Steam deck has HDR support now, which means HDR support for AMD gpus on linux will improve at accelerated rate going forward. Nvidia users (me included) can can only look with envy I guess.
Steam Deck OLED is now available
Submitted 11 months ago by Goronmon@lemmy.world to games@lemmy.world
https://store.steampowered.com/steamdeck
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redcalcium@lemmy.institute 11 months ago
Toribor@corndog.social 11 months ago
Is HDR generally unavailable on Linux right now? I primarily game on a Windows desktop but I’m considering trying to make my next build in a few years the equivalent of a “Steam Deck Console” but I’ve been trying to anticipate issues that might make it too limited or frustrating to use.
redcalcium@lemmy.institute 11 months ago
If you have an AMD GPU, the upcoming KDE Plasma 6 will have experimental HDR support. Or you can use gamescope (a compositor made by valve for steam deck) as your login session which will launch steam in big picture mode (afaik you can’t run other apps except steam in this desktop session).
keyez@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I was able to grab a limited edition one almost 2 hours after release time. Was clicking through carts dozens of times and purchase pages about 5 times, what a mess.
Spacecraft@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I’m dying over this. I preloaded my steam wallet, left a meeting early, and started spamming the buy button the second it released. Couldn’t get the purchase to go through for 30 minutes so I’m panicking the whole time. Turns out 5 hours later it’s still in stock rofl.
Dremor@lemmy.world 11 months ago
From what I could observe of the launch, it looks like they decided to not put all the stock up to grab right away, and added it little by little to spread out the load and give people more time to get a chance to get the limited edition. It actually got “out of stock” multiple times already.
Donjuanme@lemmy.world 11 months ago
And they’re gone.
SomethingBurger@jlai.lu 11 months ago
They’re not? It’s still possible to buy them.
Spacecraft@lemmy.world 11 months ago
It seems like maybe they’re being updated in batches on the store. I’ve seen it show out of stock for a few minutes and then come back in stock.
SatyrSack@lemmy.one 11 months ago
The Limited Edition model is predictably out of stock, but the other OLED models seem to be available.
Ahmmeeeeeeeeed@lemmy.world 11 months ago
i wait for steam deck 2
Goronmon@lemmy.world 11 months ago
You’ll probably be waiting a while.
Deceptichum@kbin.social 11 months ago
Don’t wait for the Steam Deck 3.
Zorque@kbin.social 11 months ago
But what about the Steam Deck 2 version 2?
Chainweasel@lemmy.world 11 months ago
[deleted]Donjuanme@lemmy.world 11 months ago
It was led, imo more than good enough for my use, and I don’t have to worry about burn in.
Melonpoly@lemmy.world 11 months ago
It was a poor quality lcd panel and burn in hasn’t been an issue on oleds for years now ¯_(ツ)_/¯
SuperIce@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Do you worry about burn in on your phone? Your phone probably has way more static elements that are constantly on than the Steam Deck will.
I used my last phone for 4 years and thousands of hours and could only barely tell there was some burn in if I used a white image at max brightness and looked at the status bar. Burn in isn’t really a problem with modern OLEDs.
ImFresh3x@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Dozens of OLED devices in my household. Never seen burn in.
Schmuppes@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I still don’t get the fuss about OLED. As someone who prefers relatively low brightness and contrast settings on most displays that are not used in the summer sun, I’ve never felt like decent non-OLED panels were lacking for me.
gnuplusmatt@startrek.website 11 months ago
sighs heavily in Australian
MrShelbs@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
Joins the heavy sigh in Canadian