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If only NVIDIA was committed to release their software as open source and have a decent open source Linux driver.
Plus all those Steam Deck rivals are creating mediocre products even if hardware wise they are faster than the Deck.
Plus all those Steam Deck rivals are creating mediocre products
While I hugely appreciate what Valve has done for Linux Gaming with Proton and the popularity of the Steam Deck, there are excellent Steam Deck rivals out there. Could you clarify what you mean by mediocre?
The touch pads are the killer feature, imho. They are the key to making mouse centric games playable. I wouldn’t want to touch eg stellaris with an 11 feet pole with joysticks or touch screen but sank so much time into the game on the deck.
I mean, there’s also so much other stuff… The device running on Linux and giving unrestricted access to the desktop. The software being great. The case being screwed, not glued. Valves super relaxed stance on people modifying the hardware. It all adds up. But from a purely user centric pov, I wouldn’t buy a PC based handheld without the pads after I saw how well they work.
Fuck Nvidia. I got myself a Shield so I could stream games from my pc to my livingroom and they just decided to pull that feature. Later they added ads to the home screen. These are things that can be worked around, but it’s just toxic practice in my opinion.
Never will I buy any Nvidia product again.
Just discovered Moonlight doesn’t work with the new Nvidia App. Am big sad tf
Host sunshine
Just wanted to update and say I fixed it, sunshine was setting my bluetooth controller as auto, set it as xbox 360 in the webUI and voíla. Works!
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I have a older desktop running a Nvidia GPU. It’s fast and works pretty well but I’m stuck in X11. I just don’t have the energy to drive into the forums and see why Wayland isn’t working.
I want a Stream Deck mostly because Valve’s support behind supporting the device.
I’m using Nvidia with Wayland without any issues. What’s the problem exactly?
I think, Nvidia
I’m not defending Nvidia, but my Nvidia laptop works prefectly fine with Wayland. And then I wanted to play games so I bought an egpu enclosure and put 1080ti in there and it worked prefectly fine OOB. Then I wanted to upgrade so I put 7900xtx in there and no driver, version, config or voodoo allowed me to use it.
Not to mention VERY limited compatibility with ML libraries.
So, I don’t really understand this, but., why use Wayland? All I ever read about with it is problems about compatibility and functionality. I don’t understand what the benefits are. Or what it does that do different than x
I just feel that on Linux if you stay too long on software after a newer, shinier tool is available - you quickly get left behind. And it’s not like Wayland is some alpha software from an obscure dev. I’ve been daily driving it for years on my work/fun laptop with very few issues. And it did solve a few problems for me mostly to do with multi monitor setup.
Steamdeck = full time developers working on improving a product.
Hardware manufacturers = subcontracted developers that are really good, but never work on the project again after completing their checklist and getting paid.
These are not equal. One has long term value; one is made to exploit you and has no long term value.
Also Nvidia doesn’t exactly have a great track record of fair and consumer friendly business practices
