As much as I love Decky, I’ve now installed it and lightly used non-root extensions via Decky twice - both instances resulted in such a heavily unstable steam client that a steamOS reinstall ended up being necessary 😢 most notably, the keyboard started failing to appear, the desktop client consistently crashed to decky’s error screen 😕

Fun for a while - but be prepared to reinstall your steamOS if you use stuff that dicks with steam’s environment!

Can’t wait to see a followup post for this! Cheers for doing this AMA! 🎉❤️❤️

RIP halo, my favorite competitive shooter ever 😭 infinite is such an absolute botch.

Its a solid stand-in for a mid-tier laptop! Most everyday laptop stuffs like web browsing and code editing it drives like a charm!

Don’t expect too much, though! From my experience video editing is a bit too heavy for the lil guy - and some softwares can be kinda tough to run due to the sandboxed nature of steamOS (eg visual studio code, librewolf).

I think switching to another OS like Cashy or (if it doesn’t get axed?) Bazzite would probly be the way to go if you intend to use it for more than simple apps & web browsing!

Yeah, came to the comments to say exactly this! The writer has an RSS feed as well - added to my reader!! 😃 cheers, op - what a find!

Yeah denuvo is such a buzzkill. I used to dislike it on performance grounds alone… But dude, when I went to play dead space on a plane for the first time, and that lil fucker told me it required internet to allow single player gameplay? 😤 fuuuuuck that. Never again.

Ya’ll should be sure to get the DLC for outer wilds as well! And I’m sure you know, but go in as blind as possible!!

everyone: Nintendo is a horrible company that does shit that’s harmful to consumers and the gaming industry!

also everyone: WOW can you believe I was able to buy a Nintendo Switch 2 the literal day it released?!?!

We really showed them. 🤷‍♂️

After how id treated my man Mick Gordon, I’m torrenting cracked versions of their games here on out - pulling the patient gamer card.

Fuck the management at id. Just another corporate machine.

Sick!

I dug into this a bit and couldn’t find and easily locatable guides to setting this up on Deck (at least, not without disabling the read-only protections of the system), and I ended up finding Boxes, made by Gnome! It didn’t seem to want to download Debian on its own, but I just downloaded it from Debian.org and it was installed in like 10 minutes! Couldn’t believe how easy it was - and all with a single flatpak app! 😃

Thanks! Definitely true about the reinstall! I guess in my case I worry it’ll cause a hard crash right when I’m too kaput from a long day to go troubleshoot, and just wanna drop into a relaxing game before bed, ya know? Like at that point I’m just gonna sleep early and fix it another day lol. It’s nice to have an ultra-reliable gaming rig around, and without tampering with CSS the steam Deck is certainly that!

The artwork plugin is another one I hadn’t used, since I figured I’d have to find & sideload images on my own – I didn’t realize it has crowd-sourced submissions to pick from!! Makes it infinitely worth installing!

I’ve been resisting installing decky since my last (LCD) Steam Deck ended up a bit janky from too many mods 😅 but this post inspired me to make the jump and install the CSS loader for the first time!

I leaned super hard into the OLED’s blacks and picked red as an accent, since saturated red really ‘pops’ on an OLED screen. I think it turned out pretty nice!!

Love this!

Imagine the chads at valve actually respond to the gimp 3 release by announcing HL3.

bonus points if they use gimp 3 to make the thumbnail

Ah shit, seriously? Congrats!

If you haven’t already, you should really play half life Alyx now! It’s an unforgettable experience in VR, so if you can hold out to play it in a headset you should!

If not though, there are mods out there to switch it to a standard flat-screen FPS. But I don’t think the experience would be nearly as cool!

Wow, that is incredible!

Ah shit this is SO cool! Do you do like sound design or something with this? Or is it just fun to goof with and see what you can make?

I found a super basic 8-bit version of this sort of thing that works in the browser and had lots of fun just finding weird sounds to make!

Haha! Good eye! I bought those back in 2021, during my first time here to visit my gal’s family. They were so cute and happy we couldn’t resist!!

Really! I’m surprised to hear it - I have some 1440p@60fps gameplay captured off my brother’s NVIDIA replay and the deck struggles to keep steady enough to do stuff like pan & crop. Did you do some proxy schenanigains to get steady editing performance? 🙂

Shiit that’s incredible! Gahh I miss my VR, that’s one one thing I had to leave behind (my parents were kind enough to ship later for us).

I had to ask my brother to stream me his gameplay of some VR to fill the void 😂😭 I dunno if it helped or hurt! Gonna have to hit up a VR arcade or something!