MJBrune
@MJBrune@beehaw.org
- Comment on The Legion Go made me thankful for my Steam Deck 11 months ago:
What controllers are you using that don’t work on Windows? One of the most commonly used PC controllers are Xbox controllers and they work amazingly on Windows. On Linux they suck and have constant issues. For the cheapest options something like Logitech works better on Windows and typically just use the same API as the Xbox controllers.
- Comment on The Legion Go made me thankful for my Steam Deck 11 months ago:
Yup, I think the core design philosophy is the fault and thus the janky always behind the times Linux os will never be a leader. It’s because there is no driving force to make something coherent, well polished, and unique in a productive way. When your design philosophy is everyone design and implement by committee nothing will feel like it has a goal.
- Comment on The Legion Go made me thankful for my Steam Deck 11 months ago:
Yeah that’s where windows shines is devices. Windows supports more random devices than Linux. Linux might have the most drivers for devices but they are half baked most of the time and with windows you know that’s the supported and tested platform for it. Linux needs serious buy in from vendors before it becomes big and the only way to get that is a large audience. It’s a catch 22 that Linux folks won’t admit it exists.
- Comment on What are your favourite casual games on the steam deck? 1 year ago:
Peglin was incredibly fun on the Steam Deck.
- Comment on [News] Steam Deck officially hits over 12,000 games Playable and Verified 1 year ago:
I don’t have hope for Linux becoming a major desktop OS anymore. It doesn’t seem like a priority. So I agree, distro developers trying to create an environment that would win over the Windows crowd seems like it would never happen because they don’t care to. It’s fine, different oses for different use cases.
- Comment on [News] Steam Deck officially hits over 12,000 games Playable and Verified 1 year ago:
Those distros are different than what I am talking about. Those are immutable distros that preserve the preinstalled system base. It’s not at all what we’ve been talking about.
- Comment on [News] Steam Deck officially hits over 12,000 games Playable and Verified 1 year ago:
The package managers and official repos for most distros would be better thought of as lego blocks to build an OS from - they have no concept of OS and application separation, and splitting installation of an OS across multiple physical drives doesn’t really make sense.
The packages for Blender, steam, etc, and typical Userland apps are in these repos. The package managers are not the “Lego blocks” only. They are the utilities, user apps, and libraries you need. They are everything in one place. That’s a large point of Linux. Everything you need is in the repo.
Also, repos are distro related. You can’t use Fedora repos on Ubuntu. Originally you couldn’t use any distro’s repos on any other distro’s repos. With Ubuntu and its offshoots and arch and its offshoots, we’ve started to see repos grow to multi-distro but to say that they have no concept of OS is wrong. The whole reason there are distros is so that specific distros can configure things to their liking. This is why things like Debian and Ubuntu exist. It’s why OpenBSD exists. Again, a large selling point for Linux users is that all your packages are configured to be used with your distro.
Flatpak and Appimage are very specifically not what I am talking about. They aren’t typically supported by distros and don’t include distro-specific fixes/configurations for a lot of things.
- Comment on [News] Steam Deck officially hits over 12,000 games Playable and Verified 1 year ago:
if I want to install an application installed by the official repos to another hard drive not the one mounted at /. How do I do that?
- Comment on [News] Steam Deck officially hits over 12,000 games Playable and Verified 1 year ago:
Biggest issue I have with Linux is the inability to sanely use multiple hard drives. Not to mention a ton of bugs with random hardware configurations. Like Wacom tablets don’t work well with Nvidia drivers.
- Comment on [News] Here’s the first proof a refreshed Steam Deck is nigh - The Verge 1 year ago:
A VR deck perhaps?
- Comment on Counter-Strike 2 is out, but it’s not Steam Deck Verified 1 year ago:
I saw that the gpu was not being taxed nor the cpu, it seems there’s some bug or something that doesn’t help it achieve it’s potential perfomance
It could be RAM speeds, single-core CPU speeds, or simply just throughput between the CPU and GPU.
- Comment on Counter-Strike 2 is out, but it’s not Steam Deck Verified 1 year ago:
Interesting, are you running arch? I wonder if it’s an audio server difference. I’m on Linux mint.
- Comment on Counter-Strike 2 is out, but it’s not Steam Deck Verified 1 year ago:
Yeah, this is probably the start of dark steam. From like 2007 to 2014 they were printing money like it’d never end but they realized there was an end in sight and started heavily investing in hardware. 2018 they realize that hardware is hard and get to work on their first real game in a decade. Alyx. Which didn’t move as much hardware as they wanted when it was released in 2020. Now in 2023, you can see the panic set in. They are releasing things that feel like they should be game modes or mods to CSGO, making terrible choices. The exodus of employees from 2014 to now has left the studio with more experienced folks than typically desired. They’ve wholely acquired a studio with the promise they’d still work on their in-development title just to almost immediately drop them on to Alyx and their GaaS games. Don’t get me started on the artifact attempt which was a strong attempt, I really admire it. Lots of good folks worked on it but something clearly didn’t work out in the end. A game they spent probably a couple of million dollars in resources and time and it worse than flopped. Their 20th-anniversary picture for 2018 says it all: store.steampowered.com/sale/steam20#SaleSection_6… “Oh god, we messed up.”
Overall a lot of people see Steam as this bastion of PC gaming. Linux providers and wonderous never do wrong gods but when you really look at their track record, they are kind of at the start of the end unless they really start turning things around. If CS2 doesn’t go well, if it tanks CSGO, you can see Valve really starting to question if they even should make games anymore. The answer to that might be no. They might be better off being a platform/hardware company only.
- Comment on Counter-Strike 2 is out, but it’s not Steam Deck Verified 1 year ago:
So I loaded it up on my steam deck specifically for this comment. I only use the deck in handheld mode so I can’t report much other than the game is entirely broken.
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Inputs are for mouse/keyboard only. Controller support doesn’t seem to be there so I had to navigate the menus via touch screen. No big deal but I got into a practice match with bots.
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Initial realization that the above issue means you can’t move at all. There is no way to play the game.
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Realize there is no sound at all. Sound is broken in the game on Steam Deck (although on my Linux Mint desktop it works fine.)
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Just sitting there watching bots kill me was about 8-30 FPS. It was real hitchy and clearly not able to run on steam deck yet.
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Feeling like I had done my due diligence I uninstalled it.
Overall rating: Garbage. Unplayable, even if you plug in a mouse and keyboard and play without hosting, maybe you could get 30+ FPS stably but no audio is an instant deal breaker in CS2.
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- Comment on Valve: don’t expect a faster Steam Deck ‘in the next couple of years’ 1 year ago:
It’s something VR related and that’s been confirmed for a while since the lighthouses that ship with vive have deckard in the devices list. Standalone maybe not.
- Comment on multiplayer? 1 year ago:
Ah, eh, I don’t use the micro sd for anything except games. The whole steam deck for me is a handheld device to play steam games and not a desktop or such.
- Comment on multiplayer? 1 year ago:
I’ve not read that, do you have an article or such so I can learn more about what’s happening to the microSDs?
- Comment on multiplayer? 1 year ago:
Ah, yeah, if I have to crack it open with some sort of tool like an otter with an oyster then I’ll probably never upgrade. I’ve done that with my laptop a few times but it never feels okay and with my steam deck, any bending of the plastic could result in noticeable differences in the wrapping of the plastic when I hold it. The MicroSD seems to be fast enough for me anyway.
- Comment on multiplayer? 1 year ago:
I don’t use anything that’s non standard. I like to keep my steam deck as a game dev test unit. How hard was the internal storage swap? Did you have to crack open the siding or did it come apart without a plastic shim?
- Comment on multiplayer? 1 year ago:
I have the 64gb version and just a simple micro SD works well. Shader cache hasn’t filled it yet but if it does I’ll probably just clear it. I’m surprised the shader cache doesn’t go aside the game install.
- Comment on [Game] ‘Starfield’ Steam Deck review in progress - "good in some parts but struggles in cities" 1 year ago:
I could see that being better than Verified/Playable. At the end of the day though, seeing these games under 30 FPS getting verified is a shocker.
- Comment on [Game] ‘Starfield’ Steam Deck review in progress - "good in some parts but struggles in cities" 1 year ago:
It’s also okay for Valve to accept that some of these new releases aren’t going to run well on the steam deck. I don’t think they are willing to take that answer though.
- Comment on [Game] ‘Starfield’ Steam Deck review in progress - "good in some parts but struggles in cities" 1 year ago:
We had this conversation over on Beehaw chat just yesterday. I absolutely think it’s okay for Valve to say “No, your has to meet performance standards to become verified.” Personally, I feel like Verified should guarantee 60 FPS, with dips in places. Playable should be a stable 30 FPS. That said they have zero performance requirements right now so running 10 FPS could potentially be verified status.
Right now though, Valve is verifying everything they can to say “see we have high-end releases on the steam deck.” and in the end, it’s going to hurt them.
- Comment on Useful new Decky Plugin: Battery Tracker 1 year ago:
I’ll check it out and how officially supported the plugin system is. If it’s not supported I don’t really want to do it because I want things to be very stable for when I test games in development. I also don’t want something to break and create hassle.
- Comment on Useful new Decky Plugin: Battery Tracker 1 year ago:
I’m worried it’s going to turn into a time sink. I want my deck to be a care free game playing device. I’m very technical minded on software and Linux. I just avoid doing so to things I don’t want to turn into hobbies.
- Comment on Useful new Decky Plugin: Battery Tracker 1 year ago:
This looks awesome. I’m not ready to load third-party software on my Steam Deck, especially stuff that’s bleeding edge like this. I do think this is extremely useful and I wish they built it into the Steam Deck software.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
Personally, I would assume that they weren’t anti-Valve until their recent experience and struggles. From their history, I see nothing that’s anti-Valve from far back. Just recently which I can understand.
Also to note, you might be in fix-it mode when this post is not a request to fix it. They don’t want to fix it themselves. They are warning people that Valve isn’t replacing their defective devices. OP is clearly past the point of fixing it or getting there quickly.
That said, I agree, that people who are rude or frustrated at the customer interface person (tech, customer support, whoever) need to realize that the person they are talking to can only do so much, and if you calmly explain your issue, say thank you, and overall respect them, you’ll be more likely to have that person try hard for you. It will not always happen. Sometimes you talk to someone who clearly you just knows more than them on the subject (ISP reps) but you have to realize they have their job and their job isn’t to fix your problem. It’s to move you along so you keep paying. Usually fixing a problem is just a means to the end but if that end isn’t worth it then they won’t fix your problem. So I am typically nice, even if that means they write down in the customer service record that the customer’s attitude was nice, that goes a long way to the next rep that could possibly help.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
From everything I’ve seen, The steam deck looks unmodified, with steam OS, and undamaged. I don’t think OP is trying to hide anything but they could just have me fooled.
It looks like they might have actually gotten a faulty deck. I also try not to guess at these things. Why throw doubt on someone having a rough time? If anything I bet it comes down to communication between them and Valve not being as clear as it should be. Even if they swapped the hard drive in it, Valve will still have the steam deck under warranty, you just need to replace the original hard drive back. So I don’t see any modification they could make to void the warranty.
- Comment on Microsoft claims: Steam Deck Did Not Need Call Of Duty To Succeed 1 year ago:
The Switch is a new Nintendo handheld device. It has the exact capabilities of the steam deck in the plug-and-play sense. (E.g. both come with docks that you can just throw on a TV and start playing with.) While mobile gaming has had an impact on handhelds, I don’t think that prevents the Steam Deck from seeing the success as a regular console.
- Comment on Microsoft claims: Steam Deck Did Not Need Call Of Duty To Succeed 1 year ago:
Also great that so many people are using Linux now without even noticing.
Android is the most popular OS in the world though…