Valve’s brilliant Steam Deck now accounts for over 21% of all Linux gamers
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Valve's Steam Deck handheld now accounts for over 21% of all Linux gaming, although some are leaving SteamOS for Bazzite.
  • Mika ( Mika@piefed.ca ) English
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    3 months ago

    Ha jokes on you, as now my pc is broken I even use linux steam deck env as my main pc. Power of having linux on a cheap small device, albeit locked system files make some advanced setups a headache. But hey it runs all the good IDEs and Godot, with bluetooth keyboard & mouse I can code ez.

    • Drasglaf ( Drasglaf@sopuli.xyz ) English
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      3 months ago

      albeit locked system files make some advanced setups a headache

      You could install something like CachyOS Handheld Edition. It still has SteamOS’ game mode but also comes with pacman and paru.

      • Mika ( Mika@piefed.ca ) English
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        3 months ago

        Thanks for the suggestion, but I’ll stick with existing setup for now. The thing I’m most annoyed about is that linux uses ctrl shortcut space for all editing stuff, and I’m used to macos cmd space. I’ve swapped cmd & ctrl in the settings, and it’s mostly fine, except emacs not having separate meta/hyper/super keys. And it’s not respecting system-wide cmd+c cmd+v, cause it’s now ctrl.

        I guess I can live without emacs for now.

  • SuiXi3D ( SuiXi3D@fedia.io ) 
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    3 months ago

    My plan for the weekend is to install SteamOS on my Lenovo Legion Go. Supposedly it runs stuff a lot better than Windows so I’m looking forward to trying it out.

    • MudMan ( MudMan@fedia.io ) 
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      3 months ago

      It integrates better than Bazzite on it.

      Which weirdly makes me annoyed at Valve’s lack of interest in expanding SteamOS beyond first party hardware.

      It does mostly work, though.

  • MudMan ( MudMan@fedia.io ) 
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    3 months ago

    I’m confused, is that supposed to be good or bad? A lot or a little? That article seems to be making a heck of a lof of excuses. The hard pivot from “the Deck is an unmitigated success!” to immediately, quietly admitting it hasn’t outsold any actual handheld console is… kinda weird.

    I like the Deck, and its influence in the market is clearly outsized… but it’s still a fairly niche product, and for the price I’m actually a bit surprised at how not-mainstream it remains.