Is the Oryx line made with a metal chassis?
Does "embedded" for the battery mean that it's not replaceable? Or just more work involving opening the bottom of the case and unplugging the wires?

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If anyone from Valve were smart and rad they'd be lurking here. :whistle:

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Quoting: Stoney_FishFor some reason it said the disk was not writable.

That's a Flatpak application, right? Check the permissions it has. There's a GUI app called flatseal that helps with managing everything flatapps can do including what directories they'll allowed to access.

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We're also looking into adding a software eject button for the SD card just to be extra safe.".

I was just thinking that really there should be a button bound to "qterminal --drop-down" and people can likely press ↑ [enter] and unmount the flashcard. It's too late for a hardware button but on SteamOS/Linux they could have another link from the Overlay, no? Or maybe a combination of the [Steam] + X or [...] + ↓ buttons or something.

Just how different is the game mode from the regular desktop?

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The colors are so beautiful... :woot::woot::woot:

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So.. for keeping save files the same between machines SyncThing [External Link] might do the trick.

I've got a dedicated low power machine for sync/backup, media playback, and torrenting open source games and libre OS ISOs. :grin:

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Man... all this hype and there's just one singular Steam Deck fan. :wink:

I dunno, make me number... err, ya know what? I'll skip down to #666. Someone else can be number two!

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Quoting: slaapliedjeWhat would be nice is a 4th category. Keyboard Required. Like a game that runs perfectly fine, but needs a keyboard to play it.

I should attempt to set up a portable setup to play the Gold Box games....

That would be a handy tag. I know there are Groups that focus on touchscreen friendly games.
https://steamcommunity.com/groups/touch-friendly-games [External Link]
https://steamcommunity.com/groups/touchscreengames [External Link]
Apparently there is a "Touch-Friendly" tag. I've never seen that one before.

That's sort of the opposite of what you were talking about?

I think in time the keyboard required thing could be overcome for most games.
:unsure: I could see some MMOs that have a great many abilities almost requiring a keyboard but, those also have many "clickers" so perhaps leaving a cursor near some skillbar would defeat the limited selection of hardware buttons. Unsure what else absolutely needs a keyboard besides typing games. lol

What I'd still like to see.. is the Steam Controller 2 with a proper mini-keyboard built in. Along with a dim/not distracting RGB backlight for the whole thing.
It'd be great for a day at the library or café. Hand your friend the controller and set up a larger portable screen...

.. I just realized.. that'd make the Deck almost NDS or Wii U like one screen on a "controller"/console. Now.. if there were some way for games to support Player 1 on one screen and Player 2 on another...
Maybe a workaround would be to have two versions of Steam running but, it wouldn't be able to handle running double of many games. hmm.
(multiseat? [External Link] dated page)

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Quoting: tpauYes and since a non-handheld is usually more powerful

lol. My desktop is around a decade old. It was pretty beastly back then. I may or may not sell it because this Deck is going to be more powerful. With the money, I could get some eHDD caddies and another USB dock.

I wouldn't have my space heater anymore, though. :tongue:

Quoting: itscalledrealityFunny how pre-Steam Deck the number of playable games on Linux was never celebrated. Maybe that’s been the missing piece to the stigma.

I think we didn't care about Proton as much and it wasn't this good. It seems like things have improved by leaps and bounds over the last year or two.

Also, because this thing is decidedly a console, there's a specific piece of hardware to tie to. It's a console first and running "SteamOS" :wink::wink:

Quoting: itscalledrealityNo one seems to be able to attribute this back to Linux, WINE, or any community behind ProtonDB that did the work before Valve helped put the pieces together.

This makes me sad but, it's not surprizing. In the western european world, community is a dirty word outside of church. Looking at the bigger picture, that's at best a marketing term by big corporations to sell the idea that they're not what they are.
Things tend to be very simplified. It's easy to point to one thing but, once you've got to start rattling off a bunch of different names, technologies, communities... the masses are equipped to not be able to handle that. It's goes against capitalism and the slave-owner mentality of colonialism. The commonfolk are supposed to be good worker bees for companies, not some sort anarchic hippie free thinker contributing to a grassroots community that equalizes everyone.

But maybe I'm reading too much into this. :woot:

I'm still waiting for a little Tux icon with a proton in per belly, or just an atom. I think we need something to show the game works under Proton specifically. Steam could really just show a little Deck-like icon. The rest of the stores (Humble Bundle, Itch, GOG, IndieGala, am I missing any?) could stick to the particle.

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Quoting: StoneColdSpiderdepends on how many people install Windows on it...

What I want to know is what it takes for Valve to register the count that there's another one out there running windows.
Is it just one ping after opening Steam? How does that affect things if, say, the person futzes around for a half how then goes back to a smooth SteamOS?

So far, I've just been pleading with all my nerdier friends to not even install Steam on the walled-side if they're going to dual-boot.
At the same time, Valve isn't doing themselves any favors by not filtering out anomalies like that. Hopefully their statistics methods are a little more complex and they bias towards GNU+Linux.

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