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22 points ·
He stated that in one video, then issued a correction from Valve in a later video saying all current units use 1 DIMM for now
"It's possible that this could change in the future, but the units that customers are signing up for will all come with one 16GB stick of RAM"
6 points ·
The improvements Valve made for the original Steam Deck and prep for the Steam Machine across the Linux ecosystem for schedulers, graphics drivers, io_uring, ntsync, KDE, Wine, etc. were massive, even outside of gaming.
I don't see them expanding to ARM making as much of a difference to the ecosystem as their first forray.
That's why I'm curious what improvements OP was thinking of; maybe there's more than FEX that I'm not aware of
Generally x86 -> ARM is much easier on Linux than MacOS/Windows
2 points ·
So, primarily just forwarding OpenGL/Vulkan commands directly through FEX, rather than QEMU's user mode?
Certainly helpful for games, but the majority of code on Linux boxes is recompiled to be native when using ARM
8 points ·
Linux has worked extremely well on ARM for at least 17 years. What improvements are you hoping an ARM based Steam Deck would make?
1 points ·
They don't update the software on the steam deck frequently enough for me to be confident for phone software where security is more of a concern
It's fine on a game device, but I have much more personal data on my phone
1 points ·
I know some people at work like qpwgraph to drag and drop audio routing inputs/outputs, maybe makes it a bit easier
2 points ·
I think otacon239 is remembering the controllers for the Steam Frame, which have an AA each
The Steam Controller was listed as an ~8Wh Li-ion
39 points ·
The Bluetooth chip in the LCD model is very buggy for wake-up.
It's been enabled and disabled several times while they investigate, but it's currently disabled for LCD models
https://steamdeckhq.com/news/steamos-3-7-17-beta-released-re-disabling-wake-on-bluetooth-for-steam-deck-lcd/
5 points ·
Vulkan is to DirectX12 as ROCm is to CUDA.
They're for different things.
The deprecated thing was AMDGPU-Pro, a closed source implementation of Vulkan - the Vulkan driver they use is RADv
1 points ·
They've already said the Frame will be cheaper than the Index, which is $999
I doubt it's going to be much cheaper, but that's the ceiling from Valve's statements
1 points ·
I like a lot of things about Valve, but it has never felt like the dock is well supported.
This new firmware is the first one that outputs HDMI to my TV, and it breaks DP for you...
1 points ·
He's on video congratulating people like Charles Schwab making 2.5 billion dollars from his constantly changing tariffs, so...
Probably that. Occam's razor and all
3 points ·
Oh, damn. He's going against Trump's statements here, so Trump is certainly asking someone to google how he can fire the VP.
Could lead for some funny interactions soon
18 points ·
They already have one:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budapest_Memorandum
Offering another empty promise is unlikely to cause them to make concessions again
7 points ·
There's no chance in hell Vance knows what that phrase means
13 points ·
I constantly see people talking about playing things like Balatro on their deck that certainly doesn't need more than 30fps.
Seems super useful for games like that on a flight
3 points ·
without any distro or configuration caveats.
In those cases, they generally have the Ubuntu version that's supported in the specs section