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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New rumor suggests Valve's Steam Deck 2 is much further away than we thought⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, Valve is wildly profitable. On a profit-per-employee basis, they beat out virtually every other company in existence. The Steam Deck was never a massive profit-seeking venture for them; It was a way to divest from Microsoft, (who had been rumbling about going the way of Google/Apple and forcing everyone to use their proprietary store, then skimming a portion of all sales made on said store), and to be able to bring the Steam storefront to people who otherwise wouldn’t be using Steam.

  The only reason Microsoft backed off of their Microsoft Store idea was because Apple and Google got slapped in the EU, and forced to allow third-party app stores. And by that point, the Steam Deck was already in production, so there wasn’t much point in canceling it. Especially since, as I mentioned earlier, it expands the Steam Store’s reach, which is their real end goal.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New rumor suggests Valve's Steam Deck 2 is much further away than we thought⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yup, they’ve straight up said that they’re not interested in iterative upgrades. They said they’d only consider a Deck 2 when the hardware was actually in a place that it would be a meaningful upgrade. In the meantime, they’re focused on getting devs to actually optimize their games for the SD’s (admittedly aging) hardware. Basically, forcing devs to actually plan for Steam Deck support, instead of just shipping an unoptimized piece of junk out the door and blaming hardware limitations when nothing except the newest cards can play it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Networking issues (desktop mode)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Slap a ferrite bead on the cable. It will likely solve the interference issue, and they’re super cheap. You can get a variety pack for like $10 on amazon. They’re handy to have on hand, because an unbelievable amount of consumer-grade electronics are just fucking rawdogging the EM spectrum with unshielded cables and hoping for the best.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Networking issues (desktop mode)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  You can also try a quick and dirty fix, by slapping a ferrite bead on the HDMI cable. That’s an old trick from the analog world. Depending on how it is picking up interference, this may easily fix it without needing to rebuild your entire setup. Worst case scenario, you’re only out like 10 cents for the bead.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is your favorite Steam deck Bluetooth keyboard?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I have a Samsers brand just like this in my gig bag, and I love it. The hot-swapping between devices is nice, cuz it also pairs with my iPad. So I can have both paired, then swap back and forth as needed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨8BitDo announces it's controllers now have Steam/SteamOS compatibility⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I mostly use them for mode shifts. For instance, shifting to emulated mouse when holding R4, so I can use desktop stuff easier.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨8BitDo announces it's controllers now have Steam/SteamOS compatibility⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The issue is that the back paddles weren’t unique buttons. You could configure them to press existing buttons, (like telling it to press A when you hit the right paddle,) but they weren’t listed as individual inputs. Now they are, so you can actually map unique actions to L4, R4, etc…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Desktop Linux distros similar to Steam OS?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Adobe support

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  Jokes aside, Adobe refuses to play nice with Linux. It likely won’t matter which distro you choose, because none of them will cleanly support Adobe. You can use Wine as a workaround, at least.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Has the Deck turned *off* any other Steam users?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Use Family Sharing, instead of sharing your account. Steam’s Family Sharing program is actually one of the most generous in the industry. It used to be the case where you’d get booted off of a game if the person who owned it opened a game. But they changed it a while back, to where you essentially have a digital bookshelf of games, and sharing members can choose from any game on the shelf. As long as you’re not trying to play the same game, everything is kosher. Or hell, you can even buy multiple copies of the same game if you want to play together, the same way you can keep multiple copies of a game on a shelf.

  Switching accounts on the Steam Deck is easy too, because you simply pick which profile you want to use. Plus it means you’re not sharing save files, because each profile has their own saves; Anyone who has ever lost a cherished save file because of a younger sibling hitting “New Game” will be able to see the value in that. There’s very little reason to avoid setting up Family Sharing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Using the Steam Deck docked has been a dreadful experience for me. Is it just me going wrong?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The funny part is that the official dock was what gave me a ton of issues. The JSAUX dock has been hassle free.