As a fellow Linux guy, it’s just great. I have had to do no hacking and bare-bones minimal tweaking to get things how I want. 90% of games work out of the box, even mouse-heavy games like RimWorld. I just love it. I sit at a desk all day for work. I don’t want to do that after. The steam deck gives me almost my entire steam library and I can lounge wherever I feel like with it. I <3 you Steamdeck.
As a wise Arabian parrot once said, “Why am I not surprised? WHY am I not surprised!?”
Welcome to the club. Your lan port is over there. (Insert broadcom chip joke here)
Yeah media says on the original instance it got posted on, it’s just the URL that gets passed around instances.
Same here
Boost worked fine for me
Nope, it does not. You can install a kernel made just for surface devices and you’ll get mouse emulation via touch, but Mint doesn’t have Wayland yet and it’s my understanding that Wayland is where all the good things, like gestures, lives. So, I’m waiting for that but it honestly works fine without the touch. I’d use it if it was there, but it’s fine honestly.
That said, I’ve been using Linux/osx as my primary at work for a lot of years now so I’m super unfamiliar with even basic sysadmin stuff on Windows, so I’m happy that the surface is now on Linux. Need to move my desktop to it one day, but I honestly almost never use it.
Just installed Mint on my Surface Pro 4 that’s been sitting in a drawer for years and guess what, it’s now useable again! Praise be Linux.
Can I use this as a brag too?
Nobody I know would care, so I’ll tell you. I made a stupid basic world gen from a tilemap and noise. You know, the basic stuff. Then made a little NPC that wanders around and will change it’s walking behavior based on the type of tile it’s on. Niiice.
I’m a programmer, but never done this kind of stuff before so it feels like I’m starting from scratch. It’s fun again.
Oh I definitely remember this. Completely forgot about it
That’s very fitting.
This is where I jokingly ask if you’re a vim guy because you can’t exit.
Ooo gonna check this out. Took me some time, but I looove home row mods once I got used to them. Will check this out!
HA! I saw the caps on the bottom row and knew exactly what profile that was. I have a full set on a 36-key and it’s just wonderful to type on.
You’ll be happy to know that I bribed my kids into watching the 1990 TMNT live action movie this weekend. The younger one loved it, but the preteen was full of critical commentary the whole time. Go figure. But hey, I won one of them over to the TMNT side.
A new fantastic point of view
Pretty sure I saw somewhere the devs took inspiration from Boost for their UI
Same. I’ve really liked this feature in Mastadon.
To add, it’s even reached out to non-nerds. My brother, who isn’t THAT tech literate picked one up and he’s absolutely loving it. He hasn’t had a gaming PC ever but he’s getting tons of time on the Steamdeck and we’ve had zero issues playing games online together and using the steam voice chat.