bjoern_tantau
@bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de
- Comment on Valve fixes Baldur's Gate 3 issue on Steam Deck / SteamOS 10 hours ago:
Steam has its own set of stable libraries that devs can target.
I guess Larian couldn’t get enough of winning so they started a native Linux version. I hope it gets released on GOG as well.
- Comment on How do you make the most of GamePass on SteamDeck? 2 weeks ago:
The Battle.Net client is supposed to offer at least some Gamepass games.
But yeah, all in all the Gamepass situation sucks.
- Comment on How to uninstall this commad 2 weeks ago:
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/etcare kept in an overlay partition. - Comment on New rumor suggests Valve's Steam Deck 2 is much further away than we thought 2 weeks ago:
Just a note, Proton is mostly Wine, a program that has been in the making for decades and could be used to play Windows programs (including games) on Linux long before Valve started pouring resources into it. They have “just” concentrated development on games.
- Comment on New rumor suggests Valve's Steam Deck 2 is much further away than we thought 2 weeks ago:
Nothing has indicated that a new Steam Deck is anywhere near a release or announcement. They said themselves time and time again that they would want a new Steam Deck to be a significant upgrade on the first one.
As long as a really big performance improvement is not possible there won’t be a new Steam Deck. And I don’t think running Cyberpunk 1080p instead of 800p counts. My bet is that as long as raytracing is as abysmal as it is now on APUs we can’t even dream of getting a new Deck.
Think console generations and not smartphone releases.
- Comment on Gaming handheld prices are out of control, except for the Steam Deck 3 weeks ago:
They have advantage of being able to sell at almost cost because they make so much on game sales. Like the other console vendors.
Actually kind of unfair business practice.
- Comment on How to have separate controller layouts for each game in Heroic game launcher? 3 weeks ago:
Heroic lets you add games individually with the correct name and covers to Steam. No need for workarounds. And you don’t need IDs. Using the same name as used on Steam is enough. Even non-Steam games like Diablo have community layouts.
- Comment on How to have separate controller layouts for each game in Heroic game launcher? 3 weeks ago:
Just add the games through Heroic to Steam. You have to restart Steam for that to take effect. You can also configure Heroic to automatically add every newly installed game to Steam.
In Steam you can then adjust the controls. Just don’t have Heroic running when you start a game or Steam won’t know whether a game is running or not.
As the games are still running through Heroic all the achievements will work the same as before. Although I didn’t even know that Heroic supported achievements.
- Comment on 7 years later, Valve's Proton has been an incredible game-changer for Linux 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, changing from Windows-compatible to Linux-compatible.
- Comment on Can't avoid native Linux version from GOG with Heroic on Steam Deck 4 weeks ago:
People on the web are saying that it’s better to use proton and not Linux versions.
I’ve been one of those people. But! That wholly depends on the game. It is often true when the Windows version received updates while the Linux version was neglected. But if the Linux version is being maintained the same as the Windows version they should be equal, with the Linux version being preferred.
So, just install the Linux version and only switch when you have problems.
- Comment on [Discussion] What's something that has improved your Deck experience? 4 weeks ago:
Installing OpenSUSE Tumbleweed was perfect for me. I much prefer the Plasma 6.4 Wayland desktop to gaming mode. Haven’t noticed any slowdowns.
- Comment on Steam Deck OLED 32GB RAM Upgrade 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on [Help] moving installers to desktop? 1 month ago:
I think you can use those scripts for updates as well. So I guess that is why they want you to move them to easily accessible places.
- Comment on [Discussion] What are you playing on your Deck? - August 2025 1 month ago:
Could you write a blog or a post here of how to get it to work on plain SteamOS?
No, don’t have the energy. And it’s honestly trivial. Download and extract. Add binary to Steam if you want to play it in game mode. Then just show it where you have the game data of the original game.
- Comment on [Discussion] What are you playing on your Deck? - August 2025 1 month ago:
XWVM. It’s awesome! I finally destroyed the Death Star for the first time without using cheats.
Frog Detective is next on my list.
- Comment on Separate power progiles for dockend/handheld mode 1 month ago:
Don’t know if it’s possible with SteamOS. But in KDE you can select different power profiles for battery powered and on a power supply. And those profiles can be configured.
- Comment on [help] Steam remote play between manjaro host and steam deck client 1 month ago:
I didn’t read all that. But you should use Sunshine and Moonlight. I’ve had nothing but trouble with Steam’s remote play.
- Comment on Many Game Pass games can now be launched through Battle.net, allowing them to be played on Steam Deck and Linux 2 months ago:
Wow. Whoever saw that one coming should play the lottery because they’re clearly psychic.
- Comment on Anyone else get this? 2 months ago:
Damn, that looks like a Konami code. Did you play any Konami games? Maybe it had some key bindings for that and they got stuck for some reason.
- Comment on Does the charge limit actually work? 2 months ago:
There is a bugreport about this somewhere, I think the SteamOS github. Basically the charge limit doesn’t work in standby. Maybe it’s a hardware limitation of the LCD models. I have that as well.
- Comment on GEEKDeck Is A SteamDeck For Your Living Room 2 months ago:
It’s Arch frozen at particular point with packages you did not choose. I honestly don’t think the distro base counts at that point.
- Comment on Steam Deck / Gaming News #21 2 months ago:
The problem isn’t so much logging in to play. Most of the games I play on Epic are DRM free. But having to log in just to see all my games or install one.
- Comment on Steam Deck / Gaming News #21 2 months ago:
The funny thing about the Epic store giveaways is that i still often buy the games elsewhere so that I don’t have to bother with Epic’s stupid login. This stupid service forces me to re-login every month or so. It’s so annoying.
So, good luck converting me to a paying customer.
- Comment on Remote Play - HEVC stutter 2 months ago:
I never use Moonlight directly with Steam. I connect to the Desktop so that I can see and use everything like if I was at the PC.
- Comment on Microsoft dives into the handheld gaming PC wars with the Asus ROG Xbox Ally 2 months ago:
And uh also no, no, the SteamOS Benchmarks came out less than a week before this announcement.
I meant that they maybe used SteamOS (or a similar distribution) on whatever prototype they had to make some benchmarks to compare against stock Windows or their own Windows build.
But you seem to have better insight into the way they work.
- Comment on Microsoft dives into the handheld gaming PC wars with the Asus ROG Xbox Ally 2 months ago:
It’s so cool to play the old X-Wing and TIE Fighter games and be able to control them with some custom HUDs.
- Comment on Microsoft dives into the handheld gaming PC wars with the Asus ROG Xbox Ally 2 months ago:
I dunno, I kind of believe them when they claim they seriously debloated Windows. I bet they actually used SteamOS benchmarks to sway the higher ups to be allowed to do this. It will be interesting to see benchmarks when this thing is released.
Although I also believe that they would lock down the bootloader. And not release this mode to the general public. They haven’t been very lenient with the media people testing these things. They weren’t even allowed make their own videos of the interface or games running on them.
- Comment on Remote Play - HEVC stutter 3 months ago:
I use Sunshine and Moonlight for PC streaming. Steam’s own solution always had some problems for me. Sunshine and Moonlight just work. And if they get one bug fixed it should even work in the other direction.
- Comment on Spicy pillow 🧐 3 months ago:
Should crosspost to !spicypillows@lemmy.world.
- Comment on Do I have to start BG3 through desktop mode for mods to work? 3 months ago:
How do you launch it in desktop mode? Do you just click on play in Steam?
