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  • The & is the html escape code for an ampersand (&) symbol, which is used to separate query params in a url – it appears like this has been re-encoded so the single & in the URL becomes & by something breaking the link. If you change all of the &s to $ it works. it’s not really an “amp” link in the “Google Amp” meaning.

    Also after posting this comment, it appears to be Lenny’s url encoding, I think I’ve fixed it but if not, remove the amp; from the 3 sections of the url you see it and it’ll work


  • Maybe, but unless we’re in there, it’s hard to say for sure. Battleye supports it but given the clusterfuck that is the Tiger engine, they might be using an old or heavily modified version. Especially given how easily cheaters are getting past it atm, I would not assume they’re keeping up to date on it without some evidence.

    Stadia limits the player’s control of the system substantially and might not have even needed the anticheat, or the same anticheat, given it’s closer to a console in terms of user’s ability to run programs alongside the game to modify memory.


  • The Deck is designed for SteamOS and SteamOS is pretty much designed for the Deck. They’re chocolate and peanut butter.

    I feel Valve’s Windows support is not great – it’s a custom APU for them so you’re getting your drivers through Valve, not directly from AMD’s Adrenalin. The APU drivers are from March, I’m not sure if we’ve seen any Linux improvements since then on the APU side but months without GPU driver updates to address game compat issues doesn’t encourage me.

    They don’t officially support dual booting AFAICT, and given the size of modern games + Windows, I wouldn’t want to dual boot on any of the offered SSDs tbh.

    If you’ve got a deck and really want a Windows-only game, it works. But given the easy availability of the Ally, and the upcoming non-extreme Ally, I can’t imagine recommending anyone who wants to primarily play a Windows-only game get a Deck.



  • Unless something has changed very recently, Destiny 2 does not work under Proton because the Anti-cheat isn’t compatible. Windows is an option, but I’d really recommend a dedicated Windows handheld for that instead of the Deck.

    I haven’t tried Windows on the Deck itself, but based on 6800u performance, you’re looking at maybe getting a solid 30fps on lowest settings. Destiny 2 is not a very well optimized game atm, and even the Ally at 20w can have trouble holding good performance in Neomuna or the Tower.



  • Sure. They could do that. That doesn’t really address my point though. And it’s really unlikely to happen on any meaningful scale, imo:

    1. The market for a dedicated phone OS from one of the larger consumer electronics makers is ORDERS of magnitude larger than any kind of handheld PC gaming console. Just because Samsung did it for phones does not mean anyone will do it for handheld PCs.
    2. Even if they do, there’s a lot of negative sentiment about Samsung’s version of Android, to the point multiple Android users I know will never buy a Samsung phone. It’s not necessarily a goal to emulate.
    3. Leaving all of that aside, that is still not the same thing as the maker of the device also being the developer of the OS. You’re at the whims of upstream to fix a lot of major things, or you’re maintaining a massive patch process on top of their releases. It’s a much larger task than just “hire staff to optimize steamOS”.

    We already have some makers offering “steamos support” in the form of… basically a single steamos image they release once and don’t steam to maintain? GPD’s “GPD OS” from Dec 2022 and Anbernic’s Win600 Steam OS image from Jan 2022.

    And still the best way to run SteamOS on either of these devices is ChimeraOS.

    The closest to what you’re describing is AYANEO’s ayaos. I don’t know if it’s a steamos fork or not, but it’s their take on linux gaming OS. It’s been in development for a while and we’ve got nothing but a few clips of it to view. And considering it mostly seems to replicate the Ayaspace windows app interface, I’m not sure it even offers any benefits over Windows+ayaspace.




  • What’s required to map a folder into one of the containers (i.e. retroarch)? I’ve attempted to edit config.toml to include it, but the main wolf container immediately crashes on boot due to interrupt code 11. There’s no other error messages, just a binary stack trace.

    The folder exists. I’ve tried directly mounting the host path as well as mounting it into Wolf-Wolf-1 and using the local path, but nothing works. Even perfectly mirrored paths don’t work. Wolf appears to be running as root so I don’t think it’s a permissions error? I can certainly access the folders. They are a locally mounted NFS, but I’ve used this with dozens of containers without issue.