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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Will anything dethrone the Steam Deck? Probably not -GamingonLinux⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I expect Microsoft’s handheld to fall under the Xbox brand, so it’ll probably be incredibly locked down and not something you could use like a PC

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Will anything dethrone the Steam Deck? Probably not -GamingonLinux⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They’re all still amd64 tho, so it’s fairly trivial to install linux on them. For the full Steam Deck experience you could one of those SteamOS isos or just configure it to launch the steam console UI inside gamescope at boot

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Will anything dethrone the Steam Deck? Probably not -GamingonLinux⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 in that has mainline Linux kernel support 👀, it might be possible to run full desktop Linux on it

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Will anything dethrone the Steam Deck? Probably not -GamingonLinux⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think sometime in the next few years an ARM based gaming PC could challenge the Steam Deck. ARM is a more efficient architecture, so it could have significantly more battery life, the only hurdle is getting x86 emulation performant enough.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam Deck game library now 29% larger than that of Nintendo Switch⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  True, but they at least can’t brick the hardware itself, and if you were concerned about your steam account there’s always VPNs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam Deck game library now 29% larger than that of Nintendo Switch⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They really couldn’t, it’s just a Linux PC. Worst case scenario you could format the drive and install regular arch Linux on it (SteamOS is arch based, and you can add the repos for all of the custom steam packages to a standard arch install). Unlike the switch, you have direct, firmware level control over the hardware, which is why I bought it. I want to encourage more manufacturers to not lock down their hardware

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam Deck game library now 29% larger than that of Nintendo Switch⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yuzu is better overall, but Ryujinx works weirdly better for certain games. Like, Mario Wonder runs about 40% better for me on Ryujinx for some reason.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam Deck game library now 29% larger than that of Nintendo Switch⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The steam deck library includes the entire switch library via emulation, so Yeah Obviously. (Ik they’re not counting emulation, but my point is that the steam deck is a PC, which makes it much more versatile)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Against The Storm looks like ass⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Try setting it to use proton experimental, newer games sometimes depend on features that aren’t in the stable versions of proton yet (or are at least buggier/worse in the stable versions)