Fubarberry
@Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz
- Comment on Everything Should Be As Easy to Upgrade As the Steam Deck - Wired:
Valve employees have said in interviews that they didn’t want the battery glued down, but that with the battery expanding and shrinking during use they couldn’t keep it from rattling around unless they glued it down. Other companies have managed this, so it’s not an impossible issue. However it wasn’t something valve was able to easily solve.
As far as hall effect joysticks go, I’m not going to complain when none of the modern first party console controllers come with hall-effect. Microsoft and Sony have pro controllers for $150-200 that don’t come with hall effect sensors. Valve making the thumbsticks easily replaceable is enough imo. Things could be much worse, the Asus Ally uses the same type of thumbsticks as Nintendo Joycons for example.
- Submitted 2 hours ago to steamdeck@sopuli.xyz | 10 comments
- Comment on [News] EA expanding EA Anti-Cheat - bad news for Steam Deck / Linux:
Same tbh. I have a history with league, and always wanted to try getting into CS. If Valorant had less invasive anticheat I would have definitely gotten into it.
- Comment on [Discussion] New month, new games. What are you playing on your deck? - September 2023:
Forgive me Father crashed on stage 3-2 for me, and I had to revert to proton 6.3-8
From looking at ProtonDB results, it sounds like this is probably fixed on current versions of proton, but if it isn’t fixed you should try that.
- Comment on [News] Roblox support returns to Linux and Steam Deck:
Same. I know it matters to a lot of younger players though, my son’s game requirements to consider getting a steam deck are beamNG and Roblox support.
- Comment on Keyboard shortcut for accessing the Steam menu:
This is one of those weird SteamOS issues that I can’t figure out why it hasn’t been addressed yet. It seems like such an obvious issue.
- Submitted 1 day ago to steamdeck@sopuli.xyz | 10 comments
- Comment on [News] EA expanding EA Anti-Cheat - bad news for Steam Deck / Linux:
They changed Roblox to run on linux again, the changes were available on beta channels for awhile now but just made it back to stable yesterday.
- Comment on [News] EA expanding EA Anti-Cheat - bad news for Steam Deck / Linux:
I don’t find it surprising that several of the main companies pushing for it (Riot and Mihoyo) are chinese owned. I don’t have any faith that a Chinese owned country won’t be required by the Chinese government to have some sort of backdoor in kernel anticheats.
- Submitted 1 day ago to steamdeck@sopuli.xyz | 24 comments
- Comment on [News] Steam Play tool for Native Linux gaming 'Luxtorpeda' v67 out now:
I accidentally linked an incomplete list of supported games. The full list is here, and does support scummvm.
- Comment on [News] Steam Play tool for Native Linux gaming 'Luxtorpeda' v67 out now:
Yes.
- Submitted 1 day ago to steamdeck@sopuli.xyz | 6 comments
- Comment on [Discussion] How has the Steam Deck changed your habits with playing video games?:
That does sound really good, I avoid some games when playing docked because of missing back buttons/touchpads.
Currently I’m using stadia controllers, which work pretty well but don’t have any extra input options.
- Comment on Steamdeck games not launching?:
Reboot if you haven’t. And try changing your proton version as someone else said. You can swap proton versions for a specific game by opening game properties in steam, going to the compatibility tab, hit force compatibility tool, and picking a different proton version.
- Comment on [PSA] If you had switched to the main update channel to get 3.5 early, I would recommend changing back one of the less bleeding edge update channels.:
Yes, you just pick a different update channel, check for updates, and it will let you rollback to an older update.
There can be problems though, one time I updated and it wouldn’t let me downgrade. I had to wait until the next update fixed it before I could downgrade. And this time when 3.6 broke part of my desktop mode, downgrading didn’t fix it and I had to do a lot more troubleshooting to get it going again.
- Comment on [PSA] If you had switched to the main update channel to get 3.5 early, I would recommend changing back one of the less bleeding edge update channels.:
Sorry, I think I misled you. The “main” channel is the most bleeding edge update channel name. After that you have beta-candidate, beta, stable candidate, and stable. 3.6 is live on the “main” channel only, so it definitely shouldn’t affect regular steamOS users.
- Submitted 1 week ago to steamdeck@sopuli.xyz | 8 comments
- Comment on [Help] Is there a way to stop the "BIP" sound when speaker are plugged ?:
I believe you can turn UI sounds off from the sound menu in settings. There are also some decky plugins that let you change the sound files the deck uses, it may make it possible to replace or remove the sound you’re talking about.
- Submitted 1 week ago to steamdeck@sopuli.xyz | 26 comments
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- Comment on Steam Deck OS 3.5 Preview - Steam News:
It was pretty easy to add those options to the bios before, but it’s nice that it’s no longer necessary.
I wonder if we’ll get all the options, or if people will still have to use the bios script to unlock everything.
- Comment on Supposed Steam Deck killers are missing the point:
Yes, but my personal determination to put Linux on every device I own isn’t going to have an impact on market share and convince gamers that they don’t need windows.
Handheld PCs are a growing market and Valve has (had?) a chance to make SteamOS the handheld gaming OS.
- Comment on Supposed Steam Deck killers are missing the point:
Yeah, I really can’t figure out why valve isn’t working harder on making SteamOS available to other handheld PCs.
The Steam Deck is sold at a loss, but all the benefits Valve gets from the Steam Deck have to do with it’s OS. It’s both clearing a path for non windows gaming PCs (it’s dangerous to let a single rival company like Microsoft completely control your market), and while the deck allows you to install non-steam games, it’s much easier to stick to Steam games.
So it would seem to me that putting SteamOS on other devices would be a unanimous victory for Valve, getting all the benefits of the Deck without losing money up-front by subsidizing the hardware.
- Comment on Supposed Steam Deck killers are missing the point:
I think a good point on this actually came up in some of the ROG Ally reviews.
I remember one of the reviews compared Stardew valley on deck vs Stardew valley on the Ally, with identical settings. The Deck used around 7-8w, and the Ally used 17-18w, with spikes over 20w.
The reviewer ended up opening task manager on the Ally, and by force closing a bunch of background processes they were able to get the Ally down to 12-14w. But even with manually closes processes (which is unreasonable to expect users to do), he is wasn’t able to get close to the power draw of the deck. This isn’t even considering that people tuning gamescope and power tool settings on the deck can get it’s power usage way lower, down into the 4-5w range.
Some of this power draw disparity may be the hardware, I’ve heard the deck hardware is more power efficient at low power than the Ally’s. But it’s undeniable that running windows seriously hurts battery life, and makes windows handhelds inferior to the deck for low power games.
- Submitted 2 weeks ago to steamdeck@sopuli.xyz | 39 comments
- [PSA] Swapping your Deck's filesystem to Btrfs is easy to do, and can give you more space for freegitlab.com ↗Submitted 2 weeks ago to steamdeck@sopuli.xyz | 20 comments
- Comment on What’s next for the Steam Deck?:
There’s also the fact that the Rog Ally mainly gets higher performance by just dumping more electricity into the APU. It doesn’t really help that much that the Ally can perform better if it has to give up it’s portability to do so. The deck having such better power efficiency with low power games is more valuable to me than the Ally being able to drain it’s battery super quick to place a poorly optimized game at mediocre quality.
- Comment on What’s next for the Steam Deck?:
Nope, still chugging along. I’ve been pretty happy with them for game news over the years.