lemann
@lemann@lemmy.dbzer0.com
Hey 👋 I’m Lemann: mark II
I like tech, bicycles, and nature.
Otherwise known as; @lemann@lemmy.one and @lemann@lemmy.world
- Comment on It's Time to Bring Back the Steam Machine 1 week ago:
I wouldn’t be surprised if they also held the opinion that all PS3 games ran at 720p/30
A bunch of first party titles like Gran Turismo and Ratchet & Clank push native 1080p/60, and look pretty damn great especially considering the time period and 512MB (256MB VRAM) limitation.
- Comment on It's Time to Bring Back the Steam Machine 1 week ago:
Install steam. Run in big picture mode. Done. That’s a steam machine. I don’t get what you think a dedicated machine is going to do any differently. There is a reason Steam abandoned the idea themselves.
Big picture mode on my windows PC and the gamescope-focused UI on the Deck look similar, but offer very different capabilities IME.
To name a handful: FSR support for all games - including those that don’t support it, per-game hardware performance profiles, excellent hardware integration - not just limited to the instant sleep and instant wake. With the third party Decky Store you can also configure the fan profile to your liking, control music apps running in the background on the Deck, and more. On the PC BPM these sadly do not exist
I 100% prefer playing on the deck any day of the week - the OS simply makes it so straightforward to jump into a game and forget about needing to also think about maintaining a desktop: no Windows updates, no telemetry service CPU spiking, and no Windows resetting my customized settings or forcing Edge browser defaults after an update.
That said, I don’t particularly have an interest in a full blown Steam Machine - for me the Deck works just fine when docked.
- Comment on It's Time to Bring Back the Steam Machine 1 week ago:
I really want an updated steam controller with the same haptic touchpad tech present on the deck. The original controller, while comfortable, just doesn’t compare to the improvements present on the Deck 😭
- Comment on [Discussion] Some good budget wireless controller for the Deck?? 1 month ago:
A second hand XB1 controller maybe? Feels great to use IMO, but the joystick drift gets pretty bad rather quickly which is probably a dealbreaker for most
- Comment on Playtron plans to launch PlaytronOS, a Linux-based OS for gaming 1 month ago:
Some TL;DR from the Verge’s coverage of this:
- Leadership has connections to CyanogenOS and an ex-Playstation CEO
- Ayaneo is looking into releasing a device with this OS at the end of 2024 (free salt grains here)
- A handful of celluar providers are interested in connected hardware running this OS
- No desktop mode
- Beta releasing in the next 60 days
- Target audience is likely casual gamers - those who may consider a Switch instead of a Deck
The following is my response copied from the original post in the Linux Gaming community:
Sounds very interesting, but I can’t shake the feeling that this company is looking to profit from Valve and the OSS community’s contibutions to Linux gaming without contributing much back.
On the plus side, at least the Box86 developer and a couple others they’ve hired from various Linux gaming projects are now getting paid for their contributions 👍. They also managed to get The Witcher 3 running on an ARM device which is pretty cool.
Playtron hasn’t quite decided just how open source it’ll be, though, and how much it will cater to Linux power gamers versus the next hundred million that Playtron hopes to bring into the fold.
Seems likely that Playtron would follow Valve’s apprach where the client application/shell is proprietary IMO, with the rest of the OS remaining open source.
There’ll be no Linux desktop mode.
Hard pass for me, since the deck is also a partial laptop replacement in my case. The article also mentions wanting power users to debug the alpha version of the OS they’ll be releasing in 2 months or so - not too sure how they expect that to happen if they’re not providing a DE besides their Playtron shell.
I’ll be following the progress of their OS though, will be interesting to see if they’ll aim for Valve’s pretty tight hardware integration or whether they’ll keep things on the more generic side like we see with the current Windows handhelds
- Comment on [Game] Steam Deck support is now on the roadmap for Enshrouded 2 months ago:
Nice. I currently play Enshrouded on the deck, and the framerate is just barely tolerable, really glad to hear improvements are on their roadmap 👌
- Comment on What games do you use the pads with? 2 months ago:
I pretty much do precisely this
- Submitted 3 months ago to steamdeck@sopuli.xyz | 17 comments
- Comment on [Discussion] New month, new games. What are you playing on your Deck? - February 2024 3 months ago:
My personal deck arrives tomorrow - had the lucky opportunity to experience one and that pretty much sold me!
I’ll be playing mostly 2d/isometric games like Project Highrise and Overcrowd, maybe a bit of Palworld too.
- Comment on KDE Rice? 4 months ago:
I’m going to be completely honest - I have no idea what other word can be used in its place to convey what it means in this context.
The intended audience will know that your post didn’t intend to offend IMO
