When did I say that "it plays everything" was a bad thing? I said it has no exclusives. And that's 100% verifiably true. Nintendo is all exclusives. Couldn't give a fuck about Skyrim on the Switch. But I wanna play Mario Kart. So I'll buy a Switch. Sure you could pirate it but depending on how you obtain that ROM then you could be breaking the law. Most parents don't really want their kids doing that, so they'll buy a Switch. And yes, Valve and Nintendo are likely the two most recognizable names in gaming. In gaming. In the surrounding culture at large, who even knows what Valve is? Sure, most people have probably heard of Steam. But your parents still call your Playstation a Nintendo. So they'll buy a Switch.
And I want to make this very clear: I think the Deck is great and, as you've stated, is a huge innovation in handheld gaming. The only point I'm trying to make is that the Deck and the Switch are not readily comparable because of the aforementioned key differences.
As for the Switch 2, I don't think it's going to feel much pressure at all. Again, the presence of exclusives basically guarantees sales. It's why the Wii U sold 13 million units despite its marketing woes and generally being underwhelming. But I also don't think that the Switch 2 is going to see as many sales as the Switch because many won't see a need to make the switch unless the Switch 2 is significantly innovative.
Except for the fact that the Switch is largely an outlier in terms of total sales when it comes to all consoles and additionally has the benefit of having a strong list of exclusive IPs that require the purchase of the device to (legally) play. It was also a full $100 cheaper at launch than the Deck, allowing it to be sold to more people with less disposable income. And it has the benefit of being the first to innovate from a company with a good reputation for quality. The Deck, on the other hand, will never reach the same level of sale as the Switch, has no exclusives to draw greater adoption, is more expensive, and may be seen as a "knockoff Switch." I think that the form factor is really the only apples to apples aspect of the two devices - there are differences between the two devices that are too confounding for an accurate comparison.
The Switch is a bad metric to measure against since it's on track to be the highest selling console of all time. Even if they have similar form factors.
Reminds me of Johnny Silverhand's HUD colours in Cyberpunk 2077. I'd get a pic but Google is being unreliable per usual. Anyway, "Wake the fuck up, Samurai" is a quote by Johnny Silverhand from one of the game's trailers.
Literally read past the word "configurations" and you'll see that I'm talking about how a distro is configured by its maintainers AKA the meta level, not fucking dotfiles. Grow a brain.
I mean, Windows is undeniably more stable than certain linux configurations. Nothing will ever be 100% stable, but if you compare Windows to basically any rolling release distro, Windows is gonna be more stable. That's just the nature of the two things.
Switched to flatpak because my distro no longer supports installing from official repo or apt. It has troubles with cloud syncing sometimes, especially with larger save files. It stalls out for a minute and then comes back with a "Cloud Sync Failed" noti. Have to retry it a few times.
When did I say that "it plays everything" was a bad thing? I said it has no exclusives. And that's 100% verifiably true. Nintendo is all exclusives. Couldn't give a fuck about Skyrim on the Switch. But I wanna play Mario Kart. So I'll buy a Switch. Sure you could pirate it but depending on how you obtain that ROM then you could be breaking the law. Most parents don't really want their kids doing that, so they'll buy a Switch. And yes, Valve and Nintendo are likely the two most recognizable names in gaming. In gaming. In the surrounding culture at large, who even knows what Valve is? Sure, most people have probably heard of Steam. But your parents still call your Playstation a Nintendo. So they'll buy a Switch.
And I want to make this very clear: I think the Deck is great and, as you've stated, is a huge innovation in handheld gaming. The only point I'm trying to make is that the Deck and the Switch are not readily comparable because of the aforementioned key differences.
As for the Switch 2, I don't think it's going to feel much pressure at all. Again, the presence of exclusives basically guarantees sales. It's why the Wii U sold 13 million units despite its marketing woes and generally being underwhelming. But I also don't think that the Switch 2 is going to see as many sales as the Switch because many won't see a need to make the switch unless the Switch 2 is significantly innovative.