It might take a while before we can see the real aftereffects of SteamOS 3's public release for handhelds, since it literally just released.

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It's a shame that the default preset is so blurry, but I'm glad that Steam Decks can now play it! I also recently heard that the developer has been fighting the region block that Sony's been applying to their games.

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Wow, a new update for unsupported platforms already! I swear they only said they're supporting the Lenovo Legion Go S. Not that I'm complaining...

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A bit of nostalgia for us OGs: https://web.archive.org/web/20130121014355/https://blogs.valvesoftware.com/linux/faster-zombies/ [External Link]

And the follow-up! https://richg42.blogspot.com/2017/01/the-faster-zombies-blog-post.html?m=1 [External Link]

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Good for them. Glad to see some developers caring about preservation, even against their evil publisher overlords' wishes.

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That's really cool that we can just do that now, with Valve's permission. Once again, though, I am asking for local coop.

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Here's the fun thing: in their full specification, it includes a feature named "EnterDownloadMode" which the code comments notes, "Enter a low power mode for downloads and get a handle that will keep this mode active until all obtained handles are dropped".

Thank God, we've been waiting for this feature for ages! It's interesting that they made this open source though. Maybe they want a universal API to hook into, so that future hardware support for SteamOS is much easier?

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I am once again asking for online coop games to add a couch coop mode.

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Playing SteamVR on Linux has been a pain, but I might try it out with Half Life: Alyx, once my PC upgrade is finished. Last time, the audio kept skipping, voice lines went unfinished, and the performance was overall worse than on my Windows partition. However, I am wondering if that's because of Linux or because of my PC not reaching the recommended specs. My main issue is that ALVR was so much harder to set up than SteamVR Link for Quest, and I don't know if I can go through the effort of setting that up again.

I did try WiVRn recently though to check out The Museum of All Things [External Link], and that worked without a hitch. Just goes to show that Linux VR is still a mess, with some games working fine and others breaking down completely.

Update: SteamVR no longer works for me :( Can't even launch it, as it crashes immediately. I still managed to get games to launch though, using WiVRn.

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I feel like making this work with 2.4GHz controllers shouldn't be too difficult, now that Bluetooth controllers can do it too, right?

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