Let's talk about the current state of Gaming on Linux! I was watching The Game Awards ceremony last week, when I realised that more than a half of all nomine...
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I find it a lot better than the Switch, and I’m guessing the other devices have similar issues. The touchpads are about as good as I could expect for a device of this form factor.
No you can not install any launcher, MMO games are going to block it
You can install pretty much any launcher, but games with anti-cheat are likely not going to work. That’s not a Linux problem, it’s a game problem. Linux has solved the technical issues here as much as it can, and even MP games w/ anti-cheat are starting to work on Linux.
SteamOS is not open source
That depends on your definition of SteamOS. The base is all FOSS, so you can grab the graphic stack, kernel, etc and run with it. The UI Valve has made (I.e. the Steam client) is not FOSS, but that’s true of games as well, so I don’t really see what benefit the end user would have if Steam was FOSS but the games weren’t if they had issues with proprietary software.
If you want, you could even uninstall all the proprietary stuff from a Steam Deck since it’s just a fork of Arch Linux under the hood.
No there’s nothing appropriate about your entire hand to hold on to brick sized plastic with good chance of breaking the glass
Uh, what? I’ve never had anything remotely close to the problem you’ve described. I either hold it with one grip, or I grip it on the back of the device. How am I going to break the glass?
Or are you just complaining about the size? I think it’s fine, it’s a lot more comfortable to use than my Switch, and there’s really not much you can do to get that ergonomics in a smaller package w/o sacrificing screen size.
The usb for physical keyboard or mouse is poorly designed as you need it to power the device itself
Just get a USB hub. If you’re going to use it with keyboard and mouse, you’ll want some kind of dock or hub anyway. Any off-the-shelf hub should work just fine, just get something with enough power passthrough so you can charge while gaming.
A lot of batteries are used and throw in the trash because of Valve cheap design.
What do you mean? I mostly use the built-in controller, and my other controllers can charge just fine through a USB hub. I’m not sure what you’re getting at here.
the battery and other components are tricky stuck in place
Just the battery, and that’s true for pretty much every other small device with a battery. Batteries need to be stable, and the easiest way to do that is to glue it in place. This can absolutely be better, and apparently Valve reduced the amount of glue on the new Steam Deck OLED.
And yes, most Android and iPhones have that exact same problem, phone repair places have been complaining for ages about glued-in batteries. iPhone is even worse in that it pairs a lot of the components to the device, so you need their software to program replacement parts (not sure if it’s available yet, but that was a huge complaint about their repair program). The Steam Deck does no such nonsense, everything is just a standard PCB, though the glue on the battery does suck (again, par for the course for small devices).
Valve took the cheap way for profit
I doubt the Steam Deck is directly profitable. If you look at other devices with similar hardware, they tend to go for at least $100 more than the Deck, and they don’t nearly as much custom software (just an app on Windows).
The consensus in the community is that Steam is investing in SteamOS and Steam Deck in order to sell more games and create a viable alternative to Windows, not to make profit on the hardware. Gabe Newell himself described the price point as “painful”, so I doubt they’re turning much of a profit, if at all.
SteamOS being open source would solve a lot of problems including the keyboard. Users should be allowed to customize their U.I has any Linux operating system. There’s no reason why they shouldn’t.
Again you should not trust Valve for anything. There’s enough lawsuits to prove they lied to everyone. Gabe is part of the list of liars, claiming better Steam Deck and after a year it’s a joke performance.
I’m not sure how this is implemented, but it’s possible it already is FOSS, since it’s probably part of the KDE ecosystem. I’m not sure though, I haven’t bothered to look since the keyboard works really well for me.
As for the UI, users don’t have the ability to customize the Steam client on Linux because that is proprietary, though running Steam doesn’t prevent them from customizing the desktop. The same is true on the Deck, you can customize anything on the desktop you want, you just can’t customize the Steam client.
joke performance
Citation needed. I have not had any issues with performance, and it’s actually exceeded my expectations.
I find it a lot better than the Switch, and I’m guessing the other devices have similar issues. The touchpads are about as good as I could expect for a device of this form factor.
You can install pretty much any launcher, but games with anti-cheat are likely not going to work. That’s not a Linux problem, it’s a game problem. Linux has solved the technical issues here as much as it can, and even MP games w/ anti-cheat are starting to work on Linux.
That depends on your definition of SteamOS. The base is all FOSS, so you can grab the graphic stack, kernel, etc and run with it. The UI Valve has made (I.e. the Steam client) is not FOSS, but that’s true of games as well, so I don’t really see what benefit the end user would have if Steam was FOSS but the games weren’t if they had issues with proprietary software.
If you want, you could even uninstall all the proprietary stuff from a Steam Deck since it’s just a fork of Arch Linux under the hood.
Uh, what? I’ve never had anything remotely close to the problem you’ve described. I either hold it with one grip, or I grip it on the back of the device. How am I going to break the glass?
Or are you just complaining about the size? I think it’s fine, it’s a lot more comfortable to use than my Switch, and there’s really not much you can do to get that ergonomics in a smaller package w/o sacrificing screen size.
Just get a USB hub. If you’re going to use it with keyboard and mouse, you’ll want some kind of dock or hub anyway. Any off-the-shelf hub should work just fine, just get something with enough power passthrough so you can charge while gaming.
What do you mean? I mostly use the built-in controller, and my other controllers can charge just fine through a USB hub. I’m not sure what you’re getting at here.
Just the battery, and that’s true for pretty much every other small device with a battery. Batteries need to be stable, and the easiest way to do that is to glue it in place. This can absolutely be better, and apparently Valve reduced the amount of glue on the new Steam Deck OLED.
And yes, most Android and iPhones have that exact same problem, phone repair places have been complaining for ages about glued-in batteries. iPhone is even worse in that it pairs a lot of the components to the device, so you need their software to program replacement parts (not sure if it’s available yet, but that was a huge complaint about their repair program). The Steam Deck does no such nonsense, everything is just a standard PCB, though the glue on the battery does suck (again, par for the course for small devices).
I doubt the Steam Deck is directly profitable. If you look at other devices with similar hardware, they tend to go for at least $100 more than the Deck, and they don’t nearly as much custom software (just an app on Windows).
The consensus in the community is that Steam is investing in SteamOS and Steam Deck in order to sell more games and create a viable alternative to Windows, not to make profit on the hardware. Gabe Newell himself described the price point as “painful”, so I doubt they’re turning much of a profit, if at all.
SteamOS being open source would solve a lot of problems including the keyboard. Users should be allowed to customize their U.I has any Linux operating system. There’s no reason why they shouldn’t.
Again you should not trust Valve for anything. There’s enough lawsuits to prove they lied to everyone. Gabe is part of the list of liars, claiming better Steam Deck and after a year it’s a joke performance.
I’m not sure how this is implemented, but it’s possible it already is FOSS, since it’s probably part of the KDE ecosystem. I’m not sure though, I haven’t bothered to look since the keyboard works really well for me.
As for the UI, users don’t have the ability to customize the Steam client on Linux because that is proprietary, though running Steam doesn’t prevent them from customizing the desktop. The same is true on the Deck, you can customize anything on the desktop you want, you just can’t customize the Steam client.
Citation needed. I have not had any issues with performance, and it’s actually exceeded my expectations.