Going with #HoloISO doesn't seem like it would make much sense to me. As far as I understand it is something like an unauthorized derivative of #SteamOS so you'd be putting yourself at Valve's whims without Valve okaying it and no voice at all in the development process.
I like getting the dev team of an open distro involved, I guess #ChimeraOS might have been better if they fit that description as well though.
I love the #SteamDeck and while it offers a good enough, even excellent experience most of the time, #SteamOS will never be ready for as long as essential features are missing from its Gaming mode/UI (not many) or those that are present does nothing or does not do what’s intended (too, too many). Network issues, audio issues, controller issues, app closure issues that either could not be helped, or are expected to be fixed/worked around by navigating to Desktop mode. I can do that, but I would never, ever expect anyone else to have to do them on a product that’s supposed to be “console” quality.
In this episode, no matter fucking what I couldn’t get the speakers to work when docked and connected to my monitor. The Audio output’s already set to Speakers and that does absolutely nothing cos ofc it does, consistent with a lot of the other settings on the #SteamDeck/#SteamOS really. It defaults to external device which in this case, simply does not exist. This issue this time is even worse too since it’s not fixable even after going to desktop mode and configuring the playback devices. No matter how many times you’ve set it to Speakers or any other audio outputs, it’ll still always default to some Linuxy “Filter Chain Sink” audio crap that means and does nothing. Garbage.
Update: “Fixed” by heading to Desktop mode and completely disabling the HDMI playback device (audio card), leaving only the “Speaker” device as the option. Not ideal and definitely will need to reenable them when I need to use the HDMI audio later for when i.e. hooking it up to a capture card.
The next #SteamOS update has launched on the stable branch, and it finally brings us the Persona 3 Reload performance improvements on #SteamDeck...and a ton of bug fixes.
PC desktop setups vary almost as much as there are users..
◉Steam Deck's smooth success & support is largely based on the fact its users have 100% known hardware on their hands
◉Could it be that Valve brings Steam OS for desktop via some sort of "Steam OS Verified Hardware" solution?
◉Ones PC scanned during installation / given a rating?
The open source community is kinda funny like that sometimes. Sometimes someone will submit a patch quietly and then things in various SteamOS-like distros will just work. Now it looks like adding a shortcut to the Lutris Battle.net launcher install is working in ChimeraOS just out of the blue: https://github.com/ChimeraOS/chimeraos/issues/536 #steamos#chimeraos#linuxgaming
Did anyone else notice that SteamOS began to record playtime for non-Steam games recently, or is this something that came with one of my Decky :steamdeck: Steam Deck plugins?
Orange Pi Neo is new handheld powered by AMD and comes preinstalled with Manjaro (neo.manjaro.org)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/11418105...