Link to vid ?

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Valve did email out this morning to confirm my review unit is for keeps

Patron only competition prize by the sounds of it :whistle:

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Quoting: alexleduc

Quoting: jensDoes anybody knows what gave the push for KDE? I mean looking a bit from the outside, I would say Gnome Desktop seems more suitable for such a form factor incl. touch input.. or is the display without touch input?

(Just to be sure, I’m really not interested in opinions why KDE is better than Gnome or any other desktop or vice versa, that’s highly subjective, I’m just genuine interested in Valves thoughts and reasonings)

That's easy. KDE look and works more like Windows than Gnome does, so anyone that's not familiar with anything else will feel at home using it.

It's also just better !

*hides.....

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no one wants to break their Deck

Really, Like the audience on here is not the type to be going pretty much immediately head first into the guts! :tongue:

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Quoting: F.UltraDigital Foundry is ecstatic (PS4 console quality on a Handheld):

That one really did surprise tbh. He even stated it exceeded his expectations :huh:

When I read LTT's headline I first thought, **** not going to be good but turned out positive and the same with GN.

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Quoting: Purple Library Guy

Quoting: pete910TL:DR version ? Good, Bad, Meh ?

My take on the article is, "Pretty Seriously Good -- flaws minor".

Cheers, Looks to be the general consensus form others too . Niggles here and there but over all good.

I'll read liams review when I have a spare hour :grin:

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TL:DR version ? Good, Bad, Meh ?

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Ok it's tomorrow, Where is it?

Liam stop playing on it!

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I would like to be a fly in Valve HQ at the moment, Bet they are all running round like headless chickens. Gabe will probably be looking a little apprehensive too :grin:

I told our Discord community if it worked with Proton on Linux / Steam Deck that I would livestream it everyday for a month and I fear I will be held to that…

Otherwise....

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Quoting: denyasis

Quoting: pete910

Quoting: Frawo

Quoting: slaapliedjeHuh, Dying Light ran awesome natively for me. Granted I don't know if running under Proton makes it run better, as I had no reason to test it.

It definitely does run better in Proton, see Liams and Xpanders videos on youtube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11dZ0iuzH-M [External Link]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKdT3RuL9jQ [External Link]

Even if the game runs "good enough" with the native version, I think they still will prefer Proton as it seems to be more efficient and should draw less power from the battery.

It could also be because of the controller support. I don't know about Dying Light, but controller support in the native version of Trine is pretty much broken, while in Proton it works as expected.

IIRC liam has a 2080ti in the first vid ?

Here is a rx5700 non xt running dying light on a AMD R3 3300 CPU compared to windows .

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6j7LXbD0IN8 [External Link]

As you can see on AMD windows is only slightly better and this was 2 years ago, Mesa has improved a great deal since then!

If that is Liams rig in the first vid it is looking a bit pants compared to a lowly 5700 GPU. How much was a 2080ti, 1200ish?

Coincidentally, I tried Dying Light for the first time tonight. Native. Didn't work, got screen distortion and the splash screen videos would only do audio (codec issue?). Switched to proton and it worked just fine.

I'm sure the solution to make native run was probably something simple that I could research. Or I could spend the 15 min and let it redownload for proton...

I can't speak for all of us, but sometimes I just want to play instead of tinkering.

Whilst most of us just want to game, some things on a particulars computer can mess up at times which is annoying for the individual.

It may well have been a simple fix unfortunately you wont know.
It may have been a missing lib from a package of your distro of choice for example, Easily rectified via a bug report thus helping the rest of users on that distro. This is how Linux works, No?

Not saying that is the issue it's just an example.

Yet on the other hand I bet you've hunted for fixes on other games in the past that had issues in wine, Witcher 3 for example ?

If you did, Why not install windows and just game rather than tinker ?

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