E: refunded Mirror’s Edge, it was running at like 5 FPS on low settings.
In the future try checking ProtonDB before buying/refunding. For Mirror’s Edge in particular, it seems all you have to do is disable PhysX.
ProtonDB is an amazing tool, everyone should check it out!
I certainly increased my playing hours because of the steam deck. It’s the best purchase I made in years!
I bought Dredge and Nine Sols!
From what I’ve read, you just need to start the CUPS service.
sudo systemctl start cups.service
Start on boot:
sudo systemctl enable cups.service
You should be able to play just fine with Arch Linux… The SteamOS is based on arch after all.
I guess it depends on what you’re going to do with it. I own a Steam deck and love it, but the screen is too small to work.
I would rather buy a small laptop, install arch and go wild. To each their own.
What’s the point of having a gaming handheld and not game? Get a laptop instead
Sure, nvidia drivers suck and I haven’t had the best experience migrating to Wayland. However, it’s important that people know this “limitation” in using SteamOS, especially since many other Linux distributions run both steam and Nvidia video cards just right.
SteamOS is a distribution that is great for a gaming device but I see people believing this is going to be a generalist Linux distribution and it’s not. Having a clear idea of what SteamOS is, what is good for and what are the current limitations is very important. Linux is amazing, Valve is amazing but SteamOS is not replacing Windows. Which is fine, that’s not the goal. I can recommend a bunch of distros that do replace windows if you want…
When it happens I will. Currently, installing SteamOS with a nvidia card just borks.
It borks when you try to install SteamOS. It does not work. Bazzite just added beta support for nvidia, so check that out if out really want something as close to SteamOS as possible.
Or just use a generalist distribution because gaming on Linux is in an amazing state right now. Install steam, boot games.
No, their Micro-compositor was written exclusively for AMD cards. The SteamOS setup just borks if you try to install it with nvidia. People coming from Windows won’t really care who is to blame, they’ll just be baffled it doesn’t work.
It makes sense since steam deck only has AMD cards. SteamOS is targeted at gaming devices, not as a generalistic distribution.
I understand that people are hyped about a Linux distribution developed by a company they really care about. However, please be aware that SteamOS is focused at being an (almost) exclusive gaming OS with very limited hardware support. It doesn’t support NVIDIA video cards, for instance.
Steam already runs perfectly fine in most generalist distributions and you’ll have a wonderful time if you install them.
SpiritFarer is an amazing deal if you haven’t played it yet. Super recommend it.
I finally bought Kingdom Hearts. The price is steep, let’s see if it pays off.
I read a bit about it, seems great. I should probably give that one a go!
Are you playing the N64 version?
This is really nice for games optimized for the touch screen such as Football Manager or Magic the Gathering. Holding the deck with one hand and playing with the other is uncomfortable after a while.
Thanks for remembering me! I ended up getting a pillow for iPad.
This looks like a much, much nicer solution. Unfortunately shipping to Portugal alone is 71 euros making this a truly unreasonable price for me. Hopefully they get really popular and come to Europe!
Yep, it’s off :(
This is honestly pretty genius.
We finished Split Fiction recently, it was fantastic.
We tried Unravel Two yesterday but I found it a bit underwhelming, not sure it will stick.