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One year later, well, almost. Spitting some #SteamDeck thoughts rattling in my brain and giving an overview on the state of things. Games featured are Broforce and Grim Dawn, both were running on Steam Deck.Buy from Humble Store with my partner link to support the channel: https://www.humblebundle.com/store?partner=gamingonlinuxFollow me in these places:Mastodon: https://mastodon.social/@gamingonlinuxTwitter: https://www.twitter.com/gamingonlinuxRead news: https://www.gamingonlinux.com  Support me: https://www.patreon.com/liamdawe  Join Discord: https://discord.gg/AghnYbMjYgA reminder: this channel and the content is done entirely by one person. Please be kind and civil in the comments.==============Affiliate links belowivoler Steam Deck Docking Station (UK): https://amzn.to/3XgT2YXSpiden Armour Steam Deck Case (UK): https://amzn.to/3XTy3vltomtoc Carrying Case for Steam Deck (UK): https://amzn.to/3kmGW1U

[ 2023-01-19 19:04:14Z ]👍 33

watching this on my steam deck lol

[ 2023-02-26 18:03:30Z ] 👍 0

@@ScubavSteve Probably desktop browser. You can add a link to YouTube to Steam as a non-steam app though, and use startup options to set it to kiosk mode. Makes it feel almost the same as an app.

[ 2023-02-26 17:46:54Z ] 👍 0

Excuse my ignorance but are you watching through a desktop browser or is there a YouTube app? New deck owner here.

[ 2023-01-19 19:32:05Z ] 👍 1

Same!

[ 2023-01-19 19:16:42Z ] 👍 0

Nice!!

[ 2023-01-19 19:11:15Z ]👍 5

I should finally be getting one soon, splurging for my big 4-0.

[ 2023-02-05 16:39:04Z ] 👍 0

37 this month and getting one soon too!

[ 2023-01-19 19:15:56Z ]👍 3

I’ve been trying to avoid installing windows but idk how long I can wait for the anti cheat.. most of my games won’t play because of this

[ 2023-01-31 12:03:33Z ] 👍 1

@@buddybleeyes That might explain why windows on the go refused to go onto one of my a1 cards 🤔 thanks

[ 2023-01-19 19:55:34Z ] 👍 1

@06kellyjac make sure it's not a a1 card, only run windows on A2. Tested it myself to see if it would be ok- it definitely wasn't ok on the A1 card, could barely use windows explorer😂

[ 2023-01-19 19:29:36Z ] 👍 2

You can put windows on an SD card for some of the exceptions

[ 2023-01-19 19:37:38Z ]👍 7

Love the steam deck, honestly valve needs to put incentives in for anticheat on steam os and Linux. I would hands down switch to steam os full time on my main pc and my steam deck tomorrow if they got the anticheat problem sorted

[ 2023-01-19 23:16:18Z ] 👍 0

@@buddybleeyes It's called an immutable filesystem. And anything kernel level apart from the OS is not going on my system, hence why Valorant will never be on my computers.

[ 2023-01-19 22:58:28Z ] 👍 0

@Cameron Bosch unfortunately with competition like epic, and publishers having their own stores- force isn't going to work, they could have a requirement for new games to be compatible- but old/ older or already released games are gunna be SOL. Plus, that would have to have notice given etc, so unless if its an simpler tweak- we wouldn't see that impact for a good while. Potentially like a year or two if the issues with the anticheat are deep rooted into the engine. Valorant for example is a kernel level anticheat. I don't think valve would accept that in steam os since its read only and updates wipe anything written to unlocked permissions (I can't think of what it was called again).

[ 2023-01-19 22:45:14Z ] 👍 0

@@buddybleeyes I know, but the point is that it's Valve's store, so they make the rules. And I did say they should try to make incentives first; they should only use force as a last resort.

[ 2023-01-19 22:29:41Z ] 👍 1

@Cameron Bosch valorant isn't even on steam, it's on epic. I agree it would be better for everyone if they just made everything compatible with Linux. Force won't do it, incentives like a less percentage cut valve takes would definitely do it though. They need to work out an incentive that the publishers also win abit on to persuade them to invest to make it work on linux.

[ 2023-01-19 22:24:51Z ] 👍 0

Either incentives or force. Of course they should start with incentives, but there's a point where they should stop allowing new games that don't allow use on Linux (*cough cough* Valorant & Destiny 2 *cough cough*).

[ 2023-01-19 19:38:46Z ]👍 14

I've had mine since April. It's just become my main pc at this point, it's pretty great! Basically what I'd wanted from the GPD Win 2, but back then the performance just wasn't quite there and Windows made the interface too clunky.

[ 2023-01-19 19:59:16Z ]👍 0

I absolutely love my Steam Deck, and I am sad that I might have to RMA it, as the battery on it has severe issues. It will keep telling me that it has 2-3%, then jump back up to the correct percentage a few seconds later. Some times it randomly just shuts down as well, saying it is a 0%. Even so, it is still the best tech purchase I have made in years, and some issues are always present on 1st gen products.

[ 2023-01-20 07:18:36Z ] 👍 0

@@repinsvizios I would suggest calibrating. There must be Tutorials for that somewhere.

[ 2023-01-20 04:45:18Z ] 👍 0

@@Djep1taph I have sadly already tried that, draining it by having it open in BIOS, then letting it charge an entire night, to no effect. Even worse, my Steam Deck won't even charge anymore, as of last night. It shows the little charge icon, but it doesn't go above 0% battery.

[ 2023-01-20 03:52:49Z ] 👍 0

Yeah that's probably a software issue. Let your battery to 0 and then recharge

[ 2023-01-20 03:01:40Z ] 👍 0

Maybe you have to calibrate your battery.

[ 2023-01-19 20:02:06Z ]👍 2

Absolutely love my steam deck. My Favourite gaming device ever

[ 2023-01-19 20:05:32Z ]👍 3

It got me in to PC gaming due to its easy nature\setup I don’t have to worry if my pc will run this I just checked if it’s verified and off I go and the more I use the more I learn too even tinkering with things like re4 mods, decky loader, hero launcher etc. it’s also saved me a bit £££ with steam seemingly always having a sale! Tho sometimes than can have to opposite effect lol

[ 2023-01-19 21:17:50Z ]👍 33

I wish Valve engineers in the community a nice evening watching this video :D

[ 2023-01-19 21:19:42Z ]👍 1

you missed a joke, why did you not say that they opened the flood Valves!

[ 2023-01-19 22:46:35Z ]👍 9

Love my Steam Deck and am currently using it mostly as a desktop connected to an ultrawide monitor and its amazing how well that little thing performs. Right now my biggest issue with the deck is mouse support in Steam OS is non existent and would like to see printer support. My mouse kinda works in Steam OS however I can't adjust the sensitivity and the mouse wheel is horrible when trying to scroll down.

[ 2023-01-19 23:19:42Z ]👍 0

I love mine, but feel like I'm not even scraping the surface due to knowing nothing at all about Linux.

[ 2023-01-20 00:42:26Z ]👍 3

I’ve been continuously impressed with how much the Steam Deck has grown in it’s first year! My Steam Replay stats showed me that my Deck is rapidly replacing my main gaming PC as my go to gaming device. It just feels that great to play! Like you said, I would love to see Valve improve the reliability of it’s Verification system. I’ve personally experienced instances where updates to the Deck or Proton have broken ‘Verified’ games which were previously working great (eg. Alan Wake and Wolfenstein 2). Some of these seem to take a very long time to get fixed, if at all. I’d also love 2023 to be the year where Valve releases a full-length game that takes full advantage of the Deck’s features, similar to how Half-Life: Alyx showcased the Valve Index.

[ 2023-01-20 02:23:56Z ]👍 1

I always wanted to get into linux but could never stick with it due to it being so inconvenient, however with the deck it has definitely got me into linux now because of the tinkering and game modding i am learning so much about linux in general.

[ 2023-02-05 16:40:03Z ] 👍 0

I always loved linux, but only messed with debian, so will be a learning curve with arch...

[ 2023-01-20 03:52:54Z ]👍 1

Probably a "console" with the biggest library of playables games ever made. The idea is just as exciting as the device itself.

[ 2023-01-20 05:25:08Z ]👍 0

It's a very good time for us ! Very happy with my Deck too !

[ 2023-01-20 05:27:47Z ]👍 2

Thanks for the shout out!

[ 2023-01-20 05:33:21Z ]👍 0

Yep, fantastic summary, Liam. I also just read that Verge article earlier, it was interesting to see the opinion there change so much.

[ 2023-01-20 05:42:50Z ]👍 2

Got my Deck this last Christmas. You were one of the a few Youtubers who helped to decide that the Deck was the right choice for me.

[ 2023-01-20 05:55:50Z ]👍 1

I'm really enjoying my Steam Deck. I used it as my only computer/gaming rig over the holidays. Played portal 2, L4D2, Quiplash, Sonic Racing, Rocket League and used it for Kodi/Plex. I just installed Uncharted and Forza Horizon 5 after running into problems streaming them from my PC.

[ 2023-01-20 06:02:02Z ]👍 0

I still don’t think it’s finished but I’m semi happy with mine

[ 2023-01-24 15:44:41Z ] 👍 0

What don’t you like about it?

[ 2023-01-20 07:51:49Z ]👍 0

I feel great about Proton but we Australians aren't important enough to be allowed to buy a Steam Deck. :-/

[ 2023-01-20 09:05:48Z ]👍 0

I love it, it is my everyday companion! And I own a beefy desktop pc. The steamdeck surprises me with a cool new thing i learn it can do every other day.

[ 2023-01-20 10:13:42Z ]👍 0

I love the Steam Deck, as a software developer and a Linux lover, it's even better because I can go straight to the command line, install everything I need without the back-and-forth with a windows PC and transferring files from usb keys that some users have to do if they are unfamiliar with some elements of Linux. My only regrets, that might get fixed : wifi wierd issues (I think kde keyring doesn't unlock randomly on boot, so it prompts for password on known wifi networks), booting without any wired or wifi connection available, disabling wifi and still steam login waits for network before falling back to offline (it should be instant if I'm offline on purpose), having to switch often between game mode and desktop mode because I'm having a hard time configuring gamepad controls when launching games in desktop mode, slow and buggy Deck mode UI sometimes (minor issue).

[ 2023-01-20 11:17:46Z ]👍 2

I was hoping for the Deck to be an all-around, multi-purpose and tinker friendly gaming companion. It has been exactly that. Though there's much to improve in a successor, the experience is very positive so far and I'm very curious how far SteamOS will take it, which is the actual star on the show. Will there be another large update in 2023, are we going to to see expanded functionality or is this pretty much it?

[ 2023-01-20 13:57:08Z ] 👍 3

There's going to be multiple big updates in 2023, I can guarantee you that and I'll be covering them :)

[ 2023-01-20 13:18:48Z ]👍 2

What is the first game shown in the video?

[ 2023-01-20 14:30:17Z ] 👍 2

@@infernogott heh no problem, happy to help, it's a fantastic game

[ 2023-01-20 14:26:40Z ] 👍 1

@@gamingonlinux Thanks. Wow how did I miss that :O

[ 2023-01-20 13:56:25Z ] 👍 2

Broforce, it is noted at the top of the video and in the description.

[ 2023-01-21 11:43:28Z ]👍 0

Could you share you setting for Grim Dawn please? i Have a hard time getting smooth 60

[ 2023-01-23 14:01:28Z ]👍 1

Broforce! I forgot about that. Such a great game. 🤣

[ 2023-01-24 04:52:41Z ]👍 0

I haven't owned mine for a year as I got it last September, but this little piece of hardware is very impressive for how affordable it is in terms of Handheld Gaming PC's It is a little annoying that Anti-Cheat is hard to implement into Linux, but this is not Valve's fault however as most of those Anti Cheat engines are Windows Based You can Dual Boot into Windows 11 if you wish, but it is not recommended by Valve though as performance may be Sub-Par in some aspects

[ 2023-01-24 16:20:50Z ]👍 1

I love my Steam Deck, but why does nobody *ever* mention how atrocious Steam's own store page functions on the Deck itself? It's atrocious, hasn't changed since I got my Deck at launch, & I simply can't understand it; after so many updates I struggle with how every review or update just swallows the store's inescapable flaws outright is all, know what I mean? It's absolutely jarring, & it's a sincerely strange problem to have.

[ 2023-01-25 00:51:33Z ]👍 0

Is 7 months i own my STeamDeck and it's an amazing experience i never thought i would be able to play my favourite PC game on the go or simply comfy far from the desk and also is made change and ditch Windows right now is already 3 weeks i'm running ManjaroKDE and well i can do better and more than windows . It's just amazing !

[ 2023-01-26 15:53:51Z ]👍 0

I've had my steam deck for about 2 weeks and I haven't touched my series X or gaming PC since. I've been playing a lot of single player games that I either never finished or played. It still blows my mind at how good cyberpunk runs on this thing. Unbelievable 😂😂 I've also been playing Mario Galaxy and other Nintendo games because I refuse to buy a switch. God of War, Horizon, Wild Hunt, so many amazing games and the price of it is just crazy. For what this thing can do for 500 bucks. It really is amazing.

[ 2023-01-26 15:56:42Z ]👍 0

Also wanted to add I had no idea this played Grim Dawn. I couldn't get last epoch running did anyone try wolcen?

[ 2023-02-21 09:28:45Z ]👍 2

Lol. 🎉 coming in for 1 year review and got absorbed with the game🤣 thanks mate. You got my likes

[ 2023-02-25 22:36:48Z ]👍 0

I've had mine since July and love it. I barely gamed before and i had all consoles. I play the Steam Deck a lot and have not stopped using it. It's just so good.

[ 2023-02-26 16:41:40Z ]👍 0

When you say you had a bad fan how could you tell? Mine is quite loud but for the hardware inside I expected it tbh but I'm not educated in equipment this is a first time owning anything like this so I've not got a clue.

[ 2023-02-26 19:13:28Z ] 👍 0

@@gamingonlinux thanks for the reply and I'm not sure what I'd call the sound of mine it can't be too bad if sometimes I have to turn the volume right down to see how loud it is. It did scare me at first but considering this is basically a p.c in a handheld device it's not comparable to the switch or anything else I've owned before. Is kinda noisy ok in your opinion then? It's not constant its mainly when it's loading or downloading, when I'm not running a game it's silent it gets warm but not to a level it's hot in my hands and I can feel the cool air off the fan so it seems to be alright. Your experience compared to mine though I would take your word over my opinion lol also if I did have a problem where it was faulty will steam take responsibility on their side and how would I go about informing them? Sorry to be a pain mate.

[ 2023-02-26 16:48:39Z ] 👍 2

The bearing in my original review unit was dying, so it sounded like it was grating something 😅

[ 2023-02-27 19:51:45Z ]👍 0

You can't stress enough how great SteamOS really is. I have Windows working on my Deck, but it's so clunky in comparison, I'm not using it at all. And seriously - a mobile device that can run Elden Ring, Cyberpunk, and Hogwarts Legacy at a solid 30+ fps is just frickin amazing. 🥳