Fubarberry @ Fubarberry @sopuli.xyz

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Yeah it's got some great additions in my opinion. It's not as necessary as it used to be thanks to valve slowly adding in many decky plugins into standard SteamOS.

Some nice plugins for usability:

• autoflatpaks: update flatpaks from game mode
• battery tracker: track average power usage of games over time. Good for getting an actual average power use for games with a wide range of battery drains
• Junk store: install epic (and GOG if you spend $6) games from game mode
• KDE connect: get notifications from your phone, use your phone keyboard to type on the deck
• MagicBlack: turn off screen on the OLED version for saving power during downloads/etc
• Pausegames: lets you pause any game, freeing up resources without closing it. Lets you pause games that can't be paused, run multiple games at once, and can fix audio issues when suspending
• Playtime: tracks playtime per game and per day
• protonDB lets you see what games will run on the deck, even if they're not steam verified/etc
• powertools: lets you adjust cpu cores/clock speed etc. Lets you get super low power usage in some games (down to 3.5w or so), and fixes some games with bugged cpu speeds
• shotty: moves steam screenshots in pictures folder to make them easy to find in desktop mode
• steamback: makes backup saves of your games everytime you open or close a game.
• volume mixer: change volume balance between programs. Very helpful if you're using discord/etc while playing.

There's also a ton of nice customization ones, which I can share if you're interested.

So I've been reading through the deck homebrew discord trying to figure that out. A user claimed he was racist, and got him banned/kicked out of Decky over it. However as far as I can tell, no evidence of him being racist was ever posted, and the user that got him banned left the server afterwards.

It does sound like he was quick to get into arguments with some other users, but that's not officially what he was banned over.

There may be better evidence I'm missing, there are a lot of messages discussing it in the server, but I see several people there claiming that banning him without evidence was an overreaction, so I'm assuming there isn't anything concrete that I've missed.

My personal opinion from what I've seen is that I think the ban should be reversed, it seems like a shame to deprive the entire deck community from a useful tool unless there's something more concrete I'm not seeing.

Yeah, a lot of long term projects have rude maintainers it seems.

It's probably a year or two out, at least. They want the Steam Deck 2 to be a proper power jump from the original, and there hasn't been any significant hardware improvements that would allow that yet.

Other handhelds have more power, but they do that by dumping way more power into the chipset for increasingly small returns. It's not really worth it to make a new Steam Deck with one of those chipsets because you would be trading off most of the battery life for any power increase.

There are unofficial imports, but they cost more and you don't get Valve's great warranty coverage.

The current plug-in let's you add games to the normal list of steam games.

Finally, about time.

The biggest downside right now is the need to boot into desktop mode and install Decky loader. That isn't hard by any means, but it does go beyond what someone who isn't tech saavy may be comfortable doing.

The steam store version will make epic and gog games usable without ever having to step past the "console" part of the steam deck.

It's already available as a Decky plugin.

It's similar, but it runs in game mode. It's user experience is a lot closer to having native support for Epic than the heroic launcher.

Yeah, if this is accepted it would set an interesting precedent

New drugs get a period of time where the company that developed it has exclusive manufacturing rights. The idea is that if anyone can start making the drug immediately, there's not a good reason for companies to spend money to develop new drugs. However if demand for a drug is greater than the ability of the creating company to produce the drug, other companies are allowed to temporarily step in and make up the difference.

Out of curiousity, do you have hardware acceleration enabled in your steam client? I used to have the same issue with the drop menus on linux, but now they work fine. I'm not sure when they started working correctly, but I know I had to disable hardware acceleration due to some other problems with steam.

Many game engines let you make Linux builds, but there are still bugs and optimizations that have to be done manually to get it working. The video claims it takes ~6 months to make a proper port, and even then it might not run as smoothly as the windows proton version does.

With any luck windows won't continue to allow kernel anti-cheat much longer either. I also assume that sooner or later there may be government action on kernel anti-cheat, since many of the popular games/anti-cheats are Chinese owned. If tiktok spying is enough of a concern to ban the app, it's a pretty short logical step to being thinking that Chinese companies shouldn't be allowed to install full access, unremovable backdoors on millions of PCs.

No, because apple's monopoly doesnt count because they're upfront about it being a monopoly.

Which is stupid, but that's how it works apparently

It's not like the current group of users is perfect either. There's a lot of circlejerk opinions going around, and I've seen being get majorly downvoted for posting factual info that went against the "hivemind" opinion.

Yeah, can't get market share without games, but it's hard to get games without marketshare. Proton made sure we have games, now we need marketshare. Once we have marketshare we'll get more high quality linux native ports (I hope).

Yeah, wine is incredible for preservation. Many older games don't work on either platform (old windows games on windows, old linux games on linux), but running old windows games through proton usually works great.

Yeah, it's unfortunately common to have games running better through proton than the native port. We've seen a lot of devs drop their linux port recently because the proton version ran better with fewer issues.

Obviously a well executed native linux port is preferable, but a lot of smaller devs have trouble justifying spending a lot of time working out kinks for a linux port if the game already runs great through proton.