bjoern_tantau
@bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de
- Comment on Bazzite is the next best thing to SteamOS while we wait on Valve 21 hours 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 day 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 day 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 day 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 2 days 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 2 days 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 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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? 3 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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? 2 months ago:
I guess they can also reuse the LCD.
- Comment on Steam deck for a TV party game emulation machine? 2 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 3 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 3 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 3 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 3 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 3 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? 4 months ago:
Na, don’t really watch TV. But I’ve got a laptop on a rolling table.
- Comment on Do you still use your Steam Deck much? 4 months ago:
Long COVID tied me to my bed. The Deck is the only gaming device I can comfortably use there.
- Comment on Are you using GOG games on your Steam Deck? 4 months ago:
Most of the games I play on my Deck come from other sources. I install them via Lutris (because that’s what I’m used to) in desktop mode and then add them to Steam. Heroic or Bottles should work as well if you find them easier to use.
- Comment on Has anyone tried Hellblade 2 on the deck yet? 4 months ago:
Weren’t they among the first to support anti cheat on the Deck with Halo?
- Comment on Elden Ring 4 months ago:
Well, we could tell them how to git gud.
- Comment on Elden Ring 4 months ago:
Ain’t nothing but a heartbreak!
- Comment on [Game] Apex Legends Upheaval update live with EOS Anti-Cheat breaking it on Steam Deck / Linux 4 months ago:
Wasn’t Apex Legends one of the first games with supported anti cheat on the Deck?
- Comment on What is your favorite Open Source Game on Steam Deck? 4 months ago:
I used the WASD config and reconfigured it in Commander Genius so that B was fire and X was the pogo stick. A was already jump by default.
- Comment on What is your favorite Open Source Game on Steam Deck? 5 months ago:
I just played some Commander Keen through Commander Genius (although it’s a bit hard to set up).
- Comment on Why install other Linux ISOs on Steam Deck? 5 months ago:
Nah, games only hit the disk when they’re loading stuff which is expected to be slow anyways.
Plus I think all modern processors have special chips for cryptography stuff which makes it almost free.