bjoern_tantau
@bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de
- Comment on Is upgrading the ssd easy enough that it is worth the cost savings? 2 days ago:
If you have a drive enclosure or a large enough backup drive you can clone the old SSD with
dd. - Comment on Is upgrading the ssd easy enough that it is worth the cost savings? 2 days ago:
Honestly, you can half ass that shit. As long as you don’t go hacking away at everything you’ll be fine.
- Comment on [Discussion] What are you playing on your Deck? - May 2025 4 days ago:
So far every area seems to be relatively small. Like Doom 2016 arenas. Dungeons seem to be self contained and the Overworld is zoomed out, so it’s not so large either. Only stutters I have noticed where shortly after resuming from standby but they are gone after a minute. But I don’t play with an FPS counter visible so that’s only based on my feelings.
At the beginning there are huge crowds of people but that doesn’t seem to influence FPS at all. And at some points I was astonished at how good a cut scene looks, thinking it was pre recorded but then I noticed the characters wearing my custom clothes
In the end FPS are only important in the fights to hit the QTEs. And they are very limited in scope. Only effects could be a problem, that’s why they are most important to keep at Low.
- Comment on [Discussion] What are you playing on your Deck? - May 2025 4 days ago:
I’m playing Clair Obscur. It runs at about 30 fps if you put everything on Low and use TSR with 60% resolution.
- Comment on This modder stuck a 13-inch OLED USB-C monitor on his Steam Deck 6 days ago:
- Comment on What are (in your opnion) the must tweaks for steamos? 1 week ago:
Ext4 can be converted to BTRFS without data loss. The only downside is that you lose ext4’s capability to have case insensitive folders.
- Comment on What are (in your opnion) the must tweaks for steamos? 1 week ago:
There’s an easy tool to do that. The beauty of ext4 is that it can be converted to BTRFS without any data loss.
Can’t remember what the tool is called and by now I don’t use SteamOS any more. But a search engine of your choice should find it.
- Comment on What are (in your opnion) the must tweaks for steamos? 1 week ago:
Heroic, Lutris or Bottles have to be installed to easier manage non-Steam games.
And BTRFS with compression and deduplication are great to save space.
- Comment on Alternative OS? 1 week ago:
In that case you should really try OpenSUSE Tumbleweed. I used the Gnome based live image to install (although I wanted KDE) because it’s the only one with a usable on screen keyboard.
You should instantly have a usable system. Then you just need to install Steam.
- Comment on Did someone here play "high on life" on the deck? 1 week ago:
Half rate shading is in the Deck’s menu on the right.
- Comment on Alternative OS? 1 week ago:
At least the mouse is emulated by default in the gamepad’s “lizard mode”. And when you run Steam you get the same functionality as on the Deck.
- Comment on Alternative OS? 1 week ago:
Just about any distribution should work out of the box. At least on the LCD model. Don’t know how far the kernel sources are upstreamed for the OLED model.
I run OpenSUSE on my Deck. I did some tinkering to get it to a state I like. Unfortunately I don’t have the energy to list everything. For many things I have created posts on Lemmy, should be my older stuff.
At gitlab.com/evlaV you can find all the sources from Valve’s changes. If you have an OLED model you should be able to get a fully working kernel from here. For my LCD I created DKMS modules for the fan and controller.
- Comment on Did someone here play "high on life" on the deck? 1 week ago:
Do you have half-rate shading or FSR turned on?
- Comment on [Help] Failing power button 2 weeks ago:
don’t remember. At least a few months. I think I had even forgotten about it when I sent it in.
- Comment on [Help] Failing power button 2 weeks ago:
I had that as well. I folded a piece of paper and stuck it under the power button. Worked well until I had to RMA due to another issue. Then they fixed it properly.
- Comment on Market research firm International Data Corporation estimated that between 3.7 and 4 million Steam Deck had been sold by the third anniversary of the device in February 2025. 3 weeks ago:
Can confirm this.
I got my Steam Deck when I caught Corona and stopped getting better. By now I can’t leave my bed but with the Deck I can at least play something. Otherwise I would have gone insane by now.
- Comment on Steam deck OLED 1TB or Asus ROG Ally X with Bazzite? 4 weeks ago:
I only have a Deck but the touchpads are invaluable. Not only for mouse inputs but also to map multiple functions via Steam Input.
But also the gyro aiming is great for shooters. No idea if the Ally has a gyro but that has also been invaluable. Not for broad gestures but for small aiming adjustments. I forgot I used it until I turned it off.
- Comment on Recommendations for games for 6 year old 4 weeks ago:
Oh, also Goat Simulator. So much hilarious mayhem!
- Comment on Recommendations for games for 6 year old 4 weeks ago:
Tons of Lego games are also available on the Deck. Minecraft is always great. GCompris is a great collection for children.
And of course you can always emulate Switch games.
- Comment on [Discussion] What games are you playing on your deck? - April 2025 4 weeks ago:
I started Baldur’s Gate 3 again. With an evil Wyll run. I try to make Wyll go the evil route by doing the most “heroic” stuff.
- Comment on Show off your Steam Deck's home screen! 5 weeks ago:
I’ve put OpenSUSE Tumbleweed on mine. And although I have gaming mode available I prefer to run it on Plasma Wayland for the multitasking. The background just pulls in astronomy pictures. I rarely look at it anyways.
Keen eyes will see the Baldur’s Gate 3 icon in the taskbar.
- Comment on HOW DO I CHANGE THE SUDO PASSWORD FOR MY STEAM DECK WITHOUT KNOWING THE OLD PASSWORD?????? 1 month ago:
Booting from any rescue Linux system and removing or editing
/etc/shadowin the overlay partition would work as well. No need for a factory reset. - Comment on How would someone use the steamdeck to download all their photos off google photos? 1 month ago:
If it is generally possible with a browser it is possible on the Steam Deck.
- Comment on Steam Deck Beta Client Update Lets You Remotely Install Demos From Phone Or Web 1 month ago:
Huh? It has been offering me to do that for quite a while now. I think I even used it once or twice.
- Comment on Some questions before probably getting a Steam Deck 1 month ago:
The Deck is weird in terms of Wayland/X11 usage. Gamemode runs on Wayland, but the Steam client runs through XWayland and for the games another XWayland session is started.
- Comment on Three years later, the Steam Deck has dominated handheld PC gaming 2 months ago:
You can play those Switch games plus a ton of other games on the Deck. Apart from technical capability there are 0 restrictions on what you can do with your Deck. You can play Steam games, GOG games, Epic games, Nintendo games, PlayStation games, Commodore 64 games, Arcade games, etc.
- Comment on Finally the Onboard on screen keyboard works on Wayland 2 months ago:
What do you care about a year old post?
I’m doing all of this on a Steam Deck.
- Comment on Finally the Onboard on screen keyboard works on Wayland 2 months ago:
I’m not running SteamOS.
I think they are waiting for Chromium to fully support Wayland before they ship Steam for Wayland.
But by now I’ve also found a workaround to get the Steam keyboard working on Wayland.
- Comment on FreeTube full screen 2 months ago:
Have you tried making it fullscreen in desktop mode and then quitting? That often works.
- Comment on This Steam Deck mount looks silly, but greatly reduces the risk of dropping Valve's handheld on your face while gaming in bed 2 months ago:
Don’t need it. I’m fat.
