Interesting, took me a while to get my 1 TB OLED Deck ordered on the 16th but got it the following Wednesday. I was expecting it to sell out in the US/Cananda, but it seems to be in good supply.

Nintendo said they sold over 132 million of them this week, now track to be the best-selling console in history. Not a surprise.

It’s gonna sell out instantly. Shit or get off the pot.

I can’t get this game to run at all, but on a 4090 so not the same situation. How did you install it? Maybe that’s my problem. TIA.

Linux gaming has been a wild ride. There’s a lot I like about Linux and its community, but sadly I’m going back to Windows 11.

I’ve kept a dedicated Linux drive on my gaming rigs for 5 years now and currently have one setup on this rig: https://pcpartpicker.com/user/heatlesssun/saved/#view=VLyphM. I upgraded to an OLED monitor for gaming three weeks ago, an Asus PG42UQ. Under Windows 11, gaming on this thing wild. I currently have 465 games installed from every major game store. And basically, it all just works. Not perfect but trying to replicate all that this hardware can do under Linux, Linux just isn’t close.

I’m not saying Linux sux for gaming, it clearly works well in certain situations like the Steam Deck. Linux does not work nearly as well when you throw the latest and greatest at it.

I got the Corsair 12VHPWR cable to go with my Corsair AX1600i for my 4090. No issues in almost a year of continuous operation.

I get constantly accused buy a few around here for being a Windows shill. But consider this. How is total reliance on Windows software define “Leaving Microsoft.”? As I Windows shill, I’d have no problem using Linux full time if it meant that Linux supported 100% or more of Windows without all the recriminations and no need for Proton.

Hell, I got blasted from a few folks around here for giving away a top line OG Stem Deck. Blame the user to me is a Linux trademark.

You do realize that a lot of people playing this game do it from Game Pass like myself.

I had a Deck for 18 months before giving it away, the Ally still since June and got the Go last Friday. That 8.8" 2560x1600 screen is very impressive. The Deck will have better color and contrast but with only two thirds the pixel density and a quarter the resolution. HDR OLED on the new Deck is great but not great enough to overcome all of the advantages of the Go’s screen.

The estimates I recall put it at 3 million by end of this year, not a surprise. Would love an exact number but no one shares those these days.

I don’t think so, I’m only seeing 2.2 on two different Windows machine with both nVidia and AMD GPUs, 4090 and Legion Go.

Lack of HDR on Linux is just becoming more of problem as HDR and OLED displays become more common. So it always made sense even without this updated Deck.

Yeah, could have used a resolution bump as the pixel density now drops a bit because of the bigger screen.

The screen on the Deck was probably the weakest component which was the main reason I gave it away for the Ally. Thinking about picking this up but just got the Go last Friday.

AMD is doing well with CPUs these days. GPUs on the other hand… they just aren’t making the same progress there.

Consoles should have died about 20 years ago when PCs became vastly superior at every single thing. They’re a completely locked down mess not worth bothering with any more.

For what they cost, ease of use over PC and the performance, at least the more expensive ones, what you’re saying doesn’t make a lot of sense.

Are you just talking about the normal home screen with ads for new games, like every game store including Steam?

I played with Linux a lot back in the day when these 3D desktop things become sorta popular. Cool not really sure how useful it really is.

I believe the best way to change this would be for a “reverse proton” compatibility layer to turn the tables back around. If a developer could develop on Linux for Linux and with relative ease be confident they will be able to release to Windows a lot of more Linux friendly developers might choose to make Linux their native build.

They’re never going to do this under current market circumstances. The latest Steam survey from just yesterday puts Windows at 97.43% market share on Steam. Five years of Proton and now almost two years of the Steam Deck in the market have had virtually no effect on the dominance of Windows in gaming.

Interesting. The spike in Simplified Chinese almost always means a drop in Linux and spike in Windows 10, and this true this time. But I wonder if this is a “Come to Jesus” moment for not only Linux but mac gaming in the PC space.

I think we’re at the limits of what Proton and the Deck can do for Linux gaming share growth. At least without other OEM support for Steam OS/Linux support beyond a single Valve device.