I hadn’t thought about having apps for to use in game mode.

Are there games exclusive to mobile that are worth having on deck?

Edit: (as in suggestions)

I’m not blocking ads, I’m just avoiding them.

I put mine at lowest settings, 40-45fps cap. Runs fine.

Imagine how it must feel to be this tricky little guy: ,

Thank you. I’ll look into Lutris and Gnarly repacks when I have a day to mess around.

I found this post by doing a search for “TTW” on mbin and got lucky. YouTube and Reddit have been all but useless as tutorials all assume you have a windows pc for heavy lifting. I got a deck to be my pc.

How did you install TTW on your steam deck without a pc to run the installer? I’m willing to put up with the 12 hours if I have to.

I’d say if you’re going to keep it as a primary windows PC docked at home, but with the added gimmick of it being a handheld, ally isn’t that bad of an option. I just think Deck is way more interesting as a grownup toy and much more bang for its buck.

Yeah modding isn’t that much more difficult, but sometimes you have to drop a file in a specific folder that can be tricky to find since the directed paths aren’t always 1:1 with windows due to the wine bottling thing. It helps you can right click on a game in Steam desktop for a shortcut to a game’s specific folder, though. That and the community is usually willing to help you figure stuff out.

Ally has better specs, support for games which are easier to mod (because windows). It has no touch pads, worse battery life, and windows isn’t great for handheld. Might be good for an alternative windows “laptop” you can also game well with.

Deck has a really good community, is repairable, has touch pads, Steam OS desktop is built for mobile and insanely customizable thanks to Linux (I made mine behave Mac-like). Better battery. Not all games are guaranteed supported (many publishers ignore Linux, so the community or Steam itself usually puts the work in), some require tinkering, and publishers can bust games unexpectedly with anti-cheat efforts. That said, none of the games I’ve ever cared about have been affected. Desktop mode can be used for productivity, but you won’t be able to get away with as much as you would with a more mainstream Linux distribution because Steam OS is read-only and an update might remove some advanced functionality you might have installed. I’m not a Linux user, so I can’t really elaborate on that. Also Arch Linux (which Steam OS is built from) is like the Dark Souls of Linux distros, and not very good for newcomers.

Between the two: if you like windows, modding games, and don’t mind being tethered to a wall in exchange for a little more oomph, go Ally. If you like community support, good controls and battery efficiency is more important than raw performance, go Deck.

I presume ally is better for someone who can’t stand much outside of windows and doesn’t mind using it at home most of the time.

Thank you for this!

I always feel ashamed to have to ask how to do what I imagine is pretty elementary stuff for regular Linux users, but now I feel kind of feel dumb for not just asking in the first place.

customizing the default Plasma Panel (right click on desktop > enter edit mode > add panel) is your best bet nowadays for a similar look

This will be more than enough for me. I was looking for latte-dock because I thought it was the only way to accomplish that look. I didn’t even think to just add another panel.

I would also say imperceptible. The 2 critiques I have are that the audio can sound compressed through headphones, and there’s sometimes a spike in lag that happens around 20m in during some sessions. If I just disconnect and reconnect without putting the PS5 to sleep (usually a <10s process), it never happens again during even long sessions.

Does this game have a multiplayer component? Would be great to mess around in something like Minecraft again without the need of a subscription.

Chiaki has legit been about 90% of my steam deck time. Anything newer or already in my PS+ collection I just stream. My deck is just for retro games and PC/Xbox gems that are playable on the system.

It’s one of the primary reasons I bought I deck. I game pretty much on PlayStation and do my work on a Mac, so the PC catalog has be largely unavailable to me until now. Anything built for PS4 forward (or ported from PS3) I don’t mind buying on PS5 and streaming through Chiaki. Anything PS2 backwards (that never got a PC port or isn’t already available on the PS+ subscription) is just easier to emulate. However, PS3 had a lot of gems that are only really available through the PC now, so I bought a deck to play those. Fallouts 3, NV, Final Fantasy XIII and the sequels I never actually had a chance to play, GTA IV. I hope I’ll get to play the Killzone trilogy again someday.

I got the 512 OLED and I’m quite smitten with it. It’s actually my very first gaming “pc”.

I apologize, this is a bit of an extreme comparison: If I were to ask you what needed to happen for Nazi Germany to have won WWII, and you gave an honest answer, would it be fair of someone else to take your answer as proof that people on the internet wanted the nazis to win? It shouldn’t matter how your quote is used because there are certainly Nazi supporters on the internet, which is the primary concern of the claim. Right?

I would like to know what the original question was.

Are you saying that Ubisoft doesn’t actually believe that people shouldn’t own their games and…

No

that this was a hypothetical discussion that was taken out of context?

Yes

I’m already not much of a Ubisoft fan, but wasn’t this just a response to a question about what would need to happen for subscriptions to take off? What should have been said? In context, it’s more of a hypothetical than an imperative.

Context doesn’t make for good clickbait, though.