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- Comment on Vortex & Decky Questions 4 hours ago:
Alternative option:
Learn and use LIMO.
I’ve been running a heavily modded CP77 for about a year now, on a Steam Deck.
Its basically Linux native MO2, available as a flatpak.
flathub.org/en/apps/io.github.limo_app.limo
It also works with literally any game, if you set it up to.
But, it doesn’t do load order imports / nexus bulk mod collection downloads.
But but, it does support FOMODs, LOOT, and has quite useful collision checkers and managers, and can interface with the Nexus API.
- Comment on Meta buried 'causal' evidence of social media harm, US court filings allege 2 days ago:
Fair enough, I don’t mean to sound like it isn’t a good thing to do, to try to ween people off, but I’ll freely admit I am way too jaded to try to do that myself anymore.
I spent a decade trying to convince people that if they did not leave, [gestures at current state of the world] is what would happen.
Way I see it, its roughly the same situation as climate change: we passed the inflexion point, we failed, now our possible future timelines are much darker.
… I’m glad you made it out though.
Keep that flame of optimism inside you as well tended and healthy as you can.
- Comment on Meta buried 'causal' evidence of social media harm, US court filings allege 6 days ago:
Its… far, far too late to just tell people to stop.
- Comment on RetroDECK Blog - Retro Gaming Flatpak - November 2025: Finally a fatpak 6 days ago:
Personally, I prefer RetroDeck… you should definitely pick only one, trying to run both at the same time will probably cause you to rage quit from sanity, lol.
- Comment on Valve employee Pierre-Loup Griffais talks more about anti-cheat support for Linux/SteamOS on FPS Podcast #83 1 week ago:
Every current, major, third party AntiCheat system has supported Linux since 2022.
You are correct that they figure out a way to do it without kernel access when on Linux, and when the game devs take advantage of the support that they are already paying for, to help them customize/tweak the AC and the game to work together.
This is a fine solution, because 99.9% of cheats you can easily buy for money via a 60 second websearch only work on Windows, and there are many, effective ways to do AC that do not require Kernel Access.
Many AC systems do not need a TPM2 to work.
There were tons of AC systems that did their jobs before Microsoft pushed everyone to adopt TPM2.
As for as games running on Linux: Basically everything that is not using some cutting edge driver/feature from Nvidia works on Linux via Proton.
Thats the scenario that the major thirdparty ACs who have supported Linux since 2022 primarily target.
If a game or proprietary AC does not support Linux, that is either a deliberate business decision, or down to incompetence from the devs cough Facepunch cough.
- Comment on [Meta] This community has been renamed to Steam Hardware to include the newly annouced Steam Machine and Steam Frame 2 weeks ago:
could be worse man, all hands could be on the poop deck.
- Comment on [Meta] This community has been renamed to Steam Hardware to include the newly annouced Steam Machine and Steam Frame 2 weeks ago:
Ah!
I did not know that was how it worked, but that does make sense.
- Comment on [Meta] This community has been renamed to Steam Hardware to include the newly annouced Steam Machine and Steam Frame 2 weeks ago:
… You apparently can rename a community.
Huh!
- Comment on [Discussion] Should this community also cover the Steam Machine and/or Steam Frame? 2 weeks ago:
Is… is it even possible to rename a community?
Valve Ecosystem Nerds?
Or do you just have to make a new one, and tell everyone to migrate?
Anyway, yes, I think that untill or unless it becomes truly problematic in some way, yeah, this basically already is a comm of general Valve/Steam related both hardware and software nerd#, why be too picky?
If a flood or trickle of noobies ever show up, easier for them to ask questions and get news in one place.
But I also do see a potential problem of people having no idea this comm would cover more than just the Deck, not finding it in searches.
… Not sure what to do about that?
- Comment on Steam Machine 2 weeks ago:
Litetally two days ago, I said that Proton is the most important project in the history of linux, in terms of getting linux to a mass adoption / user base.
Got mostly downvotes.
Then this happens.
- Comment on Steam Machine 2 weeks ago:
Moore’s Law is Dead is estimating a $425 cost to produce, sale price between $450 to $600, depending on how hard they want to fuck Microsoft out of gaming.
- Valve announces three new products: the Steam Frame, Steam Machine and Steam Controllerwww.pcgamer.com ↗Submitted 2 weeks ago to gaming@lemmy.zip | 2 comments
- Comment on Final Fantasy 7 Remake Part 3 is targeting Steam Deck and other handhelds because players want more "freedom" nowadays 1 month ago:
Or Decky FrameGen / Optiscaler
- Comment on DOOM: The Dark Ages Earns The Steam Deck Verified Badge With Impressive Update 1 month ago:
The problem is raytracing vs affordability.
Pick one, basically.
If you make a game on an engine, or in a way where there’s no way to run the game without raytracing on, well, thats not gonna run well on an affordable system.
If you build a handheld that can do realtime raytracing, ok, you can play some more AAA games now, but your device cost to the consumer basically doubles.
We are currently in an economic depression in the US, you probably are not going to do well with a market strategy that relies on consumers generally having a lot of disposable income.
- Comment on DOOM: The Dark Ages Earns The Steam Deck Verified Badge With Impressive Update 1 month ago:
Eh, 30 fps for a frenetic shooter like this is still pretty not great.
I can get a solid 45 fps on a Deck on Cyberpunk 2077, similar graphical fidelity imo, especially at a lower end output resolution.
The whole problem, from a ‘running on a Deck’ perspective, is that Doom Dark Ages is built on idTech 8… which forces raytracing.
They would have to refactor the whole game / build a whole new variant of the engine that based off the Vulkan-Base branch of idTech8, that has… you know, a lighting engine that can look at least comparable without relying on realtime raytracing.
Not just do some optimization tweaks.
- Comment on Deck wakes from suspend after latest SteamOS update. 1 month ago:
You wouldn’t be able to link to … a changelog or something along those lines, for when that older, similar problem got fixed?
- Comment on Deck wakes from suspend after latest SteamOS update. 1 month ago:
If it is a fundamental bluetooth driver implementation problem, it would basically happen no matter what game you are playing, gaming mode, desktop mode, any apps/programs open, etc.
- Comment on Deck wakes from suspend after latest SteamOS update. 1 month ago:
Yeah, sorry I can’t be of more help, but I can infodump, lol.
- Comment on Deck wakes from suspend after latest SteamOS update. 1 month ago:
Haha yeah, always good to list out as many possibly relevant variables as you can with a bug report =P
And I’ve been running Bazzite on my Deck for a while now, but I also just don’t use any BT thingies.
But uh ok, so… I am not aware of any significant differences in terms of hardware between the various models of Deck that … would factor in here… the OLED models basically just have a slightly different shell / internal form factor, obviously the OLED screen, and then a bigger battery.
So… given that we’ve got other reports here, of the same thing, … either all of you are getting uh BT linking attempts from neighbors…
… Or, probably, if you’re all on stock SteamOS… its probably just bugged on Steam’s end.
Meaning that unfortunately unless you want to go to the SteamOS github, identify the actual problem with the BT driver, and then fix it… yeah, I dunno lol.
Maybe there is a way to go into Desktop mode, there’s a setting to specifically disable ‘wake on BT activity’?
I don’t know.
The… whole problem with BT in general is that it is a security nightmare to try to implement on linux… to keep everything in the OS secure and also working at the same time.
Like, as best I can tell, Valve would basically have to do I think Wayland’s job for them and solve what has been a long running headache/struggle session for just linux in general… it gets insanely esoteric and complicated when you try to dive into what exactly is even going wrong, who should be responsible to fix it, and then a lot of devs just say no, its not fixable.
- Comment on Deck wakes from suspend after latest SteamOS update. 1 month ago:
Could you give more detail?
I am…assuming you are running the stock SteamOS?
I would say wake on BT activation is a good guess…
If your BT controllers are not on though… could maybe be someone else nearby trying to connect to your Steam Deck with their own BT?
Or … maybe its… something else entirely causing it to wake?
- Comment on "I’m Canceling My Subscription": Xbox Players Call to "Boycott" Game Pass "Hard" Over 50% Price Increase As Microsoft’s Website Crashes from Mass Cancellations 1 month ago:
So, I actually used to work for MSFT a decade ago.
The uh… Xbox people and the corpo business people were, once upon a time, wildly different kinds of people, literally problematic 90s pc gamer dude bros vs ex IBM stodgy walrus people.
Basically, the walrus people won, made all the big boy business decisions, and things rather rapidly went to shit in terms of the business decisions being just insanely corpo.
Like uh, at the time Xbox Live came out… well there was this whole other paradigm for online video gaming set by Valve, but uh… lets just say you shouldn’t talk about Gabe Newell while standing on or sitting in a Microsoft campus.
I didn’t really have that important of a role, but lets just say I knew that half of Xbox 360s were coding 3RR or faulty in some way that necessitated a complete replacement (they’d just swap your hardrive into a new model and claim they refurbed it LOL) … yeah I knew that about a decade before that became wider public knowledge.
But anyway, here we are about 20 years later, Valve is having MSFT’s cake, eating it too, and the remaining husks on the gaming side of MSFT absolutely know they are fucking cooked, and are fully in the ‘suck all the money outta this shit while we still can’ phase, before the entire concept of MSFT gaming basically transitions to more or less a legacy system.
They’re rapidly headed toward just being a B2B oriented company, maybe they’ll use their hoard of IPs to effectively liscense out game dev, but when ‘everything is an Xbox’, fucking nothing is and they know that.
Game server uptime isn’t as profit able as business server uptime, either pump those numbers up or your branch of MSFT goes the way of the Windows Phone and Zune.
- Comment on "I’m Canceling My Subscription": Xbox Players Call to "Boycott" Game Pass "Hard" Over 50% Price Increase As Microsoft’s Website Crashes from Mass Cancellations 1 month ago:
Counterpoint:
Do you remember Xbox Live?
- Comment on Data Shows That AI Use Is Now Declining at Large Companies 2 months ago:
The use case for AI is pumping up the stock market.
- Comment on Steam Deck LCD 256GB on sale for 20% off ($400 -> $320) 2 months ago:
Ah… damm.
Not… from not Amazon, no.
But maybe you can find this somewhere else?
Behold… I call this thing… the DockStand.
www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B0BRXZDWDV?psc=1
Somehow, a kickstand, and a sort of bare bones dock, at the same time.
Currently under $25.
It has worked flawlessly for me.
It is …yeah, barebones, but quite functional.
Gives you an HDMI port, 2 usb A 3 ports, and an additional microsd slot, which only works when the power is run through the dockstand, and also … does not have a spring release mechanism, it is literally just a slot, and the properly seated card just sticks out a little bit.
Janky? Yes.
But also, cheap, and functional.
Particularly if you are like me and spend a lot of Deck time basically just using it as a big phone to watch videos on… the kick stand is good for that lol.
Like, you can find just kickstands alone, with no dock like capabilities… for about the same price.
I ended up pairing this with i think a jsaux replacement power adapter that also came with a 90 degree joint adapter mabob for the usb c power source… I had been using the power adapter that came with the deck so much that i managed to start destroying the cable.
Also, at least with my… I guess average sized hands for a dude? … I have never had a problem with the DockStand getting in the way of my hands and the controls while playing.
- Comment on Steam Deck LCD 256GB on sale for 20% off ($400 -> $320) 2 months ago:
Yep, thats definitely a whole very neat thing too hehe!
- Comment on Steam Deck LCD 256GB on sale for 20% off ($400 -> $320) 2 months ago:
Ahhhhhh i need to my ham sandwich or something!
jfc jojo is a fucking fever dream
- Comment on Steam Deck LCD 256GB on sale for 20% off ($400 -> $320) 2 months ago:
Well thats what I get for being in like 5 simultaneous discussions on different parts of lemmy, lol.
- Comment on Steam Deck LCD 256GB on sale for 20% off ($400 -> $320) 2 months ago:
Yes!
That is all correct or likely correct as far as I can tell, I was not trying to dispute you, just trying to add in other relevant details/context.
- Comment on Steam Deck LCD 256GB on sale for 20% off ($400 -> $320) 2 months ago:
Correct, no notes.
- Comment on Steam Deck LCD 256GB on sale for 20% off ($400 -> $320) 2 months ago:
Oh no need to apologize, I too very much prefer the OLED for my own most common use cases…
… but yeah, just wanted to point out that if you maybe want a pretty rock solid mobile gaming device ma bob that is also a laptop when you plug K+M into it, maybe also your existing desktop mon if you have one…
$320 bucks is a fucking steal, if you are maybe, price concscious, in these uh, economic collapse times, yeah, dont go for the premium model, black out your windows and play under the bedsheet like the good ole days rofl!