Fubarberry

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[–] Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz 17 points 2 days ago

It takes a lot less money and knowledge to tear things down than it does to build them up. Especially if the members are willing to die for the cause.

[–] Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz 4 points 2 days ago

Definitely get it RMA'd.

[–] Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Honestly I think it's a stage of life thing. As I got older, got married, and had kids I found it increasingly hard to find time to play on my PC. The steam deck is perfect for short sessions you can stop and resume anytime, and I don't have to fight the kids for the TV or abandon everyone to sequester myself in the office.

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

Well also the change to pixel based screens from CRTs meant that you needed higher resolution for the picture to look comparitively good.

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

I probably would have bought a "PS4 in portal form factor" for twice the price, but streaming isn't worth it.

Which brings us back to the Steam Deck, which can also stream PS5 games like the portal, except in HDR (if you have the OLED).

[–] Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz 12 points 3 days ago (7 children)

Even if it's priced too highly, the PS5 Pro will probably sell pretty well. The Playstation Portal is very overpriced for what it is, and yet it's sold very well. There's a lot of Playstation fans with money to burn apparently.

[–] Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz 5 points 3 days ago (2 children)

20 years ago was pre-bluray, so the most common video media was dvd with resolution of 720 × 480 (480p). So 720p was really good 20 years ago.

[–] Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz 5 points 4 days ago

API calls would still be a lot easier to replicate through wine/proton than completely uncontrolled kernel access.

[–] Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz 3 points 5 days ago

Yeah I agree. The only reason to get the 64GB here is if you plan on install a 1TB SSD or something like that.

[–] Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz 4 points 5 days ago (1 children)

No, Steam families is now out of beta and is the default for all users I think. I'm not sure how long you can keep using the existing family sharing, but I'm guessing at some point you'll be forced to swap over.

[–] Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

The only risk is that if someone gets banned using your copy of a game, you'll be banned too.

So if you owned Rainbow Six, and your brother and as playing with your family copy and he got banned, you would be banned as well.

[–] Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz 1 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

No, many steam games use steam to verify if you own the game. It's up to developers if they require their game to have steam drm or not.

If the game doesn't have Steam DRM, you can just copy the game folder and run it anywhere. But many games will require steam (with an account that owns the game) to be running before they'll open.

 

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?

 

This is a guide and shell script to run steam through gamescope on a non-logged in Linux system.

Basically you can remotely connect to your Linux system through ssh, start steam without a desktop environment, and the games will run that way only accessible to the remote streaming devices (ie steam deck, steam link, or other paired steam client).

 

If the majority of a users playtime at the time of review was from playing on Deck, the review will have a Deck icon next to it.

The game in the screenshot is SAND LAND. You can view the reviews here to easily see some examples of this new icon.

Unfortunately there doesn't seem to be a way to filter reviews to show Deck reviews only.

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