I switched to linux full time last november, and specifically endevourOS, an arch based distro with KDE because of the steam deck.(I had always liked kde before). I knew that with the support of valve and the higher visibility it would improve and it 100% has. I hadn't realized how many of these things were valve related though. The thing in kde settings that shows which settings have been changed from default has been super useful for me, as well as the 'landing page'. Spectacles improvements are crazy good and I use it all the time. The startup speed is so ridiculously fast now, especially since I moved to an m.2 that I barely blink and it's done. The microphone volume indicators I didn't even notice were a new addition it just seemed so obvious that it should be there and work the way it does. The drag&drop from flatpaks is so seemless that it didn't even occur to me what had to happen in the backend to mitigate sandboxed file system. One thing that wasn't mentioned in the talk, but also pipewire and the maturation of that has been phenomenal, and I attribute a lot of that to the deck/valve.

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Quoting: EWGMy concern is losing these µSD cards and having to carry them in the first place. I imagine my primary usecase will either be in bed or on the couch with a beautiful woman laying on me. lol. Or, perhaps a guinea pig. Every scenario means I won't be able to move a whole lot.

If games run equally well off a flash drive... then there's a problem. What's the point of having an ultra fast m.2 NVMe drive? I imagine you must mean aside from load/save times games run fine.

Yea, I can see that. I 3d printed a credit card sized sdcard holder for mine https://a.co/d/1PeKoWl [External Link]

And yea, I keep all my roms on one card, and big games on other SD cards, and I've got my small and/or most played games on the internal drive.

If load times do take longer on the sdcard, it hasn't been enough for me to notice or care. I play elden ring a lot off an sdcard and it's load times are negligible to me.

The ultrafast nvme drive helps speed up the OS, as well as having a swap partition that the OS can use similar to extra ram or for a loading cache.

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My main annoyance with Firefox on the deck is that it doesn't work for me in game mode. It launches, but any attempt to open a menu causes the screen to refresh and the mouse to move to the upper left corner. This happens with both the built in and flatpak, with or without any plug-ins.

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Quoting: STiATI still want a switch like steam deck with docking for my TV though. Sadly they seem to have cancelled the docking plan.

Honestly they don't really need a first party deck. There are so many fully functional usb-c docks that already work great with the deck. Only thing really missing is a stand/Cradle to set the deck in, but many tablet holders stand in just fine, or if you have access to a 3d printer there's a plethora of options.

This is the one I currently use to plug my deck into my TV. Then I pair it with my steam controller.
(Amazon link) https://a.co/d/hxU1MWs [External Link]

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I have a 256GB model and have 3 256GB sdcards now, and can say with absolute confidence that I would have been just as happy with the 64GB version. Games run just as well off of the sdcard as they do for the internal drive. Swapping cards is painless. Steamos automatically sees when the library path updates and updates what games are installed. There's basically no reason to install a larger ssd. I guess some people eventually want to dual boot windows, but I see no reason to. That sounds more of an aggravating experience than anything else.

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Quoting: PhiladelphusAs I continue to wait for my order email, I'm curious: have the ratings shifted to be more in line with peoples' expectations? I.e., Verified being more like ProtonDB's Platinum (stable, no problems, basically bug free), rather than "technically checks off all the boxes Valve laid out on the criteria page".

So far both the Verified and Playable for me have been equivalent to ProtonDB's Platinum.(Steams drop from Verified to Playable is if you have to use the touchscreen or on-screen keyboard to do anything, or it shows playstation/keyboard prompts instead of steam/xbox prompts). And Unsupported usually means launch it with proton-GE or check protonDB for a tweak(or find out on protonDB that there's no workaround and it's just EAC hell).

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Didn't even know about it. Updated!

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I wish this worked for my desktop, but after adding the flathub beta repository, installing the edge flatpak and following all the instructions, steam overlay still can't hook in to stadia/edge. It's the exact same problem as chromium. I never get the overlay and my custom controller scheme doesn't hook in.

I'm really hoping Valve pushes all of the updates they've made for steamOS over to desktop linux. A lot of them have already come, but there's definitely a few of these edge cases that don't work.

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I'll have to give it a try. I still have a windows partition to boot in to for VR. But I've got the HTC vive and I just have not had a good VR experience under Linux, even with games that work. Even just in the steamvr starting void there's a lot of ghosting and the menus like to not work, and I still can't get the vive camera to work.

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I've made a Steam Category that I've been adding games to.

First big game will probably be The Outer Worlds, but there's a bunch of emulator games that I really want to play. I want to play Kindom Hearts 1 & 2, Xenoblade Chronicles Definitive Edition and Xenoblade Chronicles 2, Paper Mario and the thousand year door, Zelda Skyward Sword HD.

I'm kind of excited to see how Path of Exiles plays on it. I'm hopeful Immortals Fenyx Rising and Genshin Impact are playable.

I'll be doing some platformers like Dead Cells and Carrion, CaveStory+ and hope to find some others like it.

Then there's the jrpg's I've been meaning to finish, Dragon Quest VIII, and Dragon Quest XI.

Black Mesa and Half Life 2 are also on the list

There's a lot on the backlog that I think a more console feel is more likely for me to finish. Play on my lunch break or take to the coffee shop on the weekend.

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