TheGrandNagus
@TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world
- Comment on “It took 12 years of work to get here”: interview with Pierre-Loup Griffais, developer of SteamOS, the flagship OS of the Steam Deck 1 week ago:
I’m so glad Valve never went public.
- Comment on Sid Meier's Civilization VII is Steam Deck Verified with the Linux version ahead of release on February 11 1 week ago:
£60 before adding all the DLC 😵💫
In fairness, it’s always been one of those games that goes on sale a lot and is priced low when it does. Patience is a virtue.
- Comment on Sid Meier's Civilization VII is Steam Deck Verified with the Linux version ahead of release on February 11 1 week ago:
If it’s anything like 6, yes, but the Linux version won’t get quick updates so effectively no, since players have to be on the same update.
There’s no reason the Proton version won’t work, though, I suppose.
Here’s hoping the Linux native version fares better this time around…
- Comment on SteamOS expands beyond Steam Deck (upcoming SteamOS beta for other devices) 1 week ago:
I’d agree with the other user. SteamOS is great, but it’s very much focused on a console-like experience.
Even in desktop mode, the Plasma desktop is pretty outdated, and software you install will be wiped between updates if it’s not a Flatpak (although tbf, Flathub has almost everything these days). I also believe the kernel on SteamOS has some alterations that are great for the deck, but means a bit less hardware compatibility for a general-purpose PC.
- Comment on [Leak] Steam Controller 2 render thumbnail leaked in SteamVR drivers 1 month ago:
Well yeah, even if you designed the most ergonomic thing that’s ever been created, there will always be some it doesn’t work for, because everybody is different.
Reviews pretty much all said the deck is very ergonomic.
- Comment on [Leak] Steam Controller 2 render thumbnail leaked in SteamVR drivers 1 month ago:
The Deck is very ergonomic.
- Comment on Valve Steam Deck now have a new dedicated Official Bluesky accoun 1 month ago:
Good, I guess. Better than X or Threads.
But Mastodon would be even better.
- Comment on Steam Deck OLED has been recognized as the Best Gaming Hardware at the 42nd Annual Golden Joystick Awards! 1 month ago:
I keep looking at the white steam deck thinking how great it’d look if I replaced the buttons with an aftermarket set resembling the European SNES
- Comment on Steam Deck OLED Limited White Edition announced 2 months ago:
Ngl a 90s PC beige steam deck would be amazing to run emudeck on
- Comment on Steam Deck OLED Limited White Edition announced 2 months ago:
I tried this but even permanent marker kept rubbing off
- Comment on Steam Deck OLED Limited White Edition announced 2 months ago:
Idk where you live, but a number of countries give you a 14 day cool-off period where you can return purchases for any reason.
- Comment on Steam games will now need to fully disclose kernel-level anti-cheat on store pages 2 months ago:
A lemmy.ml mod, being an absolute joke of a mod? Say it ain’t so!
- Comment on When the Steam Deck was still just an idea, Valve says some staff were like, "I just want that for me" and "the point wasn't even to make a product out of it" 2 months ago:
and 40fps feels like it’s a lot closer to 60fps than it really is.
Counter-intuitively, 40fps, not 45fps, is the mid point between 30fps and 60fps, so it really is closer than what a lot of people think.
On the surface that seems impossible, but looking at frame times tells the story.
Let’s divide 1 second by 30, 40, and 60:
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1 / 30 = 0.033s per frame
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1 / 40 = 0.025s per frame (0.08s less time per frame than 30fps)
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1 / 60 = 0.017s per frame (0.08s less time per frame than 40fps)
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- Comment on NonSteamLaunchers gets booted from Steam Deck plugin store Decky Loader 2 months ago:
Channel? I think you may be thinking of the other tech Linus
- Comment on NonSteamLaunchers gets booted from Steam Deck plugin store Decky Loader 3 months ago:
Being thelcreator of the most successful open source project in history gives you a bit of leeway.
Besides, Linus had a major personality change years ago and has since endeavoured to be a lot more polite to people, and it certainly shows.
- Comment on Valve is working on a version of proton for ARM devices 3 months ago:
IIRC, the M chips also have a couple of specific hardware accelerators for some parts of x86 code that ARM devices would usually struggle with. That’s something that other ARM chips (presumably) don’t have.
- Comment on There's a reason we aren't as harsh on the Steam Deck. Actually, a couple. 4 months ago:
So the most comparable console there is $456, and this is $700.
That is bad.
The PS5 Pro barely costs more to produce.
$700 is bad. $913 is awful.
- Comment on There's a reason we aren't as harsh on the Steam Deck. Actually, a couple. 4 months ago:
No, but it’s been getting stronger relative to the dollar consistently over the past 2 years. But we aren’t seeing that in prices.
I’m not expecting it to be like ~2007 time where £1 was $2.
But things should definitely be better than it was 2 years ago, relative to USD pricing.
- Comment on There's a reason we aren't as harsh on the Steam Deck. Actually, a couple. 4 months ago:
The PS5 Pro pricing is testing the waters for PS6 pricing. If they can’t sell well, they can easily drop prices (the PS5 Pro barely costs more than the PS5 to produce). They’re just gathering data on what people will accept.
Doing that with the PS6 is too risky. Sony botched the launch of the PS3 and it backfired on them hard letting MS get a foothold with the 360. MS then did the same with the XBone launch and the PS4 ran away with it.
If people signal to Sony now that the PS5 Pro is way too much (it’s £700/$913 here ffs), then the PS6 will be cheaper. Don’t accept their greed.
- Comment on There's a reason we aren't as harsh on the Steam Deck. Actually, a couple. 4 months ago:
If you think $700 is bad, it’s £700 in the UK.
Which is $913. 🤢
Also:
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median household income, UK (2022): £32,400 ($42,265)
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median household income, USA (2022): $74,580
A PS5 Pro is 26% of the typical UK household monthly income.
A PS5 Pro is 11% of the typical US household monthly income.
The US pricing is bad. The UK pricing is absolutely insane.
The OLED Deck starts at £479. Still a lot but not as egregious. The LCD Deck is currently £262 ($344), which is pretty great.
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- Comment on LCD Steam Decks on sale. 64GB LCD (15% off - $296.65) and LCD 512GB LCD (25% off - $336.75) 4 months ago:
Based on my pricing…
LCD Deck: starting at £262 ($344)
OLED Deck: starting at £479 ($630)
It’s certainly better. But by enough to justify an 83% higher price?
- Comment on Black Myth: Wukong shows very clearly Valve are selling a lot of Steam Decks 4 months ago:
That’s a nonsensical comparison, as Black Myth has just come out and games take a long time to develop. And the Steam Deck 2 literally doesn’t exist yet.
If Nintendo announced a Switch 2 tomorrow, saying it’s compatible with existing Switch games, do you think sales of the Switch would go up, or down?
- Comment on GameCube and Wii emulator Dolphin getting an official Flatpak for Linux and Steam Deck 4 months ago:
Dolphin is such a well fleshed out emulation monster that I’m consistently disappointed with other emulators that don’t let me tweak things quite to the same degree
And yet despite the options, it’s not overwhelming like a lot of other highly-configurable software often is. They’ve done such an amazing job.
- Comment on GameCube and Wii emulator Dolphin getting an official Flatpak for Linux and Steam Deck 4 months ago:
For anybody confused – or I guess for anybody who wants Dolphin as a Flatpak immediately – Dolphin is already available on Flathub, it just currently isn’t verified. It’s packaged by a third party.
Honestly it’s great to see more first party support for Flatpaks/Flathub. Compliments to the Dolphin team, it’s probably the most impressive emulator I’ve ever used.
- Comment on GameCube and Wii emulator Dolphin getting an official Flatpak for Linux and Steam Deck 4 months ago:
And the 3DS emulator that the same team also created!
- Comment on Gamescom Showed Me That Devs Really Care About Steam Deck Compatibility - Steam Deck HQ 4 months ago:
Tim Sweeney being so against Linux is baffling to me.
You’d think that with Epic battling against Apple and Google’s mobile ecosystems that he’d think “huh, we really shouldn’t put all our eggs in the Windows basket, what with Microsoft clearly trying to go down the locked-down mobile-like route for Windows”, but he doesn’t. He’s just relying on Microsoft’s goodwill (lol). It’s crazy.
- Comment on With SteamOS coming, Microsoft needs to up its game in the handheld gaming market [if it's going to compete] 4 months ago:
It’s testament to Microsoft’s incompetence that they still haven’t got an “Xbox handheld OS” so-to-speak, or at the very least offered a trimmed down windows with an Xbox UI frontend to handheld OEMs.
The Steam Deck is a success, there’s other handhelds on the market (a common review criticism often being how poor windows works on them), Sony is in discussions with AMD for hardware for a handheld (albeit it’s a long way off).
MS’s incompetencein gaming is staggering.
- Comment on Valve confirms it'll support the ROG Ally with its Steam Deck operating system 5 months ago:
Open source just means you can get the source code, it doesn’t mean you can take over a project.
Asus can’t just take SteamOS, apply some driver tweaks, change some options, and release it as a SteamOS device.
A lot of SteamOS is proprietary, and Valve of course owns all the IP related to the branding.
Asus are certainly welcome to help Valve with their code, but Valve could also say no this is our project.
And of course they can fork the open part of SteamOS and brand it as something else, and not install steam/steamUI, but that’s half the reason people use the steam deck. It wouldn’t be SteamOS without that.
- Comment on Valve confirms it'll support the ROG Ally with its Steam Deck operating system 5 months ago:
You don’t think the developers of SteamOS should be the one working on wider device compatibility?
- Comment on Valve confirms it'll support the ROG Ally with its Steam Deck operating system 5 months ago:
It’s had a revision which appears to have fixed that, and brought other improvements.
However it also came with a price bump, and Asus has been under fire recently for awful handling of warranties all across their business