Oh neat. I feel like it's going to be a good choice as long as people remember to use flairs.
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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.
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These are not enforced, but they are encouraged.
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- Posts must be related to Steam Hardware or Steam OS in an obvious way.
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as long as people remember to use flairs.
Lemmy doesn't have flairs.
You can still put it in brackets which system you're referring to
Yes, but as the sidebar says, it's only a non-binding recommendation.
It's almost as if the top comment suggested people don't forget that or something.
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Oh I could flair I guess.
There's not even close to enough content being posted that it'll get too disorganized
I'm so hyped for the frame.
It may just be my first foray into VR. Stoked. :D
Same! I'm planning to get one as close to launch as I can. I've been waiting on VR and this 100% seems like what I've been looking for. Super excited.
Same! I don't have enough room or money to justify an Index, and I didn't want to get anything oculus/meta. Enter Steam Frame 😎
I had an original oculus dev kit and thought it was cool back then. Frame is gonna be an instant buy for me and I’m beyond excited.
I was so excited for Oculus right up until it was bought by Facebook. I didn't have the funds right away and had been waiting, but I immediately wrote it off the day that news broke.
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Based on previews it really looks like they solved wireless PC VR. I still have an ancient original HTC Vive that I use veeeeryyy rarely. I've been tempted to jump on the Big Screen Beyond 2, but I'm gonna wait to see how reviews for the Frame shake out
I have a vive and an index, and even just the difference between those two is monumental
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me too, i have a meta 2 rn and its a pain in my ass every time i wanna play a steam game or install and app that isnt in the app store. i believe the frame will fix this
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Me too. I prefer to be without VR than picking up a meta headset. So it's nice to finally be seeing a quality non meta option.
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... You apparently can rename a community.
Huh!
Only the display name.
Well you could say that all hands are on the Deck
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the newly announced steam machine
Ah! I see Gabe Newell has finally perfected the combustion engine! Brilliant work from a brilliant fellow
Pip pip cheerio and so forth, do send the children into the crushing machines for their next shift my dear fellow, for I shall be too busy doing laudunum and working on my pamphlet about the evils of masturbstion.
I think the renaming is the right move, in order to not confuse anyone. Congratz "on the upgrade". And well done asking what the community thinks before doing this. I wasn't a fan of this, if the name was kept. But this way, it makes perfect sense.
I would argue that having a display name that indicates something different than the true name could lead to confusion for people like me who always disable showing display names (for both users and communities). Though, I am not sure how common it is for people to use this setting like me.
With all that said, in the end, this is probably the best solution for the community. I can't be too disappointed.
I still get numbness in my extremities when I think about Valve releasing 3 hardware products at once. But yeah splintering the communities for each hardware on such a smol platform makes no sense.
What's that symbol between "releasing" and "hardware"?
The orgasm button
"Steam Stuff" might have been better. That why not limiting the subject to hardware. I have a feeling that SteamOS is going to become a big talking point soon. Would be a shame to separate the conversations.
Half-life 3 released as a Steam OS exclusive would be another nail in the Windows coffin and steroids for gaming on Linux.
Having an exclusive game for Steam hardware would undermine the reason why users support Valve in the first place.
I suspect that if anything is going to become big enough to warrant its own community it would probably be steamOS rather than any of the hardware, after all in a few months the hardware will be out and there won't be as much to talk about.
But the OS is going to be getting updates I would assume, so there's always going to be new topics
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Cool, makes sense to me.
I'm a little worried about the Frame since VR (and especially the whole x86 to ARM) might be too big a difference to this comm, but IMO it's fine to cross that bridge when we get there.
Maybe the Frame gets it's own comm and this stays for the more conventional (?) Hardware like the Deck, Machine and Controller since they're so closely tied together?
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I think a migration to a properly provisioned community is a better idea. It seems Voyager and other clients don’t display whatever you supposedly changed by default. (I know, the display name).
Changing the display name isn’t enough. And I don’t think “the community is too small” is a good excuse to mangle this one.
No, all it would do is fracture the existing community, with some leaving for the new and some staying here unaware. Until there is an official migration tool in Lemmy itself this is the only way to retain the community that was built
I keep seeing the same name (Voyager for iPad) is there anything I need to do, or am I just fine?
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Excited to see the real world performance of the steam cube
It may be enough to sell my almost unused ps5
*Gabecube
It may be enough to sell my almost unused ps5
I was just thinking the same thing. I don’t think I’ve turned it on in a year.
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It’s a shame that the c/steamdeck part can’t be renamed, but it’s also normal to encounter limitations from time to time..
Maybe it’s it’s the first community in need of such a change and it’ll be implemented at one point..
I just checked and the name is what comes up when searching, not the c/ designation. So it probably won't cause much of an issue.
Yeah but it’s a problem for a guy looking for perfection like me😅
Dam you can rename communities? Thats an awesome feature.
Good stuff. The Frame is going to be pretty major in another tangential way. Right now the best mobile SoC to emulate PC games on Android is the 8 Gen 3. Comparing what ragtag teams in the open source world do with Proton/Fex/box64 in the Android world compared to Valve with the same tech but with full time employees in the primary linux world will be a great comparison for what can conceivably be done with our mobile phones
I think the comm name and display name not matching will make it a bit confusing for people to post to...
I suggest calling it "Steam Deck and Hardware discussion"
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Yes, the frame is the one most likely to not fit. If it's an issue we'll deal with it then.
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