Nefyedardu
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- Comment on Counter-Strike 2 is out, but it’s not Steam Deck Verified 1 year ago:
Seems like a very rushed launch to try and meet the "Summer" deadline (which they still missed by a week of course). Valve didn't even update Steam Rich Presence so it still says you are playing "CS:GO". The store page doesn't have the right video on it, there's no special graphic in the store or anything and the game banner hasn't been updated. Lots of cut corners. For some reason Valve has been going crazy lately, they also released the Dota compendium today, SteamOS 3.5 a week ago and SteamVR 2.0 just a few days ago. Makes sense they missed some stuff.
- Comment on Supposed Steam Deck killers are missing the point 1 year ago:
It's the principle of "do one thing and do it well". There's nothing wrong with running games in a desktop but there are limitless ways of customizing a PC and it's impossible for developers to account for everything. It would be nice if you could just write some code and have it work flawlessly for everyone's setup but that's not how it goes. For the use case of the Steam Deck where you are dealing with a low-TDP gaming device it makes more sense to have something like gamescope which can just cut out all non-gaming processes entirely. Maximize performance and battery life with a nice interface to boot. And at the very least it makes troubleshooting super easy when stuff does go wrong because there's very few external things to factor in.
- Comment on Supposed Steam Deck killers are missing the point 1 year ago:
Why don't tech reviewers every talk about gamescope? Gaming on PCs has always been finicky because PCs have to serve so many use cases at once and games often have to compete for resources. Gamescope completely circumvents all of this overhead by being solely meant for the purpose of gaming. It's the closest you can get to a "PC Console". Third parties can never make something like gamescope for Windows, Microsoft themselves would have to ship it and maintain it.
- Comment on [News] Updates to the linux kernel 6.6 suggest a hardware refresh/variant of the Steam Deck is in development 1 year ago:
Using the same chip is disappointing, but if they release a smaller model with OLED it will still have a lot of customers I bet.
- Comment on [Game] Steam Deck mod for Starfield - significantly improves performance 1 year ago:
Mods that actually support Linux natively is cool to see