bjoern_tantau
@bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de
- Comment on [HELP] Windows game from GoG on vanilla Steam Deck 5 days ago:
If you don’t want to go the Heroic route (you really should go the Heroic route) you can
- download the offline installer from GoG
- add the installer as a none-Steam-game to Steam
- select Proton for compatibility
- run the installer
- add the installed game’s exe to Steam as a none-Steam-game
- select Proton for compatibility
Trouble with that method is that Steam always creates a new Wine prefix (a kind of fake Windows drive) every time you run a new none-Steam-game with Proton. They can pile up and take unnecessary space away. It also makes it harder to install dependencies or mods or add ons.
So yeah, Heroic is the way.
- Comment on AMD say the Steam Machine is "on track" for an early 2026 release 1 week ago:
I don’t think the RAM prices are going to go back down again any time soon. So there wouldn’t be any point in waiting.
- Comment on [Discussion] What are you playing on your Deck? - Feb 2026 2 weeks ago:
I started playing Earth Must Die. Pretty funny although I haven’t at the earth must die part yet.
- Comment on A Steam Deck Has Been Turned Into A Steam Machine 2 weeks ago:
I have this beautiful small case lying around here. It can passively cool up to 65 W. Since the Gabe Cube announcement I’ve been itching to revive it with new components. Unfortunately I lack the energy. But all this time it’s sitting there on the shelf, whispering to me.
- Comment on [Help] ext4 or btrfs or xfs for Proton and Wine prefixes on Lutris or Steam with an external ssd ? 2 weeks ago:
On BTRFS you could use deduplication to make the prefixes take up approximately no extra space. But that requires you to run a deduplication program every once in a while.
Its compression feature can also save some space and decrease load times.
But the impact of this stuff isn’t that big. Much easier to just go ext4 and be done.
- Comment on Valve If You Are Listening Here Are More Accessories That Would Be Awesome!! 3 weeks ago:
You’re looking for Mcon (or however it’s spelled).
- Comment on Mouse Clicks not registering in desktop mode 3 weeks ago:
Just thought of something. When you press Ctrl+Alt+Escape your mouse cursor should change into a red skull and bones. Clicking on the invisible app should kill it.
- Comment on Mouse Clicks not registering in desktop mode 3 weeks ago:
This sounds like some invisible app is open and intercepting the clicks. If you can get into kDE’s settings configure it to always start an empty session and not start the same programs that were open when it shut down. Maybe you can get to that window by alt-tabbing.
- Comment on The sorry state of saving (mostly a rant) 3 weeks ago:
I think there’s a Decky plugin that allows you to save the whole state of a game and suspend it. Kind of like save states for emulators. i never needed it but from what I hear it works well.
- Comment on [Deck] A Linux Power User Puts SteamOS To Work 4 weeks ago:
I “just” slapped OpenSUSE Tumbleweed on mine. Much easier that way to customise everything.
- Comment on Has anyone done diy repair on power button (not the outer plastic but the actual button on the mobo) 1 month ago:
Only power button mod I ever did was put some folded paper between the case’s button and the button on the motherboard. That was actually fixed on warranty when I sent my Deck in for another issue.
- Comment on Lets speculate about the steam controllers price 1 month ago:
I was just about to pay for my controller when I noticed that Gabe Newell was bout 500 feet tall and from the palaeolithic era.
- Comment on External storage on Steam OS is a problem 2 months ago:
The way they advertised swapping SD cards between Deck, Machine and Frame they are surely working on external storage.
Plus, your stuff is definitely still there but just the mount point or something changed.
- Comment on Plasma-Bigscreen for Desktop Mode on a TV 2 months ago:
SUSE’s Open Build System can build for basically all distros. If you’re up to the task you can use that to build packages.
- Comment on Battle.net detected that I'm on a Steam Deck 2 months ago:
It’s basically the sams way as in Lutris. But it won’t be integrated into Heroic. If you want entries for each game you will have to add them yourself. And the games still nees the Battle.net launcher because of the DRM.
First download the Battle.net installer from Blizzard. In Heroic add a new game, call it Battle.net or whatever, select the Proton version shown in the post above and choose the option to run an installation program first. Select to run the installer you downloaded and that should install it.
- Comment on [Discussion] Should this community also cover the Steam Machine and/or Steam Frame? 2 months ago:
I’d say yes. If the volume becomes overwhelming new communities can easily be created.
- Comment on Steam Machine 2 months ago:
They said they wanted to sell it at PC prices not console prices. Probably because this thing is literally a PC that can be used without ever downloading a single game. If it were too cheap companies could buy it as cheap office PCs.
- Submitted 3 months ago to steamdeck@sopuli.xyz | 7 comments
- Comment on Small icons missing in Steam Deck version of BG3 3 months ago:
Yeah, will definitely report it if I find out what Steam does differently.
- Comment on Small icons missing in Steam Deck version of BG3 3 months ago:
Ha! They didn’t know it but @kerobaros@lemmy.world pushed me in the right direction. Running through Steam was the solution.
- Comment on Small icons missing in Steam Deck version of BG3 3 months ago:
Actually, your comment gave me the idea of trying to run it through Steam. And that actually fixed it! Thanks!
Now I just have to find out what that does differently from Heroic’s “use Steam Runtime”.
- Comment on Small icons missing in Steam Deck version of BG3 3 months ago:
To get better control over the whole system. I mainly wanted full disk encryption and a recent KDE Plasma version running on Wayland.
- Comment on Small icons missing in Steam Deck version of BG3 3 months ago:
Yeah, you’re probably right. My setup could hardly be farther from the norm. But maybe I’m lucky and catch the eyeballs of the right fellow nerd.
- Submitted 3 months ago to steamdeck@sopuli.xyz | 8 comments
- Comment on Plugging in my steam deck dock to my steam deck, then putting a mechanical keyboard makes the whole dock turn off?????? 3 months ago:
My first instinct is some weird power delivery issue. Your phone wouldn’t need as much power as the Deck. Do you have a more powerful charger you can test? Or can you substitute the Deck with a laptop?
- Comment on Baldur's Gate 3's Native Linux Port Is A Huge Improvement For Steam Deck 4 months ago:
Hope they release it on GOG. That’s the one I use on my Deck.
- Comment on Heroic game files 4 months ago:
That’s probably not it, but in Linux the case of filenames matter. The standard folder for Heroic installs is
~/Games/Heroicand not/games/heroic. Make sure you are looking in the right folder.~means your home folder, so on the Steam Deck that would be/home/deck.A slash
/at the beginning indicates your system drive. While it is not impossible to configure Heroic to install games there I doubt this is the case unless you know what you are doing. - Comment on Baldur's Gate 3 introducing a native Steam Deck build that improves performance by reducing CPU load and memory usage 4 months ago:
Hope this gets a GOG release where I bought the game for my Deck.
- Comment on Valve fixes Baldur's Gate 3 issue on Steam Deck / SteamOS 4 months 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? 5 months ago:
The Battle.Net client is supposed to offer at least some Gamepass games.
But yeah, all in all the Gamepass situation sucks.
