Quoting: amataiSteam Deck raw numbers has doubled during the last month, very impressive

Quoting: BogomipsI think I will keep my Distance for now :happy:
Not too sure about the drift reviews concerns about being too "arcady".

Quoting: lukas333Shadow games are so good. They can get boring as theyre a bit repetetive, but I always come back.

Quoting: GuestI have enjoyed my Steam Deck and would probably buy a Steam Deck 2, then hand mine down to my oldest kiddo. I would hope that a Steam Deck 2 would have the option to turn on back light for the buttons...playing in the dark is tricky when you have to hunt for a button.

Quoting: NerdNoiseRadio

Quoting: constI think it's using PipeWire, but from your perspective, that should be a straight win unless you tend to use virtual sinks. PipeWire is a 99% drop-in replacement for PulseAudio (and Jack), but last time I checked, some special (yet usefull) sinks were missing. There is nearly always a way to circumvent those issues with the jack layer, but it needs some relearning.
USB hubs should not introduce latency. PulseAudio does :D PipeWire is awesome.

Oh, I'm super excited about PipeWire and can't wait to try it. I've heard that with Ubuntu 22.04 (Ubuntu Studio at the very least), that they've added it to the repositories, even though I know from experience that they've left PulseAudio as the default for now. I was very tempted to try installing it. But since I'd break my workflow if anything went wrong, I decided I'd either wait til it became mainstream, or I could try it on a backup device, or at least in a VM. You know, I do have a really old backup laptop that has Ubuntu Web Remix running on it....perhaps I'll give it a try over there. But no, I would not be disappointed in the slightest to learn that the Steam Deck uses PipeWire! :-)

As for the virtual sinks, I have only ever had to try that just the one time - to get a piece of video game music off of Audio Overload over to Audacity since the "export to WAV" functionality in AA seemed to be broken. And that's after almost 6yrs of doing VGM podcasting. So, no, it is not even remotely a part of my standard workflow...however, given that it is at least theoretically, remotely possible that I could potentially need to do so again sometime, I'll need to have some kind of backup plan in place for virtual sinks should PipeWire not support them. Any ideas? Any reason I couldn't have BOTH PipeWire and PulseAudio installed at the same time, and just use Pulse for the sinks? That sounds like the best idea - unless that would break stuff.

Quoting: robvvI noticed the Amazon Games integration a few days ago and was very pleased. I have a lot of freebies in my Prime account and previously had to jump through hoops to install them. Now I just need to decide if anything in my account is actually worth playing... :wink:

To install Lutris on the Steam Deck, switch to Desktop Mode, open the Discover store then search and install Lutris.
To play games from the Steam Deck UI:
Select "Create Steam shortcut" during the game installation or right-click on an existing game and choose "Create Steam shortcut".

To play games using the controller:
- Open Steam settings and in the Controller section open Desktop Configuration
- Change the controller configuration to Disabled
- Keep the Steam key pressed to control your mouse
- The controller will now be accessible in desktop mode

Quoting: NerdNoiseRadio

Quoting: const

Quoting: NerdNoiseRadioThe moment I'm most excited about is when I finally sit down to plan, record, produce, and publish an episode (or even multiple episodes) of my podcast ENTIRELY from the Deck. That's when I think I'll feel like this thing has finally FULLY arrived for me - or perhaps better said, when I'VE finally arrived for it! :-)

Maybe my December 2022 or January 2023 episodes will be where I get started with that. I'll make sure to say something in the show notes, in the actual episode itself - or both whenever I finally get a "Deck-made" episode done. :-)

Should be no issue at all. Maybe SteamOS could hold you back a little, but getting usb passthrough in gnome boxes is trivial, so that option is always open.

Oh, I didn't think it'd be hard, necessarily, and indeed, I've already got Audacity and Ardour installed. It's just a matter of getting around to actually doing it. The only significant concern I'd have would be with latency, with my XLR-to-USB audio interface having to go through AT LEAST the dock before it hits the machine, if not also a hub even before the dock. In fact, I could be mistaken since it's a while since I've checked, but doesn't this thing already have PulseAudio installed? If so, that's what I'm used to using already, so it should all be like a glove, I'd think. :-)

Quoting: NerdNoiseRadioThe moment I'm most excited about is when I finally sit down to plan, record, produce, and publish an episode (or even multiple episodes) of my podcast ENTIRELY from the Deck. That's when I think I'll feel like this thing has finally FULLY arrived for me - or perhaps better said, when I'VE finally arrived for it! :-)

Maybe my December 2022 or January 2023 episodes will be where I get started with that. I'll make sure to say something in the show notes, in the actual episode itself - or both whenever I finally get a "Deck-made" episode done. :-)