Fubarberry
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- With the Legion Go S, we can now directly compare performance between official builds of SteamOS and Windowssopuli.xyz ↗Submitted 1 hour ago to steamdeck@sopuli.xyz | 9 comments
- Comment on Proton Experimental update enables gamepad input for all game launchers on Linux, SteamOS / Steam Deck 9 hours ago:
Previously it was only enabled for select titles, with this update they have it enabled by default for all titles.
Anything that has win32 controls should now have controller support on the launcher window if you have proton experimental as your compatibility layer.
- Submitted 1 day ago to steamdeck@sopuli.xyz | 0 comments
- Proton Experimental update enables gamepad input for all game launchers on Linux, SteamOS / Steam Deckwww.gamingonlinux.com ↗Submitted 1 day ago to steamdeck@sopuli.xyz | 2 comments
- Comment on Steam OS page gets a redesign, finally retiring the old design from the Steam OS 2.0 era 2 days ago:
The valve time distortion bubble is real unfortunately. Thankfully it finally caught up.
- Comment on Valve's huge Steam Deck update is now ready for everyone, including rival AMD handhelds 2 days ago:
No one had posted the actual patch notes yet when I pinned this, and the headline on this one covers what’s probably the most significant news item about this update.
Personally I really like reading the patch notes directly, but it seems like usually it’s the articles talking about the changes like this that get more traction on lemmy and other sites. I think having the patch notes directly linked in a comment here is a nice middle ground of having the higher traction headline/article and the more info rich patch notes both easily accessible.
- Comment on SteamOS 3.7.8: Go Country 2 days ago:
Updated the SteamOS recovery image for repairing SteamOS on Steam Deck and Legion Go S. If you would like to test SteamOS on your own AMD powered handheld, you can use this SteamOS recovery image and follow the instructions here.
Unless I missed a previous update to the SteamOS recovery image, this is pretty huge. The old steamOS recovery image had some major bugs like crashing the wifi card if you tried connecting to a wifi 6 network with the OLED deck. Losing the ability to use wifi while trying to install/recover steamOS was a real headache, but I’m guessing that’s fixed now.
- Comment on Steam OS page gets a redesign, finally retiring the old design from the Steam OS 2.0 era 2 days ago:
Most linux OS with locked down file systems allow you to install apps permanently if you need something that doesn’t work with flatpak/distrobox/etc. It’s usually called something like atomic updates, and it installs the software in a layered image, and will require a reboot to load.
It’s not the ideal way to install software, but it’s a lot easier than your options for installing packages on SteamOS.
I haven’t personally used Bazzite, so I’m not 100% sure that it supports it, but I’m assuming it does. If anyone else wants to confirm it I would appreciate it.
- Comment on [Discussion] What are you playing on your Deck? - May 2025 2 days ago:
Rockstar recently switched to a kernel anti-cheat program that doesn’t support the deck, breaking online. You can still play the single player versions of those games, but not online unfortunately.
- Comment on Steam OS page gets a redesign, finally retiring the old design from the Steam OS 2.0 era 2 days ago:
Ah, the cross post didn’t cross post everything. Fixing it now.
- Steam OS page gets a redesign, finally retiring the old design from the Steam OS 2.0 erasopuli.xyz ↗Submitted 2 days ago to steamdeck@sopuli.xyz | 30 comments
- Comment on Left trackpad vibrating when using left stick (no hardware issue!) 3 days ago:
Ok, I missed that changing controller profiles fixed it.
I’d still recommend trying the global toggles, that will let us know whether it’s haptic feedback or simulated rumble. From there we can hopefully narrow down what’s going on with the control scheme.
- Comment on Left trackpad vibrating when using left stick (no hardware issue!) 3 days ago:
There’s two kinds of haptics with the trackpads, one is haptic feedback when using the trackpad, the other is simulating controller rumble using the trackpad haptic feedback.
I’m guessing it’s one of these two causing the vibration. you can individually disable them by pressing the QAM button (the “. . .” button), going to the gear menu, and scrolling down to the bottom where there should be toggles for game rumble and steam haptics.
I also might try switching to a different control profile and see if it still happens. Ideally a pretty blank profile where the left stick is configured to let you move and that’s it.
- Comment on Interview: My Q&A with Gardiner Bryant 6 days ago:
Great interview!
I appreciate GB calling kernel anticheat a fad, but going by his own 4 pillars of big tech, it doesn’t seem like something that companies will give up willingly. Funnily enough I think our best chance of getting rid of kernel anticheat might be government action. A lot of the biggest anticheats are either wholly or partially owned by chinese companies, and I wouldn’t be surprised at all if the current administration bans them over that.
In general though his answers are all really solid, I agree with basically everything he said here.
- Submitted 1 week ago to steamdeck@sopuli.xyz | 6 comments
- Comment on Your experience streaming to twitch/youtube with the SD? 1 week ago:
OBS works fine, as long as the game isn’t too demanding it should be solid enough.
- Comment on Starting today, Heroic Games Launcher is indexing their Discord server 1 week ago:
This is super cool. I hope it works really well, the difficulty of accessing troubleshooting info from discord is such a problem.
- Comment on SteamOS Compatibility - Steamworks Development blog 1 week ago:
We’ve recently seen games that are hard locked to work on Steam Deck hardware specifically, but will be anticheat blocked on any other linux/SteamOS device with different hardware.
So that may not actually work out.
- Comment on Valve announce SteamOS Compatibility ratings, an extension of Steam Deck Verified for more devices 1 week ago:
I get it all the time, usually after I play a new game for the first time. It will either say that Valve doesn’t have info on this game yet and ask if it works or not, or it will ask me to confirm whether the existing verified rating is accurate or not.
It only asks one time per game in my experience, and I think you may have had to previously agree to provide feedback on the Steam Deck experience…
- Comment on Valve announce SteamOS Compatibility ratings, an extension of Steam Deck Verified for more devices 1 week ago:
Here’s a list of some of the software bundled, although it doesn’t include everything as far as I know.
I don’t personally use it, and I’ve been pretty hands off with my parent’s installs of it after the initial setup, soi can’t really answer either of those questions based on my personal experience of it.
- Comment on Valve announce SteamOS Compatibility ratings, an extension of Steam Deck Verified for more devices 1 week ago:
I know of some businesses that have actually ditched windows for Zorin, and I set my aging parents up with it and they’ve been pretty happy with it so far.
So it seems to do well enough as a windows alternative based on those personal observations. I haven’t heard about them witholding security patches though.
- Comment on Valve announce SteamOS Compatibility ratings, an extension of Steam Deck Verified for more devices 1 week ago:
Bazzite is basically SteamOS for desktop. Linux is highly flexible in general though, it’s not that important which one you pick most of the time.
I would also like to recommend Zorin for new Linux users, it’s super easy to windows users to swap to and have a good experience.
- Comment on Valve announce SteamOS Compatibility ratings, an extension of Steam Deck Verified for more devices 1 week ago:
No, it will say something like “Valve’s testing has this game rated as Steam Deck Verified. Does that match your experience?”
Some games have been delayed from verified because enough people responded “no”.
- Valve announce SteamOS Compatibility ratings, an extension of Steam Deck Verified for more deviceswww.gamingonlinux.com ↗Submitted 1 week ago to steamdeck@sopuli.xyz | 26 comments
- Proton Experimental updated to fixmissing saves and a new Proton10 Beta fixes gamepad breakagewww.gamingonlinux.com ↗Submitted 1 week ago to steamdeck@sopuli.xyz | 0 comments
- Comment on Steam Deck sales still going strong over three years later 1 week ago:
Never overestimate the siren song alure of releasing the least optimized UE5 game ever made. Publishers seem to really struggle with that temptation.
- Comment on Steam Deck sales still going strong over three years later 1 week ago:
support has stopped (steam machine, steam controller, steam link
Steam Link is still getting software updates. Steam Controller doesn’t get updates anymore afaik, but it did get updates for a long time including firmware updates that added BLE support. Steam input on both the steam deck and in big picture mode still supports it and still allows community sharing of controller profiles.
In general I think Valve supports their less successful hardware pretty well by industry standards.
- Comment on How to take care of my deck for extended periods of no use? 1 week ago:
A recent update added the option to limit the deck’s max battery charge in Settings>Power. If you want the deck to be ready to go, I would recommend capping the max charge at 60-80% and leaving the Deck plugged in. Alternatively you can put the deck in battery storage mode.
Valve’s basic use and troubleshooting page has a section on long term storage that covers how to put the Deck into battery storage mode.
- Comment on [Game] Doom the Dark Ages will not run well on steam deck at release 1 week ago:
Yes, but it’s literally limiting sales and hurting user review scores to save some predictable development hours. And the increase in performance demands means that for most users, the entire game will look worse because everything else is being penalized over a minor lighting improvement.
Doom Eternal looks incredible and runs fantastic on deck, the ID engines have historically been famous for looking great with incredible optimization. This doesn’t live up to that legacy at all. It might have saved them some development time, but it’s literally making it a non-option for a lot of Deck users and people with weaker PCs.
- Comment on [Game] Doom the Dark Ages will not run well on steam deck at release 2 weeks ago:
To be clear, the steam deck supports some ray tracing and it’s enough to run the game, but the performance impact is too much to run at 30fps.
The more powerful ROG Ally also isn’t able to hold a consistent 30fps either (despite using a way higher tdp on it’s chip), so this isn’t a Deck exclusive issue.
