No.42726923[source]
With emulators those games can also be played on the Steam Deck.
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maronato ◴[] No.42728846{3}[source]
Why pay for the Steam Deck, though? Buy it online and claim it never arrived to get a refund.

I’m yet to hear a moral argument for emulating current games you don’t own unless you’re poor and need to choose between buying Zelda and starving.

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cesarb ◴[] No.42730917{4}[source]
> Why pay for the Steam Deck, though? Buy it online and claim it never arrived to get a refund.

If you do so, the seller has one less device. If you copy a game, the seller still has the same number of games. Your analogy clearly doesn't work. A better analogy would be possible if we had Star Trek replicators: replicating a full Steam Deck.

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tshaddox ◴[] No.42732849{5}[source]
> A better analogy would be possible if we had Star Trek replicators: replicating a full Steam Deck.

Well, we literally invented Star Trek replicators for information, and we've seen what happened. If we had Star Trek replicators people would be complaining that replicating food, medicine, etc. is immoral because you should be paying the "original creator" for their intellectual property.

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spencerflem ◴[] No.42733827{6}[source]
Not defending the length of current US copyright, but as long as we live under capitalism, the people who spend years of their time making the information need to get compensated somehow.
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tshaddox ◴[] No.42734494{7}[source]
Indeed everyone needs to be compensated somehow regardless of what they enjoy doing or are capable of doing.
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1. spencerflem ◴[] No.42734775{8}[source]
Not disagreeing, but also not sure what your point is