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AYANEO confirm their Linux-based AYANEO OS arrives this year
18 Jan 2023 at 7:12 pm UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: Penglingit was always gaming that helped to drive the adoption
Gamers are generally early adopters, that has not changed until now. So there is a chance that SteamOS may pull in early adopters, followed by others.

AYANEO confirm their Linux-based AYANEO OS arrives this year
18 Jan 2023 at 3:13 pm UTC Likes: 4

Hard to trust without any development/testing ISOs or source code.

The Division 2 launched on Steam but no support of Steam Deck or Linux
17 Jan 2023 at 1:22 pm UTC

There is a slim chance that Ubisoft may have tried to add Linux EAC support but screwed it up so it could be fixed on our side. I am obviously very optimistic here.

State of the industry: MSI offered a chance to win the ability to buy a GPU
16 Jan 2023 at 6:25 pm UTC Likes: 1

While you are discussing PC vs console, the next gen already switched to mobile.

State of the industry: MSI offered a chance to win the ability to buy a GPU
16 Jan 2023 at 3:23 pm UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: M@GOidusing only the iGPU on a modern AMD processor
iGPU on a modern AMD CPU, sounds familiar...
I don't think you can run all games @ 1080p 60 FPS though, even at low (fine for me) settings.

State of the industry: MSI offered a chance to win the ability to buy a GPU
16 Jan 2023 at 2:33 pm UTC Likes: 1

MSI: We can combat scalpers with a lottery system!
Scalpers: DDoS'es the lottery

Gamescope (used on Steam Deck) adds in some VR support
16 Jan 2023 at 2:13 pm UTC Likes: 2

Quoting: rustybroomhandleDeckard is ARM based, so I'm going out on a limb here and predicting that it will not actually be used to run games locally, but instead be used to stream from your more powerful PC hardware.
Source?
EDIT: Found it, near the bottom in https://uploadvr.com/brad-lynch-new-deckard-findings/ [External Link]

Gamescope (used on Steam Deck) adds in some VR support
14 Jan 2023 at 6:08 pm UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: ArdjeIt can't because it uses vulkan standards that they have yet to submit as a standard
Do you have source for that?

Google to release a tool to enable Bluetooth on the Stadia Controller
14 Jan 2023 at 5:02 am UTC Likes: 1

I can imagine this tool will be Windows-only but then perhaps it might even work in Wine.
A phone is required instead of PC for initial setup initial firmware update so they may use the phone app for enabling Bluetooth as well.
https://www.lifewire.com/connect-stadia-controller-to-pc-5112074 [External Link]

Steam & Steam Deck Beta improves controller configurator plus Linux fixes (updated)
12 Jan 2023 at 4:46 pm UTC

Quoting: Goggo66It seems Valve has messed up this beta release. See here:

Steam Client Maximum number of clients reached
Does this also affect Wayland? Not to start an Xorg vs Wayland discussion but I use Wayland and if it is affected I will have to switch back.