Tweaking SteamOS For Better Steam Deck Performance ( www.phoronix.com )
[PSA] Swapping your Deck's filesystem to Btrfs is easy to do, and can give you more space for free ( gitlab.com )
Btrfs is a filesystem (like FAT, NTFS, and ext4), but has some distinct advantages:...
I customized some joycons for my steam deck ( lemmy.world )
Thoughts on the process here: cohost.org/nycki/post/3094309-joycons-for-steam
Looks like the LE is finally sold out ( lemmy.ml )
Thank you for 20 Years of Steam! ( www.youtube.com )
Useful new Decky Plugin: Battery Tracker ( github.com )
Battery tracker is a new plugin that seems pretty useful. Gives a chart of tracked battery levels, but more importantly it tracks the average power draw of the different games you run....
Steam :: Steam Deck :: SteamOS 3.5.5 Update ( steamcommunity.com )
tl;dr Steam OS 3.5 released to stable branch, adding sRGB emulation, and HDR and VRR (for external devices)
[Game] Diablo 4 is coming to Steam ( www.pcgamer.com )
While it was playable before through 3rd party tools, this will make it much more accessible to many Steam Deck players....
Valve detail their plans to combat Steam Deck OLED scalpers ( www.gamingonlinux.com )
Should I get a Steam Deck?
I had an old MSI gaming laptop from 2016 which was amazing for me (I always had slow, 2nd hand laptops before) and now I’ve sold it and my PS Vita in order to buy a Steam Deck. I want to play Elden Ring, the Souls series, Sekiro and some indie games like Vampire Survivor. I also want to emulate games (Gameboy gen up to PS2...
Counter-Strike 2 is out, but it’s not Steam Deck Verified ( www.theverge.com )
This just seems odd to me. I know it’s a competitive game, and most folks will be playing with a mouse and keyboard, but it feels weird for Valve to put out a brand new game (built from scratch, at that) and not plan for this.
Steam Deck OS 3.4.9 Beta gets a GPU fix for an upcoming game ( www.gamingonlinux.com )
Here’s something interesting for you. Valve released a fresh upgrade for the Steam Deck OS now in Beta, including a fix for an upcoming game....
[PSA] How to use your Steam Deck as a PC controller ( www.xda-developers.com )
Easiest way is by using remote play, you’ll want to change settings to enable audio on the host, and possibly lower stream bandwidth....
Steam Deck - SteamOS 3.5.8 Preview: Flatlined - Steam News ( store.steampowered.com )
General...
[News] Steam Deck Preview update has a Unified Refresh Rate and Framerate Limit slider ( www.gamingonlinux.com )
[PSA] Battle.net broke in Wine / Proton - here's how to fix for Steam Deck / Linux ( www.gamingonlinux.com )
That's one way to combat scalpers... ( lemmy.world )
Steam Deck 2 delay was right choice for Valve as mid-generation refresh would fare better - NotebookCheck.net ( www.notebookcheck.net )
Release 2.9.1 Heroic Games Launcher fixes Amazon support. ( github.com )
If you’ve been collecting the free games from Amazon with your Prime subscription, you should check out the new integration in Heroic.
Steam Deck OLED: Sold Out in Japan! ( boilingsteam.com )
Steam Deck as a laptop replacement?
I’ve been thinking about this for a while. With the repairability of the steam deck and the power available to it, it seems like a no brainer to use it for a bit of school work or casual browsing, Discord etc. Like you would a normal desktop....
[News] Gamescope added support for ReShade shaders on Linux / SteamOS ( www.gamingonlinux.com )
The documentation for Gamescope has now been updated to note it supports a “subset of Reshade effects/shaders” and so this provides an easy way to layer “shader effects (ie. CRT shader, film grain, debugging HDR with histograms, etc) on top of whatever is being displayed in Gamescope without having to hook into the...
[Review] The Steam Deck OLED feels like a radiant new dawn for portable play ( www.gamedeveloper.com )
Doesn’t have any new info for any existing deck owners, but it’s always nice to see positive coverage and opinions.
Good Times ( news.idlestate.org )
So long limited edition OLED deck.
[Discussion] With the recent rumors of a possible hardware refresh, what are your most hoped for changes in an updated Steam Deck?
In the leaked info, we know that Valve has an upcoming device that will use the same APU as the current Steam Deck. We don’t know if this will be a new VR headset or a Steam Deck hardware refresh. Even though using the same APU means there won’t be a performance increase, there could be various other improvements in an...