Ulrich

@Ulrich@feddit.org

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bento: a screen-less Steam Deck in a keyboard⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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 ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh I meant more of the SteamOS officially supporting other devices.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GOG News for Gaming/Linux/Steam Deck⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Cool, thank you!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Popular stress-testing app OCCT is coming to Steam and includes a special build for Steam Deck⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It sounds like you understand exactly what I mean.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Popular stress-testing app OCCT is coming to Steam and includes a special build for Steam Deck⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I understand how DLC works but this would not provide DLC, to my knowledge.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Popular stress-testing app OCCT is coming to Steam and includes a special build for Steam Deck⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  So it includes additional content?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Popular stress-testing app OCCT is coming to Steam and includes a special build for Steam Deck⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This software is free to download, but includes an additional optional purchase.

  You keep saying this but you’re not explaining how that works. Because nothing else in Steam, to my knowledge, works that way. And now you’re being rude for reasons I don’t understand so I’m going to block you now. Good day.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Options for a controller for steam deck⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It is. I use it every day.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Popular stress-testing app OCCT is coming to Steam and includes a special build for Steam Deck⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I can download a free game

  Yes, free, not “optional purchase”. If the game is listed for free there is no mechanism to purchase it on Steam. How’s that hard to grasp?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Popular stress-testing app OCCT is coming to Steam and includes a special build for Steam Deck⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes but if you don’t purchase games on Steam, you don’t get to play them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Popular stress-testing app OCCT is coming to Steam and includes a special build for Steam Deck⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re glossing over the “optional” part.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Popular stress-testing app OCCT is coming to Steam and includes a special build for Steam Deck⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  When it releases on Steam it will be free but also have an "optional non-recurrent purchase

  I can’t say I’ve ever seen an “optional non-recurrent purchase” on Steam, are they even coded for that?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Options for a controller for steam deck⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Whats wrong with Xbox and PS?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Starting today, Heroic Games Launcher is indexing their Discord server⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It got popular because it’s excellent for gaming communities. Not for code base discussion.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve announce SteamOS Compatibility ratings, an extension of Steam Deck Verified for more devices⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Why would it ask if you desktop if the game was Steam Deck compatible?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam Deck sales still going strong over three years later⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  And yet one sells 100x more than the other.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam Deck sales still going strong over three years later⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Steam has all of those as well.