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You are discovering indie games? You are in for a treat! I essentially play only indie games, with rare exceptions once or twice per year.
How do you discover good indie games to play?
as someone who's been trying to run games on linux for almost a decade, we are still a long way away from being able to just launch games on steam (in linux or with steam deck) without thinking twice.
despite the progress in emulating windows code in linux, you need devs to step in for weird cases such as anticheat or another layer of DRM companies like Ubisoft and EA put on their titles.
given steam deck's success tho, i am hopeful to see some effort from developers to make it more accessible to just launch a game on deck and have a good experience. even if it might be down to just supporting less powerful hardware.
it might also be a blessing to only have a limited subset of titles given how vast steam catalog is. my library is already too big to catch up on.
I bought a Steam Deck, I used it a bit but honestly not as much as I expected. I did however finally manage to dump Windows from all my machines, apart from my VR sim racing rig, and now play everything on my Linux desktop or laptop. If it doesn't run, at this point I just pick something else to play. Steam Deck has pushed the state of the art of Wine/Proton/DXVK/... so far it's mostly just a plug and play experience…
ProtonDB is better, though it does move slowly. Basically if protonDB says it isn't borked, the game will run.
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Both consoles get about as hot, but yeah, no good Sleep option in Windows is a shame.
> Both consoles get about as hot The problem specific to the Ally right now is that it seems to get too hot where the SD card reader is, causing SD cards to fry for some users: https://www.dexerto.com/tech/asus-rog-ally-has-a-bizarre-ove... . I'm sure this will be fixed in a future hardware revision, but for now it seems worth waiting on the Ally for them to hammer out the first-generation kinks. Still, I'm happy tha…
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It is, but it’s not too far from a Switch — 422g vs 669g.
Did you realize that it's still ~50% increase in weight? Though agree that OP need to try it themselves, but still beware that some people with small hands get hurt playing deck due to the weight.
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~8 million downloads (and thats assuming duplicates don't get recounted?), vs 60 million copies sold [1] is still barely ~15%. This might mean that for PC, its more like 8 million out of 16 million and 50% of PC players are modding. So in a best case, it's 50% of PC players (which may apply to steam deck), or worst case, less than 15% of all players (which may also apply to steam deck). [1] - https://www.gamesradar.c…
It didn't sell anywhere remotely near 60 million. That was an offhand comment from Todd Howard who was being a bit misleading. He was mixing all the different versions of Skyrim (Skyrim, Skyrim VR, Skyrim Special Edition) and calling them simply Skyrim as a whole. It's like saying "Mario" has sold a billion copies. If you're not familiar with the series, those aren't like 'game of the year' type collections, but dist…
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Does this make a difference? If I were to build a gaming PC based on Linux and Proton, would I need an Arch based distro to get that ~80% coverage?
You get a recent kernel + mesa + vulkan which means a recent proton shipped with steam can use all the extensions it wants for efficiency. Recent kernels also contain a few features specifically designed to aid wine. Also, it's probably a joke.
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The Steam Deck is a success compared to previous attempts by Valve, but perhaps not as much as the initial excitement would have you believe. To put things into perspective, some source[1] estimates that a total of 3 million Steam Deck units will have been sold by the end of 2023. The Nintendo Switch, which probably inspired the Steam Deck, has sold 125 million units by March[2]. This amounts to 20.8 million units pe…
You're comparing sales of a product in a nascent category (PC gaming handhelds) produced by a company with near zero retail presence with a marketing campaign almost entirely focused on their existing (Steam) user base to Nintendo , a long standing retail giant that has dominated the market for decades who follow an entirely different business model. That's not to say they're incomparable , particularly in how they p…
But those handhelds, being quite expensive, almost certainly sold much less than the Steam Deck, which itself didn't sell overly well.
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I've been on the fence about getting one. The one thing that's slowing down my decision making is whether or not the matte anti-glare screen is worth the premium price, or if the regular screen glare is fine enough inside. Also seen some people say a screen protector works, but can bubble with the heat. Happen to have any insight on this? $360 vs $540 on sale right now is tempting. Upgrading the storage to a larger N…
I have the 256GB version which has regular screen. Glare hasn't bothered me inside at all in the year and a half I've owned it. However, I have not played it outside - in the shade / twilight it may be OK depending on your personal threshold. In sunlight, forget about it :) FWIW I've added a microSD card and it's fine. Updating the internal nVME is not on my radar, because the whole point of SteamDeck, for me and my…