Fubarberry
@Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz
- Comment on [PSA] If you had switched to the main update channel to get 3.5 early, I would recommend changing back one of the less bleeding edge update channels. 13 hours ago:
Yes, you just pick a different update channel, check for updates, and it will let you rollback to an older update.
There can be problems though, one time I updated and it wouldn’t let me downgrade. I had to wait until the next update fixed it before I could downgrade. And this time when 3.6 broke part of my desktop mode, downgrading didn’t fix it and I had to do a lot more troubleshooting to get it going again.
- Comment on [PSA] If you had switched to the main update channel to get 3.5 early, I would recommend changing back one of the less bleeding edge update channels. 20 hours ago:
Sorry, I think I misled you. The “main” channel is the most bleeding edge update channel name. After that you have beta-candidate, beta, stable candidate, and stable. 3.6 is live on the “main” channel only, so it definitely shouldn’t affect regular steamOS users.
- Submitted 22 hours ago to steamdeck@sopuli.xyz | 7 comments
- Comment on [Help] Is there a way to stop the "BIP" sound when speaker are plugged ? 1 day ago:
I believe you can turn UI sounds off from the sound menu in settings. There are also some decky plugins that let you change the sound files the deck uses, it may make it possible to replace or remove the sound you’re talking about.
- Submitted 3 days ago to steamdeck@sopuli.xyz | 24 comments
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- Comment on Steam Deck OS 3.5 Preview - Steam News 1 week ago:
It was pretty easy to add those options to the bios before, but it’s nice that it’s no longer necessary.
I wonder if we’ll get all the options, or if people will still have to use the bios script to unlock everything.
- Comment on Supposed Steam Deck killers are missing the point 1 week ago:
Yes, but my personal determination to put Linux on every device I own isn’t going to have an impact on market share and convince gamers that they don’t need windows.
Handheld PCs are a growing market and Valve has (had?) a chance to make SteamOS the handheld gaming OS.
- Comment on Supposed Steam Deck killers are missing the point 1 week ago:
Yeah, I really can’t figure out why valve isn’t working harder on making SteamOS available to other handheld PCs.
The Steam Deck is sold at a loss, but all the benefits Valve gets from the Steam Deck have to do with it’s OS. It’s both clearing a path for non windows gaming PCs (it’s dangerous to let a single rival company like Microsoft completely control your market), and while the deck allows you to install non-steam games, it’s much easier to stick to Steam games.
So it would seem to me that putting SteamOS on other devices would be a unanimous victory for Valve, getting all the benefits of the Deck without losing money up-front by subsidizing the hardware.
- Comment on Supposed Steam Deck killers are missing the point 1 week ago:
I think a good point on this actually came up in some of the ROG Ally reviews.
I remember one of the reviews compared Stardew valley on deck vs Stardew valley on the Ally, with identical settings. The Deck used around 7-8w, and the Ally used 17-18w, with spikes over 20w.
The reviewer ended up opening task manager on the Ally, and by force closing a bunch of background processes they were able to get the Ally down to 12-14w. But even with manually closes processes (which is unreasonable to expect users to do), he is wasn’t able to get close to the power draw of the deck. This isn’t even considering that people tuning gamescope and power tool settings on the deck can get it’s power usage way lower, down into the 4-5w range.
Some of this power draw disparity may be the hardware, I’ve heard the deck hardware is more power efficient at low power than the Ally’s. But it’s undeniable that running windows seriously hurts battery life, and makes windows handhelds inferior to the deck for low power games.
- Submitted 1 week ago to steamdeck@sopuli.xyz | 36 comments
- [PSA] Swapping your Deck's filesystem to Btrfs is easy to do, and can give you more space for freegitlab.com ↗Submitted 1 week ago to steamdeck@sopuli.xyz | 20 comments
- Comment on What’s next for the Steam Deck? 1 week ago:
There’s also the fact that the Rog Ally mainly gets higher performance by just dumping more electricity into the APU. It doesn’t really help that much that the Ally can perform better if it has to give up it’s portability to do so. The deck having such better power efficiency with low power games is more valuable to me than the Ally being able to drain it’s battery super quick to place a poorly optimized game at mediocre quality.
- Comment on What’s next for the Steam Deck? 1 week ago:
Nope, still chugging along. I’ve been pretty happy with them for game news over the years.
- Submitted 1 week ago to steamdeck@sopuli.xyz | 23 comments
- Comment on [Discussion] With the recent rumors of a possible hardware refresh, what are your most hoped for changes in an updated Steam Deck? 1 week ago:
Current ergonomics are pretty good in my experience, but I do have larger hands. How would you like to see them changed?
- Comment on [Discussion] With the recent rumors of a possible hardware refresh, what are your most hoped for changes in an updated Steam Deck? 1 week ago:
You can sorta already use the deck as a controller iirc. You can stream a game to your deck and still have it display on your PC. Just turn your deck screen brightness down and play.
- Comment on [Discussion] With the recent rumors of a possible hardware refresh, what are your most hoped for changes in an updated Steam Deck? 1 week ago:
On my SSD, I have 517G of files using only 410G of space.
- Comment on [Discussion] With the recent rumors of a possible hardware refresh, what are your most hoped for changes in an updated Steam Deck? 1 week ago:
It works really well, and it will convert your main filesystem without you having to reinstall or anything.
In addition to compression, it also will deduplicate files and set up a scheduled deduplication process.
- Comment on [Discussion] With the recent rumors of a possible hardware refresh, what are your most hoped for changes in an updated Steam Deck? 1 week ago:
The motherboard alone supposedly costs Valve somewhere around $270, so even with them selling the hardware at a loss I don’t think there’s any chance of getting a set top box for $100.
- Comment on [Discussion] With the recent rumors of a possible hardware refresh, what are your most hoped for changes in an updated Steam Deck? 1 week ago:
For the filesystem, I would recommend checking out this btrfs filesystem conversion for Steam Deck.
I’ve been super happy with it.
- Submitted 1 week ago to steamdeck@sopuli.xyz | 53 comments
- Comment on Solutions for Wake on Lan, no HDMI output - Docked Steam Deck (no ethernet required) for $15 2 weeks ago:
The HDMI issue seems to be fixed in the main update channel, although there’s an equally annoying bug where home/overlay menus stop working while you have bluetooth controllers connected.
Glad you found a good work around though.
- Comment on [App] I recently made an update to my SD Card scanning app [GitHub - ddotthomas/SteamDeck_SD_Card_Scanner: A program to keep track of the games on the SD card on a Steam Deck] 2 weeks ago:
Thanks for making stuff like this, I only use 1 SD card personally, but I could see this being really handy for people.
- Comment on [News] Updates to the linux kernel 6.6 suggest a hardware refresh/variant of the Steam Deck is in development 2 weeks ago:
It’s a great device, I don’t think you’ll regret going ahead and getting it.
- [News] Updates to the linux kernel 6.6 suggest a hardware refresh/variant of the Steam Deck is in developmentwww.phoronix.com ↗Submitted 2 weeks ago to steamdeck@sopuli.xyz | 12 comments
- Comment on [Game] Steam Deck mod for Starfield - significantly improves performance 2 weeks ago:
I know exactly what you mean, a lot of JRPGs are that for me
- Comment on [Discussion] New month, new games. What are you playing on your deck? - September 2023 2 weeks ago:
I personally haven’t messed around with streaming games, so I’m afraid I don’t have much advice to give there. In addition to the native Steam streaming there are alternate streaming options like moonlight (if you have a nvidia graphics card) that might give a better quality stream.
- Comment on [Game] Steam Deck mod for Starfield - significantly improves performance 2 weeks ago:
Reventure is an absolute joy to play through, I highly recommend you try it out when you get a chance.