Not for me it isn't, at least when I tried to check out the Steam Deck 512 the price stayed at 779€, so for the machine it should be the same. I agree the price is way too high, plus I have 22% VAT so it would be even worse for me lol
Xonotic (arena shooter), 0 A.D. and Beyond All Reason (RTS), OpenTTD and OpenRCT2 (management sim), VVVVVV (platformer).
These are the one I've tried, out of all of them VVVVVV is probably the most polished since it was a commercial project that later got open sourced. BAR is pretty good too if you like over the top RTS games. TTD and RCT2 are reimplementations of the original games. I don't have strong feelings towards Xonotic but arena shooters aren't my thing so 🤷♂️
Don't forget about PCIe expansion. Just yesterday I got a FireWire PCIe card for 20€ to transfer old DV tapes to digital with no quality loss. Plug the card in and you're done. To get the same result on a laptop I'd need a Thunderbolt port and two adapters, one of which isn't manufactured anymore and goes for 150€+ on secondhand stores.
PS. I would remove "CPU heating" from your system if I were you :)
This comment made me go down the kio rabbit hole, how does I not know this exists? I can't wait to try some of these, even if I was using some without realising (like smb://). Browsing a filesystem through SSH or using audiocd:/ to rip a disc in the format I want... sounds almost too good to be true. KDE never stops getting better.
Thanks for your input! I know I can just avoid features I don't need, but IMO things like a turntable should do one thing (play records) and do it well. Having two choices at a similar price point, one with tons of features and one without, I'd probably choose the barebones option because to fit all that extra stuff in it at the same cost, they have to be cutting cost somewhere else. Which in this case is probably build quality, a cheaper cartridge, worse phono amp etc. Plus connecting a line out to a computer or a BT transmitter is easy, so if I need those I'll set it up myself.
I don't have an insane HiFi setup yet but it's something I'd like to with towards so investing into a better turntable now means I don't have to upgrade in the future. I also got some Christmas money so I decided to treat myself 😂
Looks great, maybe this will convince me to setup a music server to free up space on my phone :)
One question, does it support browsing by
album artist instead of just artist? I organise my music with Picard which moves features to the artist tag, which breaks up albums when using just the artist view. Great work either way
Samsung SSDs seem fine, I actually use one of the cheap SATA ones as a boot drive, but they had a firmware bug a while ago that destroyed 990 and 980 pro NVMe SSDs. And I dislike Samsung in general so I'd rather not buy from them if I can avoid it.
Great. What SSDs are worth buying then? Kioxia? Solidigm? Never going to buy WD, Samsung is on my shit list too but if there's no other options left....
edit: just read that solidigm also exited the consumer business at the start of the 2025, amazing
You can run games from your windows drives but it's better not to, it can cause weird issues because of the way files are stored (case sensitive vs insensitive, permissions etc.)
Public transport navigation is also very lackluster.
This reminded me of a few months ago when I went to Milan with a friend. I used Organic Maps for getting around and they used Gmaps. Their phone was always trying to get us to walk as little as possible, using EVERY possible combination of metro, tram and busses for even the shortest trips, it was insane. Change bus here, ride one stop, get on the metro, change to the other line, get back on a bus, take the tram, it never ended. Same trip on organic maps was 3 changes on the metro and a 5 minute walk at the end.
The ISP gives their modem/router an internal IP and routes traffic through their datacenter to them and other customers via one shared public address. Also IPv6 is not always an option, I had to activate it on my ISP's website but it was useless in the end because I can't get an IPv6 address on my phone
It's been a bit since I've played it, but from what I remember Sky Rogue was pretty fun. Plane based roguelite. Simple enough flight model to pick up and play but complex enough to not be mind numbing. It's also 75% off right now
Just checked out 7 digital, seems to have a decent library but the pricing is weird... I looked at a 3 track release and it costs 8,79€ for the whole thing, or 0,99€ for each track 🤔
Yes it runs on windows, if I recall it's to pass data from storage to the GPU directly without passing through the CPU. Which lowers CPU usage and speeds up things like game loading or texture streaming for example. You probably found references to Xbox because it was implemented there first with the launch of the current gen consoles.
Not for me it isn't, at least when I tried to check out the Steam Deck 512 the price stayed at 779€, so for the machine it should be the same. I agree the price is way too high, plus I have 22% VAT so it would be even worse for me lol
What? In the US it currently costs 1049$, in the EU 1039€. If it was 750$ it would also be around the same price in Euro
USB network cards are even cheaper than PCIE if you don't mind lower performance (if you don't have USB3 ports you're limited to theoretical 480Mbit)
Civ 6 is the worst for this. IIRC for a while you couldn't do multiplayer between native Linux and Windows
Xonotic (arena shooter), 0 A.D. and Beyond All Reason (RTS), OpenTTD and OpenRCT2 (management sim), VVVVVV (platformer).
These are the one I've tried, out of all of them VVVVVV is probably the most polished since it was a commercial project that later got open sourced. BAR is pretty good too if you like over the top RTS games. TTD and RCT2 are reimplementations of the original games. I don't have strong feelings towards Xonotic but arena shooters aren't my thing so 🤷♂️
Don't forget about PCIe expansion. Just yesterday I got a FireWire PCIe card for 20€ to transfer old DV tapes to digital with no quality loss. Plug the card in and you're done. To get the same result on a laptop I'd need a Thunderbolt port and two adapters, one of which isn't manufactured anymore and goes for 150€+ on secondhand stores.
PS. I would remove "CPU heating" from your system if I were you :)
This comment made me go down the kio rabbit hole, how does I not know this exists? I can't wait to try some of these, even if I was using some without realising (like smb://). Browsing a filesystem through SSH or using audiocd:/ to rip a disc in the format I want... sounds almost too good to be true. KDE never stops getting better.
Thanks for your input! I know I can just avoid features I don't need, but IMO things like a turntable should do one thing (play records) and do it well. Having two choices at a similar price point, one with tons of features and one without, I'd probably choose the barebones option because to fit all that extra stuff in it at the same cost, they have to be cutting cost somewhere else. Which in this case is probably build quality, a cheaper cartridge, worse phono amp etc. Plus connecting a line out to a computer or a BT transmitter is easy, so if I need those I'll set it up myself.
I don't have an insane HiFi setup yet but it's something I'd like to with towards so investing into a better turntable now means I don't have to upgrade in the future. I also got some Christmas money so I decided to treat myself 😂
Thanks again and have a nice day ✌️
Looks great, maybe this will convince me to setup a music server to free up space on my phone :) One question, does it support browsing by
album artistinstead of justartist? I organise my music with Picard which moves features to the artist tag, which breaks up albums when using just theartistview. Great work either wayYou can also press
alt+.multiple times to cycle through all recent argumentsDefinitely recommend this approach, listenbrainz end-of-year recaps are quite similar to Spotify. Plus their tagging tool is great
Samsung SSDs seem fine, I actually use one of the cheap SATA ones as a boot drive, but they had a firmware bug a while ago that destroyed 990 and 980 pro NVMe SSDs. And I dislike Samsung in general so I'd rather not buy from them if I can avoid it.
Great. What SSDs are worth buying then? Kioxia? Solidigm? Never going to buy WD, Samsung is on my shit list too but if there's no other options left....
edit: just read that solidigm also exited the consumer business at the start of the 2025, amazing
You can run games from your windows drives but it's better not to, it can cause weird issues because of the way files are stored (case sensitive vs insensitive, permissions etc.)
This reminded me of a few months ago when I went to Milan with a friend. I used Organic Maps for getting around and they used Gmaps. Their phone was always trying to get us to walk as little as possible, using EVERY possible combination of metro, tram and busses for even the shortest trips, it was insane. Change bus here, ride one stop, get on the metro, change to the other line, get back on a bus, take the tram, it never ended. Same trip on organic maps was 3 changes on the metro and a 5 minute walk at the end.
The ISP gives their modem/router an internal IP and routes traffic through their datacenter to them and other customers via one shared public address. Also IPv6 is not always an option, I had to activate it on my ISP's website but it was useless in the end because I can't get an IPv6 address on my phone
It's been a bit since I've played it, but from what I remember Sky Rogue was pretty fun. Plane based roguelite. Simple enough flight model to pick up and play but complex enough to not be mind numbing. It's also 75% off right now
Just checked out 7 digital, seems to have a decent library but the pricing is weird... I looked at a 3 track release and it costs 8,79€ for the whole thing, or 0,99€ for each track 🤔
Yes it runs on windows, if I recall it's to pass data from storage to the GPU directly without passing through the CPU. Which lowers CPU usage and speeds up things like game loading or texture streaming for example. You probably found references to Xbox because it was implemented there first with the launch of the current gen consoles.