But can it run Star Citizen lol

[ 2022-04-16 12:48:42Z ] 👍 1

@@xfbzx2651 This! I paid less for the game as I picked it up in a sale and even at full price the game is still cheaper than every other AAA game is these days...

[ 2022-04-16 12:41:14Z ] 👍 1

@@LeJimster That's how you take more money from suckers (including me) to fund the game and help the investors make money. Perpetual money sucking pit is what it is and it will continue be since it's effective. Personally I don't care if its playable and has decent content. I'm not however putting 5k on a digital ship which doesn't exist. I paid the initial 50€ for the game and that's it.

[ 2022-04-16 12:37:56Z ] 👍 0

@@LeJimster Yep its the worlds best funded passion project when you walk around what they have made so far its clear they are spending so much time on the little details maybe too much as that would never be ok in normal development time frames lol

[ 2022-04-16 12:17:54Z ] 👍 0

It amazes me how much money that game has took and yet it appears to be in a perpetual alpha state.

[ 2022-04-16 12:08:52Z ] 👍 0

Not directly. You can stream it with steams remote play by adding the game to your library. Sometimes I'm lazy to get in front of a computer. This is the answer. :)

The thumbnail background blends seemlessly with the youtube subscription feed background, very slick

Looking forward to the future where people can walk into a physical store and see Steam Decks on the shelves. And seeing a "Steam Deck" graphics preset in more games. And more native Linux versions.

[ 2022-04-16 22:12:58Z ] 👍 1

Oooh a steamdeck preset is a great idea.

[ 2022-04-16 18:43:02Z ] 👍 1

I don’t think you’ll ever see that, not sold by Valve anyways

[ 2022-04-16 18:17:39Z ] 👍 0

@Fashinqu A. Yes. It targets developers or sys admins, not consumers. Linux on customer hardware has history of being flop.

[ 2022-04-16 18:16:19Z ] 👍 0

Steam Deck streamlined game downloads where you're spending hours download 120gb worth of 4K assets you're never going to use.

[ 2022-04-16 12:35:58Z ] 👍 4

Personally, I wouldn't go that much for 'more' Linux ports until they're actually good and as feature-rich as their Windows counterparts.

I can't even order one. It hasn't become available in my region yet.

[ 2022-04-16 12:40:03Z ] 👍 0

@@AninoNiKugi Yes, with a year or two delay behind the USA & Canada

[ 2022-04-16 12:21:09Z ] 👍 0

Were Valve's previous hardware products available in your region? Because here in my country, never....so my only chance is to wait for retailers to have stocks which maybe on 2025 XD

I have a huge problem with the Steam Deck. And is that I don't have one.

[ 2022-04-16 15:00:20Z ] 👍 0

@@Matruchus There shouldn’t be too many delays (hopefully). I was Q2 and just received mine a few days ago. So at least Q2 should be the real estimate for you!

[ 2022-04-16 12:40:51Z ] 👍 2

I have an issue cause I'm still waiting in Q2. Hopefully it doesn't become Q3.

[ 2022-04-16 12:17:55Z ] 👍 2

I have no such issue... because I have mine.

This makes me very hopeful and excited for the future of the Linux desktop. It's improved so much over the years, but we are moving onto the next level. I have lived without windows for years, but for many gamers they have always one game that holds them back, if the sales continue to be good enough to convince the stubborn developers to support the platform and enable anticheat on Linux, we will be past the final major stumbling block.

[ 2022-04-20 20:18:03Z ] 👍 0

@CreativeUnoriginals There's a Cheatin crisis? In gaming I mean? Are they like this single player games as well? I don't play online games in general.

[ 2022-04-17 12:21:33Z ] 👍 0

Anti cheat, what is that exactly? Because I don't want more bloatware DRM crap while using this thing.

[ 2022-04-16 15:29:47Z ] 👍 2

Nvidia is also a big burden for open source graphics development. I really hope nvidia will start supporting Linux more but I am doubtful, the shitheads they are. I had nvidia mobile graphics for years and everything crashes all the time, all my nvidia xserver settings are disabled, can't fix screen tearing or anything. I hate nvidia with a passion for ruining my Linux experience for years. With my next computer I will switch to all amd. Fuck nvidia. And nvidia knows that with their edge on ray tracing and their cockblocking of linux they hold onto windows gaming for awhile. Not for long I hope.

It's nice to see everything finally come together, for those of us who have been watching over this for years. I bet John Carmack is pleased!

The big thing that the Steam Deck has done for me is to make PC gaming affordable again. I haven't had a gaming PC or laptop for the last five years because of the rising hardware prices and general scarcity of integral parts. An all-in, handheld, PC gaming device for €419 is an incredible deal and has brought me back to Steam.

[ 2022-04-16 18:46:27Z ] 👍 1

That’s what Gabe wanted with the Steam Deck

[ 2022-04-16 14:59:14Z ] 👍 0

I want to say “but you could have gotten a non-gaming laptop and get similar performance” but the Deck with RDNA2 really did become a class of it’s own. If you had them available, you could have made an APU build in desktop, but for similar performance to a desktop APU, the Deck is crazy!

[ 2022-04-16 14:10:42Z ] 👍 7

Yeah! Totally understand that. I hope devs pay more attention to optimization on the lower end now

I’d say it’s a success. As a “normal” user (I don’t have too many demanding titles currently on the Deck, I’m probably more forgiving about some things like the screen not being able to turn off when downloading games or gamescope not properly isolating every game, such as Sky Rogue), this has been an absolute breeze. Just like browsing Steam on my desktop, it’s easy, it just works and the one or two actual problems I had were solved on a reboot on day 1. Haven’t had them since then, and this is now day 4 for me. Been playing Wargroove and getting around 8 hours of battery life at low brightness, 30fps and forcing TDP to 3W. It still uses close to 6W according to mangoHUD, but that’s good enough for now. This is basically what I wanted out of the Deck, and anything else is icing on the cake.

I love valve and would love to get a steam deck some day!!

Frankly I thought that the steam deck is gonna be another ouya

Can't wait for mine

Don't let Harman Smith see this video lol In all seriousness, it's simply amazing to see how popular the Deck is. I'm waiting for my email to arrive so, that I can start testing out games in my library.

I got one. It's great, but I've got some analog stick drift (after software updates). From the looks of it according to reddit, lots of people are having issues on the hardware side.

I MISS HDR Support Game VRR Support 4K 120Hz Desktop Support Raytracing Support 3x of them possible on Windows! Why not on Linux! Its Standart, even Xbox One S can do HDR and Game VRR.

[ 2022-04-18 10:30:48Z ] 👍 0

Linux can do all of that? expect for HDR support (which is already shoddy on Windows)

I sadly have some issues with a sticky b button so I’m sending it back to have it looked at. But even so, it’s still the best handheld I’ve ever owned (my previous favorite handheld was the psp and it’s even better than that). If I didn’t like it I would just sell it to someone who’s good at repairing their own tech devices. But it’s so damn good that I’d rather wait to get a good unit. Initially when they announced the steam deck, I though ”nah I’ll wait for the steam deck 2, 800p screen and 2 h battery life isn’t good enough”. But a handheld pc was to tempting so I gave in and reserved it, haha. You barely notice that it’s 800p and the battery life is decent enough (ofc we always want more but sadly they have to abide by the laws of physics…)

It is indeed game changing. I love my SteamDeck and I love to see how a community, never in touch with Linux is getting common with it and talking about it. I thought there would be more issues software-wise from the start, with people not knowing their way around yet, but that is absolutely not the case from what I have seen so far. On the contrary people are discovering Linux and start to use its billions of possibilities.

For this to be an absolute success it needs to sell globally. I would buy want right now but not available in Australia.

It really depends on your definition of success, all the sales so far are to early adopter enthusiasts. It will take into next year for Valve to fill that demand and even then it will still be well under 1 million units sold. That makes for a successful niche device, but probably isn't enough of a market for game developers to dedicate any significant resources to the deck. Early adopters won't mind, as the device is cool and they'll find workarounds and hacks to mitigate the downsides. What's yet to be seen is if the Deck will keep on selling in large numbers after 2023. The Switch has sold over 100 million units, while I don't expect the Deck to approach those sales figures (though it will be really cool if it does) even a tenth of that would make the Deck a big enough platform for developers to specifically tune their games for it. That's when I'd call it a breakout success for Valve because it would put their hardware business up alongside their store in importance.

[ 2022-04-18 01:50:39Z ] 👍 0

@@AWellesley We would all love to Hope that people wouldn't be stupid enough to purchase from a scalper, unfortunately some people still do because they're desperate to get their hands on the device. I personally won't purchase from a scalper for the reason of clearly they're asking far too much for the device, and also because if I did purchase the device off of a scalper, I wouldn't get any guarantee that I could send it back to steam to get it serviced if it broke, so wouldn't even really be worth the money. But I'm glad that valve at least put in a few steps before scalpers can do what they do when they try to do this kind of thing. However anyone can create multiple accounts on steam if they wanted to, and purchase the device for its face value and then turn around and try to sell it for twice as much or a guess in this case four times as much as it's worth. Yes that drives up price for demand especially since the parts are limited, but in the long term it also keeps valve potentially putting more effort into creating these things, which means this device is here to stay and this device will eventually be much better as valve make adjustments to the technology to make it better on all of their systems. This is what I meant by it improves the technology with demand. Unfortunately there's going to be a lot of morons out there who are going to buy it from a scalper because they can't wait to get their hands on one.

[ 2022-04-17 16:24:33Z ] 👍 0

​@@5226-p1e Valve limited pre-orders to 1 per account and only allowed exisitng accounts that had already made a *purchase* on Steam prior to June 1 2021 to pre-order. That will have stymied the scalpers looking to buy hundreds of units ahead of real consumers. Some people are still scalping it, but I think it's mainly people who placed an order for themselves and are now tempted by the high ebay prices. Regardless even if that isn't correct, Scalpers don't drive demand - they exploit /existing/ demand when supplies are limited, i.e scalpers only buy products that they can sell on for a profit. The very fact that every Deck that appears on eBay is going for well above retail price shows that right now it's real consumer demand driving the steam deck sales. The question is whether that demand will continue after the first 500k to 1 million units have shipped.

[ 2022-04-17 12:29:14Z ] 👍 0

A lot of the sells have to do the scalpers unfortunately. It's funny, normally we hate scalpers, but in this case it's actually helping Drive valve forward and keeping this product and improving it for the next versions of the device. Now I would never personally purchase from a scalper, because they could do anything to the console if they wanted to, and if there was something wrong with the device it's not as easy to get it fixed by Valve because you're not the original purchase.

Had my deck since Thursday, it's not perfect but it damn close(for me playing my backlog of 20years of games), valve have done an amazing job with the underlaying Linux and to think it's only going to better!! I genuinely grin on my way to get it and tuck it up on a night ready to sleep.

For a total sucess it needed to ship globally the first days, here in South America we still don't have any news. Pricing or whatever. It started a little rough for a console-like release, only in certain regions. Hope people don't forget about this solid device and doesn't fall into being just a niche product. But I'm glad it brings light to Linux for once for the average people to see gaming is totally possible in Linux.

i just want steamos 3 to play around with

i'd love to have the steamOS 3.0 available for use on my PC

As a developer I am thrilled about the Steam Deck, especially having it as target platform for the future. It sets a baseline in PC gaming performance from this day and onward. And honestly the performance is kind of crazy. Sure, I am "only" making a ubi-art style action adventure game. but when you can run that at 4K at 120fps. you start to realize how powerful the device is. My rendering pipeline uses tons of effects, up towards 20-25 layers on-screen. tons of particles etc. Heck, running Cyberpunk 2077 at "attractive" settings while only utilizing 8W and still deliver solid 30fps. That's just pure madness. During "desktop use" the steamdeck uses around 1.3W. that's about the same as a Raspberry Pi Zero 2. :)

In getting a steamdeck in October. My low end secondary laptop has a bad harddrive so I'm replacing it with a steamdeck. My main machine is a desktop with an I5 8600k and a GTX 1070.

I'm having a good time reading the Linux purists winge about Proton. It's this weird mutation of the git gud crowd.

It's absolutely a fantastic time to be a Linux gamer. Looking forward to getting my own Steam Deck soon

I get mine in 3 months. Sad I have to wait but at least I'm getting one unlike the PlayStation 5 which I still haven't been able to get thanks to all the selfish people buying them up for profit. At this point I don't even want a PS5 anymore

The Year of the Linux Desktop is upon us

But they need to sell globally. Valve has a bad habit of not selling its hardware globally. Comparing for example microsoft and sony began to sell the xbox series X/S and ps5 here in Brazil in the launch of consoles.

I love my deck. It doesn't even need to install Windows on it

Can you please try coin game on the steam deck? I’ve heard conflicting reports on performance

I managed to get my hands on one and ya man I loke its well done. Those tracking pads are great too. Even just a game like say battletech on pc it's soo much nicer to use the track pads then a joystick. And those trackpads are well done. It's cool man. Sure ill still use my beast of.a pc more when I'm home but if I want to get comfy in bed or on the couch I don't mind using the deck it's a good experience. Course I got it for when ik not at home, gotta love those cloud saves.

I'm getting mine on Friday and I'm incredibly excited but honestly kinda nervous, I've literally never used Linux before and I don't wanna mess anything up

[ 2022-04-28 12:51:41Z ] 👍 0

@@gamingonlinux Will do thanks :)

[ 2022-04-28 08:22:12Z ] 👍 0

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what's the status on wayland? it is supposed to be utilized by the steam deck at some point? is it supposed to help if so? will wayland, FSR, RSR all help it and general Linux gaming? I think FSR and RSR have to be implemented per game by devs but I haven't followed it too much. Does anyone know if the Steam Deck screen supports FreeSync of some sort and if so, whether it aids its performance? Peace

[ 2022-05-16 13:54:18Z ] 👍 0

The Steam Deck already uses Wayland for the whole of Gaming Mode.

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