You aren’t wrong, but it just feels right, is this what being an Apple fan is like?

It is ok, your mom already told me about it.

Yeah it sucks but imagine spending a good chunk of that on a Nintendo Switch that has built in planned obsolescence and will be a poorly supported brick in a couple of years limited to never surpass the potential the original Nintendo developers could see in the device at an architectural level and set into stone by the mass armadas of copyright weapons that Nintendo deploys.

Does the price difference matter as much when you see it in that light? You can always use your Steam Deck as a computer in any way you want to. You can load stuff onto it using the sd card… the nonsense is astronomically less with the Steam Deck I just can’t imagine thinking the Steam Deck wasn’t worth it over the Switch when you actually think about the value either device brings to your life longterm. One is disposable, the other is not.

They are CRITICAL, I can make control schemes for complex games like Cold Waters DotMod that I could never dream of doing with a normal gamepad and no virtual menus… or rather the gamepad control scheme would be too complicated to remember.

Luanti is in the Discovery app which is the stock flatpak repository gui app “store” that comes with the Steam Deck.

No reason for it to be on Steam really, but I wouldn’t be against it.

edit: The ./ is essential once you’re in the directory when you’re running stuff this way. It essentially means “in this directory, run …”. Otherwise the shell will just look in your $PATH directories list and not find “pandoc” anywhere in it. You can add “.” to your $PATH to avoid this but it’s not there by default on the deck.

This was the issue, I am fairly comfortable with the command line there are just lots of little things that were never explained to me because I have learned it all myself.

I appreciate the recommendation for a front end engine! I want pandoc for exporting org files to document/website formats from org mode in emacs so I don’t need a front end but I will definitely check it out!

I actually think I still need to add pandoc to the $PATH directory so emacs can run it though.

Thank you for pointing out the specific file, that was helpful confirmation but I do not seem to be able to run it either by running it in the command line or by changing its properties to be able to be executed as a program.

Will disabling the read only system access mess up updates on my Steam Deck?

I fly helicopters and airplanes in battlefield type games on multiplayer servers on my steam deck framelocked at 40 fps and do fine, I play shooters all the time at that framerate. I think if you get used to a higher framerate your brain just must lose the capability to fill in the blanks or something, it really doesnt bother me too much.

My brain sees it like distortion in a quadcopter fpv goggle feed or something lol. The issue is really rapidly changing framerate, the acceleration and deceleration is disorienting.

I remember seeing someone play a Steam Deck in an airport awhile ago and the 3D game had a HORRIBLE frame rate.

To the person playing to their credit they didn’t seem bothered but I couldn’t look away for a couple of seconds it was so shockingly bad. It made me think that a lot of people may have not really had the importance of framerate explained to them and what the relevant numbers are (film is 25, 30 is generally minimum for games and 60 is best).

Almost by definition we aren’t going to know those people but that is because if you are here you are probably a nerd, so this is good for all those blindspots. No one deserves a poor framerate if they don’t have to, unless you are Mitch McConnell.

Fascism and good food go together like chainsaws and old growth forests.

Operation Harsh Doorstop, Easy Red 2 and I have been exploring Rigs Of Rods a bit, I think it is an underrated driving game well suited to the deck but it has lots of quirks and I am gonna do a more indepth post on it when I get all my recommendations for fun starter vehicles and levels together.

ughh imagine a Riders Republic without Ubisoft and with mod support?

Same with Ghost Recon Wildlands and Breakpoint…

Ubisoft: we make your favorite video games less appealing

Long live the Logitech K780!!!

Hmmm could you download to desktop pc and set up a Syncthing share to your Steam Deck? Synthing will sync directly over a local network when possible so it shouldn’t be too slow.

I meant as a new complimentary community not a replacement!

Yes I think so, though I think a seperate Linux Handhelds community would be cool to provide an encompassing place for devices like the Steam Deck/other types of linux handhelds.

Yeah with a toggle to turn it off briefly when I need to.

left joystick - movement

right joystick - broad aim adjustment

gyro - fine aim adjustment (toggleable off for menus and stuff)