I'm beginning to have trust issues with these "all in one" docking stations...

I don't know if I was just unlucky, but both my JSAUX and Ivoler docking stations started to act weirdly. The Ivoler refuses to recognize my controller dongles (I have to reconnect them everytime I start my Steam Deck) and the automatic resolution detection stopped working on my JSAUX 7in1, after SteamOS update 3.6. Both of them are giving me occasional black screen on my external screen/TV.

Maybe I should try a factory reset on my Steam Deck, but it would force me to reinstall all my emulators, configs and saves... Yuk!

I ended up buying a cheap (20$CAN) UGreen Revodok 5 in 1 standalone dock with 2 USB2 connectors for my dongles (there is also a usb3 connector). At least, everything works fine and automatically... For now.

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Oooh! In it's hands on, Eta Prime said that the little square under the right stick is a trackpad and it's working much better than he expected... That Legion Go S is starting to pick my interest. If Lenovo could quickly release a 32Gb RAM version...

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Getting one? The first thing I would do would be to slap Bazzite on it.

Or SteamOS, when officially available. Valve time...

The hardware (internals) and the pricing seems attractive, though.

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Uploaded avatars are no longer a thing.

Oh! Ok. No problem, totally get your point. Thanks.

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(and adjust the difficulty at any point if it’s getting *too* much of a challenge – we won’t judge!)

This. I'll probably get a copy, then. I don't have enough playtime to "git gud".

Edit: @Liam Dawe, My avatar is gone and I can't reload it. What happened?

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Happy Holidays to all of GoL readers and have a well deserved rest, Liam!

See ya in january!

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Nice. Thanks Valve!

But what would be even better would be to be able to manually choose which texture pack we want to download... 4k textures on a Steam Deck... What a waste of bandwidth and storage!

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Quoting: elmapul

Quoting: Craggles086Valve has proved to a mass market that their idea works with the SteamDeck.

Consumers should be a lot less sceptical about what a Steam Console without windows is capable of, Proton has now proven itself capable and has been accepted as such for anything outside the anti-cheat MMO’s.

Now if they can only get the pricing right, as they did on the SteamDeck then we have a gaming computer that can play the majority of PC games, and is priced competitively with building your own PC. Also functions well as a console. Whole different story to the first Steam Machines.

I would say it will only work if Valve are producing the hardware themselves but would love to be proved wrong.

i dont think the issue was the fact that steam machines run on top of linux, playstation run on top of bsd (wich had less games than linux, outside of the console) and yet, no one cared about, because it had games and the marketing of the games noticed the fact that its avaliable on playstation, the marketing of playstation quoted the games you can play on it, and it had exclusives.

no one cares what operating system an hardware have, so longas they know there is content they want there (or the content they want is there)

The "Steam Machines 2" will probably attract the same audience that got the Steam Deck. Many of them got introduced to PC gaming via the Steam Deck. I'll be one of them because, lately, I do not have much use for a full fledged PC under my desk. It's solely used for work and it's supplied by my company. When it comes to gaming, I sit back in my couch and play with my Steam Deck, locally or via Moonlight/Sunshine, depending on the game, because I have no better solution. Hooking my personal full tower gaming PC to my TV is a no go. I'd prefer to have a small dedicated console or an egpu docking station, for the Steam Deck 2 (maybe?), to play in 1080p-60hz (minimum). I'm probably not the only one.

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Oh yes! Please! I'm holding off buying a new pc because I'm looking to buy one of these mini pcs (Minisforum or Beelink), exactly for this purpose.

If Valve wants to join the fray, it would be an insta buy; I'd ratter support them than anybody else and I suspect tighter pricing, like the Steam Deck.

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The controller for the console mode gives me Apple IIe controller vibes. :grin:

Edit: In fact, the whole thing gives me Apple IIe vibes... Probably the color scheme.

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