Kevin Karhan 
@vantablack some of them interpreted your original post as ragebait.
__hetz@vantablack @kkarhan
Whole thread easily gives off ragebait vibes. At the least it shares a lot in common with what made me grow tired of offering help in any Discord tech support channels. Some people just don't know how to describe a problem in detail (was it working before? has anything new been installed? was there an update? un/successful? etc). Things don't usually break on their own. Then you get the folks chiming in with pacman commands, mostly irrelevant for the immutable SteamOS.
Whole thread easily gives off ragebait vibes. At the least it shares a lot in common with what made me grow tired of offering help in any Discord tech support channels. Some people just don't know how to describe a problem in detail (was it working before? has anything new been installed? was there an update? un/successful? etc). Things don't usually break on their own. Then you get the folks chiming in with pacman commands, mostly irrelevant for the immutable SteamOS.
@vantablack @kkarhan
I think a few games, mostly older ones, have some intro/cutscene troubles. Can't remember if it's an old DirectX version thing or whatever but I think the old C&C Red Alerts might have that problem. That aside, I've never had problems with video on the Deck. All my software, excepting EmuDeck & Decky Loader, comes from Discover (flatpak). FreeTube, Jellyfin, browsers, games... video works. I've only ever disabled read-only once to set up SSH.
I think a few games, mostly older ones, have some intro/cutscene troubles. Can't remember if it's an old DirectX version thing or whatever but I think the old C&C Red Alerts might have that problem. That aside, I've never had problems with video on the Deck. All my software, excepting EmuDeck & Decky Loader, comes from Discover (flatpak). FreeTube, Jellyfin, browsers, games... video works. I've only ever disabled read-only once to set up SSH.
@__hetz @vantablack it really depends greatly on the specific Game...
Like @fuchsiii has a lot of issues with weird games that are i.e. #32bit but use a #16bit #Installer, require legacy versions of #DirectX / #Direct3D if not #DirectDraw or have other issues.
- For the most part, #GameScope is broken so many 1990s games without much fans are constantly getting broken much to her frustration.
Obviously this doesn't apply to newer mainstream titles like #Crysis where one just chooses an older version of #Proton / #DXVK and can just game fine.
- But for a lot of older games, shit's getting worse, and the rampant rise of #malware like #AlwaysOnlineDRM and "#ClientSideAnticheat" that is spitefully developed to not run on #Linux when it absolutely could be [i.e. #EpicGames *chose to not make #Fortnite work despite their entire toolchain, middleware, engine and "#AntiCheat" being capable of supporting it] really sours things!
Obviously #Valve ain't saints but even if I was a #Steam-absent #Developer or #Publisher I'd at least not go out of my way to cockblock people from gaming on it, when it's hardware is roughly on-par with the #Switch2 and unlike #Nintendo's shitbox it isn't a closed-off platform.
- It's just that sadly none of the big publishers seem to care - yet.
And with the expected retail price of the #SteamMachine closer to €1k than €500, it'll be kinda hard for most consumers to justify buying in and thus developers to do more than the bare essentials.
So yeah, #LinuxGaming has issues - I'm not gonna deny that - but certainly these are certainly not due to Valve, but rather:
- Publishers integrating malware.
- Developers of FLOSS breaking shit constantly and refusing to address things or even acknowledge issues.
- General #Enshittification and erosion of #ConsumerRights during #Greedflation in #LateStageCapitalism.
@__hetz @vantablack @fuchsiii Also one needs to make a decision re: #SteamDeck!
If one treats it like a #PC, then #jank like this is common.
If one treats it like a #console, then one has no business fiddling outside #Steam.
And yes, it's not intended for users to fiddle with it! #Valve just decided to not be an asshole and let users own the hardware they bought, unlike #Sony, #Nintendo and #Microsoft!
@__hetz @vantablack @fuchsiii do I excuse this "jankyness"?
- Fuck no!
But I do blame the #developers / #publishers of the #Games and not #SteamOS because unlike the underlying #Linux one cannot really optimize the closed-source binary game or just recompile it with optimized settings for the #SteamDeck...
- I mean, Video Codec Issues are as old as #PCgaming and #Cutscenes, espechally when you have to deal with cursed shite like #IndeoVideo instead of #BinkVideo...