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  • soulsource@discuss.tchncs.detoSteam Deck@sopuli.xyz•What remote do you use?
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    1 month ago

    To answer your question: I use an Xbox Series X gamepad. However I cannot recommend this cheaply built piece of junk.

    I also tried to use the DualShock 4, but with that I had the problem that it interfered with my WIFI connection. I’m not sure if this is a general problem, or only happens with my WIFI base station though. Also, the DualShock controller has a severe drawback, and that is its short battery runtime, compared with the issue that you cannot easily switch batteries…

    So, my recommendation: An Xbox One gamepad. While I don’t own one, I am using them regularly at work, and they basically have all the advantages of the Xbox Series X gamepads, and have a way better build quality.

    I would also recommend Xbox 360 gamepads, but they need a dedicated base station, which is very expensive.

  • soulsource@discuss.tchncs.detolinuxmemes@lemmy.world•you don't need more 4GB of RAM
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    3 months ago

    It really depends on what you are doing with your system…

    On my main PC I want the full Linux Desktop experience, including some Gnome tools that require webkit - and since I am running Gentoo, installing/updating webkit takes a lot of RAM - I would recommend 32 GiB at least.

    My laptop on the other hand is an MNT Reform, powered by a Banana Pi CM4 with merely 4 GiB of memory. There I am putting in some effort to keep the system lightweight, and that seems to work well for me up to now. As long as I can avoid installing webkit or compiling the Rust compiler from source, I am perfectly happy with 4 GiB. So happy actually, that I currently don’t feel the need to upgrade the Reform to the newly released RK3588 processor module, despite it being a lot faster and it having 32 GiB of memory.

    Oh, and last, but not least, my work PC… I’m doing Unreal game development at work, and there the 64 GiB main memory and 8 GiB VRAM I have are the absolute bare minimum. If it were an option, I would prefer to have 128 GiB of RAM, and 16 GiB of VRAM, to prevent swapping and to prevent spilling of VRAM into main memory…

  • soulsource@discuss.tchncs.detoSteam Deck@sopuli.xyz•Steam Deck vs that Asus thingy
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    4 months ago

    You can also use Steam as a launcher. In Desktop Mode there is a menu entry “Add a Non-Steam game to my Steam Library”. For Windows games, you can just browse to their .exe file. After adding it to the library, you can open the Library Entry’s Properties page, and choose Proton as compatibility tool.

    That way you get your non-Steam games in your Gaming Mode launcher.

    To get nicer images, there’s a website named https://www.steamgriddb.com/ that also has a small Flatpak tool that you can use in Desktop Mode to set icons/banners for your Non-Steam games.

  • soulsource@discuss.tchncs.detoSteam Deck@sopuli.xyz•Recently set up dual boot..
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    6 months ago

    I played without mods, and had the same issue.

    I’m pretty sure it’s a bug in the native LInux version of Pathfinder: Kingmaker. The Linux build works fine, as long as you play with mouse/keyboard, but with gamepad input the kingdom management screen doesn’t work at all…

    What I did in order to play it on the Deck was to tell Steam to use the Windows version via Proton instead. (Properties -> Compatibility -> Force a specific compatibility tool -> Proton (I don’t remember which version I used).