… The different variants of Linux that make up March's 5% are split pretty evenly, with Arch Linux - which the Steam Deck's SteamOS is based on - leading the way at 0.34%, while Linux Mint 22.3 and Ubuntu Core 24 fill out the podium positions. …
… Vulkan SC SDK Released For Safety-Critical Graphics / Compute VKD3D-Proton 3.0.1 Brings More Improvements For Direct3D 12 On Vulkan Vulkan 1.4.350 Released With Three New Extensions Vulkan 1.4.349 Released With Data Graph Optical Flow Extension Vulkan 1.4.348 Ships Four New Extensions - Including O…
… Linux Support Coming For The ASUS ROG RAIKIRI II: A $160 High-End Gaming Controller Proton 11.0 Beta 2 Updates VKD3D-Proton D7VK v1.8 Continues Improving Legacy Direct3D Atop The Vulkan API Godot 4.7 Reaches Beta With HDR Output, Ray-Tracing Improvements & Editor Enhancements Godot 4.7 Will Finally…
… Battery usage does tend towards the harsh side, mind. With display brightness and speaker volume both at 50%, Pragmata slurped a fully charged LCD Steam Deck to empty in 1h 20m. …
… When it comes to non-gaming usage, SteamOS isn't built with this in mind whatsoever. Valve are pretty clear about this in the way they describe SteamOS. …
… PCIe 8.0 Spec Draft 0.5 Released For 1TB/s Bi-Directional x16 Bandwidth OpenCL 3.1 Released To Bolster AI & HPC Workloads CPPC v4 Support Being Worked On NVIDIA For The Linux ACPI Driver Arm & Linaro Launch New "CoreCollective" Consortium - With Backing From AMD & Others Linux Begins Seeing Early P…
… No Steam Deck, no Steam Controller Yang said that many design decisions behind the Steam Controller were essentially "solved" by the Steam Deck. …
… Valve leverages its custom Linux OS for the Steam Deck to bridge the gap, ensuring both the consistency of consoles and the customizability of PC gaming, so it's a solid benchmark for Microsoft to have, with the added bonus of benefiting Windows 11 users, not just Xbox gamers. …
… The redesigned Steam Controller largely reuses the layout of the ever-popular Steam Deck, and controller usage on Steam has tripled since 2018, so the market is bigger now. …
… Related I turned a Steam Deck into my living room home lab terminal It went so much better than you'd expect. …
