This kind of box could be really interresting to me, but not at this price tag and I will wait for the Ryzen 6000 series APU/CPU release and benchmarks. With the DDR5 speed bump, it seems it's going to be a great upgrade over the 5000 series, so I read.

Edit: Didn't take notice of the price tag, since it's in EUR; not going to buy one.

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Quoting: LoftyRemote play never fully worked for me. i managed to get a friend to see the video/audio feed but the controllers were never detected. they were on windows and of course i was on Linux ;)
we tried everything. I even tried it on two local machines both connected to the internet, both running Linux on separate steam accounts and nope.. nothing.

it could be my firewall, but id rather not have to open ports to the outside world just to have a (admittedly cool) feature i don't often use. my desktops of course have a standard firewall enabled for good measure but nothing out of the ordinary.

There are two concepts here...

"Remote Play" which was originally know as "Steam In-home Streaming" (streaming from one pc to another, locally), but since Valve added the possibility of streaming from your PC to anywhere where you have access to wifi, they changed the name.

The other concept is "Remote Play Together" which is what you seem to be talking about (inviting remote friends to play games that are intended to be played locally) . I'm not sure this thread is about the latter... It doesn't mean that this news doesn't affect both though.

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For the record, I said that the Steam Deck and SteamOS 3.0 could help Linux gain a foothold, not overthrow MS Windows.

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Seriously, if futur Steam Deck users are starting to like SteamOS 3.0, find the desktop mode easy to use and Valve decides to release a more "general desktop" version of SteamOS 3.0 (meaning it includes an automatic way to install and update all the standard drivers for desktop PC support), it could really help Linux gain a solid foothold in the market.

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Quoting: TcheyAwesome ! Less than 99% left to go before we dominate the world and rule the universe !

Universe is so overated... It's all about Metaverse now!

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Quoting: Liam DaweYeah sorry the merch store is a bit of a PITA. They need us to setup an additional one for US/Canada because they produce it based on where you want it delivered.

No problem. Absolutely no pressure intended, but is it something you plan to do? If so, I'll be patient (like if I had any choice).

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Merch sotre?! Aaaah! So sad, unavailable to Canada. I would have bought that GamingOnLinux mug; it looks really great!

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Quoting: SalvatosWell, we’ve already seen CDs sold in fake books, thumb drives as keychains, and flash drives in credit cards to make them easier to carry and find... I wouldn’t be surprised to see something similar being done for the Deck if it reaches a sufficiently large userbase, if only as a collector item or Kickstarter exclusive. Pretty hard to make an anything-themed microSDXC considering the form factor and the fact you won’t see it while it’s in use, but as a piece you take out of a bigger collector item, it could work.

I imagine the appeal would be bigger for heavy 100 GB+ games in places with slow/capped Internet, though in this day and age the files would already be outdated and require a patch by the time they reach consumers anyway. Besides that, it would just be a more expensive drive to store more games on. GameCube memory cards served a similar function but you could see their stickers while they were plugged in, and on some of them write down the games (saves) within.

I could imagine them being used to sell bundles of smaller Linux-native store-agnostic games, or with accompanying Steam keys, e.g. "20 kid-friendly games for you child’s Deck" or "the complete [insert franchise here] collection on the go", but just typing this makes it sound gimmicky as hell, like those cheap movies and games in cereal boxes back in the day.

Probably.

In fact, it comes from a video I saw of someone who 3D printed a microsd card holder for his futur Steam Deck... It could hold 20 cards approx... It made me wonder how he could easily identify them if he's got, let's say, 10 cards... Tought about a game/brand logo on each cards...

Personnally, I'll get the 512gb model, so not really an issue for me, anyway.

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Just happened to read something I haven't tought about... Could we witness the creation of a Steam Deck market place for game themed Micro SDXC cards sold with said game preinstalled on it? Might not be really ecologic, but it could be nice. The 64GB Steam Deck could greatly benefit from that.. The challenge would be to not lose them.

Just a tought.

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Quoting: scirocco

Quoting: MohandevirJust installed Kubuntu 20.04 this weekend... I was using Pop_OS! for the last year and half, or so.

I've been pleasantly surprised with KDE... Gnome required me to uncheck "Allow flipping", in the Nvidia control panel, to prevent screen flickering while streaming from my Nvidia GPU rig to my Nvidia Shield. I also had to disable the HDMI audio output to prevent audio degradation (it usually happened after 15 to 20 mins of playtime). All of those issues also affected KDE, before I decided to settle with Pop_OS! (tested it back then).

This time, I didn't had to do any of those tweaks on KDE. No flickering, no audio degradation after a 1 hour run, friday evening and a 2 hour run, yesterday.

Nice progression by the KDE team! Crossing my fingers that it keeps on going this way!

Valve's implication in Kwin support at work here?

Edit: It brings me back full circle... It all started with Kubuntu 7.10, for me.

You went from one distro to another, with different different software 20.04 uses ancient software maybe it worked better back then.

Back then was when I settled with Pop_OS! 20.04. Kubuntu 20.04 had similar issues. Kubuntu 20.04.3 does not. That's the nice evolution I'm talking about and both are Ubuntu based.

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