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Cries in Australian.😢

“Many small time make big time” -Kevin Malone

Is that Dead Cells? 10/10 game choice for the stock picture

yeah as it stands a lot of SteamOS relies on having AMD graphical chipsets to work properly which makes me think a standard ISO isnt gonna happen any time soon.

there are ways to play them. technically even as it is the steam (non-linux native) games are "hacked" to work so its kinda all with in perspective but you dont ever have to "hack" anything like you would have to hack/jail break a nintendo console to run emulators on it.

for example, there is a third party launcher for downloading/launching games from the epic store and gog in a similar way that steam launches its windows titles (think it even just uses a version of proton for it). it should be available in the desktop mode app store so you dont even need to go out on a web browser to set any of it up. in some ways getting a lot of the games going is more "built in" than even windows.

some things simply wont really work, game pass for example will probably never work outside of streaming.

I’ve tried using HoloISO but it didn’t really work out. I only have Nvidia graphics cards

you can do it now with HoloISO, assuming you have an AMD card.

it would be nice to see valve put some effort into getting a system agnostic iso out into the world that they're supporting, or at least pay someone to work on it. I've not heard of them putting any sort of priority into getting a standard system ISO outinto the wild.

only thing that exists right now is HoloISO which is basically just the steamdeck recovery image cobbled together with other standard linux stuffs to make it work. It used to work with nvidia but according to the HoloISO page, its been updated with stuff that makes it just not work with nvidia at all.

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the other issue currently is that kde via SteamOS isnt set to use wayland for some reason. that probably wouldnt be an issue in most cases, but it does feel like we're ready to move on from X11 and I'd prefer to see wayland be the default on an offical steamOS iso

To be fair, Dead Cells is just that good

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I’m waiting for the revision where the steam deck hardware is married with their Index VR hardware for a Quest competitor.

I don't love the direction things are going with Windows 11, so I'm more than willing to beta test a SteamOS desktop release.

I've never used Linux in my life, but having spent time with my Deck, I can say that given more compatibility with games, I may just eventually want Linux to be my main computer's OS. I just love how customizable and unobtrusive everything has been. Windows, on the other hand, drives me nuts in some new way every single day.

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I don't know, that's not one I've tried honestly. A quick Google search says there is a Linux version though, so it should.

Can it run vcv rack?

It's a design critique... Not sure what the problem is with having different tastes exactly.

I think you'll see going forward that Steam Deck support will be a day 1 priority for most, if not all new PC releases. Even it's just to avoid the bad PR.

I would love a Huawei phone honestly

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Its the perfect emulation machine, hotel travel machine, on the plane machine, remote streaming machine, second machine, tinkering machine.

It is not the perfect main console, hassle free pickup and go machine. But man the sandbox nature of it is great. 0 regrets.

Not exactly related but I've got a Huawei mate 30 Pro and it has both of them. It is so convenient to use (if you are willing to sideload Google and stuff) as it has proper face id too (unlike Samsung) and an optical fingerprint sensor.

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I've been running Linux full time for quite a few years now, and i have a 512gb Steam Deck. In my experience, 80% of my library just works without tweaking due to proton. Maybe 15% requires minor tweaking, easily found instructions for online, the last 5% either requires major tweaking or just flat out doesn't run. Most of those don't run very well on windows either due to bad optimisations.

Linux isn't difficult, it just takes some patience to learn. Most things now don't need command line interface to do, but it doesn't hurt to learn the basics.