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Remember kids (thelemmy.club)
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cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/shit/p/1154568/remember-kids

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[–] 17 points 4 months ago (10 children)

I went from buying so much Nintendo stuff to 100% piracy after my third Switch broke, I lost all my saves because they force it on internal memory and encrypt that then sue the guy who wrote code to let you back it up locally, and then I found out most of my games played better on Yuzu (and now Eden) than they did on the actual hardware.

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  • [–] 0 points 4 months ago (8 children)

    If only there were portable devices it could run on. Even if they were way more expensive than the Switch since not being subsidized by the games. The existing options for portable gaming all suck. I like having the Switch in bed and on planes.

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago (6 children)

    Ummm... Steam Deck.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago (5 children)

    Only if you're lucky enough to get one... Also, when I tried a friend's it felt underpowered, especially running stuff outside of Steam. Not sure if they ever fixed the issues running non-Steam games, though, since that was a few years ago.

    I had hoped a new version would come out to improve it and maybe even make enough of them to be available this time 😂. But sounds like it's still several years out, if ever. I've lost my trust in Valve actually delivering things they promise. Burned too many times.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago (4 children)

    ASUS ROG Ally X, put Linux on it, and you get by all the horrible Windows bloat that makes it crap. It's great hardware, just the "X-Box" branding and Microslop OS that's a problem.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago (3 children)

    I've heard that it's really unstable, even if it runs more efficiently with Linux. Custom hardware like that often needs customized drivers to work right. Maybe one day someone will get it working well, though.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago (2 children)

    Bazzite has an image specifically for it, and I'm running stock Debian Trixie on my ROG Flow tablet with no issues, don;t own the Ally X yet but I'm definitely looking it it over the Ally or any other as I want to run my own install not a Valve image and the Ally X uses a normal 2280 M.2 rather than the 2230 (which maxes at 2TB) my current ROG Flow or the Steam Deck does.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago (1 child)

    Yeah I read an article from a few months ago related to putting Bazzite on it (the 2025 version anyway), and the main complaint was the stability as well as minor complaints about the lack of support for some features and having to manually configure some buttons requiring some technical knowledge. It did mention that once it was mostly working it was significantly faster. But not usable as a gaming device quite yet. Not sure how much improvement has happened, but I expect that it will take quite a while to work out the kinks since it's partly proprietary hardware not really designed for alternate OSes.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago

    Ah, I tend to soo all the configuring myself, half my stuff on the tablet I compiled from source.

    Bazzite looked like good project, not for me as I loathe immutable distros, but I did run it via emulation and found the setup to be very straightforward and consoley. Turned me off, completely, but their attempt to simplify things and even using an immutable so it's a lot harder to irrevocably break anything was a step in the right direction for making things "simple" for the people I can;t get to verify their chat fingerprint in Gajim.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

    The existing options for portable gaming all suck

    I have a GPD Win Max 2. 64GB of RAM, Ryzen 7, RDNA3(.5) GPU...it's a beast. Fits in my jacket pocket and can run Cyberpunk with raytracing.

    It's expensive as hell, but it's a really good handheld machine. They even mention emulation on their own site and put up some benchmarks and I can confirm it - I regularly play games with rpcs3 and pcsx2 at a stable 4K60fps.

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