They don’t sell it anymore, but I use this super cheap tablet one, which only cost me $6.88.

It’s about the exact same length as the deck, and it has a flip out tablet stand that perfectly supports the steam deck.

I’m sure it’s not as nice as a lot of the keyboards mentioned in this thread, but it’s been perfect for me.

Sounds really weird. Do you have any deck plugins installed? Does it happen when browsing steamOS menus/desktop mode?

I wonder if it could just be an issue with the default controller with joystick trackpad control config, that might have it affect most of your games. Might try specifically using a different config in some games and see if that changes anything.

I had some issues with this when it first came out, but I had previously capped the max charge through power tools. I figured the issues might have been from the two settings interfering with each other.

That’s fantastic, thanks for sharing

The tech industry is all about growth. For better or worse facebook has basically grown to it’s max size, and it’s unrealistic to expect any significant growth there. Zuck is trying to sell investors and shareholders on the idea that Meta is going to be at the center of the next massive thing. Some years ago he thought it was going to be VR, and it’s completely unsurprising that he now thinks it’s going to be AI (unsurprising because every other tech company thinks the same thing).

It sounds like back paddles will be treated as separate inputs, I found where some people got to try out beta firmware for some of the 8bitdo controllers some months back, and that was specifically mentioned as some of the new functionality.

That’s usually ok if you’re not using fsr, but for the deck I personally recommend capping the external display resolution at 1080p.

Recent updates have caused some crashes actually when docking to my TV, but I’m on beta OS updates and have a lot of deck plugins, so it might not be affecting other people.

Other than that docked play is pretty good in my experience. There’s a major performance hit if you have upscaling set to use fsr though, especially on 4k monitors.

It’s not entirely clear from the image which is which, but apparently the LMABF8 is the one on the right, and the EZS8L is on the left.

Personally I think the EZS8L looks classier than the LMABF8

Also both of them are refrigerated to 50°F. The LMABF8’s main two advantages are that it typically has a water filter, and it has mechanical push bars meaning that it will usually work even when the power is out. The EZS8L is usually not filtered and has an electronic push bar.

I only use controllers when docked personally

On the deck I use them all the time. For FPS games I frequently bind them to be ABXY, lets you jump/reload/etc without having to take your thumb off of the joystick. Absolutely mandatory for games like Doom Eternal and Deep Rock in my opinion.

In games with heavy dpad use for cycling abilities/items (like Elden Ring) I usually use them for that. Being able to cycle spells or potions while running is very necessary sometimes. You can also use them in combination with mode shift settings, things like while I hold R4 down it will temporarily turn my ABXY into a second DPAD.

You can use them for steamOS features, stuff like opening keyboard or toggling zoom for games with small text.

A lot of people dislike clicking thumbsticks, so it’s common for people to use them for that. L4 to toggle sprint instead of L3 is very popular for example. Also nice for when L3/R3 do something you don’t want to trigger accidentally during combat (Ys 8 and 9 toggle a minimap overlay with L3, which is very distracting during combat. So I’ve disabled L3 on the thumbstick and instead have L4 open the minimap overlay).

In any PC game with more inputs it can be great for common button presses that didn’t make the cut onto the standard controller. Things like map/journal shortcuts, quick save, etc. Setting left trackpad to a touch menu is also great for this.

Overall they’re pretty great, I don’t use them in every game, but there are a lot of games I refuse to play on a standard controller without them.

It lists mac and linux support on it’s homepage.

They also provide docker support for running it on non-supported linux distros. Pinging @Overspark@feddit.nl since they were the ones who recommended Apollo to begin with.

I need to play it still, I have it in my library from some bundle, but there’s always been something more pressing that I wanted to play. It doesn’t look like the kind of game I normally would enjoy, but I’ve heard so many good things about it that I know I need to try it sooner or later.

That’s human nature. People are complicated, and everyone has negative and positive aspects to them (granted some have mostly negative or mostly positive traits). It’s a lot easier to have a black and white opinion on people, either you really like someone or you really don’t like someone. When dealing with thousands of famous people that you don’t know, simplifying your opinion on them to a black and white opinion is a shortcut we take to keep from getting overwhelmed.

I’m wondering if that’s something like Obsidian

Linux has had a major increase in usership lately if I recall right, and supposedly windows has lost a major number of users (although mostly people dropping desktops for just phones).

No idea if PewDiePie contributed or not.

I hope so, I know I’ve run into issues before with streaming from a server with no available monitors, so I’m hoping this will fix that.

I’m mostly playing Ys 9 Monstrum Nox, and it’s been a fun time. Also been playing some Mindustry with friends, although I suspect I’ll want to make some tweaks to the control scheme before I play too much longer.

Yeah, I don’t think it quite applies here since all that was needed was a reboot.