Steam Deck

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A place to discuss and support all things Steam Deck.

Replacement for r/steamdeck_linux.

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[Flair] My post title

The following is a list of suggested flairs:
[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.

Some more Steam Deck specific flairs:
[Boot Screen] - Custom boot screens/videos.
[Selling] - If you are selling your deck.

These are not enforced, but they are encouraged.

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Follow the rules of Sopuli
Posts must be related to the Steam Deck 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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Is the Steam Deck still worth it in 2025? I'd argue yes — but with caveats (www.tomsguide.com)

submitted 1 week ago by Sunshine@piefed.ca to c/steamdeck@sopuli.xyz

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[–] Vanilla_PuddinFudge@infosec.pub 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Weird, my ten year old laptop still works.

Linux will discontinue the GPU drivers

It'll be community-maintained at that point. If it's worth updating and there's demand for it, someone will bother, just like any console, and made all that much easier running open software.

I'd actually willingly bet anyone here $1500 that the Deck will be able to boot a mainline Linux kernel in 2035.

[–] mushroomman_toad@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Yeah i agree with you, but there is a limit to community support. The Steam Deck specifically has a big community, but most hobbyists don't like to spend a ton of time maintaining ancient hardware drivers.

I believe my 11 year old Thinkpad T540p still runs mainline kernels too. The GPU is not supported by the 2018 Intel Iris userspace driver though, so I would need to run a legacy driver that does not support vulkan. Its still packaged by Arch, but it does limit my options.

I'd say 10 years until new games stop running with all features, and 20-30 years until it stops running mainline kernels and loses network access to Steam.

Other handhelds with closed-source drivers probably stop running mainline in 5-10 years.