u/semperverus — Semperverus

I can almost guarantee you that if valve doesnt get it working, someone will via moonlight, ALVR, and/or WiVRn.

The amount of work that has gone into the Monado/XRizer/Envision/WayVR stack is phenomenal and gaining momentum.

I was reading in another thread that apparently with the portal vr mod, its actually a pretty good experience shockingly. I will probably try it as soon as I get a frame.

Not liking something "just because" is also a valid argument to not like something. You are not required to like anything and your reasoning is your own.

You may be less fun at parties for not liking lots of things, however.

I.e. anyone who has touched a steam deck

The steam frame will do that

We all need to run on non-Nvidia hardware too.

They don't have the same limitations that you have on a console. Steam input allows you to bind any button to the following things:

• keyboard buttons

• mouse buttons

• controller buttons

• system actions (volume, power, etc.)

• controller actions (controller slot toggle, controller power, action layers)

• steam actions

And probably one of my favorite but underutilized:

• Games can also provide custom actions that show up in the button bind menu, and they can be basic things like "jump" or really bizarre things like "make character think." Games can have built-in action layers as well, so you can bind buttons multiple times for different layers such as "in combat", "in a menu", "dialog", etc. which means you can have contextual actions be different to match your comfort (think PlayStation × vs o regional differences in-menu and in-game where o is confirm in menus but × is the main action button in combat).

I own a dualsense. I've always loved its trackpad for mouse cursor control in games that are less controller friendly on PC, but ever since the steam deck and it's split trackpads, I'll never look back. The split pads are such a superior option, especially with the way they work with the steam deck's on screen keyboard, or for aiming in FPS games.

Yep! Using it now on my Android phone via GameNative (which is GPLv3 licensed so you know it's good 👌🏻).

They don't have an F-Droid release yet but you can install via Obtainium or downloading it directly. Their github URL is: https://github.com/utkarshdalal/GameNative

Assume $1000 and be pleasantly surprised if its not. Start saving money now.

Support other mod platforms like gamebanana

It has for some time now, but the quality is still hit or miss. Some days I get perfect streaming, other days its either a garbled mess or it can't capture at all.

Webcam has always worked but nobody I know uses that.

Been waiting for this to be downloadable for a long time. Are you saying this is available via the AUR? I may have to install Arch on my media raspberry pi units.

Who the fuck is complaining about having both? Thats such an insane take.

You sound like a very selfish person.

It makes perfect sense if you're a systems engineer.

Downloading games costs bandwidth.

Steam services millions of customers daily.

Valve, correctly, decided to do a bit of load-balancing by prioritizing updates by how recently and frequently you play them, and spreads them out.

This is nicer to their systems, and its nicer to most people who don't live alone and have to share internet with other human beings in their home (or at work).

You'd think it would be no big deal, bandwidth is "infinite" and "free" in most peoples minds. But there is a maximum throughput, and there is a cost in energy, time, performance, and money.

Load-balancing, people. It saves lives.

My family and I often play multiplayer games that require each person to have a system to themselves. It's a PC after all.

We sometimes play split screen games on one of our decks plugged into the TV, but overall each of us has our own and will play separately on them whenever possible.

We can also then take them with us at our own discretion, and I don't have to worry about anyone else in my family shattering mine.

I don't. Handhelds are _personal_ devices, and Steam Decks are cheap. Everyone gets their own.

I know you have your heart set on the remapping as the solution but I heavily encourage you to take advantage of the Steam Deck's extensive right-to-repair support and fix the buttons or swap the side PCBs out if that's what's broken and you can't solder. If its just the spring or the plastic, you can easily swap that.

I am aware. It's trivial to enable mutability though and you can still have userspace infections.