bjoern_tantau
@bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de
- Comment on Can't avoid native Linux version from GOG with Heroic on Steam Deck 3 days 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? 5 days 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 1 week ago:
- Comment on [Help] moving installers to desktop? 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 5 weeks ago:
Wow. Whoever saw that one coming should play the lottery because they’re clearly psychic.
- Comment on Anyone else get this? 1 month 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? 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 2 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 🧐 2 months ago:
Should crosspost to !spicypillows@lemmy.world.
- Comment on Do I have to start BG3 through desktop mode for mods to work? 2 months ago:
How do you launch it in desktop mode? Do you just click on play in Steam?
- Comment on Proton Experimental update enables gamepad input for all game launchers on Linux, SteamOS / Steam Deck 2 months ago:
Not for all launchers. It’s enabled by default for select titles but should work with everything using standard Win32 controls.
- Comment on Your experience streaming to twitch/youtube with the SD? 3 months ago:
I haven’t tried it but considering the weak CPU it might not be a pleasant experience.
But if you want to try it OBS is available in the software store and should at least work in desktop mode. Probably not in gaming mode.
- Comment on [Help] Gamepad input gone in Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 after standby 3 months ago:
See my edit. It’s a bug in Proton 10. Don’t use Experimental or Hotfix at the moment.
- Comment on [Game] Doom the Dark Ages will not run well on steam deck at release 3 months ago:
Didn’t they manage to get Indiana Jones working after a while? That’s on the same engine, right? I’ll be patient. Don’t have the energy for Doom at the moment anyways.
- Comment on [Help] Gamepad input gone in Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 after standby 3 months ago:
Yes, that was it! It’s a bug in Proton 10.
- Comment on [Help] Gamepad input gone in Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 after standby 3 months ago:
That sounds like it may very well be the issue. I think I’m running Proton Hotfix at the moment.
I wish there was a way to see what Valve did to fix a problem with SteamOS. I’m also interested in their solution for low memory slowdowns.
- Comment on [Help] Gamepad input gone in Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 after standby 3 months ago:
It helped when I ran a pirated copy through Heroic. I have since bought the game and use Steam Input, so I only get the controls recommended by Steam.
I will try replicating the desktop setup. Maybe switching out of the game and back helps.
- Submitted 3 months ago to steamdeck@sopuli.xyz | 9 comments
- Comment on SteamOS 3.7.5 for Steam Deck now in Beta with big upgrades and initial support for more hardware 3 months ago:
Improved responsiveness of system when running into out-of-memory crash situations.
I’d really like to know what they did there. I recently added earlyoom to my non-SteamOS Deck for much the same reason. Expedition 33 sometimes seems to run into a memory leak which makes the whole Deck unresponsive.
