Hoping to see Google chrome release with chroma toggle for any webpage soon.

Has to do a better job than any chrome extension I have seen that ask a monthly subscription for something that does half the job.

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Quoting: rainbowtvz

Quoting: Craggles086No question, will buy.

My two Steam Controller 1’s getting a bit old.

Hoping some of the games that dropped Steam Controller support after Valve said the first one was on its last day’s bring it back.

While Steam Input is handy mapping things to the thumb pad. Gets so tedious doing it for every single game.

lucky you, having two. i had one, it was my best controller. my dad broke the usb in half transporting my tower while evacuating for a huge fire. and i couldn't just get a new one since they stopped making them....
in hindsight i shouldnt have left it plugged in but i also didn't expect him to set heavy shit on top of my tower haha.

I did a panic and bought a second one just before they pulled it from sale. :)

You can probably pick one up on eBay / Amazon in reasonable nick, but you could be paying more then Steam Controller 2 retail price will be.

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So Wayfire is basically Compiz for Wayland yes?

Should add a lot to the default Xfce.

https://wayfire.org/2019/01/13/Introduction-to-Wayfire.html [External Link]

*edit*

Although reading this it looks like it will be bigger then just Compiz on Wayland

“Here’s the place where Wayfire fits in: it aims to be a base on which a lightweight wayland DEs can be built. By being split into plugins (which mostly control the appearance/window-management part) and core (providing rendering, workspaces, etc) Wayfire makes it possible to build a DE with minimal effort. Since the beginning of the project, Wayfire’s goals have also expanded to provide a rather minimalistic (but functional!) desktop environment.”

“Wayfire is heavily inspired by the Compiz window manager, and one of the implicit goals is to make your desktop look as nice as possible. So, Wayfire supports a lot of eye-candy: Cube, Expo, Wobbly windows, Animations(Burn, Zoom, Fade), 3D window switcher and more. See the demo videos if you haven’t!”

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Valve has proved to a mass market that their idea works with the SteamDeck.

Consumers should be a lot less sceptical about what a Steam Console without windows is capable of, Proton has now proven itself capable and has been accepted as such for anything outside the anti-cheat MMO’s.

Now if they can only get the pricing right, as they did on the SteamDeck then we have a gaming computer that can play the majority of PC games, and is priced competitively with building your own PC. Also functions well as a console. Whole different story to the first Steam Machines.

I would say it will only work if Valve are producing the hardware themselves but would love to be proved wrong.

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No question, will buy.

My two Steam Controller 1’s getting a bit old.

Hoping some of the games that dropped Steam Controller support after Valve said the first one was on its last day’s bring it back.

While Steam Input is handy mapping things to the thumb pad. Gets so tedious doing it for every single game.

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To be honest if I get a SteamDeck the first thing I will be doing with it is loading up a C64 emulator and playing some of my old favourites….

Or waiting for System 3 to release that Last Ninja back catalog they keep on talking about.

Kinda feels like a waste of the hardware

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I would love a racing game to allow me to steer using the thumb pad, as I think that would give me a finer degree of control then most gamepads in racing games.

Have to practice my Steam Input skills so I can set it up. But think it would perform better if the game supported it natively

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Resource gathering?

Does that sound more like the Settlers games, rather than something you would see in Civ?

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Quoting: ElectricPrism

Quoting: Craggles086Yeah, gotta work out if I get this one or wait for Steam Deck 2 now

AFAIK Valve developers commented that their intended Steam Deck release cycle would be (estimated no less than 4 years intervals, certainly not following the gpu trend of 1 or 2 years) -- this presents fewer targets for game developers and allows purchasers to enjoy their handheld consoles longer instead of be obsoleted every year or two.

Quoting: Craggles086Meanwhile New Zealand must be fuming as no mention of it in the release notes..

My NZ friends notoriously would fly for years to Aussy if they needed new gear (eg: Apple), so I've just been under the impression that 'It's a kiwi thang'.

My Australian friends, (me being Australian)
ascribe Australian nationality to any New Zealander who has success on the world stage. Something that annoys my New Zealand friends incredibly.

I have no doubt that Australian release includes NZ. Or is at least included in the postage.

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Yeah, gotta work out if I get this one or wait for Steam Deck 2 now, meanwhile New Zealand must be fuming as no mention of it in the release notes..

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