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- Comment on With the Legion Go S, we can now directly compare performance between official builds of SteamOS and Windows 3 days ago:
It’s a bit of both, along with the Linux AMD drivers being superior in many cases to the Windows drivers.
- Comment on With the Legion Go S, we can now directly compare performance between official builds of SteamOS and Windows 3 days ago:
I’ll add for completeness that vkd3d-proton handles DX12 titles, and of course OGL and Vulkan are supported natively.
- Comment on Valve's huge Steam Deck update is now ready for everyone, including rival AMD handhelds 6 days ago:
For me, it’s not the steam machine itself but the peripherals like the steam controller that would come with it. There still isn’t a proper replacement for the original SC that has: trackpads, gyro, back buttons, and full steam input support.
Everything else is missing trackpads and aimed at emulating a console controller, so you get weird situations where one mode supports gyro because it emulates a switch controller but doesn’t support the back buttons and analog triggers, and another supports the back buttons and analog triggers but not gyro.
Funnily enough, the steam deck itself is the best option as a controller if you want all of these features.
Of course, a new steam machine wouldn’t be required for a new SC to happen, but it makes sense to pair them, as they did originally.
- Comment on New Steam Console Powered by RDNA 4 Might Be in the Works at Valve 3 months ago:
Also, Valve has done driver work on plenty of things that they don’t use in their own hardware, from various AMD cards, Intel graphics, and even work on the open source Nvidia drivers
Valve developers are the main contributors to the RADV Vulkan driver so they’ve done work on pretty much every AMD card that supports Vulkan. So yeah, pretty silly rumour if that’s the evidence.
- Comment on Sid Meier's Civilization VII is Steam Deck Verified with the Linux version ahead of release on February 11 4 months ago:
They might ship the game without Denuvo on Linux which has happened before.
- Comment on Razer announced the Razer Handheld Dock Chroma for your Steam Deck, ROG Ally, Legion Go and more 4 months ago:
The plus side of RGB is that you can control it at least. So set it to white or some other soft colour (or turn it off completely), which is at least an improvement over blinding blue LEDs. Of course, the software and driver support on Linux isn’t perfect.
In any case, the gaudy stuff sells, so that’s how they advertise it.
- Comment on GE-Proton 9-22 released with lots of game fixes for Linux / Steam Deck 4 months ago:
That’s true for normal Proton but GE is a third party version.
- Comment on Leak: Valve is making a Steam Controller 2 and a ‘Roy’ for its Deckard 6 months ago:
I’ve got two steam controllers on their last legs. I can’t go back to shitty traditional controllers.
- Comment on Steam games will now need to fully disclose kernel-level anti-cheat on store pages 6 months ago:
I’d like to see it show if there is any third party DRM as well, like the Augmented Steam extension does.
- Comment on Valve will finally sell the Steam Deck in Australia 7 months ago:
I got lucky and only paid a bit more than RRP, but you pretty much had to sit around a wait for a deal.
- Submitted 7 months ago to steamdeck@sopuli.xyz | 46 comments
- Comment on [Discussion] SteamOS 3.6 is nearly here, with Valve focusing on bug fixes before release. What are some bugs you've encountered (on either Stable or Beta) that you're hoping to see fixed? 8 months ago:
What headphones in particular are you using? Because with standard AD2P you’re limited to mSBC at best, but maybe your device has some proprietary implementation.
You could try with a hardware dongle, but no guarantee that will work either.
At least in the long run it should be fixed by Bluetooth LE audio, but I’m not sure if the Deck properly supports it yet, and it requires new audio devices as well.
- Comment on [Discussion] SteamOS 3.6 is nearly here, with Valve focusing on bug fixes before release. What are some bugs you've encountered (on either Stable or Beta) that you're hoping to see fixed? 8 months ago:
Pulseaudio has been pretty solid for a while now which is what the steamdeck uses from what i can see online.
It uses Pipewire, but it has pretty close to full API compatibility with Pulseaudio (and Jack) so most applications will “just work” and you get lower and more stable latency in return.
- Comment on A Steam Deck Mini PC Using Real Hardware 9 months ago:
No, that’s the first I’ve heard of it too. That forum looks to be pretty active so maybe some insight can be gained there.
- Comment on A Steam Deck Mini PC Using Real Hardware 9 months ago:
It’s kind of vague, but presumably it supports sd cards and/or a USB drive. The Wii is pretty easy to mod for digital “backups” from what I recall, and there were plenty of official digitally supported games (although I don’t think that still works today).
- Comment on Steam deck triple monitor setup with the official dock 10 months ago:
I think it would struggle to have the bandwidth to pull that off, but maybe if you keep the resolution and refresh rate down. And that’s assuming USB-C to USB-A would work in this case, which I don’t know the answer to.
- Comment on Audio on steamdeck with HDMI connected 10 months ago:
is it possible to set the steamdeck to “default” to always keep picking the steamdeck speaker as default audio out also when an HDMI is connected through the USB-C?
Some audio issues were introduced in the SteamOS 3.5 update (partly due to having to handle the OLED model around the same time) which causes the HDMI problem. Hopefully it will be fixed in SteamOS 3.6 or 3.7. I’ve found that Bazzite doesn’t have the issue, although obviously that’s an invasive change, and I understand it’s still a bit buggy with the OLED model.
how do y’all combine music and games?
I think doing what you want could be a bit technically involved. One way might be to have one device control the music, and then cast it to the deck with snapcast or similar. Then, if you can get a snapcast client on the deck to be persistently running in the background, any music that is played on the other device, will be heard on the Deck.
Or more simply, you could try pairing your Deck in bluetooth from another device, and then select that Deck as an output. This is assuming that the Deck allows this, and that your OS supports this (Pipewire on Linux definitely does).
- Comment on 64GB and 512GB Steam Deck LCD models are 15% off until July 11th, 10 AM PDT 11 months ago:
They’re keeping the 256gb LCD for now, although that could change in the future of course.
- Moonlight PC for game streaming via Sunshine gets HDR support for Linux / Steam Deckwww.gamingonlinux.com ↗Submitted 11 months ago to steamdeck@sopuli.xyz | 5 comments
- Comment on Updated AMD GPU Firmware Makes Valve's Steam Deck More Robust Against Buggy Apps 11 months ago:
I would expect so. It might already be on the Deck, as sometimes Valve is ahead on kernel and firmware related issues.
- Submitted 11 months ago to steamdeck@sopuli.xyz | 5 comments
- Comment on It's Time to Bring Back the Steam Machine 1 year ago:
Guaranteed good driver support too, since Valve fund devs to work on the AMD GPU drivers on Linux.
- Comment on It's Time to Bring Back the Steam Machine 1 year ago:
I don’t think they have yet, which is a bit of a sore point. Third party alternatives like Bazzite may do the job, though.
- Comment on It's Time to Bring Back the Steam Machine 1 year ago:
I wouldn’t expect HDMI 3 given the HDMI group are openly hostile to open source implementations of HDMI 2.1
- Comment on What is your favorite Open Source Game on Steam Deck? 1 year ago:
I haven’t played it on the Deck specifically yet, although it should work fine. OpenTTD, and I’ll add Free Stars: The Ur-Quan Masters.
There’s also a list on !linux_gaming@lemmy.world, lemm.ee/post/29546595?scrollToComments=true
- Comment on New AMD CPU leak looks like a perfect fit for Steam Deck 2 1 year ago:
Usually from third party eBay and Amazon sellers. There’s a price premium, but not bad if you’re willing to wait for a sale.
- Old School Rally plans full support for Steam Deck - got me feeling nostalgicwww.gamingonlinux.com ↗Submitted 1 year ago to steamdeck@sopuli.xyz | 3 comments
- Comment on Steam Deck vs that Asus thingy 1 year ago:
Linux based with long term support + touchpads + repairability vs a generic Windows handheld.
- Comment on EmuDeck removes Yuzu And Citra emulator support 1 year ago:
They couldn’t go “well we don’t support piracy,” because their actions proved otherwise.
They could make the argument they were working on it so it would be ready by release, but yeah, taking money for it makes them a more obvious target. That and they necessarily had to have access to the game in order to work on it (or at least others had to have access to it in order to receive bug reports on it).
- Submitted 1 year ago to steamdeck@sopuli.xyz | 10 comments