I’d just like to interject for a moment…
Weird times indeed. As someone who also got a ps5 before the price hikes and without having paid extra to a scalper, this has happened to me multiple times now where hardware increases in value. Since i’m not looking to sell any of it it doesn’t mean much in practice, but still wild to think about.
Yeah that’s true. On the desktop since i was already using more DIY-type distros it’s not that difficult to avoid it, but with a more specialized usecase like the steam deck it’s hard to find something that mimicks the SteamOS experience without using systemd, or at least there’s not an OOTB experience distro for that as far as i know. I’m still using the stock SteamOS on my deck for that reason, it doesn’t feel worth it to replace, especially since i only use mine to game and don’t tinker with it like my desktop.
Idk, i mean there’s Artix. I’ve used Void for like 2 years and gaming was fine.
Shepherd gang. Pretty sure only one distro uses it, but i’d love to know if i’m wrong.
Well yeah i’m not saying you should do that and have never done that myself either lol. It did happen at the pcmasterrace subreddit though, which is funny cause it seems like these days i hear more of them complaining about people mentioning linux than there are actual people mentioning linux. I ended up muting the subreddit cause it got so annoying.
I disliked it mainly because of the cable breaking, which happened to my first gaming headset as a kid. However now i just own a sennheiser where you can easily pull the cable off of the earcups and replace them, so it’s not an issue anymore.
I’m using a setup that i already had when i was still on windows, but it’s pretty much a driverless setup so it worked on linux just fine.
I use a JDS Labs dac and amp that i bought years ago and they still work great, the dac is plug and play. I paired it with a sennheiser HD660S that i’m still very happy with. Unless wireless is really important to you i’d recommend wired because they offer the best quality in terms of bitrate. With my sennheisers the nice thing is that the cable is easily replacable because they’re just plugs that you can pull out of the earcups.
For discord i’m using an old usb mic that i bought years ago that seems to work fine.
Basically what i’m saying is don’t bother with the gaming headsets. The one thing i miss on linux is dolby atmos tbh. On windows i used it for virtual surround sound as a replacement for the gaming headset software, but last time i checked you can’t use it on linux. Some games have virtual surround sound baked into their settings, which works without OS-level software, but for the games that don’t i miss it. I’ll probably keep using this audio setup until something dies cause i’m just really happy with it.
Edit: you could also pair good wired headphones with something like a Fiio BTR15, which also supports bluetooth. That way you can still walk around with the dac/amp in your pocket. There’s still going to be wire between the headphones and the amp of course, so it depends on how allergic you are to wires. I bought a Fiio mainly as a more portable wired setup for my phone/laptop.
This is pretty much what it feels like when you suggest this in the pcmasterrace subreddit or a windows community lol
Now i’m imagining some dude holding a thinkpad up to his ear
When i said unique i was purely referring to consoles going up in price instead of down. RAM cartel was already a thing long before trump though, as much as i hate the turd.
Even if that were true, the prices wouldn’t increase either. I think there’s more factors at play though that make consoles cheaper over time.
The market conditions are very unique right now since this is caused by all the AI-slop, and consoles going up in price like this has never happened before. If we think long-term though, i think it will still apply like it used to.
Dread it. Run from it. Copilot arrives all the same.
Ah, yeah that might be it. Makes sense that a gaming distro like that would want to make sure xbox controllers work.
I think it was infinity nikki
I think he might be referring to infinity nikki, or at least that’s what i thought of when making my original comment. Idk if it ever got bypassed though.
Oh, well in that case idk anymore lol, but that sounds good
How would that even work if they did make excusives since it’s just a pc? Run a hardware check and stop the game from launching if it doesn’t detect steam machine hardware?
Just did a quick search and yeah apparently there aren’t really xbox controller drivers included in the kernel from what i can tell. I assumed it would just work cause it has been the case for all the controllers i tried, but i have never even owned an xbox controller so i never tested that. I figured such a popular controller surely would work ootb, but i guess not.
My parents’ computers that i “upgraded” to 11 still use 8 gigs of ram. Perhaps they’re just very light pc users but i still haven’t heard them complain about any issues, so i haven’t looked at upgrading the ram tbh. But yeah the amount of ram windows uses just to run idle is insane.