Handhelds are great, but can this be installed on a gaming PC for a "Steam Machine" living room experience?

This is what I want to know... I currently run Pop!_OS on an ancient laptop for use as a home theater PC (I have it connected to a projector and everything) - but I hope to replace that at some point in the medium-term future,

If I could replace said laptop with something that it capable of also running games to an acceptable standard, SteamOS would logically be a much better alternative to Pop!_OS.

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Not using something like ProtonDB is the right way to go for Valve. Ordinary customers want to play, not tinker.

I get what you're saying and you're not wrong... But I've seen a LOT of games where Steam claims they don't work or hasn't given them a rating, but ProtonDB rates them as working with little to no effort.

That's the sort of games I'm talking about.

The games you need to tinker with is a different story, and for that I agree it should be a separate project.

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They should do something like ProtonDB. Why not? I've seen a lot of verified games with problems.

They should do *exactly* ProtonDB. Just like what GOG does with howlongtobeat, when they show you "time to beat the game" straight at the product page with data taken from hltb. Steam should do the same with ProtonDB and it's done.

Totally agree with others: they should just DO protondb. Either buy them and just take it over as official, or do exactly the same. The current "deck verified" is totally worthless.

100%.

There's LOADS of games that Steam says won't work or won't work properly... But after checking on ProtonDB, one can see that it will work with little or no effort.

And occasionally, a game will be listed as working partially or completely by Steam, only to have ProtonDB say something different.

Valve Software should either do deal with ProtonDB wherein their rating system is Officially integrated with Steam / SteamOS, or they should just buy the website outright and integrate within the Steam ecosystem.

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Well, Liam did ask "What's your next most-wanted feature for the Steam Deck?"

Nevermind - I thought he asked that in a different post.

*Facepalm*

Carry on.

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The Legion Go uses 'em - they're so good

I don't doubt that - but what does that have to do with this article?

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Any word on Official Steam Deck support?

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My laptop does this with 'Aurora', and I think it's a fantastic feature... Since my Steam Deck is usually docked, the lack of this functionality is one of my pet peeves.

Hopefully this is implemented in the 'stable' release channel soon.

Does this also work when Steam Deck is suspended or powered off?

If it's anything like 'Aurora' for ASUS laptops, it won't work when the Steam Deck is powered off, but will work when the Steam Deck is suspended.

What's your next most-wanted feature for the Steam Deck?
hall effect stick

Not too sure what that has to do with this particular article... But since I discovered Hall Effect controllers a few months ago, I'm sold.

Aside from the price, I'm yet to hear a negative thing about them, and I think it would be disappointing if any Steam Deck successors don't offer this.

When I am (financially) able to to, I will be replacing all of my controllers with Hall Effect controllers, where compatible (we have a lot of consoles, in addition to our Steam Decks and my laptop).

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Nintendont-buy any more of their shit

I'll probably be giving the tenth generation of consoles a miss... Nintendo is partially to blame with their ridiculously over-priced "Switch 1.5 labeled as a Switch 2"; but it's mostly because the entire ninth generation of consoles has been a cruel joke at the expense of gamers in so many different ways.

And I've been religiously buying consoles each generation since the days of the Atari 2600 (i.e. the second generation of consoles), many of which I still have.

I don't know what the future of gaming is (though I have some ideas), but I feel like consoles are moving away from whatever the future is.

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Have they added Official Steam Deck support yet? I want to pick this up so badly, but I can't bring myself to do so whilst the developer won't commit to Official Steam Deck support...

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The survey doesn't only come up in desktop mode.

Really? I have been running Steam primarily in Big Picture mode for something like 7 years now, and I have only ever seen the survey pop-up when I switched to desktop mode.

Correct.

I've had the survey come up on my Steam Deck, just once... But then, I take the survey with an awfully big bucket of salt, because in all the years I've been using Steam under Linux (basically since the beginning of Linux support), I can only count on two hands the number of times I've seen the survey; and at least half of those have been because of new computers or "clean" installations of Steam / the operating system.

It's a stupid (and stupidly vague) law. I don't see how opt-in collection of information about our hardware for anonymous statistics endangers anyone's online safety. That said, Liam just can't risk a potential fine.

Yeah, Europe does a LOT of things better when it comes to privacy and seems to be a LOT more agressive pushing back against big companies - unlike Australia, which doesn't give two $*!ts about privacy... But what little of I understand of this legislation seems to give the impression that it's unnecessarily broad.

Anyway, were I in Liam's position, I probably would have done the same (short of moving the domain off shore), because those fines are a heck of a lot of money.

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