The worst timeline
Submitted 3 weeks ago by cannedtuna@lemmy.world to steamdeck@sopuli.xyz
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Widdershins@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
tehevilone@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
A truly blessed Steam Deck, praise be to HolyC.
dankm@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
That’s glorious. Now I want more information.
Widdershins@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
You’ll need a dock and keyboard if you want to accomplish anything. It took me two years to figure out how to get to that menu.
Vupware@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
God says: hop rally embark fortify joy giraffe propose
Widdershins@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
God’s messenger said A LOT of things I dare not repeat here.
gwl@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
JOIN TEAM LINUX INSTEAD
FilthyHands@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Does linux even work on steamdeck? Has anybody tried?
SatyrSack@quokk.au 3 weeks ago
Nah, Valve would never allow it
gwl@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
Good joke
Droechai@piefed.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
I bet you can get some version of BSD running
TrickDacy@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Be ashamed of using windows.
jeniferariza@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Windows on a Steam Deck just feels like a crime.
Astertheprince@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Honestly I kind of wish Valve didn’t release the drivers. Make people actually work to get that abomination working if that’s what they really want.
If they want it badly enough they should have to write the drivers themselves.
SparroHawc@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Eh, I really like the hacker mentality that Valve has for their hardware. They just want people to use it, because they know that the best place to get games for the hardware - whether it’s running Linux or Windows - is Steam. And the more people find fun ways to abuse the hardware, the more press it gets, the more people want it, etc. etc. Great for Valve, great for the customers, great for the gaming industry.
Skullgrid@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Make people actually work to get that abomination working if that’s what they really want.
If they want it badly enough they should have to write the drivers themselves.
now the rubber band is on the other claw!
StarvingMartist@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
This is perfect, this is what a steam deck is built for! Doing whatever the fuck you want with the hardware even if people don’t like it
alt_xa_23@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Finally, the steam deck plays the best game, the random word generator!
BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Be ashamed of using Windows. If you paid for it, more shame.
TrickDacy@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I do regret paying for windows once years ago. I always hated Microsoft a lot, but truly never thought they could sink as low as they have.
TachyonTele@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
Stop it hurts
FranksScienceMonster@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
I used rufus to put windows on an sd card. The steam deck can boot from the card if you hold a volume button when you power on. Valve provides drivers for both lcd and oled. It’s worked perfectly since maybe a month after each model came out. It touches nothing. Rufus is the only trick, since microsoft is the uncooperative part.
I did it for modern warfare 2019. It wasn’t worth it. If you boot into windows every six months, you get to update for an hour. If you get logged out of steam, you should plug in a mouse and keyboard. It’s my only windows install since 8 came out which was my only attempt since 98. And it only convinces me to stay away.
morgan_423@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I mean, if you just absolutely had to play a Linux-hating kernel anti cheat game, then install a small-as-possible partition for Windows, dual boot, and stay in Steam OS every single moment you’re doing anything else but that game.
But most Windows-on-a-Steam-Deck people I’ve encountered just drive Windows all the time. I will never understand.
Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
My only issue with it is that some people install windows the moment they get the SD out of the box. No interest in even trying SteamOS, they consider it just wasting time before they can get windows installed and have the Deck “ready to use”.
Ricaz@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
I only have my Windows partition for the one weekend per year I play Rust
pucker4676@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
Which was an excellent Linux game. -_-
Resonosity@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
I drive Windows mostly on my Deck but only because Marathon doesn’t run on Proton (yet).
Otherwise I always ran SteamOS for Chivalry 2.
flandish@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I run a Legion Go. it’s all I could afford at the time. Plays factorio and satisfactory fine. Wish I could afford a “real” rig but… it’s just not in the cards. Apparently buying wife’s car a new tranny is “important.”
hayvan@piefed.world 3 weeks ago
When I bought my Legoin Go, the first thing I did was to turn it on, see it’s W11 asking for network settings without a way to continue without. So I turned it off and installed Bazzite instead. Much better experience.
Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Why does your wife need a transsexual for her car?
MissesAutumnRains@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
To fix the transmission. Lilith’s Tranny’s, it’s like femboy IHOP but with beautiful transgender women working on engines.
cannedtuna@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Nothing wrong with the Legion Go hardware at all. I like that it’s got those Switch-like removable controls, tho I’m not sure if I’d use them.
If you’re interested in a non-Windows experience, Steam OS supports the Legion Go. There’s also Cachy OS a rolling-release Arch Linux distro, Bazzite an immutable Fedora distro with atomic updates, Nobara a customized Fedora distro maintained by Glorious Eggroll who is known for Proton-GE, and Chimera OS.
flandish@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
thanks!
warmaster@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Slap Bazzite on that bad boy ASAP.
flandish@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
thinking abt it!just gotta get some downtime.
Dettweiler42@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
A buddy of mine bought one of those a while back. We recently switched it over to steam OS and the performance improvement was substantial.
Bluescluestoothpaste@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
I thought legion go ran steamOS??
carpelbridgesyndrome@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Not at launch. Now it can
flandish@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
nope. win11. i mean i can run whatever but yeah. default is win11
CubitOom@infosec.pub 3 weeks ago
Be ashamed when using windows and any microslop product.
cannedtuna@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
chuckleslord@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Guys! Relax, it’s fine. We still have a VM for the Linux experience. It’s basically the same thing!
nfreak@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
Hate to admit that when I first got my deck at launch, I immediately set up a dual boot just so I could play Destiny 2 on it.
Needless to say, I no longer play Destiny 2 or even use Windows at all on any of my machines. Hell, I even installed CachyOS Handheld on my deck over SteamOS for shits and giggles.
cannedtuna@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
How is it? I considered trying it, but SteamOS just runs so well. Not sure what I’d gain
nfreak@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
I won’t lie, it hasn’t been flawless, as it’s a bleeding edge distro with a much smaller userbase than its desktop counterpart, but it’s served me well enough for 6 months or so now. Only ran into one major bug, which I hunted down myself to report as soon as I found a workaround for (i.e. steam’s background recording seems to break their latest customized gamescope).
If you like to tinker with your devices and SteamOS wiping out anything installed via pacman after an update pisses you off like it did me, then it’s worth a try, but if you literally just use it for gaming and never really touch desktop mode, it’s not really worth considering.
BilSabab@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
that’s hardware cruelty!
Astertheprince@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
This really goes against the whole purpose of buying a Steam Deck considering on Windows you will have a poorer user experience due to the lack of Gamescope and Windows’ very poor non touch friendly UI. Maybe there’s somethings that can make it better but it won’t ever be as good as just using Steam OS or any Linux distro set up to use Gamescope and proton.
captainlezbian@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
One of the great things about the steam deck much like Linux is that it won’t stop you just because something is stupid and a bad idea.
mghackerlady@leminal.space 2 weeks ago
I don’t like it but if you’re that deathly afraid of penguins I suppose it’s fine
TheEighthDoctor@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
And do not write this into an admin PowerShell window to activate it.
IEX(IWR get.activated.win)
Chakravanti@monero.town 3 weeks ago
I don’t miss video games at all. I moved to board games. It’s not like playing games with real people in video games. It actually is playing real games with real people in board games.
cannedtuna@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
@PerfectDark@lemmy.world article on your attempt at this, when?
moroninahurry@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
I bought an ROG Ally X specifically because it runs Windows. Steam just virtualizes Windows anyway. If you don’t know how to whip Windows into your bitch that’s on you.
It’s hot garbage, learn to recycle.
OrionTheElder@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I didn’t stop to think if I should, I was preoccupied with whether or not I could.
Resonosity@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
I dual boot SteamOS and Windows 10 IoT LTSC mostly because there are still some game developers that can’t figure out how to enable anti-cheat for Linux.
And does Windows rewrite my boot sequence every time?
Sure, but it’s a sacrifice I’m willing to make.
h4arts@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
be ashamed of using w*ndows since i get to do a little linux superiority on you
kayzeekayzee@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
Don’t throw these stones until you’ve tried using a steam deck as a work computer
AllOutOfBubbleGum@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
You don’t even need to “pirate” Windows anymore. You can download an ISO from Microsoft’s website, install it, and when it asks for your license key, you click “I don’t have one”, and that’s the end of it. If you look in the activation settings, it’ll say “not activated”, but nothing will ever become of it. This even woks if you install it as Pro. It’s not like the Windows XP/7 days where you’d get a 60 day scare timer. They just don’t seem to care anymore, or maybe all that telemetry they siphon up from you is just that much more valuable.
cannedtuna@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
PSA
If you see Windows 11 online DO NOT DOWNLOAD IT!!!
It will install a virus called Windows 11 and it will run Windows 11 on your PC!!!
scintilla@crust.piefed.social 3 weeks ago
Which is known to BRICK YOUR SYSTEM in some cases.
fartographer@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
get it off
pulsewidth@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Even Windows 7 actually didn’t care if you had no key.
You could leave it unactivated forever and the worst thing that would happen is it would have a “Activate windows” watermark message bottom right over the desktop, and it wouldn’t let you change the personalization settings eg theming (oh no).
CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de 3 weeks ago
It’s way more profitable to audit corporations than fight Eastern European crackers and Asian “distributors”
Bytemeister@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Never had to pay for a key anyway. I just hopped on eBay and looked for machines that were “for parts only” where the seller took a very nice picture of the bottom of the computer.
It was very nice of them to share that software with me once they were done using it.
tiramichu@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
You’re right, they don’t care.
The very fact they no longer care about enforcing licensing anymore is itself the strongest evidence that selling Windows as a product is not where the money is.
They want you on their operating system for any price - including zero -because once you are there that’s when the advertising, cloud service upsell and data monetisisation can begin.
bestboyfriendintheworld@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
massgrave.dev is your friend.
nfreak@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
And if you really do want to activate it (which is kinda worth it because some system settings are locked behind it), Massgrave takes 2 seconds.
tempest@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
Microsoft missed the mobile boat by a long shot.
Windows is ever shrinking as people don’t buy computers like they used to since phones can do what they need.
This means that for Microsoft growing Windows user base is a non starter. They are well into the extract portion of the product lifecycle. The os now only exists to support the products that still make money are extract what can be extracted from a shrinking user base.
prettybunnys@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
Don’t they lock customization settings and updates being the license?
AeonFelis@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Why would they enforce the activation? Window is no longer their product. You are.
missphant@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
I needed Windows the other day and it wouldn’t even let me change the volume without activating it.
MIDItheKID@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
To add on to what everybody else said, it’s probably not worth the time/money to have a team of developers play cat and mouse with pirates for the rest of time when they make the large majority of their sales off OEMs. Dell, HP, and Lenovo probably make up something like 80% of Windows license sales. And if it’s a business buying them, then they are also making money off of M365, Azure, and Intune subscriptions. Losing the sales from people who build their own PCs is chump change to them.
You know, and all the data slurping and ad sales etc etc.
Luden_dev@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
The moment the installation finished you get bombed with ads and shit and they instantly earn more than the value of a couple windows 11 licenses.