You’d be better off installing Nobara, there’s a Steamdeck version.

Install it to a SD card or something, don’t mess with the internal drive.

For color temperature, set that according to the viewing conditions you’re in… the brighter and more well lit, the higher # is better… the darker and dimmer, the lower # is better. It controls the warmth of the whites.

For the other slider, color vibrance, depends if lcd or oled. For OLED, SRGB is the better setting. “Native” is too oversaturated, it’s the same as an oled phone’s “vivid” mode. If you like, you can give it a little bit of a boost, but you shouldn’t need to. For LCD, native is the srgb gamut compressed into the little space that the panel can handle… it will look on the paler side but the plot points are evenly spaced… and moving the slider toward boosted increases the saturation at the expense of some accuracy. Native, srgb or a little bit past srgb are all fine, but not the far end which is too saturated.

Probably the 90 Hz display, meaning frame is repeated 3x. With the LCD it’s 2x or 1x if set to 30 Hz, and if at 30 Hz it’s literally flashing away on and off.

The reason you don’t see sub-pixel anti-aliasing in Chrome or Firefox is because they apply their own rendering settings which is greyscale and you don’t have control over what they do.

Ungoogled Chromium will respect the system settings (I use it with anti-aliasing off) so you could set RGB or whatever subpixel arrangement (none is greyscale) in the display settings and then look in there… but what would be better would be simply to set it and then go back to gaming mode and look at how the text in the interface is rendered.

Optimistic.

I was able to make things a bit better last night by lowering the gamma in display settings from 1.00 to 0.70 or 0.80.

Could be a dumb hdmi implementation. Spec says hdmi is limited range 16-235 levels while the rest are pc range 0-255. If your monitor has it, try using displayport instead.

Depends. If you’re playing a FPS and can do higher than 60 fps as a minimum rate in the game, then running at 70 Hz could give you 10 extra fps.

For a visual novel, a waste.

Speaking of my external LCD monitor, it’s an old one now. What I have observed about it is that even though it will accept and display higher refresh rates, it is actually dropping frames.

Not saying that is happening here, but further testing is required to confirm that frames are not being dropped.

Steam Deck is used in Ukraine for controlling drones to blow up Russian invaders with. Real-life Call of Duty.

I’ve noticed this too, compared to my Windows PC which has great color and gamma for videos, the steamos desktop mode for videos looks dull or washed out a bit… I think it’s a gamma issue, and unfortunately they didn’t bundle in the color management panel into steamos, which means we can’t fix it with a color profile.

I haven’t done it yet, but I’d be interested to see if booting into a different OS or distro would have the same or different colors.

This is very interesting because I thought it was a stripe but apparently not…

If you turn off anti-aliasing, the fringes will go away but then you won’t have “smooth” edges. You could also alternatively use greyscale AA instead of subpixel AA (which would be using the individual RGB subpixels).

for greyscale in the .fonts.conf file for “rgba” have it say “none” as the value instead of “rgb”.

There may be neighbours with cameras that may have captured who was on your porch.

Try safe resolution mode for external in the developer settings.

Yes, I bought a cheap $10-20 USB dac using a realtek chip and it works fine. I’d like to compare it to other chips.

It can run Android apps, but you have to boot from other than SteamOS.

I remember when LCD monitors were new… for quite some time most manufacturers had a policy that if you had fewer than 7-10 dead pixels or whatever then it was fine. These were on lower resolution/ppi screens where they would have been more visible too.

If everything is working well and you haven’t noticed anything, I would suggest not looking for a single subpixel that is not turning on or something and then demanding RMA, because for all you know there will be a different issue with something else.

Could always buy a controller and play the older games on the laptop with it.

Raps stole that one… you got to make your free throws…

Rumble works but you have to disable steam input on game properties. Haven’t checked with 3.5.5

I wish they had put in captions/subtitles support… the script does exist and Valve did make it publicly available many years ago. Just not in the game…