Valve introduces Steam Deck

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Will definitely see about getting the controller. The old Xbox One controller I've been using got me through the past decade but it's about time for its retirement.
 
anti SJW said:

New Steam controller, Steam machine, and Steam VR called steam frame announced. All coming early 2026.
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imo those controllers look hideous and clunky, but others here say they're pretty solid so I'll be happy to be proven wrong.
 
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Slav Power said:
Install Mint now and forget about Windows. If you can't do that, enjoy thousand years of Windows hell since that's all you deserve if you're unwilling to learn. You can switch to Linux now and could for years. If you didn't yet, you don't want to switch period.
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DickMain said:
imo those controllers look hideous and clunky, but others here say they're pretty solid so I'll be happy to be proven wrong.
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I don't love the one-button d-pad. PS4 controllers had their problems but I really liked that d pad. I'd have to try out street fighter on that thing before I bought it
 
Paul-Denton said:
I don't love the one-button d-pad. PS4 controllers had their problems but I really liked that d pad. I'd have to try out street fighter on that thing before I bought it
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A friend of mine had said he despised the ps5 dpad for UNI2, something about it being too precise with what exactly was being held or something other. I'm a TE2 fag so I wouldn't know.
 
>The "GabeCube" is 6x the power of a steam deck
>It is still reliant on WINE Proton and DXVK to make games actually run without overwriting it with a debloated windows and using software to cover the compatibility holes like you need WINE and DVXK to even play Windows games on Linux.

They might as well have just made a Steam Deck 2 at that point.
 
Praise be to Gaben
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I'm not falling for the VR meme again though
Not until they figure out how to fix motion sickness and release actual games. Right now you just have glorified mobile games and gay sex simulators

Looney Troons said:
I got all of Half-Life: Alyx out of my Index and never touched it again. Has VR gaming become viable yet?
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No, its still shit
Maybe in 10 years, when people start using AI to program good enemy AI
 
still trying to push VR outside of military war games and porn is a lost cause, until the issues related to price and freedom of movement are solved it's never taking off. best case scenario for VR would be something like ILM XLab where it's an attraction you visit since they can have a dedicated space that mirrors the game world.
 
Looney Troons said:
I got all of Half-Life: Alyx out of my Index and never touched it again. Has VR gaming become viable yet?
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Theres cool stuff, but I think it prepetually suffers from being niche. One its expensive, 2 its not for fatties, 3 some just want a controller, and 4 some devs just dont want to fuck around with it.

I don't know if that niche factor will EVER fade
 
Haven’t watched the video yet but as an owner of OG Steam Controller, the new one still looks rather big and unwieldy (I would need to hold it to confirm) . That said the original is still one of my favorites and the best controller in my collection in terms of build quality.
 
Looney Troons said:
I got all of Half-Life: Alyx out of my Index and never touched it again. Has VR gaming become viable yet?
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There's a fair deal of good VR games these days, and several that are quite expansive, but it has the same issue a library like the Wii has. Theres an ocean of shit to wade through.

The biggest advantage to the Frame imo is the direct integration with your Steam library (fuck you Occulus and your proprietary software fucking bullshit). Not needing a computer for all your games is also a big plus. Depending on how comfortable it is after extended periods, that feature to use it as a personal screen for nonVR games could be pretty useful in several use cases. You can do something similar with most headsets, but a lot tend to suck ass to wear for too long, especially when staring at a static screen in VR space.
 
sodaboard said:
still trying to push VR outside of military war games and porn is a lost cause, until the issues related to price and freedom of movement are solved it's never taking off. best case scenario for VR would be something like ILM XLab where it's an attraction you visit since they can have a dedicated space that mirrors the game world.
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Leave me alone, I want to play my Beatsaber in peace.
Sliec sliec sliec
 
Paul-Denton said:
Gaben please release me from this windows hell I wanna run SteamOS on my machine to felt Bill Gates
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You can run Linux right now and have a better time than with SteamOS.

There is literally nothing in SteamOS that isn't available in a regular old linux distro except for a base config that makes it less useful as a PC and a (maybe custom?) suspend feature that you don't need on a desktop.

The custom game-mode interface is available on both Windows and Linux because it's baked into steam
The OS is just a read-only Arch install, available from any other Arch distro
The drivers are all in the Kernel, available from any other distro
The desktop environment is just KDE, available from any other distro
The Windows game compatibility is just proton, which comes with steam on any other distro

Just install EndeavorOS or CachyOS (Which are just Arch distros with desktop environment preconfigured (the same desktop environment SteamOS uses)) and steam and you're 95% of the way to SteamOS. If you really want to for some reason, you can set your filesystem to read only to prevent yourself from breaking it and seet up a separate desktop session that only runs Steam and you're 100% there.

There's also Bazzite, which comes with the read only stuff turned on, but it's base distro isn't arch so it's not quite the same.

If you have any trouble at all it's going to be with your NVIDIA graphics card driver (which SteamOS bypasses by not being available on a system with an NVIDIA card) or with wireless/networking drivers (which SteamOS bypasses in the same way). As soon as it's released for non-handhelds, it's going to have the same problems as every other distro does with hardware support, and if they find a new way to fix those problems, those fixes will propagate to every other distro.
 
I own a PC with an RX 7600 which is the one the Steam Machine is based on meaning developers are now going to target that chipset for optimization for years to come. Feels good man :story:

I hope they sell the Steam Machine and the controller as a bundle with a discount. If the price is right I'm totally on board for using this in my living room.
 
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