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Steam Deck

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A place to discuss and support all things Steam Deck.

Replacement for r/steamdeck_linux.

As Lemmy doesn't have flairs yet, you can use these prefixes to indicate what type of post you have made, eg:
[Flair] My post title

The following is a list of suggested flairs:
[Discussion] - General discussion.
[Help] - A request for help or support.
[News] - News about the deck.
[PSA] - Sharing important information.
[Game] - News / info about a game on the deck.
[Update] - An update to a previous post.
[Meta] - Discussion about this community.

Some more Steam Deck specific flairs:
[Boot Screen] - Custom boot screens/videos.
[Selling] - If you are selling your deck.

These are not enforced, but they are encouraged.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 4 days ago (7 children)

It doesn't support NVIDIA video cards, for instance.

Rather NoVideo doesn't support their video cards on Linux

[–] pathief 4 points 4 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (5 children)

~~No, their Micro-compositor was written exclusively for AMD cards.~~ The SteamOS setup just borks if you try to install it with nvidia. People coming from Windows won't really care who is to blame, they'll just be baffled it doesn't work.

It makes sense since steam deck only has AMD cards. SteamOS is targeted at gaming devices, not as a generalistic distribution.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

This thing?

https://github.com/ValveSoftware/gamescope

It runs on Mesa + AMD or Intel, and could be made to run on other Mesa/DRM drivers with minimal work. AMD requires Mesa 20.3+, Intel requires Mesa 21.2+. For NVIDIA's proprietary driver, version 515.43.04+ is required (make sure the nvidia-drm.modeset=1 kernel parameter is set).

[–] pathief 3 points 4 days ago

It borks when you try to install SteamOS. It does not work. Bazzite just added beta support for nvidia, so check that out if out really want something as close to SteamOS as possible.

Or just use a generalist distribution because gaming on Linux is in an amazing state right now. Install steam, boot games.

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