Signs point to yes.

Do you have a cite for that?

Cut for the TikTok generation… yet still informative and entertaining, while respecting the views’ time.

What’s your price point? Star Labs used to have a low-price-point model that had fabulous specs for the price, and PINE64 still has their 64-bit ARM laptop for an inflation-adjusted $219 with the 1080p display, nice chassis, and good keyboard, compared to PC laptops that cost twice as much.

We have to depend on more than just libc and X11 from a given distro.

We’re not a games developer, and use a lot more C than C++, but I’ve rarely if ever seen a case of diamond dependencies in the field.

Looks very Curse of Monkey Island-y.

Thematically, rather Leather Goddesses of Phobos, I think. But that’s 1980s text, not LucasArts point-and-click.

Before flatpak container systems, it was almost impossible to ship proprietary code to Linux.

I don’t see how you mean. Adobe FrameMaker and WordPerfect word processor shipped proprietary binary code for Linux, twenty-some years ago.

You’d ship the dependencies in a bundled lib/ directory, then usually have a script to set LD_LIBRARY_PATH in addition to any other setup. If, in the future, updated libraries became available, the user could easily choose to use the updated ABI-compatible versions instead. C++ ABI compatibility isn’t as good or simple as C, but it’s still possible.

It wouldn’t be surprising if the OLED makes it to the entry-level price point in a year or two. It’s impressive that Valve is sticking with the $399 price point, despite inflation since July 2021 making that the equivalent of $450 today.

The reviewer is saying that the Steam Deck makes the best trade-offs, even if price isn’t a deciding factor.