That’s great but these things never should have been up for sale in the first place.

0.1kWh per hour? Day? Month?

What’s in your system?

You are criticizing the verification system by comparing it to ProtonDB which, again, is a different thing.

Different in some ways but serves the same purpose.

Steam’s verification isn’t “inaccurate,”

Yes it is.

Crowdsourcing something like that would not be a good way for Valve to accomplish its goals.

Yes it would.

I can’t say I’ve ever cared about how a game looks.

Fair enough. Certainly some devs spend a ton of time making games look incredible so there’s obviously a bunch of users like me who do appreciate that, and also many who don’t!

It doesn’t help that Steam store is a nightmare to navigate.

Releasing demos is a great way to succeed. It doesn’t take me more than 5 minutes to decide if it’s something I want to continue playing.

Putting videos of nothing but cut-scenes is a great way to ensure I keep scrolling but every title seems to take this approach.

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I’ve installed all sorts of things on SteamOS without “extra steps”.

I can’t say the same for Bazzite.

That’s how all chargers work. The problem is that it’s simply not great to have your battery at 100% all of the time.

Cool!

Define “fine”. Is it playable? Sure. But it also looks quite bad at 800p/low/30fps

it’s not well equipped to handle user packages in the same way OSTree is

Can you elaborate?

Pretty much the same titles over and over again.

I’ll never not be shocked at BG3 because it runs potato quality but to each their own, I suppose.

How so?

Yes I understand how the Steam Deck and verified ratings work, but thanks for the explanation.

Tech Jesus made a tribute video.

You can use it for absolutely anything. That’s the beauty of Linux. Will it be good for it, as is? No, not really.

A lot of streaming services will limit you to 720p unless you use their first-party apps, which they don’t make for Linux.

Also the interface is not ideal for that sort of thing.

Leaving it plugged in permanently is not really good for the battery, but not a huge deal either. There’s probably some way to enable a “kiosk mode” to keep the battery @ 50%, which would be ideal.

Yeah this is everything the Steam Deck is not:

1. Crazy expensive
2. Disposable/unrepairable
3. Windows trash
4. Chinese gobbledygook company that will disappear from existence in 6 months

I mean they squeezed all the blood from that orange. Not that that ever stopped Ubisoft…

The verification system is not remotely accurate. It probably does more harm than good. Valve should have made it crowdsourced like protondb because they’re obviously unable to keep up, and I don’t know why they thought they would be.

Further, they failed to establish any concrete guidelines on frame rate for their ratings.

Shit, they could have crowdsourced the data from user devices.

I see.