shaytan

@shaytan@lemmy.dbzer0.com

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Discussion] - What are some niche applications / use cases you've gotten working on your deck?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I started “The Odin Project” in the deck, because the course prompted me to either mess with WSL2 on windows or switch to linux, so the SteamDeck it is :)

  I also set up a secondary setup for my girlfriend with it, even tho my initial intention was to use it handheld most of the times, but it has worked out beautifuly, even with dual monitors!

  And I use it as a SmartTV tool, I take it from my desk and dock it on the living room

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How to Install Waydroid on Steam Deck: Full Guide⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I just lend my steam deck to my girlfriend and she games around, your aproach is 100% valid

  Valve released a console, and you can use it as you wish, if you want help with installing wayland let me know, or you can search for any other tutorial online

  Have fun gaming :)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How to Install Waydroid on Steam Deck: Full Guide⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Waydroid in this tutorial is running in a “cage” so it can run under X11 which is an older system used by the current KDE version in the steamdeck.

  To install it on bazzite (under Wayland instead of X11), it’s even simpler.

     rpm-ostree install waydroid
  

  and

     sudo dnf install waydroid
  

  So if you are ussing bazzite, follow first option here

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How to Install Waydroid on Steam Deck: Full Guide⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  For me it usually comes to:

  • Android TV to dock the steam deck on my living room and use it as such
  • Some very specific games, like PvZ2, or roblox
  • Specific apps like “Stremio”, have a better touch screen experience under Waydroid compared to their flatpack version
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How to Install Waydroid on Steam Deck: Full Guide⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You are right

  But in this case, the “steamos-waydroid-installer” creates a cage ( A wayland compositor running X11), and uses XWayland to render that. That creates a nested Wy

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's Time to Bring Back the Steam Machine⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Is your statement true? Probably

  But if we set our standards to “enough”, there wouldn’t be any progress

  Was the switch enough for couch gamers? Sure. Did valve want to progress further? They did.