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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There are some in this community who are willing to go into "2008 web forum user in a PlayStation vs Xbox thread" over basically any consumer electronics they buy. Not just in terms of PC handhelds, but stuff like graphics card vendor too. It's wild.
Bought a steam deck? Well then everything else is utter SHIT and those people are MORONS. Anybody that doesn't buy a Steam Deck should be Windows only, even if that disadvantages me too!
We should be welcoming of people running whatever OS they want, and welcoming of manufacturers giving the option of SteamOS. Even more so when it will benefit Linux (and by extension Steam Deck) gamers.
Nothing. I did this with two different handhelds. The main problem that I've run into is that the built in controls don't work as well as if they had been natively supported and I would be more than willing to have a fix for that with an official steam OS distro if one was available. The point is, a closed mouth don't get fed. If they don't think people want this they aren't going to dedicate time and resources to it.
Other than some of them having some really... quirky drivers (which is a big deal), nothing.
But most people don't like installing OSes, and it's still better to have official support than no support, so I think it's still a benefit to the user to have it as an official option, and still benefits us to have a larger SteamOS userbase in general.