Seems neat, though I don’t have a use for it.

It’d be much more helpful to me if it just used those OCR boxes to provide mouse-over dictionary lookups via yomitan rather than a translation.

Right now I use Google Lens for that, but that means I’m sharing selected text into a dictionary app or chatgpt, or gambling on Google search just giving me the JP->EN definition with no prompting besides the word itself.

If something’s marked unsupported I just double check ProtonDB before I buy it

As long as people more competent get control of the longer lived franchises.

The only thing I dislike about it, having seen the in-store demos, is the fringing on text and hard edges. It can looks like chromatic abberation in very contrasty games. The OLED subpixel layout just isn’t quite ideal, especially at 1280x800 7.4".

The LCD version has less issues there. Less gaps between the pixels and a standard RGB vertical strip layout.

GeoHot has always been a weird dude lol. I’m unsuprised.

Someone gift this man a good lubed tactile thocky keyboard. He deserves better than rattly cherry blues

Last time I tried to use Arch for gaming I ran into constant issues like what you describe. Almost like it wasn’t using the correct graphics drivers for the games even though I could verify it was. I never could quite figure it out.

If you’re not against distro hopping, I suggest switching to Bazzite or Nobara. Plain old Fedora is usually fine too if you’re not using an Nvidia GPU or don’t mind futzing around with RPMFusion, but the extra utilities and tweaks provided in Nobara and Bazzite are really nice.

That driver tends to work decently, but the performance on windows can be a bit iffy, especially for games like Skyrim because of how the content archives work iirc.

I also ran into a bug where one specific program (Aseprite) wouldn’t save files correctly on winbtrfs and instead padded them with zeroes to a full 4KB or whatever, which didn’t happen on any other filesystem.

WinBTRFS is cool, but treat it as somewhat experimental just in case. Back your stuff up.

Pseudoregalia was fantastic

Also if an update gets completely borked while installing (i.e. you lost power), then it just boots into the version you were running previously thanks to the A/B update scheme. It’s neat.

Throw some silicone joystick protector rings on your sticks if you haven’t. Makes the joystick almost completely silent even when I slam them against the shell, and as long as they’re seated right and clean they’ll still slide smoothly against the shell. Just make sure to run through the calibration script so you still have full joystick range after adding them

It’s just regulation. No sweepstakes allowed without some “skill” involved

Unless their production costs are vastly cheaper for the old model, I give it maybe 6 months before they replace the 256 LCD sku with an OLED version. They probably know they wouldn’t be able to keep up with releasing the entire lineup at once and want to get just a bit more use out of the existing lcd sku production line and supply chain (using up already purchased components and running out contracts) before they shutter it.

This. Do I want an OLED deck? Yes. Do I need one? Absolutely not. I like my deck enough and I can wait for Steam Deck 2.

Yep. They’ve said that basically no internal components are cross compatible between original and OLED steam decks. Everything’s been redesigned internally