All the Windows OS drivers for the Steam Deck OLED were released, except for the speakers for the device. But now, the driver is here so people can install Windows…if they want to!
The Final Windows Audio Driver For Steam Deck OLED Is Now Released - Steam Deck HQ
Submitted 1 week ago by SteamDeckHQ@lemmy.world to steamdeck@sopuli.xyz
https://steamdeckhq.com/news/final-windows-driver-steam-deck-oled-now-released/
cmhe@lemmy.world 1 week ago
On a more interesting topic, the SteamDeck platform drivers are still not merged into mainline Linux… :'(
Last news about it: phoronix.com/…/Steam-Deck-Platform-Driver-2024
skullgiver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nl 1 week ago
Writing working, finished code and changing that code to please the Linux kernel people are two very different things. I’m not surprised the Deck is still running a fork.
cmhe@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Well, it is about code quality. And the same codebase should work on different hardware, which is not something that is required in downstream forks.
But it is sad to see that the driver was submitted in the past, is still actively developed and improved, but there doesn’t seem to be plans of submitting them again.
bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 1 week ago
Luckily their work is still done in the open and I can use the driver on my Deck on OpenSUSE despite it not being in the kernel.
warmaster@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Will they upstream those drivers to the kernel?