I find Linux more enjoyable to use than MacOS. I switched my Hackintosh over to Manjaro when the Steam Deck was first announced to get used to Linux before the Steam Deck arrived. These days I have it running Arch.

[ 2023-08-08 22:10:16Z ] 👍 0

@vilian9185 I've distro hopped a lot in the year and a half I've been a linux user since deck came out and I always come back to arch, because archinstall is piss easy, arch has the most documentation/tutorials, is up there among the distros with the most apps, and has the most up to date packages which for workstation stuff is a bad thing but gamers want the bleeding edge for maximum performance. Ironically, it's the distro that's given me the least issues of the ones I've tried too, despite being "unstable rolling release". I'd be perfectly comfortable recommending arch to newcomers, as long as you let them know about archinstall.

[ 2023-08-08 21:59:40Z ] 👍 0

@vilian9185 naaa...its fine any problem can be fixed with a bootable USB and doing chroot into his own partition if any program breaks or stop working, he can always rollback with pacman -U [old version] Arch isn't hard, anyone who understand KISS/DIY can find a way to make it work. Nowadays you don't have that much issues like in the past, the last thing that really compromised your experience was Grub issues.

[ 2023-08-08 17:00:13Z ] 👍 0

@vilian9185 any distrohop away from manjaro is a good one

[ 2023-08-08 15:34:39Z ] 👍 0

@vilian9185 I've only had it on Arch for about a month now and so far so good. It's not my main PC so if it goes badly in the end it is no big deal and if I really need it I still have Win 10 on another SSD.

[ 2023-08-08 15:29:53Z ] 👍 0

changing to arch isn't good for a new user, but well, if it worked for you, good job!

Cheers Liam.

[ 2023-08-08 15:33:52Z ] 👍 1

Thanks for watching :)

now i wonder if this will encourage devs to develop native linux builds?

[ 2023-08-08 21:11:45Z ] 👍 0

almost all vulkan games are linux native, since vulkan forces you or make it easy to use standard libraries, even for CPU code, unless someone is death set to code for microsoft only then that's a different story(using crap like win32 for networking or something)..

[ 2023-08-08 17:15:41Z ] 👍 0

Needs a much bigger share. Maybe this is the end goal though

[ 2023-08-08 15:42:08Z ] 👍 4

worse is that proton often works better than native ports on deck!

[ 2023-08-08 15:32:17Z ] 👍 2

​@gamingonlinuxwell, at least they gonna make it work on proton, or make it's verified

[ 2023-08-08 15:30:20Z ] 👍 21

I doubt it, not a whole lot of need when Proton gets like 99% of the way there. Until the user share is a fair amount higher, any extra put into a native linux build to potentially squeeze a lil more performance doesn't seem worth it when Proton can just do most of it for now.

This was supposed to be done quite a few days ago but Baldur's Gate 3 sucked away many many hours woops 🙈🙈

[ 2023-08-09 20:42:51Z ] 👍 0

How many?

Best settings really is so weird for me, because it varies so wildly. More often than not I will set the game resolution to 960x540 and have the built in FSR handle upscaling, because on the small screen there is not a big enough difference that I will care, and it either gives me more battery life, or pushes a game from 30 to 40 fps. As for refurbished Steam Decks, I wonder if mine will be in there, as I sent one in with a defective APU. Everything else worked fine, but I got a brand new Deck rather than them repairing mine.

Valve needs to release the new steam os

I have a feeling the Hardware Survey could actually significantly underestimate the amount of active Steam Deck users. The survey depends on users actively choosing to participate in it, and despite using the Steam Deck a lot, only once have I actually been given the option of participating in the survey on it, whilst it's caught me a few times on my desktop PC, even if I use it less. Perhaps the Hardware Survey should be checking if a Steam user frequently uses a Deck, in addition to their currently hardware surveyed device. Having said that, Valve will already have all the data they need on the Deck, and with more and more developers starting to actively support it, I think it's quite telling that the Deck is definitely leaving it's mark on the industry.

Now GamingonLinux needs to overtake Linux itself!

Steam Deck is fantastic. It has changed the way I play games and what games I consider playing. It's broadened the scope of genres I actually enjoy. Very happy to see this. Armored Core 6 Deluxe Edition pre-ordered on Steam. 🙂 Recently 100 percented Warhammer 40k Boltgun and now I've been playing Lunacid. Have a majestic day. ✌️

I just finished “Super Kiwi 64” on the Deck. It fit the handheld experience, albeit with some quirks like being unable to adjust resolution or exit from an in-game menu. It’s a good $3 if you just want to run around, collect stuff, not think much, and finish in one sitting. It’s somewhat unpolished, but it controls well.

I’m trying to get fallout new Vegas working on the deck using mouse and keyboard. Having trouble switching the controls over.

I call this positive news!

Personaly I am still waiting for official Steam OS to dump Windows on my gaming PC and go full Linux. MC just pisses me so much lately (lately since last 2 years)

I wonder if Apple might change policy and introduce Vulkan support in the hope of getting all this Proton-Steam stuff on Mac OS.

[ 2023-08-09 13:25:46Z ] 👍 0

@pytrysYou think Apple are going to let our jumped up nerdy OS humiliate them? "Nah, don't buy a Mac. Even Linux has more games than Mac. Macs suck." (That's what I imagine people will say at least.)

[ 2023-08-09 12:31:44Z ] 👍 0

Nah, not gonna happen.

lets hope we keep seeing Linux creep up in these HW surveys, I know Apple is doing their own Protn for Mac but I doubt it wil be anywhere near as good as Valves work.

Yeahh most people likely use the steamdeck as a secondary device, that's what I bought it for as I do have a pretty beastly desktop PC, with a 12th i7, and a 6900xt running arch Linux with kde Wayland. Yet I haven't touched that PC in weeks because I've been playing on my steamdeck instead. Probably because I work from home and my work desk is the same desk with my gaming desktop on it, so being able to get away from my desk and game is a huge deal. And honestly the steamdeck may not run the games at like the highest possible settings, but it's a solid medium settings machine and it works well for that.

And its actual gnu/linux too, not something based on a non-standard stack! Loving this news ^^

I just realized yesterday that the steam deck is "available" in my country, Brazil, through resellers on mercado libre, for close to the original price as well. I might get one soon.

I tried to play NFS Unbound on my Win 11 RTX 4090 gaming PC. It wouldn't run, no error messages no nothing. Installed and launched fine on Steam Deck. Switched my gaming rig to POP OS and haven't looked back. Hellloooo linux!

Is it the hyperbole? You guys mad about 'best' vs 'recommended'? SDHQ is littered with recommended settings for nearly everything. Welcome to the PC Master Race, Deckers! We obsess :|

[ 2023-08-08 17:37:25Z ] 👍 1

Read the SDHQ article properly, it is all explained.

My le year? It was of le Linux Desktop?

Valve need to release a stable desktop SteamOS.

[ 2023-08-08 21:30:39Z ] 👍 0

@niks660097 Yeah, I know, but to have a console-like experience, SteamOS 3.x runs circles around most distros + steam in BPM. I'm not knocking Proton or using another distro, but Valve seems to be working on a generic distro (not Deck hardware specific), and I'd love to try it out.

[ 2023-08-08 21:13:55Z ] 👍 3

you don't need steamos, proton works every single on linux distro, see the increase in the video, even ubuntu gaming users increased, because of valve's proton's funding..

[ 2023-08-08 18:50:20Z ] 👍 3

I've been waiting patiently so I can put it on my old Steam Machine which I still use regularly (after a storage and OS upgrade)

"Change happens slowly, then all at once."

Refurbished Steam Deck direct from Valve now official! https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/08/now-official-you-can-buy-a-refurbished-steam-deck-from-valve/

Proton and Rosetta are changing the game

you should be calmer while making these vids, you sound angry

[ 2023-08-08 19:29:45Z ] 👍 2

@FendronTheEclipse *facepalm*

[ 2023-08-08 19:07:57Z ] 👍 1

@gamingonlinux I think your ears need checking* Also, you don't need to insult people like that ^^

[ 2023-08-08 19:01:26Z ] 👍 3

@FendronTheEclipse think your ears need checking 🤷‍♂️🤦‍♂️

[ 2023-08-08 18:57:28Z ] 👍 1

@gamingonlinux just some advice, no need to be angry about hearing it :P

[ 2023-08-08 18:46:33Z ] 👍 1

lolwat

Just like this month's market share, my hopes of devs starting to make decent native Linux ports like they should've been doing since a decade ago has risen up by 0.52%. Sure, feeble, but better than nothing, hopefully it'll only snowball from here on out. I also hope at some point I'll get to buy the damn thing in Brazil, even refurbished. Those dropped prices are such a tease, dammit, enough to make me care a bit less (but not totally) about the fact I would be taxed up my ass if I imported it.

Thank you!

Come on. You demonish “best settings” and two minutes later share “you beet settings” for elders gate. 😂

[ 2023-08-08 19:25:14Z ] 👍 3

....wat? elders gate?! lmao what did you just blend two games together. I never give "best settings" because such a thing doesn't exist, I simply share what I've been using while talking about a game.

I only play fps and rts games on Linux desktop and most of them run outside Steam (mostly gog).

Can’t wait for them to officially release SteamOS based on Arch for all devices

[ 2023-08-08 20:26:52Z ] 👍 2

The current versión is steamOS 3.4 XD

On the topic of selling "high quality" refurbished Steam Deck (SD), I got an idea for when a Steam Deck 2 eventually releases (hopefully not for years but eventually). What if we were to send our SD to Valve and exchange that for a discounted SD2? That will make let Valve have some spare components for reuse, while gamers won't leave their old SD to gather dust (or worse, throw them away). Being environmentally conscious helps both sides. What do you guys think? On another note, what's a proper/official channel to report Steam Deck issues/suggestions? I don't know if this is a bug, but Steam Deck shouldn't automatically start downloading whichever Proton is at the top of your list when trying force a different Proton version? Good work with the news videos Liam, as always, but I'm happy you're enjoying yourself with Baldur's Gate III :)

I consider this more of an Apple fumble really

[ 2023-08-08 22:15:53Z ] 👍 4

So an Apple Crumble you could say

I hope Nvidia will fix their Linux driver bugs soon. All of my games are working just fine on my SD, but not on my desktop pc since I have a RTX3080 :(

[ 2023-08-09 05:04:27Z ] 👍 0

It can sometimes be very annoying to troubleshoot these type of issues. I have a 3080Ti and I was having an issue with Tiny Tina's Wonderland. It would not run on my very high end Linux PC, running Fedora 38. However, it ran perfectly on my SteamDeck. For a while, I played it on the SD. Then recently, I wanted to get it working on the PC. I had tried several things to get it working, but none of them worked. Every other high end game ran great on my PC. Then I recalled in the past, there being a significant difference between which method of installation was used for Steam itself. You can get different results, if you use an install from a rpm repository(Fedora default software location) or if you choose to install Steam from a flatpak(universal application installer). I switched to "flatpak" and then EVERYTHING worked. Why this happens is I believe related to the way "flatpak" works behind the scenes as it installs everything it needs in it's own "world" you could say, to not get technical. It can end up installing libraries(or prerequisites) that are different versions than are installed globally in your Linux distro. And this means, the games can end up using different libraries via a flatpak install, then they would in a "normal" install. Sometimes this results in things having a better chance of working. The downside is, flatpak(and other methods similar to it) tend to use more disk space as a result. Not a huge amount, but you should be aware that is a difference. Just mentioning it, as it may allow you to get around issues you've had. You can look up "flatpak" or other application distribution methods like it for more info. It depends on your Linux distribution as to what might be useful. Fedora supports flatpak, so it's a solid option for Fedora users like me. Also there are MANY other applications, some of which are designed for Windows, that run in these type of environments too. Lastly, I wouldn't use BOTH methods if you decide to try it. I'd remove installed Steam games on the PC and then Steam, before installing Steam in a different "environment" such as flatpak.

[ 2023-08-08 22:15:32Z ] 👍 3

New driver just went out today: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/08/nvidia-driver-535-98-now-available-for-linux/

LOL this doesn't really say much. Like I mean, MacOS is shit anyway.

Travellers rest is replacing Stardew Valley this month, very chill not sure how deep it is but 10 hours so far.

Gotta consider that Apple has never done anything to promote gaming on macOS unlike Linux with Proton for compatibility and Steam Decks for actual hardware. Apple is more of a "For Creators" company than anything else. Though I am surprised that it took this long to overtake an OS even without the Deck where 75% of games can't even run because of required drivers and software like Direct X for example.

I treat best settings videos like review videos. These are opinions not facts. They are a good jump off point for custom tweaking options.

Does anyone remember Xevil?

For all European Union Refurbished Deck is 64GB - 339€, 256GB - 439€ 512GB - 539€

I mean what could possibly go wrong....

The re sale of refurbished decks are gonna jump sales up soooo much...what a great idea

This week i added Palia to my SD. Works quite well on all medium details, jumps wildly from 30 fps to 60 fps depending on camera position. i just set refresh at 45 to keep fan noise down.

Total War Warhammer 3 is my main game right now. It's a really enjoyable timesink of a game.

these arch linux weeb fiends are more in number than i once believed

On the topic of best settings videos...there are some channels (Cryobyte, specifically) that try to come up with different sets of settings that optimize for battery life, fidelity, or balance. Their videos are fantastic, they show data, testing methodologies, etc. Viewers can pick and choose what they like. I do ignore folks that just post a random screenshot of their settings and call it "best"

[ 2023-08-11 08:24:07Z ] 👍 0

Yeah Cryo does decent in depth videos!

Which software you used to play with xbox controller wirelessly? Please give any steps as i want to play with on my desktop.

I'm glad that Linux is progressing, but I don't consider it a significant achievement. macOS uses the ARM architecture, and x86 games don't work on it. Plus, Apple isn't interested in gaming, so it was just a matter of time. I expected it much sooner.

We are officially gaming right now

Yeah, but it's 96.21% vs 1.84 vs 1.96. In Japan or Korea, this is called acorns comparing their heights.

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