lengau

@lengau@midwest.social

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Black Myth: Wukong shows very clearly Valve are selling a lot of Steam Decks⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Valve are one of the major reasons that Microsoft’s attempts at the iOSification of Windows failed. Their investments in Linux are directly aimed at preventing what Apple is doing.

  Tim Sweeney is a freeloader depending on companies like Valve to protect him from these threats to his company.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gaming Pillow holder for Steam Deck⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I thought this was ridiculous but the kitty cuddles while playing sold me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨SteamOS 3.6.6 Preview for Steam Deck has fixes for ELDEN RING, system memory leak and more⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  FWIW Plasma 5.27 works very well on Wayland with AMD GPUs. The fact that desktop mode uses x11 is probably not related to them still using Plasma 5. I would guess once KDE announces an LTS version of Plasma 6 (possibly as early as 6.2?) they’ll upgrade Steam OS to that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft makes Copilot less useful on new Copilot Plus PCs⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s probably just a version of the “Office key” that would simulate pressing like 5 modifiers (that’s where the Ctrl+Alt+Win+…+L opening LinkedIn comes from), but includes a final key. Windows might make it a pain to do, but on other OS’s you could bind that key to whatever you want.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It Takes Two does not require EA app anymore and its Steam Deck Verified now⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  EA is continuing to do what they’ve always done - attempt to suck up as much money as possible. It just so happens that for once they think being less shitty is the best way to do it. Don’t hold your breath about this being a trend.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve has little to worry about as new Steam Deck rival arrives⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, the market for those handhelds seems to be people who either specifically want Windows or want better specs (or think they want that), but don’t mind the trade-offs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve has little to worry about as new Steam Deck rival arrives⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Honestly, I’m not too sure how much price goes into it. I’ve used several of the Steam Deck competitors, each with better specs. But each has a worse overall experience. Each of the people I know with one of the competitors seldom uses it. But even the people with Steam Decks who planned to use theirs only for travel have ended up using them far more than they intended. My Steam Deck has become my primary gaming machine. I’m not sure how a hardware company competes there without working with a major game store, but I don’t really see Valve being particularly opposed to working with hardware companies to provide Steam OS builds for competing hardware since it pushes their platform.

  Personally, I don’t think Epic is in a position to make a really feasible Steam Deck competitor, partially because they’ve gone all-in on Windows, and the break from Windows is one of the things that’s allowed the Steam Deck to have its great experience. The only company who can really customise Windows to that extent is Microsoft, and they’d likely rather make an Xbox handheld than work with Epic on a Windows-based one.