Ah, I guess the tearing in VR that got introduced with 570 got fixed in this one, right?
Or the headset tracking delay that's happening since 440 got this minor fix, right?
And for sure the asnyc reprojection issues where only needing this minor fix as well.

Oh, the ppa doesn't have this driver for any Ubuntu version prior to 25.04. Maybe it'll come with the update from 575.51 to 575.64 then.
But for now... frick, cannot test. Too bad.

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Good memories... I'll go with "The Guardian Legend" as my most favorite NES game.
Contra 1 and 2 (aka Probotector in Germany) are right next to it though. And Elite, and Pirates... and Maniac Mansion.
Oh man, such good nostalgia.

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Hopefully at some point multiplayer gets re-added for Ultimate Carnage. That would be really cool. It supported multiplayer via games 4 windows live back then.

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The game that keeps on giving and giving.
Probably a new expedition is coming out soon too. Those expeditions bring me back to the game again and again, otherwise I don't really know what to do in NMS after finishing the quest lines.
This game is one of the shining examples of game support, after such a rough start No Man's Sky has completely changed and very much overdelivered on everything. And it still performs awesomely well on Deck.
I guess they said it somewhere, but all the updates seem to be "tests" for their new game "Light No Fire". Like, let's test new weather effects... and backport it to No Man's Sky. Or let's test fishing mechanics, and put it into No Man's Sky... etc.

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My currently played games on a as Steam OS detected device (Ally + bazzite)

• Fall guys
• Ori and the blind forest - definitive edition
• The Ascent

Hmm, I need to play more!

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¯\_(ツ)_/¯

A fitting quote: scnr :whistle:
https://youtu.be/TyUlyqO9K6o?t=43 [External Link]

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I hope he's wrong with expecting that Valve does not have huge reasons to make more hardware when the experts are doing it already...

Indeed. The innovation did come from Valve. The others are only making revisions. The Steam Controller was a great new kind of controller. Here they did their next revision themselves, and it became the Steam Deck. The Valve Index VR headset is still one of the best out there with it's base station tracking (Quest 3 is great too I heard, especially with the pancake lenses) and its awesome sound system, i.e. the microphone and the hovering speakers.
Also the Steam machines were their idea of a console like living room pc... which again lead to the Steam Deck. There had been other gaming handhelds before (e.g. GPDWin), yet the Steam Deck kicked off this market.
I hope they keep doing their own devices, Apple has shown that having hardware and software bundled together from one vendor is working well for customers. And here we see Valve even opening it up for other vendors (unlike Apple) and showing that the PC is still an open platform. Not what Microsoft tries to do with locking you in to their system.

Looks like gaming is what brings Linux to the masses :woot:

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Though I'm not using Steam OS on my ROG Ally (yet) but bazzite, the Steam Client there has already adapted to the new rating system. I do see now blue checkmarks instead of the green check or yellow exlamation mark, telling me games being Steam OS compatible. When I open the info box, it still has a tab for Steam Deck compatibilty info.

Will be interesting to see how this will adapt to the year in review summary, will it show how much I've played on Deck and on other handheld devices? Will it now show just Steam OS devices? We will see :)

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Hopefully it'll see a release.
What devices do we have then that are/will be shipping with Linux pre-installed?

• Steam Deck (doh!)
• Legion Go S (SteamOS)
• Orange Pi Neo (Manjaro)
• Zotax Gaming Zone (Manjaro, maybe)

Any other devices we know about?

They just need to copy the Steam Deck control layout for touchpads

Imho not only the trackpads. I think the layout of analog sticks and dpad/buttons is surperior on Deck compared to this XBox-like layout all others have: [+°| |°᠅]

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These campaigns or call to action happen with every discontinuation of support of a windows version.
It might cause a small spike, then it'll go back to the snafu state.

The situation can be improved for sure, yet we are in a lucky state. Since I started to use Linux when studying and even fully switched to Linux whe Proton was released, a lot has improved. Devices and driver support, usability and for sure games support.

The reasons for switching are still the same to most people, when they realize they want to switch. Be it hardware support that Linux can still run on, while the latest Windows version doesn't. Or cost, or freedom, or curiosity or the fact that the computer feels like being yours again.

The recent PewDiePie video¹ was nice to watch, yet all the arguments he mentioned why he switched (and so should others) are the same arguments as ever. Yet great to see how he appreciates Linux and all the stuff he can do with it.

I'm quite happy to be able to play way more games than I have time, can enjoy VR and do all my work stuff on Linux. Still things have to improve, a normal user will have to put quite some effort into getting everything to work as they want it are overwhelmed with all the options etc. Valve is doing a great part with giving one solution to one problem, gaming on Linux via Steam Deck/Steam OS. This is what Microsoft and Apple does on the Desktop and their devices, and it seems to be a successful method.

¹https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVI_smLgTY0

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