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Linux updates tease Valve 'Galileo' and 'Sephiroth' - Steam Deck refresh? Or new VR?
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Someone in the comments of that article made a note about having a "Steam Brick" that would be a steam deck like console.
I've been investing a lot of time into ChimeraOS and Bazzite for universal Blue lately. I highly recommend building a small form factor PC in something like a fractal ridge with an old 5700XT (or the cheapest AMD RDNA GPU you can find really) and give it a go!
We can all steambox again if we just believe!
I already have a Steam Deck, but what excites me about the prospect of a new valve set-top console is a Steam Deck-like controller.
I'm definitely in the market for a new controller to use with my Steam Deck, as I almost always have it docked. But nothing seems like it has everything I want in a controller. I kinda just want a Steam Deck without the screen. I don't want to use Bluetooth because I get poor performance in my house, probably due to wireless interference, and because it won't wake the Steam Deck from sleep. I currently use an Xbox controller with the wireless receiver, but I hate needing to reinstall the drivers after every software update.
I want a Steam Controller 2 so bad! DO IT VALVE
I want a new updated steam controller so bad, I loved the original even tho it's widely hated, if they just fixed the small issues it had that they already fixed with steam deck controlls, I would be so happy.
Quick preface, this isn’t meant to be disrespectful or confrontational, I’m genuinely curious, but what are you playing while docked? I bought the dock and have only a tiny bit of buyer’s remorse because I feel like anything put up on the big screen is so low quality that it’s not even worth it and just either stream it from my PC to Deck or play on the PC directly. I admit I may be doing something wrong, I don’t have the time to fiddle with it to optimize.
I bought a steam deck primarily to have a PC hooked up to my TV. My main use case is watching live pirated sports streams. I tried a Raspberry Pi, and it just didn't have enough power. It kept getting micro stutters, which made it unwatchable. I figured having a decent integrated GPU would help immensely with video decode.
And then when I got the steam deck, I installed emulators and got a bunch of roms, and now I play classic games with my wife.
And then I learned about moonlight. My gaming PC is in another room, but now I could play any game on the TV in the living room with moonlight.
So those are my three main use cases. I brought my Steam Deck on my last three trips but didn't even open it the case. I guess I'm just not really into gaming on the go.
I tried installing Bazzite on a couple different computers. It just didn’t work. The Bazzite Portal, which is supposed to come up in first boot, never did. I must have installed it 5 or 6 times.
Clicking on it in the menu did nothing. Running from the CLI makes it come up but one time it just hung on the second or third step with no option to recover (and then wouldn’t run again), and another time it ran through but failed to produce a usable system in any way (again, with no option to recover).
I like the idea but I don’t have infinite time to fiddle with it so now I’m running Ubuntu with auto-login to the gaming user account which starts Steam Big Picture automatically.
It’s as close to a console experience as I can get.
Been running ChimeraOS - though it was GamerOS when I installed it - on an Atari VCS for a while now, it does great as a low-powered couch gaming box.