Comment on [help] Getting my first steam deck tomorrow
Stampela@startrek.website 1 week ago
The main thing IMO is to get some hands on time with it. Figure what you want, what you like, and most importantly what you would like to see improved… and go from there. See if you prefer to use it as a console, or if you want more of a gaming computer and use regularly the desktop. Maybe you’ll want a dock and how you want it will depend on your needs. You get my point :D
Anyway for the laptop see if you like nobaraproject.org/download-nobara/ specifically the Nvidia one so it has the drivers pre installed. I use it “everywhere”
thezeesystem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 week ago
Got the dock with it, it will be basically a replacement for my laptop and I nobora is one of them it tried and for some reason my specific laptop and Nvidia just doesn’t work well for gaming on Linux. Spent literally days on random shit that and everything I found didn’t work or made it worse.
So it will be like a semi replacement for my laptop and a console on my big screen tv basically.
Well replacement for everything that microcrap hasn’t forced on to me that I can’t use on Linux. I’m just going to sunshine to my old laptop anyways and put the laptop near my cluster of server type computers.
Stampela@startrek.website 1 week ago
A thing about the official dock, maybe it’s just my setup BUT: it drains the battery. It doesn’t look like it, but if it’s off or suspended, the Deck loses charge while connected to the dock, then you grab it to use it (and the battery is like 97%!) but within 5 minutes it’s completely dead. Again, it might be just my setup, but now I unplug the Deck from the dock once it’s off.
thezeesystem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 week ago
Thank you, I will look out for that. If it does I’ll just return it as defective and get a dock somewhere else. Much appreciated, thank you.
Stampela@startrek.website 1 week ago
It takes days to actually drain the battery a significant amount, you’re not going to notice it during the honeymoon phase :P
I noticed it because my Deck lives most of the time on the dock.