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Depends on the game. Most common setup is just mapping the ABXY buttons to them, so I don't have to take my finger off the right thumb stick to press them. In Elden Ring I use them for dpad presses instead, because I need to cycle spells/use recovery items without stopping moving.

I know a lot of people use them for L3 R3 instead of clicking the sticks.

In a couple games with smaller text I use one for toggling the magnifier, or in keyboard heavy games for opening the keyboard.

Inside konsole, you can use different shells. Some common ones are bash, fish, and zsh. The deck comes with all three of those installed by default.

You can usually tell which one you're using by either looking at the title bar of konsole when you first open it (should say something like ~:bash -- Konsole) or by running the command echo $SHELL

Once you've confirmed you're using bash, run which python (or which python3 if you're using python 3). Outside of the venv you should see the command return /usr/bin/python

After you run your source command, run which python again. You should now see that the python location being run has changed to be inside the venv folder.

The fork is specifically focused on Bloodborne only emulation, and has significantly improved performance in that one specific game. I don't know any specific listed changes for it, just that people report significantly better performance on it.

If I recall correctly, you can startup adhoc wifi in desktop mode, but I don't think there's a convenient way to do it in gamemode.

Quick question, are you using bash or another terminal? I think they Deck comes with fish preinstalled, but if I remember right I don't think the default source command works in fish without making some other changes.

Yep, although quality is mixed depending on the game.

Yeah, those absolute monsters.

Just saw the Ars Technica article on this, and it included this lovely section:

As detailed in the r/macgaming subreddit and at r/SteamDeck, many players who successfully got Marvel Rivals working would receive a "Penalty Issued" notice, with a violation "detected" and bans issued until 2124. Should such a ban stand, players risked entirely missing the much- prophesied Year of the Linux Desktop or Mainstream Mac Gaming, almost certain to happen at some point in that span.

Most games have too bad of performance to work properly. The Bloodborne focused fork reportably gets 25-30fps, but that's with some mods and system tweaks.

The biggest thing for me is being able to put games to sleep and pick them up later. Being able to instantly stop playing a game, and then instantly start playing back at that same spot later has really freed me up to play in a lot of small sessions.

I've majorly cut down on how much time I spend on my phone, and replaced it with bite sized chunks of playing real games.

From what I've read, Microsoft just decided to drop support for the PL-2303HXA/ TA/TB/HXD/RA/SA/EA. Some people report that RA chipsets still work some of the time, but inconsistently.

You can also sometimes forcibly install old drivers, that will continue to work.

Yeah, windows 10/11 has broken a ton of stuff. I have to use RS232 plugs for programming controllers at work, and I had to buy new usb-RS232 cables for all our computers because windows 11 broke support for all the older cables. I've also had a lot of programs break.

It's really frustrating to be trying to troubleshoot if an old controller is working or not, and not know if you can't connect to it because it's fried or if some new windows update is preventing the connection/software from working.