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[–] Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz 6 points 3 months ago

https://github.com/ryanrudolfoba/SteamOS-Waydroid-Installer

Not disagreeing with your point, but at least for waydroid there's a specific SteamOS installer available.

[–] Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz 3 points 3 months ago

As some others have said, the problem is probably that windows still has the drive locked. When windows "shuts down", it actually is only closing your programs and going into hibernation. This leaves the drive in a read only state, which will prevent you from being able to resize the partition.

To do a full shutdown, you can hold shift while pressing the shutdown button on the start menu. Alternatively run shutdown /s /f /t 0 in a administrative command prompt.

[–] Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz 1 points 3 months ago

Personally I would have preferred them to say it more explicitly, but I'm assuming their idea is people provide the knowledge for wikipedia, and AI should help smooth out the other necessary parts (moderation/editing/translation/etc) so that contributors can focus more on the knowledge part.

[–] Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz 14 points 3 months ago (4 children)

Desktop experience is just KDE, only part that I'm worried will trip people up is it being immutable. Usually that's fine, but occasionally you run into an issue where something doesn't work because of flatpak sandboxing, and it can be confusing how to overcome it.

[–] Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz 63 points 3 months ago (9 children)

It's working, I know people who don't even own a steam deck who are considering swapping to SteamOS once it's available for desktops.

I've told them they don't need to wait and can get a similar or better experience with distros that are already available, but steam's name is gold for a lot of people and it seems like the only option they're really interested in.

[–] Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz 11 points 3 months ago (1 children)

That's my guess, that they're looking for a specific hardware identification and the OLED was overlooked.

[–] Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz 6 points 3 months ago

I just recently bought a dryer. When I first got my printer, I was printing pretty constantly and didn't really have an issue with wet filament. But these days I've slowed down my printing frequency a lot, and I've definitely noticed that the print quality gets worse the longer I've had the roll unsealed.

[–] Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz 3 points 3 months ago

TDP limits can sometimes give you increased battery life with no change in game quality. However if you ever notice the game freezing or stuttering, make sure to disable TDP limit and see if that fixes it.

[–] Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz 4 points 3 months ago

You can use this tool to convert the deck.

The only downside I know of is that if your SteamOS install becomes corrupted (though a bug or from you messing something up), the Steam OS recovery drives won't be able to fix it without wiping all your internal data. In comparison, with the original ext4 there's a recovery option to only repair steamOS and leave your data intact.

This isn't as bad as it sounds, you can still manually backup any of your important data before wiping and restoring the drive (you can access the BTRFS system from the recovery drive, and copy anything important onto a microSD or other storage device), but it's definitely less convenient.

[–] Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

It has split screen, so we play docked on a TV.

It does have online play too though, there's a free friend's pass that you can use for two people to play online with one copy. However even in online play you'll be playing split screen, because it's often important to be able to see the other player's screen.

[–] Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz 14 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

I haven't bought the game yet, but I've been told this guy's setting list on ProtonDB is supposed to help a lot.

Also apparently changing graphics options on the game leads often leads to bad performance issues for that session. After changing settings, if it seems like the game is running worse, you will likely need to restart the game to see how well it will actually run with the new settings.

[–] Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz 4 points 3 months ago

I'm pretty interested in Spellrogue. Dice and deck builders go really well together, Slice & Dice and Dicey Dungeons are both 10/10 and very satisfying to play. I've heard good things about Spellrogue while it was in early access, so I'm hoping it will be another great option.

 

This is different from Bazzite and some of the other SteamOS similar operating systems by being as close to vanilla SteamOS as possible.

According to the devs:

It's a SteamOS based distribution that is intended to be as close to 1:1 compatible with upstream SteamOS as possible while making changes to support a wider range of hardware. It originated as a fork of HoloISO but it has been majorly overhauled to eliminate things like post-copy operations (as much as possible), introduce our own signed package repositories, add an automated release process, and provide many bug fixes and refinements. The focus has largely been on handheld gaming consoles, but it's in use on a variety of AMD based mini PCs as well.

 
 

This is debatable if it belongs here, but since these will be running Bazzite they're basically emulation focused Steam Machines. I think these have enough overlap with the Deck to be worth discussing here.

For those who don't know:

  • Emudeck provides a series of tools to make setting up emulation on the Steam Deck easy. Includes installing emulators, setting up control schemes, installing CRT shaders, and adding emulated titles to Steam so that you can run them like native steam games.

  • Bazzite is a SteamOS alternative. Biggest difference is that it's based on Fedora linux instead of Arch linux. Otherwise it provides a similar experience to SteamOS, with a steam based game mode, decky extension support, and many other similarities. It's main advantages are that it works on non-Deck hardware, supports permanently installing non-flatpak linux software, and lets you use different linux desktops besides KDE.

 

A particularly fun bit:

So then, how about Fortnite on Linux / Steam Deck? Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney said when it hits "tens of millions of users" that it "would actually make sense to support it". We must be pretty close by now right? Why ignore a platform that's sold multiple millions, and is clearly just continuing to fly off the shelves?

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