I’m here to stay.
Steam itself has remapping functionality to extend any gamepad with customization. You can remap (and much more than just rempap) all keys and elements of a gamepad through the Steam Controller setup. People have uploaded their configurations, so you can download them. But this extended custom functionality is only for Steam.
I don’t care about rumble vibration, but the missing trackpads is huge. The trackpads from the Steam Deck are game changing. At least one would be good to have, so I can program it with additional functionalities or custom menus in Steam. I probably still end up buying it to replace the Xbox Series S controller, as the Hori has gyro integrated, has touch sensors on the sticks and has back pedals.
My hope is, this controller will be sold through Steam, as it is officially licensed.
Alternative video link from Invidious, which is an alternative YouTube client without YouTube or Google: https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=LY6PGd8auHI
I don’t think I make it to 2080, but otherwise agreed. :D
Plans change and evolve. After the experiments looked good, more and more people got interested. Maybe the one guy who was successfull with previous hardware got involved and they started to see something bigger than anticipated. Its an organic growth. I mean I don’t have any internal knowledge or anything, just trying to think how it could have went.
You would be surprised how much companies experiment behind the scenes, that you never see. Prototypes aren’t actually the most expensive thing, so its totally doable, especially if you have lot of engineers hyped for that. Given that the teams at Valve produced hardware before, its only normal to get money for new experiments. Also the structure at Valve is a bit different than most companies.
That’s me. Also it was based on Linux, so its not a waste of hardware, because I know a Linux operating system works well with it. I wasn’t even expecting it to play new AAA games developed for the newest console generations.
- Modified files in /etc are now migrated to new OS versions based on a whitelist
- Additional whitelist entries can be added via config fragments
- Up to five previous snaphots of /etc modifications will additionally be retained in /var/lib/steamos-atomupd/etc_backup/
Now, this is an interesting feature! Reminds me a bit of NixOS inspired.
Actually this makes sense. Because Steam Deck has its own operating system SteamOS 3. You can have an operating system that does not run well on a machine or are problematic, maybe through or before updates. Steam and Steam Deck (the OS) gets updates on its own. So rating the experience might look funny, but makes actually sense.
This has nothing to do with forcing to buy. Scam prices are prices, because they take advantage of a situation in need and inflate them for more profit. And defending any scammer makes you part of the problem. I grew up with imports of videogames since the 90s and know this kind of problem well.
My reply was about your nonsense sympathizing reply:
those sellers should just eat the import duty and sell it at a loss
Which you fabricated it for god knows what reasons. It is not about selling it at a loss, dumbass. Man people are sometimes stupid.
You obviously never heard of taking advantage of such a situation. multiple $100 more is more than the import costs. Can’t believe how you are sympathizing with the scam prizes.
Ah that makes much more sense. So I completely misinterpreted the reply. :D
Those sellers should be ashamed to charge few $100 more and taking advantage of this situation.
The Year of Australia.
But Heroic Game Launcher and Lutris are not on Steam. So there is nothing Valve lets stand at the moment, there is no game shop on Steam to my knowledge. And if they were allowed to do so, its actually amazing.
But I wonder how this works, because people can purchase games from that launcher and not give any money to Valve, even though its on Steam. This is unheard of. Usually on any other game launcher if you buy anything from an app, regardless what type of app or game it is, then you have to pay to the shop 30% (or less). That’s how it works usually.
Yet again another reason why Steam as a monopoly is not even hurting. If anything, Tim from Epic Games store would take it down rather than Valve.
You don’t need a Steam Deck for this, it can be installed on regular Linux distributions on PC. On Steam Deck it would exactly the same. Look at the screenshots on the link you gave. This is how it will look like on Steam Deck.
Edit: However I do not recommend to install this project on a Steam Deck, because it changes files that is not meant to be changed. And on Steam Deck with its write lock this can cause problems:
DISCLAIMER:
This project modifies a small number of KDE Plasma UI components which are not meant to be modified. Make sure to create backups before attempting to install this project. I am not responsible for broken KDE and/or Linux installs.
Because this project is under development and relies on upstream for a lot of things, many things are subject to change and will likely break as KDE Plasma gets updated over time. Keep an eye out on the issue tracker for further details when things inevitably happen to break.
Lastly, feel free to fork this project and/or contribute to it in any way. Any and all effort is greatly appreciated.
Why don’t you try to install it?
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I was talking about the custom profiles with Steam Input layout created by the community. Not sure if any game has this by default made by the game developers. https://partner.steamgames.com/doc/features/steam_controller/browse_configs (the link talks about the Steam Controller, but the concept is the same on Steam Deck)