Fubarberry @ Fubarberry @lemmy.fmhy.ml

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My first thought with this meme was chronic distrohopping. Do I tell them what I'm using this week? Or the last distro I used for any amount of time? Do I tell them the obscure distro name or the name of the major distro it's forked off of? If I'm dual booting do I tell them the experimental OS I'm daily driving or the reliable fallback I have on my other partition?

Honestly after seeing how much the 1080p screen hurts performance on the ROG Ally, I've decided I'm very happy with the 800p screen on the deck. I might be able to get some benefit rendering at 800p and upscaling with FSR, but 720p looks pretty great at this size imo.

That's amazing looking. I really want one, but don't think I'm willing to make the swap myself.

Might put just the back plate on. I was eyeing the Jsaux ones but didn't like the hotplate.

I played through it before, and it ran great. I'd suggest trying the normal fixes:

1. Verify game files
2. Try a different proton version. I usually try both the highest version of proton 7 and proton experimental.
3. Reboot.

If none of those work, put PROTON_LOG=1 %command% in the launch options for the game inside the steam game properties. This will generate a log file in your home folder that you can share to help identify what went wrong.

If you're wanting logs for a game that's originally for windows and is running through proton, you can add PROTON_LOG=1 %command% to your launch options in steam game properties. It will generate a log file in your home folder.

This is the what I did. My wife still uses windows so I configured the mouse on her computer, saved the configuration, and have it working smoothly on my PC.

While it was easy to set it up this way, I really don't like the idea of needing windows to configure my mouse though. I really wish logitech would start offering official Linux support.

3.5 includes a ton of new stuff, and I'm assuming it's not all kernel based. Things like the saturation slider for example.

3.5 is a huge update, is just rather they shipped smaller parts of it more frequently.

They've been making steady revisions and improvements to the hardware since it was released. Better buttons, better acoustics on the fan, new heat shield, etc.

There's no way to know when the next hardware revision will be, but if you buy it now you'll be getting a pretty great piece of hardware that has had all the major kinks worked out.

It's certainly possible their write distribution isn't as good as SSD's. Honestly it feels like there should be a bigger tradeoff I'm not seeing in my reading here, so I'm kinda hoping someone knowledgeable on the subject will jump in and confirm or deny.

But ultimately I don't think that using a microSD for running windows is necessarily a terrible idea, sounds like it could work out ok.

Nicer microSD cards now claim to have comparable or better numbers of write cycles compared with average SSDs. Samsung claims their nicer cards have 100,000 writes per sector for example, while many SSDs seem to report having 40,000-100,000.

Unless I'm misunderstanding something it seems like running windows on a microSD should be fine. You can always go with a cheaper card too if you want low risk.

It's pretty easy to pick them up on ebay, many people are selling them for around $20-30 shipped.

Windows doesn't always play nice, windows updates will frequently break the bootloader and prevent SteamOS from booting. If you don't plan to use windows as your main OS I'd probably recommend installing it to a microSD. Performance may take a bit of a hit, but it's safer and much less likely to cause issues with the device as a whole.

Last I knew playing Halo MCC in coop still requires manually syncing your ucrtbase.dll files.

I made a guide for it on reddit, I'll probably repost it here sometime.

That's very handy, my case unfortunately did not come with any adapter like that.

I bought this Ivoler one, and it works really well while being super cheap at $20-25. It also has a large enough slot to fit a steam deck in a protective case, which was a plus for me.

The only downside to this one is that it doesn't include Ethernet, but they have more expensive models that do. Personally I get excellent wifi where my dock is so Ethernet wasn't worth the extra $10 or so.

There are some minor hardware differences depending on when you bought your deck and random chance. If you buy a brand new deck for example you may find you have a different heat shield than in most of the older tutorial videos for the deck.

Another example of differences is that two different styles of thumbstick were used, and until recently you were limited in what replacement thumbstick upgrades would work depending on which type you had (now they have universal upgrades that work with both kinds).

Every negative review of the Ally emphasized windows (and Asus armory crate) as some of the main negatives of the device. Windows gives a worse UI experience, has much higher passive power usage (which prevents you from getting actually good battery life times on low power games like Stardew), and makes things like the deck's suspend mid game impossible to implement reliability.

You also mentioned that Big Picture mode having most of the features, but it's missing the QAM and all the nice tools included with that. Asus Armory Crate is supposed to cover some of those, but has had a lot of negative feedback online for not working correctly or having significant downsides like massive deadzones. There's also a ton of nice features available through decky plugins that are very convenient to use mid game through steamOS.

Not to mention that having windows at all adds to the cost of the device. Average windows license cost for hardware manufacturers is around $50 if I remember right, and they charge more for more powerful hardware. That would be a huge price increase for something like the $400 Steam Deck.

I think SteamOS has a lot to offer, and the only downside (anticheat compatibility) will become a non-issue if steamOS becomes popular enough and companies start targeting it. I really hope to see it available on other devices.

To test it, just set your update channel to main.

Thanks!