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Inside konsole, you can use different shells. Some common ones are bash, fish, and zsh. The deck comes with all three of those installed by default.

You can usually tell which one you're using by either looking at the title bar of konsole when you first open it (should say something like ~:bash -- Konsole) or by running the command echo $SHELL

Once you've confirmed you're using bash, run which python (or which python3 if you're using python 3). Outside of the venv you should see the command return /usr/bin/python

After you run your source command, run which python again. You should now see that the python location being run has changed to be inside the venv folder.

The fork is specifically focused on Bloodborne only emulation, and has significantly improved performance in that one specific game. I don't know any specific listed changes for it, just that people report significantly better performance on it.

If I recall correctly, you can startup adhoc wifi in desktop mode, but I don't think there's a convenient way to do it in gamemode.

Quick question, are you using bash or another terminal? I think they Deck comes with fish preinstalled, but if I remember right I don't think the default source command works in fish without making some other changes.

Yep, although quality is mixed depending on the game.

Yeah, those absolute monsters.

Just saw the Ars Technica article on this, and it included this lovely section:

As detailed in the r/macgaming subreddit and at r/SteamDeck, many players who successfully got Marvel Rivals working would receive a "Penalty Issued" notice, with a violation "detected" and bans issued until 2124. Should such a ban stand, players risked entirely missing the much- prophesied Year of the Linux Desktop or Mainstream Mac Gaming, almost certain to happen at some point in that span.

Most games have too bad of performance to work properly. The Bloodborne focused fork reportably gets 25-30fps, but that's with some mods and system tweaks.

The biggest thing for me is being able to put games to sleep and pick them up later. Being able to instantly stop playing a game, and then instantly start playing back at that same spot later has really freed me up to play in a lot of small sessions.

I've majorly cut down on how much time I spend on my phone, and replaced it with bite sized chunks of playing real games.

From what I've read, Microsoft just decided to drop support for the PL-2303HXA/ TA/TB/HXD/RA/SA/EA. Some people report that RA chipsets still work some of the time, but inconsistently.

You can also sometimes forcibly install old drivers, that will continue to work.

Yeah, windows 10/11 has broken a ton of stuff. I have to use RS232 plugs for programming controllers at work, and I had to buy new usb-RS232 cables for all our computers because windows 11 broke support for all the older cables. I've also had a lot of programs break.

It's really frustrating to be trying to troubleshoot if an old controller is working or not, and not know if you can't connect to it because it's fried or if some new windows update is preventing the connection/software from working.

Looking at ProtonDB, the only reports I see of it not working well on deck are from 11 months ago, where people were getting full system crashes while playing. Those crashes sound like the deck is running out of ram/vram, and should no longer happen since the SteamOS 3.6 update that changed to zram.

So I'm not really seeing any reports for why it would be considered unsupported now.

You're right, but I think that's probably preferable to back when steam was much stricter about games on their platform. I remember a lot of good or promising games not being allowed onto steam, especially foreign VNs.

It's true there's a lot of crap on Steam these days, but generally we're not seeing good games being unable to get on the platform. And steam has tried to use curators/etc to give ways for users optional ways to cut out the crap and focus on a smaller number of recommended titles.

I really like the steam link in theory, but I had too much trouble getting a reliably good picture quality through it.

I used Google Stadia for awhile before it died, and it had better video quality when streaming games over the internet to a wifi connected chromecast. I even ran ethernet drops through my house to get my PC>router>Steam link connections hardwired, and it still had worse streaming quality than Stadia.

I think they mean how they stopped selling Steam Link devices. They still support the software side of streaming, they just don't sell dedicated hardware for it anymore.

Arkham City was such a good game, I have really fond memories of it.

How's Skald? It looks interesting

I recently started Bombrush Cyberfunk and I'm enjoying it. The combat isn't great, and the music doesn't work as well as the original JSR soundtrack, but otherwise it's really good and I recommend it.

I learned a lot by using a less common distro (solus). When I would have a problem, the solutions I could find on forums or arch wiki wouldn't apply to my distro directly, and I would have to look into the solution for long enough to understand what needed to change in order for the solution to work.

You can probably do this on any distro, just by not using commands you find online until you understand what they're doing and why that might fix your problem. Arch wiki is a great resource for any distro, even though it won't always be accurate for the distro you're on.

I use electric contact cleaner to clean all my controllers when they get sticky buttons or stick drift. You don't even need to disassemble it, just turn off the deck/controller, spray the cleaner in around the button/joystick that's not working right, press the button/move the stick around some, and then wait a couple minutes before turning it back on.

Only important thing to remember is that you need to make sure the contact cleaner you buy is plastic safe, some aren't. I've had really good results with CRC brand QD cleaner, and it's available at a lot of stores.

Also.going to tag @Kareemofficial@thelemmy.club