bjoern_tantau
@bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de
- Comment on Had to reimage my deck; impressed by how well a backup of my home folder carried over system and app settings 3 days ago:
You don’t even need that. I have switched between several distros and always kept the same filesystem and just deleted everything but the
/homefolder. No problems. Every installer supported that. - Comment on [Discussion] What games are you playing on your deck? - November 2024 2 weeks ago:
I was about to ask how well the Wiimote works with the Deck.
- Comment on GE-Proton 9-16 released with mod support for various Bethesda games 5 weeks ago:
Yeah, I could really see this be super annoying. Especially when troubleshooting or if you just want to launch the vanilla game.
- Comment on Gaming 2024 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on Valve still waiting on a 'generational leap' for Steam Deck 2 - but it's coming 5 weeks ago:
Godspeed. o7
- Comment on Valve still waiting on a 'generational leap' for Steam Deck 2 - but it's coming 5 weeks ago:
Never in my life have I regretted putting more RAM into my computers. When faced with deciding between similarly priced graphics cards going with the higher RAM option was always the right choice in the long run. Because higher resolution textures always make an otherwise low game look great.
If I knew an adventurous spirit with great soldering skills and greater insurance I would go for the 32 GB upgrade on my Deck.
- Comment on Valve will finally sell the Steam Deck in Australia 5 weeks ago:
This one github.com/ValveSoftware/SteamOS/issues/1257
Had it as well. I’m actually not sure if I still have it. Crashes became less frequent after the RMA but they still happen. And if they do start happening again they get more frequent until I do a cold reboot.
- Comment on Proton is the Future of PC gaming. But how does it work? [Gardiner Bryant, YouTube] 1 month ago:
I know, I have many of them. Most of them I specifically bought when they got Linux support, like Tomb Raider and Alien Isolation.
Not a single commercial game runs as well natively as it does through Proton. Tomb Raider - has much worse graphics. Alien Isolation - for some reason the DPad doesn’t work. Baldur’s Gate - I have to supply some old openssl (or so, can’t remember) library. And I shudder at the thought of trying to get Unreal Tournament 2004 or Doom 3 (not the open source version) running. I should try to dig out my disc for Ankh to see how hard it is to get that one running.
Maintained games and especially open source ones run great. But the sad reality is that it costs money to maintain software. Linux backwards compatibility is abysmal. It is much easier to get a 20 year old Windows game to run than a 20 year old Linux game.
Though to be fair, it is also hard on Windows to get a 20 year old Windows game to run. Wine is just a great piece of software.
I would love to have more native games. My own game is native as well. And luckily most indie devs usually also bring out a native port. And still most of the time the Windows version via Proton just runs better.
- Comment on Proton is the Future of PC gaming. But how does it work? [Gardiner Bryant, YouTube] 1 month ago:
Sadly this has more or less died with unmaintained games. It’s a pain the arse to get old native games working. And for many titles the Windows version with Proton works much better than the Linux native one. Win32 has somehow become the most stable Linux API.
- Comment on Bazzite is the next best thing to SteamOS while we wait on Valve 1 month ago:
I very rarely use big picture mode. I’m mostly on a KDE desktop. I’ve set up a shortcut to open Steam through gamescope in Big Picture mode for the rare occasion that I need it. In that case KDE’s wayland session keeps running in the background.
I have also set up gamescope with Steam as a separate login session but I can’t remember if I ever felt the need to use that.
Usually I just have Steam running in desktop mode in the background for the controller settings and the mostly superior on screen keyboard. I never noticed any slowdowns in games. I even managed to get Cities Skylines to run more stable than on SteamOS. But that might be due to zram.
- Comment on Custom installation for daily driver 1 month ago:
Don’t know about specific Arch packages. But for my OpenSUSE experimentations I have gitlab.com/evlaV/linux-integration, steamdeck-packages.steamos.cloud/…/jupiter-main/ and github.com/firlin123/jupiter-dkms bookmarked.
I think the steamos-customizations-jupiter and linux-firmware-neptune-jupiter packages are worth a look. And I recently compiled
drivers/hid/hid-steam.cfrom Valve’s linux sources to get a bugfix for the controller if you run it without Steam. - Comment on Bazzite is the next best thing to SteamOS while we wait on Valve 1 month ago:
OpenSUSE Tumbleweed.
Hardest part was getting full disk encryption working with an on-screen keyboard to enter a passphrase at boot. I used unl0kr for that which wasn’t (probably still isn’t) in the OpenSUSE packages.
- Comment on Bazzite is the next best thing to SteamOS while we wait on Valve 1 month ago:
I’m just happy that all the sources are made available by Valve to make this possible. Even though I wish they would upstream them much quicker. But at least it has enabled me to run a normal Linux distribution on my Deck and enhance it as I saw fit.
- Comment on [Discussion] What games are you playing on your deck? - October 2024 1 month ago:
I should pick that up again. I remember getting stuck somewhere in the first one.
- Comment on [Discussion] What games are you playing on your deck? - October 2024 1 month ago:
Super Mario All Stars, just to spite Nintendo.
- Comment on The Plucky Squire recently came out, and used the Steam Deck to represent PC 1 month ago:
And the top meme when it was announced was “Yes, it’s a PC”.
- Comment on Valve Working With Rockstar to Fix GTA Online on Steam Deck 1 month ago:
Funnily enough they were one of the first ones to enable Easy Anti Cheat with Star Wars Squadrons.
- Comment on Should I buy fallout 4 goty from GOG? 2 months ago:
Works with non-Steam games as well. I even had community profiles for Diablo 2. You just have to give the game the correct name and it should just work™.
- Comment on The Final Windows Audio Driver For Steam Deck OLED Is Now Released - Steam Deck HQ 2 months ago:
Well, for that look at @cmhe@lemmy.world’s link.
- Comment on The Final Windows Audio Driver For Steam Deck OLED Is Now Released - Steam Deck HQ 2 months 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.
- Comment on [Discussion] What games have you been playing on your deck? - September 2024 2 months ago:
In anticipation of the Remake I’m playing Gothic again. First a swordfighter and now as a magician.
- Comment on [Discussion] What games have you been playing on your deck? - September 2024 2 months ago:
There are instructions for both games on reddit and they even give tips for Linux. Important on Linux is that the directory is set to case insensitive. Otherwise you will have problems because files from several mods are duplicated.
- Comment on Steam deck for a TV party game emulation machine? 4 months ago:
I guess they can also reuse the LCD.
- Comment on Steam deck for a TV party game emulation machine? 4 months ago:
It should work. But if you don’t need something to carry around you could probably build a more powerful PC for the same price.
- Comment on Steam Deck Now Cheaper Than A Switch During Valve's Big Summer Sale 4 months ago:
The OLED model has slightly better performance due to a newer version of the same APU. So it’s not just the screen that is better.
That said, I have a very early LCD model I love. The OLED is not a big enough upgrade for me to consider buying it. But if I were buying new I would get an OLED.
- Comment on Updated AMD GPU Firmware Makes Valve's Steam Deck More Robust Against Buggy Apps 5 months ago:
The firmware files in turn should work their way into linux-firmware.git soon for being easily picked up by the various Linux distribution vendors (update: they are now in linux-firmware.git already).
Nice. Guess that means it won’t be long until they are in Bazzite and other distros.
- Comment on Took the plunge after 2 years, and replaced the Delta fan with a Huaying one 5 months ago:
Got one has well, then the Huaying started to rattle. Didn’t get around to RMA it so I’m back to whining.
- Comment on Linux user share on Steam breaks 2% thanks to Steam Deck 5 months ago:
I’m running OpenSUSE and am very pleased. I even put it on my Steam Deck.
Only gripe I have with OpenSUSE is that it has very conservative defaults, opting for security first. So you will have to add your user to all sorts of groups manually to get everything going.
- Comment on Linux user share on Steam breaks 2% thanks to Steam Deck 5 months ago:
I recently experimented with ALVR on my Deck after overcoming some hurdles it actually worked quite well. Overload and Hellblade ran surprisingly well, even on the Deck. Just a hickup every 15 minutes or so when it was loading something, I guess.
Caveat: I don’t run SteamOS, so it’s a little bit easier for me to have all the dependencies.
- Comment on Do you still use your Steam Deck much? 5 months ago:
Na, don’t really watch TV. But I’ve got a laptop on a rolling table.
