princessnorah

I haven't used a Legion Go S, just my original Go, which has a roomy enough trackpad. The Go S looks like it's barely the size of the top part of my thumb and review have widely panned it as useless. I do have to lift my thumb still to mouse entirely across the screen, so I can't imagine what that's like with the smaller trackpad.

Shut up ScoMo, nobody cares anymore.

I use it for kb+m games where I have the keyboard set up on the controller, I use the scrollwheel on the back heaps when that's faster than whatever that control is bound too normally, and I just use it a lot in desktop mode when I'm setting up non-steam games. I'm not sure what you mean by lifting my finger but I only very rarely use the touchscreen, it's honestly leas important to me personally than the trackpad.

None at all. I think you're confusing immutable with a non-persistent OS like Tails. No files at all wipe at any point. The /home folder is a normal read/write partition that works just like on a non-immutable distro, and that's where Steam installs your games. The system files are in a read-only partition that you can't modify directly. They aren't modified in normal operations, so they don't need to be wiped. The biggest benefit to this is that the system keeps itself in a "known-good state" so it's always ready to play games.

I don't have any experience running Bazzite on a GPD device, but I know with my original Legion Go that everything except the microphone works and is supported to an OEM-level. As for if the hardware is worth it, it all comes down to the games she's wanting to play. If you get a refurbished 2023 model with the 7840U, that's the exact same silicon as the Z1 Extreme that's in the legion go, but it has double the RAM at 32GB. Handy because system memory is shared with the GPU and the 16GB of the legion is the biggest thing holding it back. That chip will play Baldur's Gate 3 at 1080p30 on medium settings just fine on Bazzite. If she's not playing anything too taxing then the newer models with the 8840U are gonna be overkill for her.

That said, if she doesn't need the hardware keyboard for anything, then the original Legion Go is a great device, works fantastic on Bazzite and can be had for pretty cheap these days.

I found these two pages by the way. They seem to say that the 7840U/8840U Win 4s have a suspend/resume bug but that everything else is solid:

https://docs.bazzite.gg/Handheld_and_HTPC_edition/Handheld_Wiki/GPD_Handhelds/

https://github.com/aarron-lee/gpd-win-tricks

I used the aarron-lee git page on the Legion to make my purchasing decision so his info is really reliable and up-to-date from what I know.

Edit: I should have added, the Legion Go S with SteamOS looks alright, but I would strongly recommend the Z1 Extreme edition at a minimum. That said, I wouldn't go for it because the trackpad looks pathetically small and I use it heaps. The Steam Deck's chip is also just horribly outdated at this point compared to its competition. My rec is the original Legion Go w/ Bazzite.

Meh, this isn't Reddit, I strongly doubt little ceasars gives a heck about astroturfing on here. Maybe some simp who works there doing some self-promoting. But not every single thing that paints a corporation in a positive light is automatically advertising.

I also don't see how this is YPTB material, if anything it's the exact opposite.

there already is, the anti-ICE protests in LA mentioned boycotting them because the Olympics are gonna be used as an excuse to deport a fuckton of homeless people, immigrants and non-white people out of the city, with the mayor's approval

While that's good, that isn't where I'm coming at it from. I mean movements in other countries to pull their teams from the games.

Increasing GST during a cost of living crisis would also just be insane. It ends up being a bigger burden on the poor than the rich. Increasing the cost of a shop at the supermarket right now would not go down well with the electorate.

We pawbably aren't going to see eye to eye, but my last point is that most trans folks, myself and Ada included, have dealt with this stuff again, and again, and again. After dozens of times you just kind of don't have the energy to be forgiving while discussing it. Especially with someone like PJ who pretty loudly was a bit of an ass about things. That's pawbably not ideal, but it is what it is.

Is this comment by ada, the admin of blahaj, in this very thread, not more similar to your first example than your second one?

Drag was a prolific troll, drag just has a right to their pronouns ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

We do all sound like a cult but seriously, give Bazzite a spin, I don't think you'll be disappointed!

This is the exact nature of decentralised networks though. It's a tacit agreement of "you follow my rules when you're commenting on my instance and I follow your rules when I comment on your instance". It's a shared attempt at civility, and if that breaks down, defederation is only a few clicks away. We've never had direct control over other instances, so we've defederated them when that civility has broken down, and other instances have the exact same right to do the same with us. The Blahaj admins are paying hundreds of dollars, usually out of their own pocket, per month to run the instance. I think they get to dictate what goes on in the spaces they run. It's not like other spaces, like lemmy.world, don't have their own unpopular rules, like their heavy-handedness with "advocating violence".

The reason PJ gets called a bigot, is because he dramatically said in that original Blahaj meta thread that he was leaving the instance for good, but then has spent the last 6-9 months going around to every space he can, dragging the Blahaj admins through the mud and loudly proclaiming "dragons aren't real" like it's some self-evident revelation that proves how smart he is. Drag wasn't even a fucking dragon, they were a dragon fucker! It was literally drag's username for fluffs sake. It's not Blahaj's fault that other instance admins have gotten sick of his whiny, self-aggrandising bullcrap. Drag was literally banned from Blahaj not long after that thread, trans people just don't believe respecting pronouns are a cookie you get for being one of the good ones... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯