Does anybody have a similar list of alternatives but for the Autodesk Suite/Ecosystem? Some open source CAD and BIM programs, some FOSS modeling and rendering programs?

Thank you! I was going to be so frustrated

I didn’t know SeamOS had a desktop mode! It’s still limiting just cuz lots of industry standard software that I need for work don’t support Linux, like Autodesk and Adobe products, but at this point I don’t understand why they don’t. Linux is growing and it’s foolish to cut out such a large community. I’ll have to give SteamOS another shot on my Go.

I can only speak for Chicago, but the lines of those pockets where being car-free is feasible are pretty intentionally only the white wealthy neighborhoods on the north side. The south and west sides do not have bike lanes, have tons of potholes, no sidewalks, and if you are in a black neighborhood no grocery stores in biking distance.

Steamdecks competitors not being right to repair friendly is simply false. I have expanded my storage and upgraded my heat sink on my LeGo and it was super easy. I see people swapping all kinds of components out on their Ally’s all the time, and the only mods I ever see from the Steamdeck community are really cheap looking 3d printed snap-on covers and grip protectors. The only time I see someone actually opening up a deck is to upgrade to hall effect joysticks which every other handheld PC just comes with out of the box because it is the industry standard now for everyone except for the Deck. I completely agree with you on right to repair which is precisely why I would recommend any PC over the Deck.

Steam OS is very polished but why would I want to limit my handheld PC to only gaming when with Windows it is capable of so much more. I use my go as a portable laptop for work and then after work I slap on the controllers and play a game. With SteamOS I would lose so much functionality. If you love steam so much you can just run steam in windows and just make it full screen, it’s not that hard. Why do you even need a launcher that bad? How hard is it to just click on an icon on a desktop to open your game? Other launchers like Playnite are pretty polished as well.

Steam isn’t the only large community with discord channels and modders and developers working together. Have you seen the community that SBC retro handhelds or android handhelds have? Have you seen the onionOS and spruceOS communities? Yes Steam is a much bigger community but that’s just cuz they have spent much more on marketing.

The steamOS version of the Legion go doesn’t look good, I’ll take the original Go any day. But people kept pushing bazzite and now here we are with a native steamOS. I may not like it but I would argue that is definitely Lenovo listening to their community.

The Legion Go has a track pad, also the controllers detach and the right side controller can be used as a mouse

Yes everything is better on a handheld PC. But the Deck is not a very good handheld PC. It is priced to be at the same tier as contemporary handheld PCs like the Rog Ally, the Legion Go, The MSI claw, the GPD Win 4, but all those handheld PCs can play current AAA titles while the Steamdeck is so underpowered that it struggles to emulate PS3 games. There are more recent devices that can play the same catalog as the steamdeck but cost a lot less, are more portable, and are just better built like the Odin 2 or the Retroid Pocket 5. At this point I am not sure what the use case is for the deck anymore. Every thing that the Deck can do, there are other devices that do it better and for less money.

No, it says 9 penis’s

It’s a saying

Unfairly, It doesn’t matter if they suck or not, they have a monopoly. They are the industry standard and in many ways our hands are tied.