to be fair its a chinese brand from amazon. https://amzn.eu/d/01p8j1cL

but it worked with win 10 on my hp notebook from work and its still working with my other devices including a phone. i dont own another win 11 device to test it with. since its not my own device im also not that keen to troubleshoot it.

yes i know all that.

no the ports work just fine with other devices. also my device isnt the only one in the company that has some issues with certain devices after the upgrade.

thanks. i wont have time to try it the next few days but im looking forward to it.

i must say that i enjoy your distro more than bazzite.

yeah, tell that win 11 because theres no driver missing, everything is up to date but the only thing my docking station does is power delivery.

worked almost flawless. also my gnome issues from bazzite are fixed now. thanks! i forgot to mention that the commands for the rebase dont work if you copy it 1:1. i had to remove the slashes and copy it in a single line instead of the multilines on the website. seems to be an issue with the formating i think. docker://
ghcr.io… the spaces after the docker:// get copied too and thats causing the issue.

i installed it following a guide from the bluefin forum i thinky there it was installed via rpm-ostree, which was amazing because it used all my previous settings. the revase itself also was quite ez, but i changed first to bluefin, then to bluefin-dx and lastly to margine.

the only thing that didnt work was the margine-gaming suite. i got an error where it couldnt find the flatpak for steam. the margine-gaming-native worked and it also recognized all game-installs from bazzite that way.

true. but its a chicken egg problem. no users. no software. no software. no users.

yes. thats why it isnt priced as one, but still gets compared to a console because it wants to compete with thwm in the living room.

soo fun story regarding drivers. my notebook from work doesnt support my docking station at home anymore after a upgrade to win 11 from 10. My linux pc works just fine. its a tablet though and has some unsupported hardware like gyro sensors.

but thats not the point. the point is, that valve still updates its distro for the steamdeck and keeps improving it years after the launch.i expect the same for the SM. compare that to the asus ally: 1 year after release and asus dropped its support if i remember correctly.

is it possible to install sunshine like im bazzite with ujust setup sunshine?

yes. softwaresupport is a feature in every pc but not for consoles. this thing dies once its hardware dies or is so outdated you couldnt run a game anymore.

a ps5 dies once the newer console releases, because there are no games coming anymore.

but yes. i hoped that it would be more than that, but it seems like valve hoped for more too.

what about devices that dont run on ios/android like ubuntu touch or sailfish os?

you wouldnt play most of these games on a htpc though if you have to compete with keyboard and mouse on a controller. also its still possible to install windows on it, if its such a problem.

that being said the price for the performance is still too high and i wouldnt recommend it to nom tech people. (i commented before comparing the specs to the ps5 pro)

sweet. i run bazzite gnomr on my gaming rig and it currently has some issues and your distro seems perfect to me.

im gonna try it today!

I compared it to the yearly plan that showed up first. i was honestly not aware that there are different subscription tiers. when i used ps+ with the ps4 there was only one + as far as i know.

the power of the machine is dissapointing and i commented before comparing the ps5+ specs with the SM.

on the other side could it be a ok device if you want that formfactor, long softwaresupport and still have a pc that can be used for more than just playing games or watching tv. Especially if youre not into AAA-gaming and more into Indie or Emulators. There you‘ll get a bigger Library than from a regular Console.

the price is also arround 7% more if you choose the SM over a comparable DIY according to gamers nexus so it seems fair i guess?

that being said i think the current SM is more a niche product and not for the masses.

is it really that more expensive? because unlike a console the steammachine doesnt require a subscription to play online. PS5+ is 150€ yearly just for that. granted, you get a game per month but the games you get are often games you wouldnt buy anyways. so with the current price of 900€ for a 2tb ps pro youll pay 900€. after 3 years the steam machine is cheaper.

is it possible to rebase from bazzite to margine?

is it possible to have one pc with polaris and multiple players where each has his own game running? Or am i missunderstandig the web ui?