I'll bet you a pancake it had something to do with MASSIVE and Deck. Because some people attribute divine abilities to AI, it is often hard to underestimate it in practice. And the team is probably not really a team.

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Quoting: Beamboom

Quoting: 1xokWin32 Is NOT The Only Stable ABI on Linux. The kernel ABI itself is also stable.

They clearly and consequently state userspace.

Yes, they also do mention Linus.

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Quoting: orzo

Quoting: ZlopezEven Linus Torvalds said: "Never break user space!"

Here is his full speech (+/- 6 minutes), including rant on glibc. It's eight years old now.

https://youtu.be/5PmHRSeA2c8?t=333 [External Link]

At 10:50, he mentions Valve directly:

https://youtu.be/5PmHRSeA2c8?t=650 [External Link]

It's so sad that this doesn't change.

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Win32 Is NOT The Only Stable ABI on Linux. The kernel ABI itself is also stable. Not least thanks to Linus Torvalds. There is a now legendary email from Linus about this (caution, harsh tone):

https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/12/23/75 [External Link]

Unfortunately, the rule "WE DO NOT BREAK USERSPACE!" is often not applied in userspace itself, even when it comes to system libraries. I always find it most tiresome when people insist on their changes even though countless regressions have already occurred.

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Quoting: JoshuaAshtonThis isn't a Steam Deck bug, it happens on Desktop too. There's a GPU synchronisation issue that happens going between vertical screens in some areas.

But it only occurs with Vulkan, right?

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It happened. The Steam Deck has overtaken the Switch.

There are currently 4404 games across List of Nintendo Switch games

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nintendo_Switch_games_(0%E2%80%939_and_A) [External Link]

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Quoting: itscalledrealityI’m just being tongue in cheek. Valve’s goal is of course to sell as many of these as possible. It just usually takes a product generation or so before less technical people will comfortably not complain.

It is a PC. If you can't tell the difference in games, you can't appreciate it. The Steam Deck is clearly aimed at PC users and they are used to suffering. Even with Windows. :)

If you come from PC, the Steam Deck is already a huge relief.

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My second deck, reserved a few weeks ago, has now moved from after Q3 to definitely Q4.

Pleasant, since it will be a Christmas gift. :)

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Quoting: denyasisTo be honest, I kinda relegated "scriptish" stuff like this into the pile of silly gimmicks.

You can also perform the measures yourself without any problems, they are all no big secrets. But then it becomes rather scriptish. Either way, I think it's very likely that these changes (cpu governor etc.) will also help you stabilize the fps in many games. I never did that before because it was too much fiddling.

For Ferals gamemode under Ubuntu:
 
sudo apt install gamemode
And for the games where you want to use it, enter the following in the Steam Launch Options:
 
gamemoderun %command%
Of course it also works without Steam:
 
gamemoderun ./game
Some games also support the daemon natively, so this is not necessary.

The gamemode is always started only with the game, then deactivated again. Whether the gamemode was activated shows you the following command:
 
systemctl --user status gamemoded.service
That's all you need to know. The exact opposite of "scriptish".

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Over the last years I had performance problems in many games, for example in Nier: Automata, where I simply did not reach 60 fps @1080p consistently. I had attributed this to my graphics card alone (a GTX 970) until earlier this year.

Then I bought an AMD RX 6600 XT a few months ago. Not a monster but you would expect powerful enough to play a five year old game like Automata with constant 60 fps in high settings. But again, no such luck for me. Then rather out of helplessness I activated this demon from Feral and attention: problem solved!

Not only Automata, but also Elite: Dangerous and many other games run much better with it. It really makes a big difference. Not so much in increasing peak performance but in consistency. I think the effects are especially big when you combine a current graphics card with a somewhat older processor. In my case, an Intel Skylake model.

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