bjoern_tantau
@bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de
- Comment on Final Fantasy VII Rebirth – Custom Chocobo Steam Deck 4 days ago:
The Steam Deck is totally in the mainstream. I’ve seen so many streamers who I never would have seen with a Linux device casually mention that they’d play on their couch with the Deck after the stream has ended.
- Comment on [help] has anyone managed to run rocm on the deck? 1 week ago:
I had it running for image generation. As far as I recall it was slow and buggy so I didn’t do more with it.
- Comment on Too loud? 1 week ago:
Did that for a home server of mine after the CPU fan broke. Kept an eye on the temperature for a while and it works great. Now I only need to get rid of the PSU to make it really silent.
- Comment on Is there a reliable low profile stand/dock? 1 week ago:
I saw what you did there, birch.
- Comment on Is there a reliable low profile stand/dock? 2 weeks ago:
At that point I’d just try to build something myself out of wood.
- Comment on GPD WIN 4 handheld plans to support Valve's SteamOS in 2025 2 weeks ago:
The Steam Deck struggles with games like Cities Skylines because it only has 16 GB RAM. More RAM has never been a bad thing. Especially if you want to future proof your device.
- Comment on What are your favorite accessories for the steam deck? 2 weeks ago:
Nope, sorry. But the Deckmate also has a VESA mount. There are probably some ways to mount it to help with playing.
Nowadays I’m not playing so much anyways. A laptop on a tiltable food tray table thingy gets much more use for YouTube videos.
- Comment on What are your favorite accessories for the steam deck? 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on What are your favorite accessories for the steam deck? 2 weeks ago:
My Deckmate with the kick stand. I’m bedbound and it even works to prop it up on my tummy.
- Comment on [Discussion] What games are you playing on your deck? - January 2025 2 weeks ago:
Last games I played were Life is Strange: Double Exposure and after that the phenomenal The Excavation of Hob’s Barrow.
Currently I’m playing through Diablo 2 again.
- Comment on [help] Black Screen of Death 4 weeks ago:
In case of the Steam Deck fiddling around on the inside does explicitly not invalidate the warranty. It is specifically made to be easy to repair.
Unless you do something stupid, of course.
But as long as you follow instructions from ifixit you should be golden.
- Comment on [help] Black Screen of Death 4 weeks ago:
Sounds like something is up with the battery. Try resetting it, there should be instructions out there. Is it still in warranty? Even if it’s not sometimes Valve is nice and will still fix Decks for free.
- Comment on Proton Experimental for Steam Deck / Linux fixes Disgaea 4 Complete+, Final Fantasy XIV and various other games 1 month ago:
Did someone say Diarrhea 4?
- Comment on Had to reimage my deck; impressed by how well a backup of my home folder carried over system and app settings 2 months ago:
You don’t even need that. I have switched between several distros and always kept the same filesystem and just deleted everything but the
/homefolder. No problems. Every installer supported that. - Comment on [Discussion] What games are you playing on your deck? - November 2024 2 months ago:
I was about to ask how well the Wiimote works with the Deck.
- Comment on GE-Proton 9-16 released with mod support for various Bethesda games 2 months ago:
Yeah, I could really see this be super annoying. Especially when troubleshooting or if you just want to launch the vanilla game.
- Comment on Gaming 2024 2 months ago:
- Comment on Valve still waiting on a 'generational leap' for Steam Deck 2 - but it's coming 2 months ago:
Godspeed. o7
- Comment on Valve still waiting on a 'generational leap' for Steam Deck 2 - but it's coming 2 months ago:
Never in my life have I regretted putting more RAM into my computers. When faced with deciding between similarly priced graphics cards going with the higher RAM option was always the right choice in the long run. Because higher resolution textures always make an otherwise low game look great.
If I knew an adventurous spirit with great soldering skills and greater insurance I would go for the 32 GB upgrade on my Deck.
- Comment on Valve will finally sell the Steam Deck in Australia 3 months ago:
This one github.com/ValveSoftware/SteamOS/issues/1257
Had it as well. I’m actually not sure if I still have it. Crashes became less frequent after the RMA but they still happen. And if they do start happening again they get more frequent until I do a cold reboot.
- Comment on Proton is the Future of PC gaming. But how does it work? [Gardiner Bryant, YouTube] 3 months ago:
I know, I have many of them. Most of them I specifically bought when they got Linux support, like Tomb Raider and Alien Isolation.
Not a single commercial game runs as well natively as it does through Proton. Tomb Raider - has much worse graphics. Alien Isolation - for some reason the DPad doesn’t work. Baldur’s Gate - I have to supply some old openssl (or so, can’t remember) library. And I shudder at the thought of trying to get Unreal Tournament 2004 or Doom 3 (not the open source version) running. I should try to dig out my disc for Ankh to see how hard it is to get that one running.
Maintained games and especially open source ones run great. But the sad reality is that it costs money to maintain software. Linux backwards compatibility is abysmal. It is much easier to get a 20 year old Windows game to run than a 20 year old Linux game.
Though to be fair, it is also hard on Windows to get a 20 year old Windows game to run. Wine is just a great piece of software.
I would love to have more native games. My own game is native as well. And luckily most indie devs usually also bring out a native port. And still most of the time the Windows version via Proton just runs better.
- Comment on Proton is the Future of PC gaming. But how does it work? [Gardiner Bryant, YouTube] 3 months ago:
Sadly this has more or less died with unmaintained games. It’s a pain the arse to get old native games working. And for many titles the Windows version with Proton works much better than the Linux native one. Win32 has somehow become the most stable Linux API.
- Comment on Bazzite is the next best thing to SteamOS while we wait on Valve 3 months ago:
I very rarely use big picture mode. I’m mostly on a KDE desktop. I’ve set up a shortcut to open Steam through gamescope in Big Picture mode for the rare occasion that I need it. In that case KDE’s wayland session keeps running in the background.
I have also set up gamescope with Steam as a separate login session but I can’t remember if I ever felt the need to use that.
Usually I just have Steam running in desktop mode in the background for the controller settings and the mostly superior on screen keyboard. I never noticed any slowdowns in games. I even managed to get Cities Skylines to run more stable than on SteamOS. But that might be due to zram.
- Comment on Custom installation for daily driver 3 months ago:
Don’t know about specific Arch packages. But for my OpenSUSE experimentations I have gitlab.com/evlaV/linux-integration, steamdeck-packages.steamos.cloud/…/jupiter-main/ and github.com/firlin123/jupiter-dkms bookmarked.
I think the steamos-customizations-jupiter and linux-firmware-neptune-jupiter packages are worth a look. And I recently compiled
drivers/hid/hid-steam.cfrom Valve’s linux sources to get a bugfix for the controller if you run it without Steam. - Comment on Bazzite is the next best thing to SteamOS while we wait on Valve 3 months ago:
OpenSUSE Tumbleweed.
Hardest part was getting full disk encryption working with an on-screen keyboard to enter a passphrase at boot. I used unl0kr for that which wasn’t (probably still isn’t) in the OpenSUSE packages.
- Comment on Bazzite is the next best thing to SteamOS while we wait on Valve 3 months ago:
I’m just happy that all the sources are made available by Valve to make this possible. Even though I wish they would upstream them much quicker. But at least it has enabled me to run a normal Linux distribution on my Deck and enhance it as I saw fit.
- Comment on [Discussion] What games are you playing on your deck? - October 2024 3 months ago:
I should pick that up again. I remember getting stuck somewhere in the first one.
- Comment on [Discussion] What games are you playing on your deck? - October 2024 3 months ago:
Super Mario All Stars, just to spite Nintendo.
- Comment on The Plucky Squire recently came out, and used the Steam Deck to represent PC 3 months ago:
And the top meme when it was announced was “Yes, it’s a PC”.
- Comment on Valve Working With Rockstar to Fix GTA Online on Steam Deck 3 months ago:
Funnily enough they were one of the first ones to enable Easy Anti Cheat with Star Wars Squadrons.
