• @[email protected]
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    31 day ago

    while retaining the dual USB 4 ports.

    Now I’m interested. I’d probably own a steam deck by now if I could plug it into a “real” dock and get dual high res displays and/or an eGPU.

  • @[email protected]
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    224 hours ago

    ROG Ally with its extreme apu isn’t enough for me. I’m going to wait for something significantly stronger before buying one of these hand helds.

  • Diplomjodler
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    202 days ago

    What I’m really waiting for is a Steam box that I can hook up to my TV. I’d buy that in a heartbeat. I really don’t understand why they haven’t come out with one of those yet. Should be much easier to do than a handheld.

    • @[email protected]
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      120 hours ago

      There have been recent leaks that indicate Valve is working on something going by the codename “Fremont” that is basically just that. Also some 3D models of a new Steam controller that’s much more like A SteamDeck without the screen were included in a recent update.

      We’ll see though, Valve does have a bit of a problem staying focused on what they were working on when they come back from their holiday break, and sometimes things get cancelled because they lose interest over the break.

      • @[email protected]
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        22 days ago

        There’s an app, i think it only works for android TV, or Google TV, or whatever they call it. Same basic functionality, just dependent on your tv (or whatever thing you use for watching shit on your tv) hardware.

    • @[email protected]
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      52 days ago

      With any luck SteamOS will be installable on most pcs and then you can build or buy a steam machine.

      • Diplomjodler
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        51 day ago

        Yes, I could just use Bazzite. But i want something that works out of the box.

          • Diplomjodler
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            31 day ago

            Yes, that is what I mean. Installing an OS is just too hard and/or too much bother for most people. If Linux is finally to achieve mainstream acceptance, the product needs to be ready to run as soon as you unpack it. You know, like the Steam Deck. And yes, I could do the install myself, but I can’t be bothered.

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                21 day ago

                Absolutely. But now is the time. They have a huge game library that’ll run without any hassle and anyone who can use a console can use Steam. I’m honestly surprised nobody has done that yet. If I had a few million lying around in the bank, I’d do it myself.

            • @[email protected]
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              11 day ago

              Installing an OS is so easy even I can do it, and it only takes about a half an hour on a modern machine.

              As a bonus you can pick and choose whatever cases and other components, and get the most performance for your money.

              Not trying to tell you what to do, but if you haven’t tried you should give it a go. Bazzite is really awesome and I use it on my living room PC. Only thing it’s missing is HDMI-CEC to turn on automatically and the sleep/resume function and the power up with controller.

              • Diplomjodler
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                119 hours ago

                I’ve built my latest PC myself and yes, i could absolutely do that. But that’s not the point. The point is that i want Linux to succeed as a mainstream OS. A machine like that would go a long way, even more so than the Steam Deck.

        • @[email protected]
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          I think in some aspects Bazzite are better than SteamOS. It literally started as an alternative to SteamOS for the Deck.

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        Linux with steam installed running bigscreen mode, auto login(optional), steam launch on login, bluetooth controller.

        Done.

        I have it setup exactly like this atm and its amazing. Dont have the suspend resume luxury, but everything else like steam link all on a very small n95 tiny pc.

        • @[email protected]
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          21 day ago

          I have the setup you described as well as a steam deck. The deck is a more polished experience with mangohud, game scope, auto updates, and other things I’d have to setup and maintain.

    • This is fine🔥🐶☕🔥
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      What I’m really waiting for is a Steam box that I can hook up to my TV.

      You can already do that though??? You just need a dock.

      I sometimes connect Deck to TV via dock and play using Xbox controller.

      • Diplomjodler
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        31 day ago

        Sure. But the Deck is a bit underpowered for a 4k TV. It would have to be powerful enough to play most games at 4k with some frame generation.

    • @[email protected]
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      101 day ago

      Believe it or not, that minuscule fingerprint reader looking thing on the bottom right is a touchpad. I really don’t know what they were thinking.

      • @[email protected]
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        41 day ago

        Eh, I kind of get it. I’ve had my Deck ever since it came out and used the touchpads maybe two or three times in total. They are pretty pointless in my eyes.

        • @[email protected]
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          21 day ago

          First, that’s your personal usecase. Second, they’re very handy in some games were you have to select an area for example or when you’re in desktop mode. I haven’t used them that much either but they are useful.

          • @[email protected]
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            11 day ago

            Have you used both or just one of them like you would a laptop touchpad? I think the tiny touchpad of the Lenovo can probably do this as well.

            • @[email protected]
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              122 hours ago

              Yeah, constantly, the easy example is keyboard input, the dual trackpad input is really nice to use. I wish they were a hair larger and round like the original steam controller becauae they were amazing on that, but even then, rotary menus are an amazing feature and the trackball mode is really nice to use. They’re a heck of a lot nicer than the joystick mouse for me.

              Nicest part about the deck/controller is the flexibility, touchscreen helps add even more utility but the original controller could totally be used for keyboard/mouse heavy games on the couch, some people go wild with multiple control layers and button chords, there’s a lot of ability to customise things which is appreciated.

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    I mean, this is neat, but I really enjoy the features of my original Legion Go. The removable controllers are just awesome, and it works wonderfully as a ‘I want to play my Steam games but I can’t be at my PC right now’ machine. I’ve been streaming to the thing since I got it, and it’s powerful enough to run relatively modern games on low-medium settings at 800p. I ran through God of War on it decently enough. Only downside is that the SSD heats up and can screw with the WiFi card directly underneath, but I don’t mind the noise from the fan because most of the time I’m using headphones with the thing anyways. It’s got USB4 as well, so I wanna get an external GPU dock eventually. As for now, a powered hub is doing great at essentially turning it into a console at my TV. The touchpad on the right controller is really handy for navigating Windows.

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    102 days ago

    That touchpad is tiny so I’m not sure how useful it will be (probably just for cursor usage on desktop). Good to see 120hz and hopefully with VRR support.

    Seems that ootb Linux support is a few months after initial release.

    • Pxtl
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      52 days ago

      I’ve never seen the Legion Go irl but the old one looked like the touchpad was just the right size too be unobtrusive but still practical. The new one looks like a thumb print reader.

      • chingadera
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        32 days ago

        I wonder if it works like the Lenovo red dot mouse thing they’ve had on think pads for decades. Honestly, they shouldve just done that