Damn. I cannot play Rocket League without my DS3. Somehow any other controller feels horrible in that game. Luckily I’m used to wired and don’t play RL too often anyway, but it’s still confronting to see something like that reach EOL (sort of).
With that said, you may just he right. You could try booting Fedora from a USB and trying from there. Being that you would be running it from a USB drive, if you have jobissues there, its most likely your suspicions are spot on.
I’ve noticed all my streaming videos are stuttering since the last NVIDIA driver, I would use the open source drivers, they work much better for almost everything…
I've been using a Steam Deck as my only PC for almost a year now, for work (graphics design, web dev, illustration, some Blender) as well as play ofc. Aside from my suboptimal dock options (Valve doesn't sell any hardware in my market) It's been a very smooth experience, and I've not even had to disable immutability at any point.
I would like to support the point that Game Mode is one of the most important features the Deck has, and losing out on it by installing Ubuntu feels like a loss.
But I would also like to note that Steam OS now has Distrobox built in: for most use-cases you can just set up all the software you need inside an Ubuntu container without much hassle.
Ultimately though, the form factor is the main difference. If I only needed to keep it docked all the time a Deck would not make much sense. But I love shifting to my bed after a workday and playing anything and everything I would have needed to sit at a desk to do before!
The Deck would be fine for what you want, but the Beelink more capable. The Deck would be more portable and therefore useful in that capacity, but it’s all subjective. If you don’t care about the screen, get a refurbished first-gen for a discount, or take your chances and find a used one on eBay. I’ve okay things about the ROG, but SteamOS makes Deck a no-brainer in my mind.
The Steam Deck only has a single USB-C port on it, so you would need the dock for USB-A ports. The good news is that the existing USB-C port is on the top of the Deck and the dock connects via a short cable. You can use the dock as a stand but it’s not required.
This is a kinda off-topic recommendation, but might I suggest you try out KDE Plasma 6 in a KDE Neon live environment and test out the improved VRR and such; reporting any bugs you may find.
It’d be very helpful to making sure KDE Plasma 6 is as stable as possible on launch for everyone.
Not a lot of testers have a VRR monitor to test, and various hardware configuration can yield weird bugs not fond on other systems.
Thanks.
It should do the job just fine. I have the TUF from 2023 and it took a while for the keyboard drivers to reach the kernel, but yours should be there on any recent distro.
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