Lossless Scaling is the only Steam Deck plugin worth your time, and here's why
…But let's go back to the Steam Deck for a moment, because it doesn't support one of the things more powerful gaming handhelds do — frame generation. That's a shame…
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Cost is a major consideration when it comes to handhelds, and to pretend otherwise would be folly. In the aspect of pricing, Steam Deck OLED continues to decisively pull ahead of the competitors, and there's a special reason for this, which I have talked extensively about in the past. Valve has an ability to sell its handhelds at cost because of a structural advantage that no other handheld manufacturer does. Unlike ASUS or Lenovo, Valve isn't primarily in the hardware business. As a storefront operator collecting a commission on every purchase made through Steam, Valve can afford to price har
3 reasons I still prefer the Steam Deck OLED over Windows 11 gaming handheldsLinux gaming works without touching the terminal, and that matters more than any benchmark
…I can install Bazzite on a gaming handheld that shipped with Windows and just play my games without ever touching the terminal. And that alone is an achievement for Linux. Linux isn…
You, too, can build this Arduino Nano Tamagotchi with a 3D-printed shell
…Arduino Nano, 3.7V LiPo, 168x64 OLED, screws, multimeter, and 3D printer access. When you're making stuff with teeny-tiny hardware, a Tamagotchi is just one of many things you can…
Your favorite retro games look wrong on modern screens, and only RetroArch's shader presets fix that
…That's because older games weren't designed for today's pixel-perfect panels at all. They were built with our old, blocky CRT displays in mind. Those screens naturally blurred pixels…
I tried to make my Steam Deck a real server, and it’s better at it than it has any right to be
…The Steam Deck isn't supposed to be a server, but it kind of is A gaming handheld that doubles as a Linux box once you look past the UI The Steam…
Linux gaming needs immutable distros more than it needs freedom
…Since your user data is entirely separate from the system packages, you can swap out the system image entirely for a new one, whether that's a newer or older version of…
That old router in your drawer can still fix your worst Wi-Fi problems
…An old router can also become a dedicated VPN router, which is far more useful than it might sound initially. Instead of installing VPN apps individually on your laptop, phone, handheld console…
This browser-based emulator is the easiest way I've found to play retro games
…I also assumed that it probably isn't compatible with very many consoles and handhelds. Well, those assumptions were very wrong. Afterplay not only runs smoothly with nearly all the games I…
I didn’t know I could give my old laptop a second life with an eGPU
…Related 3 ways to turn an old GPU into your own eGPU Give your laptop or PC gaming handheld some extra graphical oomph. Most laptops don’t fall apart all at once…
SteamOS couldn’t revive my old GPU, so I went with this non-Bazzite distro instead
…Eventually, I used good ol’ Pop_OS! in a last-ditch attempt, which saved this project, my old PC, and whatever’s left of my sanity. Related Nvidia stopped supporting my GPU…