Yeah, it's super annoying. Have to plug the deck back in to the external screen, shut it down, unplug it, and restart.
I don't know of anything specifically, just my experience with printers on linux is they either work pretty effortlessly or they're awful and don't seem to work correctly no matter what you do.
The original Ally was pretty debatable hardware wise when compared to the deck. It was more powerful, but had worse battery life (especially in low power games), worse controls, poorly designed heat routing that burned up SD cards, etc. There was also stuff like how the higher resolution screen wasnt really necessary for the screen size, and the performance hit was very significant unless you capped at 720p.
The lower storage Deck models have been sold at a loss, with the plan of recovering that through game sales. So rival hardware running SteamOS could make valve more money than the deck does.
It's possible that the deck's are no longer sold at a loss, both due to components getting cheaper over time and higher sale numbers leading to lower cost per unit. But either way the money comes mostly from game sales, not hardware sales.
I'm not sure how it is in the larger cities, but a lot of the US is car centric. Since a lot of people with cars drive, it means that you see a higher percentage of people who can't afford cars in public transportation. That leads to more sketchy stuff happening on public transports, which leads to more people who have the option avoiding it.
Thankfully most laptops I see now come with a built in physical cover for the webcam.
Yeah, every browser being chrome sucks, but it's also so much better than being forced to focus any website development around IE compatibility.
God of War has a memory leak, which would cause me to crash every 30min to 1hr. The deck would completely lock up as the game used every bit of memory available, requiring a hard reset. You can tell if this is the issue by watching your ram+vram use while playing, the deck has 16GB of memory and 1GB of swap by default, so the deck will crash when the memory leak reaches about 17GB of displayed RAM + VRAM.
What worked for me at the time was using Cryoutilities to increase my swap size, which let the deck handle the growing memory demands. I set mine to 16GB, but 4GB or 8GB would probably be ok. Alternatively you can switch to the beta version of SteamOS, which uses ZRAM instead of swap. I haven't tried it, but this should work as well for fixing the crashes.
~~Not sure why so many people are saying the hours don't sync, they absolutely should. I know sometimes it takes awhile to sync, but I'm not sure the exact mechanics.~~
Ok apparently I'm just wrong on this. I spend a lot of time playing offline and never noticed missing hours. I also could have sworn I read about it taking awhile to update offline hours before, but now I can't find anything like that.
the data from india is incomplete and not fit for the analysis you're attempting.
Yeah, that's the main reason I didn't include it. I couldn't find anything representing good numbers, at least not without more time researching it than I actually have available at the moment.
Like ostsjoe said, you probably need to reorder your controllers and set the deck to be controller 1. You can do this in two places:
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Open the QAM menu (the ". . ." button), open the gear tab, and there should be a "reorder controllers" button. This button only appears if additional controllers are connected, or if the Deck is currently set to a controller slot other than 1.
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Press the steam button, and open the controller configuration menu for the game. At the top there should be a button to reorder the controllers.
Rarely I've also had where a game identified a controller in spot 2/etc as the one I was playing with, and the deck had to be set to that controller slot for the game to work until I relaunched the game.
Don't own it, but I would recommend against the regular Ally due to some known hardware issues and Asus warranty trying to scam people into expensive "not covered by warranty" repairs.
The new Ally X has some tempting hardware upgrades though, if no major defects have shown up in a couple months it might be worth checking out.