Ulrich

@Ulrich@feddit.org

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The State of Steam Deck survey 2024: The results are in⁩ ⁨⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  You are criticizing the verification system by comparing it to ProtonDB which, again, is a different thing.

  Different in some ways but serves the same purpose.

  Steam’s verification isn’t “inaccurate,”

  Yes it is.

  Crowdsourcing something like that would not be a good way for Valve to accomplish its goals.

  Yes it would.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Best of Steam 2024 - the top performing games on steam, including best sellers on Steam Deck⁩ ⁨⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I can’t say I’ve ever cared about how a game looks.

  Fair enough. Certainly some devs spend a ton of time making games look incredible so there’s obviously a bunch of users like me who do appreciate that, and also many who don’t!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Discussion] Using my Steam deck as a mini PC ?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve installed all sorts of things on SteamOS without “extra steps”.

  I can’t say the same for Bazzite.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Discussion] Using my Steam deck as a mini PC ?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s how all chargers work. The problem is that it’s simply not great to have your battery at 100% all of the time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Best of Steam 2024 - the top performing games on steam, including best sellers on Steam Deck⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Define “fine”. Is it playable? Sure. But it also looks quite bad at 800p/low/30fps

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Discussion] Using my Steam deck as a mini PC ?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  it’s not well equipped to handle user packages in the same way OSTree is

  Can you elaborate?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Best of Steam 2024 - the top performing games on steam, including best sellers on Steam Deck⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Pretty much the same titles over and over again.

  I’ll never not be shocked at BG3 because it runs potato quality but to each their own, I suppose.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The State of Steam Deck survey 2024: The results are in⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  How so?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The State of Steam Deck survey 2024: The results are in⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes I understand how the Steam Deck and verified ratings work, but thanks for the explanation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Discussion] Using my Steam deck as a mini PC ?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  You can use it for absolutely anything. That’s the beauty of Linux. Will it be good for it, as is? No, not really.

  A lot of streaming services will limit you to 720p unless you use their first-party apps, which they don’t make for Linux.

  Also the interface is not ideal for that sort of thing.

  Leaving it plugged in permanently is not really good for the battery, but not a huge deal either. There’s probably some way to enable a “kiosk mode” to keep the battery @ 50%, which would be ideal.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The State of Steam Deck survey 2024: The results are in⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The verification system is not remotely accurate. It probably does more harm than good. Valve should have made it crowdsourced like protondb because they’re obviously unable to keep up, and I don’t know why they thought they would be.

  Further, they failed to establish any concrete guidelines on frame rate for their ratings.

  Shit, they could have crowdsourced the data from user devices.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Discussion] Do you use any headphones with your Steam Deck?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

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