Fubarberry
@Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz
- Comment on SteamOS 3.9.0 Preview 13 hours ago:
Yeah, should be a fantastic addition.
- Comment on Would this work in a steamdeck? 13 hours ago:
Size and speed issues aside, this probably won’t work at all. My understanding is that many m.2 slots are multi-purpose, with nvme, data, and USB data pathways. Most adapters like this just connect the micro SD to the USB pathways in the m.2 slot.
As far as I know, the deck has a NVNE only slot, so something like this that requires the USB part of the m.2 slot won’t work.
- Comment on Xbox Game Pass May Soon Work on Linux 15 hours ago:
UWP may get support eventually, but not anytime soon. They’ll have to get other stuff working first
- Submitted 5 days ago to steamdeck@sopuli.xyz | 19 comments
- Comment on This Steam Deck Plugin Makes Installing Mods From Nexus Mods Easy And Accessible 1 week ago:
It has an public codebase, so you can review the code yourself if inclined.
- Comment on [Discussion] What games are you playing on your Deck or Machine? - August 2026 1 week ago:
Yes, Doom 2016+ are great games for it.
I recommending doing a mode shift with the right bumper (that opens the weapon selection wheel) to revert the Thumbstick to a regular stick when held, which makes swapping weapons easier.
- Submitted 1 week ago to steamdeck@sopuli.xyz | 14 comments
- Comment on [Discussion] What games are you playing on your Deck or Machine? - August 2026 1 week ago:
For competitive or fast paced shooters, I really like to combine gyro with flickstick, where the right Thumbstick exists only to instantly turn your character to face any direction, and then they gyro is used for any aiming beyond that. It’s especially nice for horde shooter type games where you have to constantly turn around and shoot at enemies behind you.
- Comment on Gamers Are Building Steam Machines From Repurposed PS5 APUs 2 weeks ago:
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- Comment on Epic Games Store will get a Linux version sometime "soon" 2 weeks ago:
There’s two competitions here, windows vs Linux, and steam vs epic.
Of those two, I consider windows vs Linux the more important competition for consumers. And Linux is the underdog there, so I think Linux doing better will help more people than any other result of this.
So the question becomes, is this good or bad for Linux? More official support for Linux is good obviously, but also Valve funds a lot of open source projects and generally invests a lot of money in Linux (and I’m very doubtful that Epic will do anything similar). So arguably Valve doing better and having a larger monopoly might do more good in the long run, if it helps counteract the windows monopoly. Of course, that would only matter if Epic on Linux actually dents Steam’s market share in any meaningful way, which seems unlikely.
- Comment on Epic Games Store will get a Linux version sometime "soon" 2 weeks ago:
Heroic is a great option, and will likely remain most people’s preferred way to play Epic games on Linux/SteamOS. After all, a lot of windows users prefer heroic there as well due to the bloat/slowness of the official Epic launcher.
That said, official support is always good. It both represents that Linux is growing and a viable alternative to windows, guarantees better support from games on the platform in the future, and pressures other companies to also support Linux.
Basically this (and GoG adding support) are big deals, even if it’s not because we really needed their official support to have a good way to play their games.
- Comment on Epic Games Store will get a Linux version sometime "soon" 2 weeks ago:
Proton is really meant to work through steam, UMU is meant to replicate how reliably games run through steam+proton without steam. There’s a reason that heroic and all the other game launchers are switching to UMU as the default for running games.
My basic understanding is that, in addition to proton, steam provides a set of Linux runtimes, to make sure that the converted system calls from proton always match up with the correct standardized runtimes on the Linux system, regardless of distro. They also provide winetricks/protontricks as needed for games. There’s also some system variables passed to tell proton/etc that the game is running through steam and has this setup. Finally steam distributes shader caches, which both improve performance, and bypass proprietary video codecs by replacing them with open source friendly video files.
UMU is basically replicating all of this except the shader/media distribution, hopefully allowing games to run as reliably outside of steam as they do inside of it.
- Comment on Epic Games Store will get a Linux version sometime "soon" 2 weeks ago:
As always, Tim Sweeney only cares monopolies and alternative platforms when it’s financially beneficial.
- Comment on Epic Games Store will get a Linux version sometime "soon" 2 weeks ago:
Yes, I expect they’ll just make a Linux client and rely on UMU or some other open source project to actually get them to run.
I don’t expect them to meaningfully push the Linux platform forward as Valve has done.
- Submitted 2 weeks ago to steamdeck@sopuli.xyz | 27 comments
- Comment on Xbox Game Pass May Soon Work on Linux 2 weeks ago:
Are you saying that they’ll intentionally sabotage attempts to play Microsoft store/game pass games outside of their platform due to malice, or that they’ll constantly break their own systems through incompetence and vibe coding?
- Submitted 2 weeks ago to steamdeck@sopuli.xyz | 3 comments
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- Comment on A Steam Deck Was Turned Into a Game Boy 2 weeks ago:
A valid point
- Comment on Pre-installed Games 2 weeks ago:
Great! Glad that worked for you
- Comment on A Steam Deck Was Turned Into a Game Boy 2 weeks ago:
It uses a Steam Deck motherboard, which isn’t available as a replacement part, so you’d have to have a full deck. It might be a good option for steam decks with a broken screen though, since that part is completely replaced.
- Submitted 2 weeks ago to steamdeck@sopuli.xyz | 34 comments
- Comment on Pre-installed Games 2 weeks ago:
You’ll probably have better luck with heroic, but for steam try these
- running the game through game mode instead of desktop mode
- disabling steam overlay for the game
- setting the game to windowed or borderless window mode (either by changing a setting config file or pressing alt+enter while the game is running).
- Comment on Pre-installed Games 2 weeks ago:
I would install them through heroic rather than lutris or something else.
Alternatively you can add them as a non-steam game and run them through steam, although if the game has an installer you might need to run the installer and then change the target in steam properties to the game executable. Overall this method is a lot messier than heroic.
- Comment on Steam deck FPS game weapon switching 2 weeks ago:
I was fine with Doom Eternal’s weapon wheel, since it slowed down time it gave me time to pick what I needed. If you’re wanting to do quick weapon swapping like some high level players do that obviously won’t cut it though. That said, I had the back buttons already mapped to dash/jump/chainsaw/etc so couldn’t use them for weapons.
One way you could set it up is with control overlays, where you have one button cycle through multiple weapons. So you could have a back button that switches to super shotgun, but with a second press switches to the regular shotgun. Repeat that for the other weapon types with the other back buttons.
- Comment on [Discussion] What games are you playing on your Deck or Machine? - August 2026 2 weeks ago:
Are you playing this on the Deck? It’s pretty impressive that it’s playable at all considering how terribly it ran at launch (well, wouldn’t run at all originally, but then ran terribly on Deck after getting some specific proton patches)
- Comment on Getting the most out of your Steam Controller: Grip Sense 3 weeks ago:
If you adjust the sensitivity, you can make it not require very much movement.
That said, I personally haven’t found a use case where I prefer it over other options.
- Comment on Getting the most out of your Steam Controller: Gyro 3 weeks ago:
This is nice to have, haven’t seen a good description of the function or use of some of the more niche gyro settings.
- Comment on [Discussion] What games are you playing on your Deck or Machine? - August 2026 3 weeks ago:
Sometimes you can do things like a GDPR request your cloud saves from Sony, then see if the Palworld save files are in any way transferable to PC.
This doesn’t usually work, but it’s really nice if it does.