Yeah, I had mostly stayed away from arch based distros after having a really bad time with Manjaro. But hearing the Steam Deck’s version of SteamOS was switching to an Arch base got me to try Endeavour on my desktop, and I’ve been using it ever since.

https://github.com/ryanrudolfoba/SteamOS-Waydroid-Installer

Not disagreeing with your point, but at least for waydroid there’s a specific SteamOS installer available.

Desktop experience is just KDE, only part that I’m worried will trip people up is it being immutable. Usually that’s fine, but occasionally you run into an issue where something doesn’t work because of flatpak sandboxing, and it can be confusing how to overcome it.

It’s working, I know people who don’t even own a steam deck who are considering swapping to SteamOS once it’s available for desktops.

I’ve told them they don’t need to wait and can get a similar or better experience with distros that are already available, but steam’s name is gold for a lot of people and it seems like the only option they’re really interested in.

That’s my guess, that they’re looking for a specific hardware identification and the OLED was overlooked.

I just recently bought a dryer. When I first got my printer, I was printing pretty constantly and didn’t really have an issue with wet filament. But these days I’ve slowed down my printing frequency a lot, and I’ve definitely noticed that the print quality gets worse the longer I’ve had the roll unsealed.

TDP limits can sometimes give you increased battery life with no change in game quality. However if you ever notice the game freezing or stuttering, make sure to disable TDP limit and see if that fixes it.

I’ve heard that using BTRFS with compression on a microSD and other slow access storage can actually speed up load times, because the biggest bottleneck is the read/write speed.

You can use this tool to convert the deck.

The only downside I know of is that if your SteamOS install becomes corrupted (though a bug or from you messing something up), the Steam OS recovery drives won’t be able to fix it without wiping all your internal data. In comparison, with the original ext4 there’s a recovery option to only repair steamOS and leave your data intact.

This isn’t as bad as it sounds, you can still manually backup any of your important data before wiping and restoring the drive (you can access the BTRFS system from the recovery drive, and copy anything important onto a microSD or other storage device), but it’s definitely less convenient.

It has split screen, so we play docked on a TV.

It does have online play too though, there’s a free friend’s pass that you can use for two people to play online with one copy. However even in online play you’ll be playing split screen, because it’s often important to be able to see the other player’s screen.

I haven’t bought the game yet, but I’ve been told this guy’s setting list on ProtonDB is supposed to help a lot.

Also apparently changing graphics options on the game leads often leads to bad performance issues for that session. After changing settings, if it seems like the game is running worse, you will likely need to restart the game to see how well it will actually run with the new settings.

I’m pretty interested in Spellrogue. Dice and deck builders go really well together, Slice & Dice and Dicey Dungeons are both 10/10 and very satisfying to play. I’ve heard good things about Spellrogue while it was in early access, so I’m hoping it will be another great option.

How recently was it added to your GoG library? It’s not uncommon for new games to not show up for awhile if GoG is having any server issues.

If the game isn’t a recent addition to your library, and relogging into GoG doesn’t fix it, you might try Junk Store and see if it shows the game.

Cool, thanks for sharing. I was wondering how you switched the arcade controls without swapping cables, unfortunate to hear it’s a pain. I’ve been wanting to do a virtual pinball build for awhile now, and I really like the idea of having the device be useable without my deck docked to it. I’ll probably see if I can figure out a good way to swap devices, maybe try using a usb switch and hdmi switch to swap inputs/display.

No reason to be a dick. You could have rephrased most of this and had it be a beneficial suggestion, but instead it just comes across as you being mean. Looking over you comment history, it looks like most of your comments are that way. You almost are never helpful, just lashing out at people for doing something wrong or asking for help instead of figuring things out themselves. No one is going to take advice from you like this, you’re just pissing people off and wasting your own time in the process.

Oh that’s super cool. I see you have a raspberry pi inside, do you use that just for retro games, and then swap over to a docked Steam Deck for more demanding games? How do you handle swapping?

I’ve been typing a lot of phone notes and taking a lot of screenshots.

I wish there was a good way to edit my steam notes for a game from the steam mobile app.

Just to make sure I understand, you’re saying there’s a difference between the zen console versions of the table and the fx3 pinball version?

Hope you enjoy it! Fantical has it for about $5 off if you want a bit of a discount.

The experience did steadily grow on me the more I played, so don’t expect to be blown away on your first couple tries.

SteamDeckHQ did a first impressions, and they’re getting a pretty consistent 30fps (higher fps possible inside, but outside can’t go much higher than 30. They mentioned a few fps dips near crowds but that’s it.

It sounds like you’ve got a bad setting somewhere or something else going on, assuming their account is accurate.

https://steamdeckhq.com/news/the-elder-scrolls-4-oblivion-remastered-is-mostly-solid-on-the-steam-deck-first-look/