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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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To be clear, this is just an alternative Linux OS. The hardware shown in the thumbnail and article is just a mockup meant to represent a potential handheld. Part of their goal is to offer equally good support for all PC game stores (epic etc) vs the "steam first" experience of the deck.

Dedicated builds for the Steam Deck and other handheld PCs are to come later this year.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago (2 children)

What's the use case here? Why chose this over SteamOS?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

I think they want to be more appealing to hardware vendors. SteamOS has shown that there's a lot of value in a handheld offering a polished end user experience that windows handhelds aren't able to match. The goal here is probably to partner with other handheld PCs makers to offer a customized Linux based option that has out of the box support for all of the popular PC games stores.

[–] deafboy 1 points 6 months ago

All they need to do to beat steamos is to release.