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[–] gnuplusmatt@startrek.website 31 points 2 years ago (1 children)

sighs heavily in Australian

[–] MrShelbs@lemmy.ca 14 points 2 years ago

Joins the heavy sigh in Canadian

[–] redcalcium@lemmy.institute 24 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Steam deck has HDR support now, which means HDR support for AMD gpus on linux will improve at accelerated rate going forward. Nvidia users (me included) can can only look with envy I guess.

[–] Toribor@corndog.social 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Is HDR generally unavailable on Linux right now? I primarily game on a Windows desktop but I'm considering trying to make my next build in a few years the equivalent of a "Steam Deck Console" but I've been trying to anticipate issues that might make it too limited or frustrating to use.

[–] redcalcium@lemmy.institute 5 points 2 years ago

If you have an AMD GPU, the upcoming KDE Plasma 6 will have experimental HDR support. Or you can use gamescope (a compositor made by valve for steam deck) as your login session which will launch steam in big picture mode (afaik you can't run other apps except steam in this desktop session).

[–] keyez@lemmy.world 23 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I was able to grab a limited edition one almost 2 hours after release time. Was clicking through carts dozens of times and purchase pages about 5 times, what a mess.

[–] Spacecraft@lemmy.world 15 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I'm dying over this. I preloaded my steam wallet, left a meeting early, and started spamming the buy button the second it released. Couldn't get the purchase to go through for 30 minutes so I'm panicking the whole time. Turns out 5 hours later it's still in stock rofl.

[–] Dremor@lemmy.world 13 points 2 years ago (2 children)

From what I could observe of the launch, it looks like they decided to not put all the stock up to grab right away, and added it little by little to spread out the load and give people more time to get a chance to get the limited edition. It actually got "out of stock" multiple times already.

[–] Spacecraft@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yeah looks like the case. I'm happy to see them going this route and taking steps to alleviate bots and scalpers buying them all up.

[–] SocialMediaSettler@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

If that's true, that's impressive. Kudos with Steam being ahead of the game.

[–] Lesrid@lemm.ee 4 points 2 years ago

Well shoot, I saw it was out of stock and never checked back. Oh well the colorway wouldn't really show through the protective case very well anyway

[–] Donjuanme@lemmy.world 12 points 2 years ago (2 children)
[–] SomethingBurger@jlai.lu 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)

They're not? It's still possible to buy them.

[–] Spacecraft@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

It seems like maybe they're being updated in batches on the store. I've seen it show out of stock for a few minutes and then come back in stock.

[–] SatyrSack@lemmy.one 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The Limited Edition model is predictably out of stock, but the other OLED models seem to be available.

[–] Ahmmeeeeeeeeed@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago (3 children)
[–] Goronmon@lemmy.world 18 points 2 years ago

You'll probably be waiting a while.

[–] RiderExMachina@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

This is Steam Deck 1.5. They've said Steam Deck 2 won't be for another couple years.

[–] SamBBMe@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yeah, but it's not really worth spending the money to upgrade to the OLED

[–] JJROKCZ@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago

Probably not but this is a good buy for those of us who didn’t buy 1.0 for whatever reason

[–] Deceptichum@kbin.social 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Don’t wait for the Steam Deck 3.

[–] Zorque@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

But what about the Steam Deck 2 version 2?

[–] TechieDamien@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago

Or Steam Deck Alyx?