Comment on Youtuber PewDiePie is going all in on deGoogling and the Steam Deck is one of the surprising tools that's helping him to 'escape'

yumyumsmuncher@feddit.uk ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• DrDominate@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  What? No there isn’t and they don’t use Google’s cloud.

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  • drasglaf@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    In game mode if you navigate to library then to non-steam, if your list is empty it will prompt you to install Chrome. Maybe it was somewhere else, but yes, the prompt exists regardless.

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    • HereIAm@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Did they install chrome in desktop mode and Steam picked it up and asked if they wanted a shortcut to it? From what I can tell you get Firefox by default in desktop mode?

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      • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Nope… It’s literally just a placeholder to allow people in game mode to install chrome and access the Internet without having to switch to desktop mode.

        Until they make a better way to add non-Steam shortcuts in game mode.

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      • drasglaf@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        I got this same prompt the first time I used my Steam Deck and I don’t use Chrome at all, so no.

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    • thethirdobject@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Never had any prompt for google services in 2+ years of owning a sd, i don’t know why you’re so affirmative about something you don’t actually seem to be sure about

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      • drasglaf@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Because I also got this prompt the first time I used my Steam Deck, but I wasn’t sure where I got it.

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    • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Oh no a prompt

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• SteleTrovilo@beehaw.org ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Steam Deck owner here. The default browser is (or was?) FireFox on my Deck, no Chrome.

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• doktormerlin@feddit.org ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  On SteamOS maybe, but he is using Arch Linux on his Steam Deck, as mentioned in the Article.

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• rdri@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Worse. Steam is basically built on top of CEF, which is not much better than Electron.

  It’s amazing how deep Chromium (and web tech in general) got into everything. Microsoft - which I regarded for how light and well optimized Windows 8.1 was - went from using Chromium for Edge to using it basically everywhere. Latest observation is how you open Copilot app, chat a little and see how it eats 4 GB of RAM and lags like hell, on a higher end business laptop.

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  • Zangoose@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    which I regarded for how light and well optimized Windows 8.1 was

    I don’t think I’m alone in saying “light” and “well-optimized” are not words that fit the Windows 8.1 experience.

    Mediocre in almost all aspects is the best descriptor for 8.1 and honestly that’s pretty generous given how bad 8.0 was

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    • rdri@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      It was basically a faster 7 (also less hungry). Universally hated Metro stuff can be get rid of easily. Plus it had better forward compatibility - I could run some apps that said to require windows 10 which I knew didn’t work on 7.

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• DaTingGoBrrr@lemmy.ml ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Where did you get this information?

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  • yumyumsmuncher@feddit.uk ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I installed AdGuard Home (pihole alike) and blocked all Google then my deck wasn’t able to sync my game saves, I had to allowlist steam.googlecloudsomethingsomething in order for cloud saves to work

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