Comment by BossingAround
2 years ago
Using the words of a true poet:
> Up, up, up the ziggurat, lickety split
As Windows continues its enshitification, and as Valve continues investing into its awesome Steam Deck, I do hope the trend continues.
Personally, after using Steam Deck a lot, I bought a desktop and tried a standard distro (OpenSUSE in my case) for gaming. The experience has been not ideal, but doable. My issues:
- My Xbox controller worked, then suddenly stopped working. I've been using a PS controller instead which works great, but would vastly prefer the Xbox one.
- NVidia has been such a pain that I'm thinking of selling my current card and buying an AMD one. NVidia drivers are truly horrible. For example, during boot time, the proprietary drivers randomly fail (like 1 in 7 reboots), which is not catastrophic (the system recovers by itself) but does lengthen the boot process by roughly 1 minute (very noticeable when the whole computer normally boots in ~10s). Note that this is with the latest driver version, and even after modifying kernel parameters as per NVidia devs' advice.
- Some games still don't work great under Proton (anticheat, mostly). This is expected and I'm quite fine with the current state of gaming compatibility on Linux, but might be surprising to some folks that are coming from Windows.
But overall, I can just play whatever is in my Steam library, and I truly love that.
> My Xbox controller worked, then suddenly stopped working. I've been using PS controller instead which works great, but would vastly prefer the Xbox one.
If you mean specifically using Steam on Linux, you may need to add some udev rules for accessing the controller: https://codeberg.org/fabiscafe/game-devices-udev
I have done that, otherwise it wouldn't have worked the first time.
Steam Deck still runs Windows games for the most part, and now the competition is heating up with Windows based handhelds.
So far Steam Deck has done very little to push for Linux native games.
> As Windows continues its enshitification, and as Valve continues investing into its awesome Steam Deck, I do hope the trend continues.
The Steam Deck isn't without its faults: there's a dedicated "Special offers" carousel on the home screen, and there's been a full-width ad for the winter sale on the home screen for the past few weeks.
We're in the odd situation where AMD cards are vastly superior for gamers in dollar/performance terms.
I'm on the market for a AI work station and I'm honestly thinking of doing a amd/nvidia split so I can have the graphics just work and the AI also just work.
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