FYI: I changed the link of this post to the beta 2 hotfix because beta 1 had a booting bug.

I’m not the developer but my guess is that they want to distinguish this from Armada which is something like Bazzite but using Arch Linux where everything is recompiled.

They take the binary SteamOS image and add a different kernel and some other auxiliary stuff to port Valve’s image to new devices.

That’s broadly similar to what Linux Mint does to Ubuntu or Bazzite does to Fedora. Sometimes this is referred as a remix instead of a fork.

Edit: typo from wrong autocorrect

Too bad it’s a bit too much of a hassle to remove the pancake lenses if you don’t need them.

Flatpak yes, version on Flathub is some different fork from a few years ago. I hope this maintained version will replace the other one soon.

Maybe work on your own reading comprehension before saying something stupid.

Unlike you I actually checked the history of merged PRs on Github.

That’s an alarming number of changes at once.

At once? WTF? The latest update is only “Fixed level transitions”. That’s over various forks over literally 26 years. There are exact dates at each of the sections.

I’m going to need to know their stance on “AI” use before this comes anywhere near my computer.

Maybe learn how to read dates before accusing 26 years of updates to be the result of AI.

I was in front of one recently:

Just make Frank face plates. Surely nothing will go wrong.

Why am I not surprised they didn’t get a license

Why am I not surprised they went ahead without even asking to get a license?

Maybe they’re known in US, but I never seen them in EU.

Then you didn’t look properly: https://geizhals.de/8bitdo-ultimate-2c-wireless-controller-pc-android-v177372.html Gulikit is another very famous 3rd party controller brand. I think both source their sensors from the same manufacturer. They often have quite similar controllers.

Reverse engineered xone driver for dongle fails every few kernel updates.

So the dongle is the problem, not the controller. Use a USB cable for best latency. Works fine. Literally every other controller doesn’t have this problem, so specifically needing a Steam Controller because of Linux compatibility is nonsensical.

So if you want one with a dongle that works absolutely fine under Linux and costs only 29 Euro:

What? They’re probably the biggest 3rd party game controller vendor. They moved to hall effect before even the 1st party companies had those in their elite controllers.

Also, regular Xbox also work fine under Linux. The only thing that needs the reverse engineered community driver is that wireless dongle because it can pair multiple controllers. USB and Bluetooth are absolutely fine for pretty much every controller under Linux. The dongle 8bitdo uses is for a single controller, so it acts like a regular controller that was connected with a USB cable.

If you’re windows user you have a plethora of options in all price brackets. I wanted to buy steam controller because of Linux compatibility (Reverse engineered Xbox controller driver likes to shit itself from time to time)

8bitdo and similar controllers work absolutely fine under Linux. No idea where your Linux compatibility thing comes from.

I never use the capacitive touchpads on my SteamDeck

Only in desktop mode when I don’t have my full docked setup with real keyboard and mouse. They are IMO better than touchscreen when everything is so small (and the Deck is too heavy for holding it in one hand for a longer duration).

The MuteMotion Core Engine algorithms, binaries, and mathematical transformation logic are PROPRIETARY ASSETS of MuteMotion Tech / Adriano Neto and are NOT governed by this license. Access to the Core Engine is restricted and requires separate licensing.

Booooohhhhh!

I tried out the Apple version of that feature on an old iPad I have lying around. It’s cool but really not rocket science to implement. Copying an Apple feature and then acting like they invented it and need to keep the PROPRIETARY ASSTES a secret is beyond lame.

How is this legal?

In a world where Meta got caught torrenting entire book archives, anything goes these days.

But strictly speaking, it’s not because it’s based on decompilation and not a clean room reimplementation of the engine. That’s like using a translation service to translate a copyrighted book into another language and then manually iron out the kinks. But in a world of mass piracy for LLM training, nobody gives a shit about such little projects any longer.

Maybe too far outside their wheelhouse still but can you imagine a Steam Phone?

Valve allows redistribution of the Steam client. Other than resources, there is little that would stop companies like Jolla to put the Steam client on their phones.

Would be cheaper than regular Steam Controller

Why would Valve make the same Steam Controller again but with a phone cradle in the middle and somehow make this cheaper? It would need to house the same hardware components as the regular Steam Controller AND possibly add an active cooler.

That’s even less realistic than Valve managers reading posts on Lemmy.

by your bloody metric

It’s not my metric, I merely repeated what I remembered from one of the interviews and my astonishment from hearing what I heard.

If you “wasted christmas”, that’s your metric, not mine.

they advertise the fact that it can run half life alyx natively tho

Where? I watched an interview where the guys only said that they hope to make it happen and it would stream off a PC otherwise and that they were looking into a Aperture Desk Job sized game.