bjoern_tantau
@bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de
- Comment on Valve Steam Machine Review - Gamers Nexus 4 days ago:
Look for the early announcement videos. Someone tore one appart there. Might even have been LTT. If I recall correctly you have to remove the heatsink to access the RAM.
- Comment on Valve Steam Machine Review - Gamers Nexus 4 days ago:
But what if you want intelligent videos that scratch the surface early on and go into details at your leisure?
- Comment on Steam Machine launches today! 4 days ago:
Reminds me of the time an earthquake (?) destroyed an HDD factory and I have been waiting ever since for them to get on the same price trajectory as they had been back then. I’m still waiting.
- Comment on Any desktop-mode tips for a new Steam Deck owner? 2 weeks ago:
Hmm, yeah I read that. I think you are just not the target audience of SteamOS. It’s more or less meant for people who don’t want to tinker.
If you’re already familiar with Cachy it’s probably a great choice. Personally I went with OpenSUSE which was quite a hassle to get set up like I want. Especially since I couldn’t be bothered to hook up a keyboard. But I think Cachy has all the stuff I had to add manually already integrated.
- Comment on Any desktop-mode tips for a new Steam Deck owner? 2 weeks ago:
I think it would be much less hassle for you to install another OS instead of SteamOS. Like Bazzite. You should be able to configure that to your liking more easily.
- Comment on Steam Deck back in stock, with higher pricing 4 weeks ago:
They actually have started. Just googled this an hour or so ago. They started shipping in the EU about two days ago. The people reporting that they got their mails all had reservations a minute or two before starting time.
- Comment on Steam Controller is Out of Stock 1 month ago:
- Comment on What driver would the Steam Controller come with if not xinput? 1 month ago:
That is basically the current state of the Steam Deck’s controller driver.
You probably could already find the new controller’s driver in Valve’s repositories and compile it for your kernel. Maybe Bazzite and Co have it already integrated. No idea. But if that isn’t the case it’s just a matter of time.
- Comment on What driver would the Steam Controller come with if not xinput? 1 month ago:
I actually tried to do that but I didn’t find where the buttons and axis are defined.
- Comment on What driver would the Steam Controller come with if not xinput? 1 month ago:
When you check KDE’s gamepad page without Steam running it appears like any other controller. Back buttons are just additional buttons.
It’s a shame that the capacitive joysticks aren’t buttons as well. And I’d expect the gyros to just appear alongside the other axis as pure numbers but unfortunately they do not. Same with the touchpads.
- Comment on Anyone manage to order a controller? 1 month ago:
In the EU it switched to 6 to 10 days. Hope I can get it before it’s out of stock here as well.
- Comment on Anyone manage to order a controller? 1 month ago:
Had the same idea but I still can’t order.
- Comment on Steam Controller early review leak claims $99 launch price 1 month ago:
The Steam Deck had a European release. Will probably be the same with this one.
Earlier today (or yesterday) the Steam Controller page on Komodo, the official Asian reseller, went accidentally live. I’d say that’s a good indicator that they’re gearing up for a more or less worldwide release with dedicated shipping centers.
- Comment on Steam Controller early review leak claims $99 launch price 1 month ago:
It’s awesome. Especially when you need a ton more buttons Steam Input together with the touchpads is a godsend. You just create two or more menus and access them with the touchpads.
- Comment on Steam Controller early review leak claims $99 launch price 2 months ago:
I was hoping for less but bracing for more.
Let’s see if that price is true.
- Comment on I've been using my steam deck wrong this whole time 2 months ago:
It actually isn’t.
- Comment on I've been using my steam deck wrong this whole time 2 months ago:
As if people are incapable of making silly pictures.
- Comment on I've been using my steam deck wrong this whole time 2 months ago:
Here it is: getmechanism.com/pages/about-us
- Comment on I've been using my steam deck wrong this whole time 2 months ago:
I think that’s a relatively common issue that can be fixed by resetting the battery. I think it starts by loading it for a day even when the indicator isn’t lighting up.
Look it up, I might be wrong.
- Comment on No input on volume after disassembly. 2 months ago:
Do the speakers still work? Can you change the volume from the taskbar in desktop mode?
You could try running
alsamixerin the terminal. That should give you more control over all audio devices. - Comment on Looking for a battery bar for the [deck] 2 months ago:
The Deck uses MangoHUD to draw FPS over the screen. Maybe it can be utilised to show the battery.
- Comment on [Discussion] What are you playing on your Deck? - April 2026 2 months ago:
I finally finished Spider-Man: Miles Morales and just started Spider-Man 2. Man, that game runs like ass on the Deck while I have to make it look worse than the previous two.
And it actually feels like what I’m experiencing are bugs and not necessarily the Steam Deck’a fault. Stuff like models popping in without animations. I remember seeing pictures of that when it was new. Strange that they didn’t manage to fix it. Couldn’t they just have stayed on the old engine? It worked perfectly fine!
- Comment on DLSS Multi-Frame Generation Is Now Easier To Enable On Steam Deck, And It Makes Gameplay Worse 2 months ago:
But they make the numbers bigger! Biggest number is best number!
- Comment on Steam Machine update, Valve now says all three new products will ship this year (Updated) 3 months ago:
Probably one of the early videos when they were announced.
- Comment on Steam Machine update, Valve now says all three new products will ship this year (Updated) 3 months ago:
Yeah, that as well. But that will probably be over my budget.
- Comment on Steam Machine update, Valve now says all three new products will ship this year (Updated) 3 months ago:
As far as I recall they did say that you can use them with the Steam Machine.
I just want a good controller where the hands aren’t forced to be together. The Switch ones are too small for me.
- Comment on Steam Machine update, Valve now says all three new products will ship this year (Updated) 3 months ago:
Just gimme the controllers (I want the Frame controllers as well) and I’ll be happy.
- Comment on [HELP] Windows game from GoG on vanilla Steam Deck 4 months 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 4 months 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 4 months ago:
I started playing Earth Must Die. Pretty funny although I haven’t at the earth must die part yet.
