Valve Publishes New Steam Deck FAQ With A Few New Details Shared

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Valve Publishes New Steam Deck FAQ With A Few New Details Shared

Valve today published a "Steam Deck FAQ" page sharing some additional information on this forthcoming Arch Linux powered handheld game system that will begin shipping at the end of Q4...

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Steam-Deck-FAQ

[Mershl]

"intended for the Steak Deck" ... now I'm getting hungry

[tildearrow]

"intended for the Steak Deck" ... now I'm getting hungry

Where? I don't see it.

OK I guess I'll report a typo:

[tildearrow]

Making use of the microSD card with the Steam Deck will default to using the EXT4 file-system with case-folding (case insensitivity) enabled.

I wish there was a generic owner-less filesystem for these devices like FAT (or a way to mount a device as the user so he/she can write data to it, or an "anybody" user that allows permission to anybody).

[Michael]

Where? I don't see it.

OK I guess I'll report a typo:

Fixed it already that time

[JPFSanders]

I wish there was a generic owner-less filesystem for these devices like FAT..

You will be able to format it using whatever FS you like, it defaults to EXT4 because it is a Linux box and that's more or less what most people use in Linux.

I for one I'm delighted, I can't stand FAT/NTFS and promoting anything else is great, I understand why the entire industry always dances around MS's tune, but there is no need in this case.

Can't wait to get my hands on a SteamDeck, I'm genuinely excited for a device for the first time in years.

[ElectricPrism]

- The Steam Deck is not optimized for VR gaming/headsets.

I actually had a conversation explaining that the statements from a Valve Developer obviously were a generalization -- and not meant to be taken literally as "every game on steam" -- citing that no reasonable person would expect the Steam Deck to run their high-res high frame-rate VR-only games.

Someone replied that they "expected Steam Deck to do VR from their statement" I facepalmed and moved on.

I'm glad to see this kind of clarification ahead of Launch so expectations are not so runaway hypetrain crazy.

Really good to see, I hope to see more clarification in the near future before launch too. Very excited to get my Deck.

[JPFSanders]

I actually had a conversation explaining that the statements from a Valve Developer obviously were a generalization -- and not meant to be taken literally as "every game on steam" -- citing that no reasonable person would expect the Steam Deck to run their high-res high frame-rate VR-only games.

Someone replied that they "expected Steam Deck to do VR from their statement" I facepalmed and moved on.

I'm glad to see this kind of clarification ahead of Launch so expectations are not so runaway hypetrain crazy.

Really good to see, I hope to see more clarification in the near future before launch too. Very excited to get my Deck.

- I'm not the messiah
People: Only the true messiah would say he's not the messiah! So he is the messiah!

[MonkeyPaw]

I wonder if they have a plan for anti-cheat fixing the major bug of playing Destiny 2 through Proton and getting your account banned.

[yump]

I wish there was a generic owner-less filesystem for these devices like FAT (or a way to mount a device as the user so he/she can write data to it, or an "anybody" user that allows permission to anybody).

No need for a special filesystem. Plumb idmapped mounts into however the desktop environment mounts removable drives, and you can have effective ownerlessness on any FS.