[Cialug] Reminder: CIALUG meeting Next Wednesday 7PM Topic: Steam Deck

[Nicholas Olson]

I've really enjoyed my Steam Deck so far. It's been able to run most of the
games I've tried. Whether or not I enjoy the handheld gameplay is a
different story though. Using a mini USB-C dock I had on hand and swapping
into Desktop mode, it became a fairly decent gaming computer with a big
screen/mouse/keyboard/gamepad. Don't think I need to lug around a bulky
laptop on trips anymore. You can also install different OSes on a SD card
and boot from that instead of internal storage. For a couple of
import games I just couldn't get to run under SteamOS or Lutris/Proton/Wine
in Desktop mode, I was able to flash Windows 10 to an SD card  (gross I
know), boot it up and get everything working perfectly fairly quickly. This
thing has a lot of potential.


On Mon, Oct 17, 2022 at 5:53 PM David Champion <dchamp1337 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Should be a good meeting. I've got a steam deck, it's pretty cool to see
> how they've made a consumer gaming device built on Linux that's shipped
> over a million units so far - and made it friendly to people that want to
> use the Linux / KDE Plasma desktop and modify things - including letting
> people install their own NVMe drives (i.e. you can buy the base model and
> install your own storage if you want), and the SD card support makes it
> really easy for people that want to run emulators to have a different
> removable SD card for different uses.
>
> Steam and the KDE Plasma team have been doing a lot of work, as well as the
> increased development on WINE / Proton. In a way I'm sad that the emphasis
> is on making Windows games run on Linux instead of pushing more of them to
> be ported to native Linux applications, but I'm also really impressed by
> how well it works (for the most part, there are some games that don't run
> or run poorly on the deck).
>
> Here's a video talking about some of the current improvements in the works:
>
> https://youtu.be/l-gS3OSSf58
>
> -dc
>
>
> On Fri, Oct 14, 2022 at 2:31 AM Andy Denner <linux-list at upeke.com> wrote:
>
> > This will be a hybrid meeting. Location Gravitate Midtown (6500
> > University Ave, Windsor Heights, IA 50324) and (Zoom (register at):
> >
> >
> https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYtfuqhrjIjG9NOhksL4EI522d9bv4-Hl5K
> > )
> >
> > Topic Playing with Steam Deck
> >
> > Steven will show off his steam deck and all the linux at hand.
> >
> > Hi there,
> >
> > You are invited to a Zoom meeting.
> > When: Oct 19, 2022 07:00 PM Central Time (US and Canada)
> >
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