Games @lemmy.world Goronmon @lemmy.world 1 yr. ago

Steam Deck OLED is now available

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- Joins the heavy sigh in Canadian
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.
- 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.
  
  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).
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.
- 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.
  
  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.
And they're gone.
- They're not? It's still possible to buy them.
  
  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.
- The Limited Edition model is predictably out of stock, but the other OLED models seem to be available.
  
  FYI they are available again.
i wait for steam deck 2
- You'll probably be waiting a while.
- This is Steam Deck 1.5. They've said Steam Deck 2 won't be for another couple years.
  
  Yeah, but it's not really worth spending the money to upgrade to the OLED
- Don’t wait for the Steam Deck 3.
  
  But what about the Steam Deck 2 version 2?
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Wait, it wasn't OLED before? That's like selling a Tube TV today.
- Let me get this straight. Valve decides to break into a market with a niche product few people have purchased from other vendors in the past (GPD, Aya, etc), says "we want this to be affordable and just work", releases a 1.0 to test the waters, and you think their initial device should have had OLED?
  
  I can see why you don't run any companies.
  
  Who you talking to bro edit: somethings funky with my memmy app, its only showing partial comments, weird
- It was led, imo more than good enough for my use, and I don't have to worry about burn in.
  
  The original uses LCD, not LED.
  
  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.
  
  About a dozen OLED devices in my household. Never seen burn in.
  
  It was a poor quality lcd panel and burn in hasn't been an issue on oleds for years now ¯_(ツ)_/¯
- 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.

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