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- Comment on [Discussion] Using my Steam deck as a mini PC ? 14 hours ago:
Wait a few days for CES and see what other vendors will ship with SteamOS. Asus and Lenovo usually allow to limit battery charging. Steam Deck doesn’t.
- Comment on [Discussion] Using my Steam deck as a mini PC ? 14 hours ago:
on GNOME I have a GUI utility that lets you set this and enable/disable with a toggle.
The charging controller must support that feature. Notebooks by Asus, Lenovo and maybe others do, perhaps even the Ally and Legion handhelds, but if the battery controller doesn’t support that, the toggle will do nothing.
- Comment on Looks like Valve is preparing to release SteamOS to the public (or at least to third-party hardware manufacturers) 3 weeks ago:
that’s fine and all but the problem with the debian based SteamOS were the horribly outdated GPU drivers.
SteamOS doesn’t use plain upstream GPU drivers. Back when SteamOS 3 was announced, Valve employees said in interviews that switching to an Arch base would allow them to more frequently update the OS, yes, but now with SteamOS 3 being out since quite some time it became clear that this is simply not the case. Big Arch package syncs are a rare occurrence, kernel and Mesa are maintained in their own downstream branches.
- Comment on Looks like Valve is preparing to release SteamOS to the public (or at least to third-party hardware manufacturers) 3 weeks ago:
tbf back then they picked possibly the worst base for a gaming distro, a problem that has been remedied with the new SteamOS
The actual runtime the games run on is still based on Debian, though.
- Comment on An OLED Mod For The Original Steam Deck Is Being Made - Steam Deck HQ 1 month ago:
I realize I’m probably in the minority here, but do they have an option at the original 1280x800?
Wouldn’t it then make more sense to sell you LCD Deck and buy an OLED one? Whether you buy an extra screen or the added cost of a new OLED one, the price difference should be in the same ballpark. Not to mention the risk of damage and the need for a modified BIOS. New warranty on the OLED model would be an added bonus.
- Comment on [DF] Bazzite - 'SteamOS' For Windows PC Handhelds - Is It A Game-Changer? 1 month ago:
It gets ugly really fast.
It’s super easy, barely an inconvenience. Just use Distrobox: docs.bazzite.gg/…/Distrobox/