Quoting: syxbitFor everyone saying "why are people only playing indie games"
It's because Playing the Witcher 3 (at high settings) gets you <2h battery life. India games can get you >5h.
That's quite impactful. I have a desktop and a Deck. So I deliberately play indie stuff on the Deck to maximize battery, and mostly play the AAA stuff on my desktop where power consumption doesn't matter as much.
If an improved Deck came out that could do >6h on AA games, I'd play them, but 2h of battery life isn't that compelling.

2h of playtime? It's more than my average gaming session! :grin:

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This is the magic of Gamescope! If I get it right, it's able to isolate the game in a Window that "emulates" a virtual screen with the resolution of your choice and the game gets "tricked" into that resolution. Gamescope is such a bully! :grin:

Edit: I put that into my words, sorry if I fumbled with terminology.

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The Witcher 3 does it again! This game is eternal! :grin:

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After the laptop... Just installed Manjaro on my main Desktop... Got the Survey again! What the...?! :grin:

I think it's a good moment for distro-hoping... If the goal is to mess with the Steam Hardware Survey. Lol!

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Quoting: scaineTwo of my colleagues at work now have their Decks and are both Windows die-hards. They were both blown away by the gaming experience, expecting it to be a big sticking point, and expecting to be installing Windows on it. One of them said to me yesterday that they described my ranting about Linux as "the ravings of a mad man... but he was right!".

Sweet sweet validation.

I don't think that Linux on the desktop will ever be mainstream. The chokehold that Microsoft has on this market segment is nearly impossible to break. But, I've said it multiple times: "Linux shines in a dedicated hardware use cases." We now have another good example of that.

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Quoting: slaapliedjeI was wondering if we could look up how many people went and ruined their Deck by installing Windows on it...

From what I read. Few are going 100% Windows. The vast majority of those that want to install Windows are dualbooters that play games like Destiny 2 or play Xbox Gamepass games locally.

Thing is, I also see comments of Windows users that complains about battery life, fan noise and heat that are much worse vs SteamOS... They are probably affecting the Steam Deck's lifespan, by using an "unsupported" OS. Personnally, the heat issue would worry me a lot.

Seriously, all the features that are exclusive to SteamOS and the UI's "eye candy" are convincing a lot of people that it's the best OS for the device. Valve is nailing it, this time.

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Quoting: kit89Remember that the Steam Deck is likely to be a user's auxiliary gaming machine.

Quite sure you are right, but I see a lot of posts, in Steam Deck forums, that looks like: "I'm knew to PC gaming and just started buying games on Steam. Any recommendations?"

That kind of people are less likely to be tempted by dualbooting/installing Windows on it. They will probably use the Steam Deck as is and grow the number of Linux users.

Let's hope it becomes a bigger trend, over time.

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Got the survey twice, yesterday, when I tried different Distros on an old laptop (Kubuntu and Manjaro). :grin:

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Quoting: MohandevirAre there correction bugs for "Remote Play" like in "In Home Streaming"?

Because it has become a stuttering fest, lately, with my Linux host (tried Pop_OS!, Kubuntu, Manjaro and ChimeraOS). Tried Gnome and KDE (ChimeraOS uses SteamOS-Compositor-Plus). Native titles seem to be running fine (solid 58.75fps and 10-20ms latency), but Proton enabled games are resulting in serious stuttering (30-40fps, latency above 75ms). ChimeraOS is a much better choice, but still not close to native.

I was able to run Witcher 3 fine with Proton 5.13-6, but any other versions are a no-go.

I just checked. Unfortunately, nothing seems to be fixed on the Linux Steam client side.
Proton games (using Vulkan encoder) drop to 30-40 frames with inconsistent frame pacing. Native games (using OpenGL encoder) work nicely at 60 fps.

There are several bug reports open on this:
Steam Remote Play drops to 1080p@30 when running games using Proton. [External Link]
Steam In-Home Streaming is slow with Vulkan-based games [External Link]

Really disappointing... People are giving up already and trying to switch to Sunshine/Moonlight.

Yep... Disappointing. The worst is the fact that it was still working pretty well, at the beginning of this year (jan/feb)... I was using it daily. It broke somewhere in an update. The only other solution I found was to install Windows (Yuk!). I use my Nvidia Shield as a client and Moonlight is not available. I'am reluctant to mess with this device.

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Are there correction bugs for "Remote Play" like in "In Home Streaming"?

Because it has become a stuttering fest, lately, with my Linux host (tried Pop_OS!, Kubuntu, Manjaro and ChimeraOS). Tried Gnome and KDE (ChimeraOS uses SteamOS-Compositor-Plus). Native titles seem to be running fine (solid 58.75fps and 10-20ms latency), but Proton enabled games are resulting in serious stuttering (30-40fps, latency above 75ms). ChimeraOS is a much better choice, but still not close to native.

I was able to run Witcher 3 fine with Proton 5.13-6, but any other versions are a no-go.

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