Ulrich
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- Comment on 8BitDo announces it's controllers now have Steam/SteamOS compatibility 1 week ago:
switch, xbox, playstation, etc.
That’s probably what they’re talking about. Instead of emulating another controller you have 1st party support.
- Comment on 8BitDo announces it's controllers now have Steam/SteamOS compatibility 1 week ago:
Then they shouldn’t say anything.
- Comment on 8BitDo announces it's controllers now have Steam/SteamOS compatibility 1 week ago:
8bitdo controllers now offer SteamOS compatibility!
Full compatibility details coming soon.
What a non-announcement announcment.
- Comment on [Discussion] What games are you playing on your Deck? - July 2025 1 week ago:
Midnight Fight Express
- Comment on Youtuber PewDiePie is going all in on deGoogling and the Steam Deck is one of the surprising tools that's helping him to 'escape' 1 week ago:
Yes, because those are all equivalent situations
- Comment on Youtuber PewDiePie is going all in on deGoogling and the Steam Deck is one of the surprising tools that's helping him to 'escape' 1 week ago:
FFS, it was years ago, no one is claiming him as “our guy”, and he’s an extremely influential person so just take the win.
- Comment on Microsoft is moving antivirus providers out of the Windows kernel. Hopefully anti-cheat will be next 1 week ago:
it’s likely that Microsoft will also attempt to move anti-cheat vendors out of kernel space
[Citation needed]
- Comment on Desktop Linux distros similar to Steam OS? 1 week ago:
The closest thing to SteamOS is ChimeraOS. Though it sounds like you’re mostly referring to Plasma, which is also included with Chimera, which is the desktop environment (DE) AKA the graphical user interface (GUI).
It is very friendly until you need to do something other than very basic things, at which point you’d better be prepared to become very familiar with the terminal.
Bazzite is the new hotness though, and it’s what I use, because it comes with a variety of customizations out of the box, and the ujust commands can greatly simplify a lot of common tasks that are otherwise far more complicated. Only downside of that is that it mostly only supports flatpaks and appimages, .deb and .rpm are the most common package formats and those have to be installed in containers, which comes with all the fun complications of containerization and sandboxing.
You might give GNOME a try though if you want to play around with something different. I much prefer it from an aesthetic perspective. Plasma is essentially made to look like Windows and GNOME more resembles MacOS.
- Comment on GEEKDeck Is A SteamDeck For Your Living Room 1 week ago:
If you want Arch there is ChimeraOS
- Comment on GEEKDeck Is A SteamDeck For Your Living Room 1 week ago:
Nothing
- Comment on GEEKDeck Is A SteamDeck For Your Living Room 1 week ago:
you can do this with any pc
Not with SteamOS you can’t
- Comment on Is the Steam Deck getting outdated soon? Should I wait for the next gen? 2 weeks ago:
There’s a vast different between “a part made in China” and “made by Chinese companies”.
- Comment on Is the Steam Deck getting outdated soon? Should I wait for the next gen? 2 weeks ago:
I think it’ll be a while until we get a hand held experience like the steam deck but with AAA capable hardware.
That will never happen. Physically larger devices are always going to be more performant. And AAA titles will just increase the demands of games accordingly.
- Comment on Is the Steam Deck getting outdated soon? Should I wait for the next gen? 2 weeks ago:
Is the Steam Deck performance struggling with new AAA games?
It did that on day 1. It’s a mobile device. You have to temper your expectations.
I’m guessing/hoping not because most game developers would optimise the games for the Switch 2 and Xbox Series S which have similar performances as the Deck.
The XBOX is not going to have similar performance. The Nintendo is actually quite a bit more performant. But more importantly the games on these devices are going to be specifically designed and optimized to run on a specific piece of hardware.
I think 30 fps (consistent) is perfectly fine, and I don’t mind medium details.
It obviously depends on the game but newer AAA titles are going to struggle to hit 30FPS on 800p/low.
If you want something with more performance you should get the Legion Go (non S) or Ally X and run Bazzite on it.
- Comment on Bento: a screen-less Steam Deck in a keyboard 3 weeks ago:
I’m not one to yuck anyone’s yum, it just sounds like a waste of time and money.
I do want to try this now though haha. Especially when desktop mode comes to Pixels.
- Comment on Bento: a screen-less Steam Deck in a keyboard 3 weeks ago:
Why build this
Primarily out of frustration. The dominant players in XR keep promoting their hardware as “computers”, when really they’re an iPad for your face. The most you can do is browse the web, play games, and consume content. They’re overweight and over constrained.
Okay but like, you could have just kept the screen, joysticks, touchpads and buttons and it’s only slightly larger LOL
- Comment on I installed steamos on my legion go when I dock it the audio does not switch to rv automatically 4 weeks ago:
I figured when Steam OS did finally get a wide release it would still be way behind Bazzite. I feel right.
- Comment on Ogu and the Secret Forest via Epic Games - keeps freezing 4 weeks ago:
Yeah I’ve found as well that it’s good practice to first launch games in desktop mode with heroic. Like all of them. Then you can run from gaming mode after.
- Comment on With the Legion Go S, we can now directly compare performance between official builds of SteamOS and Windows 1 month ago:
Removing / disabling useless services, tweaking registry…
That’s the opposite of comparable since none of that was done on Steam OS.
I’ve seen a couple on Linux, though I don’t remember their name rn.
“Gaming Focused” distros aren’t anything special outside of having some pre-installed software.
Something like Ubuntu or Mint, which would be more comparable to a desktop experience like windows, ready for productivity
SteamOS has all of those same productivity tools but I’m not sure how that’s relevant to performance.
- Comment on With the Legion Go S, we can now directly compare performance between official builds of SteamOS and Windows 1 month ago:
Best would be optimized Windows
What is “optimized Windows”? Windows is Windows. There’s no gaming-focused version.
gaming only distro
There’s no such thing, to my knowledge.
base windows vs base distro
What is a “base distro”?
- Comment on With the Legion Go S, we can now directly compare performance between official builds of SteamOS and Windows 1 month ago:
SteamOS build might’ve been tweaked and worked on more to be more optimized
What does that mean? Of course it was. Why would I take that with salt?
- Comment on With the Legion Go S, we can now directly compare performance between official builds of SteamOS and Windows 1 month ago:
The processor is not terribly power, so probably not.
- Comment on With the Legion Go S, we can now directly compare performance between official builds of SteamOS and Windows 1 month ago:
I dont know if there will ever be a year of the linux desktop
There won’t be. It won’t happen that quickly. If anything there will be a “decade of the Linux computer”.
- Comment on With the Legion Go S, we can now directly compare performance between official builds of SteamOS and Windows 1 month ago:
Which is exactly why Google and Apple give free computers to public schools.
- Comment on With the Legion Go S, we can now directly compare performance between official builds of SteamOS and Windows 1 month ago:
I disagree. Take Windows, remove the bloat, slap a game-focused GUI on it, call it XBOX and Bob’s your uncle.
- Comment on With the Legion Go S, we can now directly compare performance between official builds of SteamOS and Windows 1 month ago:
I really hate the dismissal of the heavy lifting proton does.
What part of this did you interpret as a dismissal?
- Comment on GOG News for Gaming/Linux/Steam Deck 1 month ago:
so many posts have the title ‘rival devices’ supporting Steam OS and I just have to wonder…is that what they really think?
Haha yeah I’ve been saying that for a while. These devices are all going to be used to spend money on Steam and Valve couldn’t care less which one you buy.
- Comment on GOG News for Gaming/Linux/Steam Deck 1 month ago:
Oh I meant more of the SteamOS officially supporting other devices.
- Comment on GOG News for Gaming/Linux/Steam Deck 1 month ago:
Picked a bad week to take off of Steam Deck news!
Aside from not loving Google and MS being their examples (although I can see why they are used – the most popular are just so for a reason)
The only reason is brand name recognition.
- Comment on Popular stress-testing app OCCT is coming to Steam and includes a special build for Steam Deck 1 month ago:
Cool, thank you!