Steam Hardware
A place to discuss and support all Steam Hardware, including Steam Deck, Steam Machine, Steam Frame, and SteamOS in general.
As Lemmy doesn't have flairs yet, you can use these prefixes to indicate what type of post you have made, eg:
[Flair] My post title
The following is a list of suggested flairs:
[Deck] - Steam Deck related.
[Machine] - Steam Machine related.
[Frame] - Steam Frame related.
[Discussion] - General discussion.
[Help] - A request for help or support.
[News] - News about the deck.
[PSA] - Sharing important information.
[Game] - News / info about a game on the deck.
[Update] - An update to a previous post.
[Meta] - Discussion about this community.
If your post is only relevant to one hardware device (Deck/Machine/Frame/etc) please specify which one as part of the title or by using a device flair.
These are not enforced, but they are encouraged.
Rules:
- Follow the rules of Sopuli
- Posts must be related to Steam Hardware or Steam OS in an obvious way.
- No piracy, there are other communities for that.
- Discussion of emulators are allowed, but no discussion on how to illegally acquire ROMs.
- This is a place of civil discussion, no trolling.
- Have fun.
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The entire internet would be a whole lot better if the kind of information and help people currently turn to discord for was still primarily done on public web forums like it was from practically the dawn of the internet up until discord and other corporate trash just all of a sudden be came "essential" for everyone. Discord is actively harming our ability to archive and share data and they are profiting massively from it, it is objectively bad for the internet and bad for open source.
I don't disagree. The way I use discord and they way it works best is for small communities, like my guild where we can use it as a cross-game communication.
It really does suck for things like reference information and asking questions. Not only because it isn't publicly available, but just because finding that information within the platform itself is difficult.
I find it very frustrating that Nobara Linux uses Discord for support. I'm sure I could have used an answer that someone else asked previously, that is really difficult to find.