I'd LOVE for this to be a growing trend in 2024 and years to come so SteamOS users and #SteamDeck fans could have more options in form factors and performance targets from their handhelds.
The open source community is kinda funny like that sometimes. Sometimes someone will submit a patch quietly and then things in various SteamOS-like distros will just work. Now it looks like adding a shortcut to the Lutris Battle.net launcher install is working in ChimeraOS just out of the blue: https://github.com/ChimeraOS/chimeraos/issues/536 #steamos#chimeraos#linuxgaming
I've said it before about the slew of powerful and expensive handheld gaming devices that have come on the market since the #SteamDeck, but I'll say it again....people who buy handheld devices don't really want an expensive and powerful device that compromises portability. They want a light, ergonomic, affordable device that gives satisfactory performance for the games they play. #Nintendo have known this for decades which is why they've had the market cornered. Other companies don't seem to get it
#SteamDeck is the first #Valve hardware I own, second being the Steam Deck Dock. I finally know what #Apple shills feel like cos I’m now the same with Valve and I 100% want and need more hw products from them. Whatever they cook in the future, I hope it’ll include a #SteamOS laptop (they’ve included great speakers, mic, and amazing haptic/“fake” touchpads on the Steam Deck, I need em in a laptop), a SteamOS “console” box perhaps, and a #gaming controller as good as the built-in ones on the Deck. The cherry on top would be them selling these hardware at a low margin or even loss like they did with the Deck, to keep them affordable with the hopes of enticing more people into the #Steam ecosystem like they’ve successfully done with me.
I love the #SteamDeck and while it offers a good enough, even excellent experience most of the time, #SteamOS will never be ready for as long as essential features are missing from its Gaming mode/UI (not many) or those that are present does nothing or does not do what’s intended (too, too many). Network issues, audio issues, controller issues, app closure issues that either could not be helped, or are expected to be fixed/worked around by navigating to Desktop mode. I can do that, but I would never, ever expect anyone else to have to do them on a product that’s supposed to be “console” quality.
In this episode, no matter fucking what I couldn’t get the speakers to work when docked and connected to my monitor. The Audio output’s already set to Speakers and that does absolutely nothing cos ofc it does, consistent with a lot of the other settings on the #SteamDeck/#SteamOS really. It defaults to external device which in this case, simply does not exist. This issue this time is even worse too since it’s not fixable even after going to desktop mode and configuring the playback devices. No matter how many times you’ve set it to Speakers or any other audio outputs, it’ll still always default to some Linuxy “Filter Chain Sink” audio crap that means and does nothing. Garbage.
Update: “Fixed” by heading to Desktop mode and completely disabling the HDMI playback device (audio card), leaving only the “Speaker” device as the option. Not ideal and definitely will need to reenable them when I need to use the HDMI audio later for when i.e. hooking it up to a capture card.
I want to add an "Add to #Steam" functionality to my PC, like how it's available on the #SteamDeck and other #SteamOS based/adjacent distros. I found the script, and the desktop file that supposedly enables this on the Steam Deck, and also on my HTPC running that #Fedora/#UBlue SteamOS like distro I forgot the name of lol.
They're mostly the same, with minor difference that mostly don't matter. Neither of them worked though in my test on my #ArchLinux based PC trying to add an .exe file to Steam - both giving the error saying the file (added) isn't supported. The code of the script is easy to digest/understand and I understand why it doesn't work, what I couldn't understand though was why it works on SteamOS and (assuming-ly) that other HTPC of mine.
I feel like this has a simple answer but I'm not there yet lol.
#SteamOS 3.5 has been a shit show fr. After trying to figure out why my #SteamDeck now defaults to a 100Hz refresh rate limit on the official Steam Deck Dock (since the update sometime ago) when it previously was on 144Hz just fine as per my monitor's default, WiFi simply stopped working - the issue persists across reboots, which in my exp is pretty rare for any Deck issues. #Valve really has put out a garbage update (QC wise at least) this time.