• sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    2·
    2 hours ago

    That’s so cool that nearly 5% are using Steam in Flatpak, despite that not being officially supported by Valve (official installer is still a .deb).

    Has anyone here used it in a flatpak? Do controllers work properly?

    I haven’t had any issues on my openSUSE Tumbleweed installations, but I’ve considered moving to openSUSE MicroOS, and if I do, I’d end up using the flatpak.

  • OmegaLemmy@discuss.onlineEnglish
    12·
    7 hours ago

    Thank fuck steam has a runtime compatibility layer otherwise a lot of programs would run into the same issues as some apps do due to distro differences

    (You can force it on like you do with wine BTW, naming scheme follows TF2 Classes)

  • 𝕽𝖚𝖆𝖎𝖉𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍@midwest.socialEnglish
    3·
    6 hours ago

    I can’t imagine playing Factorio on a Steam Deck, so I haven’t gotten one, but it’d be nice to be able to being my factory with me on the airplane. I figure some AR glasses would make for a nice display, but the controls need most of the keyboard, the mouse, and as many mouse buttons as you can afford, and I haven’t worked that part out yet.

    • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      1·
      2 hours ago

      Yeah, I don’t think Factorio would be as fun on a Steam Deck.

      That said, there are a ton of great games that are a ton of fun on the Deck, so much so that most of my gaming time is spent in bed on my Steam Deck, because the gaming experience is good and definitely beats going over to my desktop.

    • dderg@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      3 hours ago

      Trackpad makes it somewhat playable, not as fast and comfortable as keyboard and mouse, but playable

    • Zron@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      3 hours ago

      Yeah, rimworld has the same problem.

      Fully native Linux version, so it’s deck verified, but good luck doing anything with a controller in a top down, resource management game like that.

      I mini Bluetooth keyboard and mouse helps, but quickly becomes awkward if you don’t have a desk to play at.

      Still love my deck for casual single player games though. Play a lot of sonic, doom, wolfenstein, the Witcher 3, etc.

    • shadowtofu@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
      4·
      6 hours ago

      You can install steam on Fedora using an RPM repository. But everyone using the Steam Flatpak will show up as Freedesktop SDK, no matter the distribution. For Fedora-based gaming distributions such as Bazzite, this is the default way to use Steam.