I would be a lot more excited if I wasn’t worried it was going to cost +$1,099. I hope that I am wrong.

I use Linux daily for work and personal tasks, but I sometimes have to resort to either a Windows VM or Windows running natively for the following:

Hardware

• Gaming with the Oculus Rift S
• My third-party Xbox One wireless controller adapter for the non-bluetooth models
• Brook controller adapters

Software

• Microsoft Office. I absolutely need the documents, spreadsheets, and presentations I work on to be interoperable with Windows users who exclusively use Microsoft Office. I am no position to ask them to change what software they use. OnlyOffice is the closest to achieving interoperability and its UI is very similar, but it still falls short. Multiple animations on 1 slide don’t carry over, none of the macros my coworkers have made seem to work, slide formatting may look different, and transformed cells don’t seem to automatically update.
• Some games, such as Fortnite and CastleMinerZ either have bug-breaking issues or the publisher/anti-cheat sucks and blocks Linux. I don’t particularly care for these games, but I’m also not willing to give up game nights with lifelong friends over these. I’ll play them, suck at them, and have a good time. Then there are games such as Halo: MCC that mostly work, but then co-op campaign de-syncs.
• Original Xbox and Xbox 360 development and modification tools/programs don’t work. I can’t even FTP a file over from Fedora without it being unrecognized. I obviously don’t expect any of this to change.

And I desperately miss the native Stream Deck software. StreamController’s page-changing is very slow, in general is finicky, buggy, and less intuitive.

Do my eyes deceive me? A Phoronix article without people yelling at each other in the comments section? I probably just arrived too early.

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Valve not showing the price of these is a pretty strong indicator that these are not going to be generously priced, which is why I’m not allowing myself to be excited about them. I think that they won’t be widely adopted enough to make a large impact on Linux as a result of the price.

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I just realized that the 2 characters in the back of the truck originally aren’t there, and then they randomly appear. It’s in the original episode too.

No problem, I will add that then: I use their servers and the free tier. I only use it on my personal devices and remoting into friends’ computers. My work threw a fit when I had it installed on my work laptop.

I have all of my devices setup to require 2FA for each connection and I have set custom passwords. The default is a 1-time password, like what TeamViewer used to.

A free tier is available and you have the option to self-host or not. Host machines can be on Windows, Linux, or macOS (Android is probably also possible, but I haven’t tried.) It is open source.

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I use an Evolulent and a ProtoArc Trackball for vertical mice. I haven’t had any issues with them on Linux, but I also haven’t really customized any of their settings… I think. Maybe I changed what the 2 extra buttons do on them and I don’t recall using anything other than what’s available on Fedora to accomplish that.