I don't know. I think once we get key critical features in on Wayland and the most actively developed DE move to Wayland, then we can't really call it just yet.

Features like Gamma+Brightness Controls (that aren't a sway exclusive wlroot hack-job and isn't NIGHT MODE); HDR and possibly AutoHDR, better VRR and Multiple display support.

The features I mentioned above have been standard in Windows10/11 for sometime now with exception of AutoHDR which is something new to Win11 only maybe? When I boot into Win10 my display says HDR enabled but not sure if that is AHDR...

PS. I don't use Win10; just have it for testing compatibility stuff, should move it to a external USB sometime...

NOTE: I'd like to mention the SteamDeck is still a exclusive product to only a few countries and MOST the world still can't get them. PLUS it has supply chain issues...

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I'm sure over time great optimizations to how RT is done in the driver and perhaps future games will appear. We already have Lumen for UE5 but it's going to take a quantum leap in optimizations for RT to become viable on the Steam Deck for basic games.

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RT with my 6800XT has never worked correctly or at all. I've used mesa-git/dev releases too. Sometimes it would work but fps was unplayable, other times it would have major graphical issues (like on The Ascent), and then other times it would crash my entire system like someone ripped out the 6800XT from its socket (like trying to use RT in CP2077).

So to say RT in RADV needs more work (even amdgpu-pro drivers are borked for most things) is the understatement of the year!

PS. RT works fine under WIN10 btw, no card defect here!

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Steam Deck has RDNA2 and is cheaper. I just don't see the market for these at this kind of price unless you need more CPU power because I think this is more powerful in that regard?

Can't wait for a Steam Deck 2.0 to have RDNA3 with 8 core APU, that will be amazing but still likely 2years away.

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Waiting for Gamescope to get proper fullscreen and VRR support. Atm I think it just does borderless window which disables vrr/freesync etc...

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Quoting: GuestI don't get the point of this as there are third-party discord clients that do this and more that work well on the Deck.

Like what? you are aware ALL discord clients have no functioning Linux In-Game Overlay option like windows does right?

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I always thought these games just ask windows voice recog to translate it to text or something. Seems like a more open-source friendly speech recognition software could be mapped instead to do the work?

Would be neat if that was possible. Kind of silly for games to rely on MS Speech-to-Text or Cortana to do the work.

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Quoting: Mountain ManI have almost decided to get a Steam Deck, but that's quite a chunk of change to throw down.

The back-order is likely 6+ months at this stage........

Still not available outside of US/UK/CA

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Can I force my office workers to pee into a bottle as a method of reducing break times? That is the ultimate goal. Plus when it comes to pay raises I would like the nominees to fight to the death in a arena cage....

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Shame the discord app can't do a linux overlay. They just don't want to deal with the compatibility issues with compositors I guess.

There is a issue with this Discover Overlay, it requires the compositor to be enabled in order to work. In fullscreen apps this can create issues for many games that don't play nice with compositors.

I use Picom with Exp Backend and ReUndirection enabled and get nice and smooth framerate, without its a stuttery hell in MANY games. Mutter under Gnome does the same thing btw. Anyway Discover-Overlay renders a solid black background as a result.

I want to see a vulkan/opengl integrated discord overlay that works much like mangohud.. but that isn't this project.

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