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Razer announced the Razer Handheld Dock Chroma for your Steam Deck, ROG Ally, Legion Go and more
(www.gamingonlinux.com)
USB A in 2025 π
this post was submitted on 09 Jan 2025
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So far most controller/mouse/keyboard dongles seem to still be usb-A, so I'm not super against that.
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Average Razer experience. Fuck that.
Sounds like youβve never heard of open razor before
I haven't. Thats dope. My current mouse needs no app.tho, and my keyboards use QMK.
Even without that Razer's quality control is dog shit.
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Yeah I'm out
thanks. I almost was going to waste some time looking into it but eff that shart.
Not sure if serious
It mostly is.
Bit late and way more expensive than either of the docks I actually own. In fact I own two docks and together they cost less than $80.
Plus they're way ahead on the enshittification curve. I wouldn't trust anything from them at this point.
But do they have COLORS?
Yes actually. I wish they did not.
I seriously do not understand PC gamer obsession with light and color pollution. Unnecessary lights are so fucking obnoxious to begin with, why optionally add MORE that don't do anything?
Like super cool looking light up PC's. I don't get it beyond showing off. I'm looking at my SCREEN! Not the dock or the tower. Why the fuck would I want these distracting colors flying around polluting my space?
Ridiculous. My stuff has always been minimal lights, black tape over other lights, especially fucking blue lights, black colors for towers and consoles, nothing shiny, inconspicuous as possible. Function over looks.
I was buying a PC case and was surprised to find out it's actually not trivial to find one without a transparent side panel.
I don't want to see the inside of my PC, ideally it should be hidden away as much as possible. My ideal setup would be to have the tower in a separate room with cables going through a wall so that only peripherals are anywhere near my desk.
The plus side of RGB is that you can control it at least. So set it to white or some other soft colour (or turn it off completely), which is at least an improvement over blinding blue LEDs. Of course, the software and driver support on Linux isn't perfect.
In any case, the gaudy stuff sells, so that's how they advertise it.
Thereβs a massive difference between rainbow vomit RGB and using a more tasteful soft color pallette. Ultimately just do what pleases you though! Itβs your shit, if you bought 16.8 million colors youβre free to use every last one lol.
Let me guess, I need to log into my Razer cloud account or it reverts to default settings.
Feels good to have never owned a razer (or logitech) product
As far back as I can remember razer has had the reputation of expensive unreliable junk that breaks down. Not sure if they've improved in reliability but it's why I always stayed away from their products.
I don't understand the appeal of most of their products, but I do love their blade laptop lineup. There are few viable laptop competitors with the quality build and integrated gpu (AI/ML stuff rather than gaming for me).
They can fucking keep it.
I wonder if this means they'll release a linux version of their software so the steam deck can control the RGB
and the RGB lighting is customizable via a dedicated hardware button so no need for extra software.
From the article. It seems they completely avoided that question.
That would be really nice, I hate how most mouse/keyboard brands don't offer Linux configuration software.
15 bucks on Aliexpress lol
Wonder if supports CEC like the Steam Dock
As far as I know, only the official dock supports CEC. If anyone knows of a different dock that supports it I hope they'll let me know
Indeed, but since they're trying to be competitive on price here, I wonder if they're competitive on features...
True, but who needs CEC when you can instead have RGB?
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It does make the frames go faster π₯