It’s always the same, some says something factually wrong, gets corrected, the votes weigh in and then the argument of “you just try to dunk on my for fake internet points” come up… sigh

Alright, let’s go through it point by point.

1. You didn’t list a single reason why you CAN’T hook up any PC with Linux and create a “console”. You just listed a bunch of feature that are available to every single linux distro and a bunch of feature that are in fact exclusive to the steamdeck, but are NOT critical to achieve a console-like gaming system. 1.1 “Unique first-party processor” - Yup, thats steamdeck exclusive afaik, but it’s only special feature is the balance between TDP and performance. None of the firmware / software features rely on that specific CPU. I can “proof” that because as i said, my Minisforum can go into the exact same sleep / resume state as the steamdeck. But “oh here we go again!” you might say, i just listed the same one specific machine again. Yup i did, but my other machines do exactly the same. My NVidia powered PC and my personal gaming rig. Yes they all have AMD CPUs, i have no idea how good Intel goes with all this but honestly i don’t care. I doesn’t disprove my point in any way.

2. Touch pads - Yup exclusive to the steamdeck. Not at all critical to achieve a console-like gaming system.

3. Steam Input configuration - Not exclusive to the deck, available for every single machine that can install steam.

4. Gamescope - Not exclusive to the deck, available for every single distro that runs wayland.

5. Sleep / resume function - Not exclusive to the steamdeck. All my PCs achieve the same result as the deck.

6. Direct launch into Big Picture Mode - Lmao also not exclusive (how do you even think that?! xD).

7. Hardware thats guaranteed to work with Linux / Steam. Nowadays, it’s really fucking hardware to find mainstream gaming hardware that is NOT supported by Linux. Heck even NVidia works reliable with wayland with the newest 555 driver. How do i now? Oh because of my frigging 3070 that’s running in one of my gaming systems.

So, i just elaborated. Disprove me with real forum entries / wiki entries that describe that something that i wrote is not correct. Go ahead, i wait… but i won’t answer anymore.

interesting… can you please go ahead and tell this to my Minisforum PC i hooked up to my TV and let it boot into big picture and resume from sleep etc. just like its a console?

Because from what you told me it shouldnt work… but it does… and somebody needs to tell it and i can’t because i didnt spend so much time with it… you know i just installed bazzite and called it a day… so i don’t really have a big connection to it :/

But in all seriousness, you’re completly wrong here. The chip used in the Steamdeck sure is special and does a lot of heavy lifting. But everything that makes out the steamdeck is definetely not exclusive to its hardware. You 100% can just hook up any PC, be it some minisforum mini pc, a laptop or a off the shelf gaming PC, install literally any linux on it and within a few hours of installing and configuring stuff - you can make your own “steamdeck”. It works. Reliable, hasslefree.

I assume you just don’t have any real-world experience with setting something like this up. Go ahead and try it, it’s not hard and you will see that you just don’t need a steamdeck.

It’s absolutely nothing special to produce a console-like gaming experience with linux these days.

You really shouldn’t believe to be correct if everyone else has the real-world experience you try to tell others can’t exist

Elaborate

What about this isn’t correct?

Takes just over a minute… How hard can it be

i used Fedora with Gnome on Lenovo Yoga and regularly flipped the keyboard around and used it in Tablet mode.

It’s not average, it’s pretty good if you ask me. Never had any issues and it was absolutely usabale.

Offgrid Internet… Hmmmm

No, bottles is just a program that enables you to use wine much more comfortably.

Wine isn’t super hard to use, but it’s annoying. So stuff like Bottles and Lutris exist, both basically do the same. They give you both a GUI and much easier accessable settings for the wine-prefixes. Those prefixes basically are just folders with the faked windows stuff in it.

Lutris is made for games but can be used for programs too. Bottles is made out of the box for both games and programs, has a much more streamlined interface and workflow and lets you easily create new “bottles” (bottle is just the given name for a wine prefix) for each of your games / programs.

Putting everything in their own bottle / prefix is really handy because it allows you to modify the prefix for each application without ruining it for another. If you need a specific version of a certain .dll file for one game but not for others, you can just install that .dll file in the specific bottle / prefix for that one specific game, and the other games just use their own bottles / prefixes with the default .dll for example.

Very handy.

Bottles is usually more recommended because it’s more streamlined… Also the dev of lutris seems quite toxic and isn’t good with making friends in the scene :D

Check out bottles, there you can easily run your cracked games

i wouldn’t share her videos.

Shes a conspiracy theorist and anti-vaxxer

That’s why you have to find services you pay for with your own money. So you know how they make money.

I love kagi. I know exactly how they make their money… because i pay them.

My SSD complains about feeling disgusting and dirty after i installed a Ubisoft game to it last time.

It won’t happen again, it needs some time to recover from that.

These absolutely not hypothetical people should absolutely NOT be using Google Colab.

Keep your data to yourself, don’t run shit in the cloud that can be run offline.

It totally depends on your usecase.

NVidia runs 100% rocksolid on X11.

If you’re someone who reallse uses CUDA and all their stuff and don’t care about Wayland. NVidia is the choice you have to make. Simple as that.

If you don’t care about those things or are willing to sacrifice time and tinker around with AMDs subpar alternatives, AMD is the way to go.

Because let’s face it. AMD didn’t care about machine learning stuff and they only now begin to dabble in it. They lost a huge amount of people who work with those things as their day job. They can’t tell their bosses and/or clients that they can’t work for a week or two until they figured out how to get this alternative running that is just starting to care about that field of work.

Oh it definetly isn’t

Everything I need does run and I finally don’t run out of vram so easily 😅

1. yes i know, but Cuda is faster
2. Ollama is for LLM, Stable Diffusion is for images

well i dearly miss CUDA as i don’t get ZLUDA to work properly with Stable Diffusion and FSR is sill leagues behind DLSS… but yeah overall i am very happy

Too little too late.

Already sold my 3070 and went for an 7900 XT bcs i got fed up with NVidia being lazy

May i ask what you believe the downvote is for?

Thank you!

AOC CU34G2X and a AOC G2460V in Portrait Mode to the left (not on the Screenshot)

i really enjoyed the first mistborn trilogy :-)