Steam Hardware
A place to discuss and support all Steam Hardware, including Steam Deck, Steam Machine, Steam Frame, and SteamOS in general.
As Lemmy doesn't have flairs yet, you can use these prefixes to indicate what type of post you have made, eg:
[Flair] My post title
The following is a list of suggested flairs:
[Deck] - Steam Deck related.
[Controller] - Steam Controller related.
[Machine] - Steam Machine related.
[Frame] - Steam Frame related.
[Discussion] - General discussion.
[Help] - A request for help or support.
[News] - News about the deck.
[PSA] - Sharing important information.
[Game] - News / info about a game on the deck.
[Update] - An update to a previous post.
[Meta] - Discussion about this community.
If your post is only relevant to one hardware device (Deck/Machine/Frame/etc) please specify which one as part of the title or by using a device flair.
These are not enforced, but they are encouraged.
Rules:
- Follow the rules of Sopuli
- Posts must be related to Steam Hardware or Steam OS in an obvious way.
- No piracy, there are other communities for that.
- Discussion of emulators are allowed, but no discussion on how to illegally acquire ROMs.
- This is a place of civil discussion, no trolling.
- Have fun.
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One serious downside of mirror accounts is that the installed games in the library aren't filtered to the current account (at least they weren't last I checked). So if the accounts have different levels of purchasing activity, it'll be a sea of not-your-games with some of yours sprinkled in between.
You can somewhat mitigate that with different sorting options, but afaik there is no option at all to hide games unavailable or unowned on the current account.
Functionally it works very well though.
Does "ready to play" filter those out?
With family sharing enabled, there's really few of those games that are unavailable anyways tbf.
Possibly, but if it isn't enabled (like in my case) is a sea of useless, unplayable games with the playable ones hard to find in between. Truly annoying.
Ok but this is pretty much the use case for family sharing. Why not enable it?
Yes, it is. But it doesn't change anything in practice: we don't play the same games. One has far more than the other (and more recent purchases). Enabling it just allows each of us to play the games we're not interested in anyway, so what's the point. It still leaves the ones we are is interested just sprinkled in between.
Is not about not being able to play these games, but having no interest in them either. If they are playable or not makes zero difference. They are still in the way and just clutter.
Oh OK. Just use a custom collection for the one with the much smaller catalog then.