The community name has been changed, but the c/steamdeck part cannot be changed without creating a new community.
In the previous discussion on whether to include Steam Machine/Steam Frame/Steam OS, the majority of the responses wanted to include the new hardware, at least for the time being.
Part of this decision is that, right now, the fediverse isn’t really large enough to support multiple hardware-specific Steam OS communities. However, if the community grows or it becomes apparent that the communities need to be separated, we can do that at a later time.
As always, feedback is encouraged and welcome.
Oh neat. I feel like it’s going to be a good choice as long as people remember to use flairs.
There’s not even close to enough content being posted that it’ll get too disorganized
as long as people remember to use flairs.
Lemmy doesn’t have flairs.
You can still put it in brackets which system you’re referring to
Yes, but as the sidebar says, it’s only a non-binding recommendation.
It’s almost as if the top comment suggested people don’t forget that or something.
Which part of non-binding did your eyes skim over? No one needs to do shit to appease your inner Hitler.
Ackshually, your inner Hitler is more snarky, deranged, and dangerous. You should check on its coping mechanisms. Barking at other dogs on the Internet is not helping.
Oh I could flair I guess.
Yes, the frame is the one most likely to not fit. If it’s an issue we’ll deal with it then.
I think the renaming is the right move, in order to not confuse anyone. Congratz “on the upgrade”. And well done asking what the community thinks before doing this. I wasn’t a fan of this, if the name was kept. But this way, it makes perfect sense.
I would argue that having a display name that indicates something different than the true name could lead to confusion for people like me who always disable showing display names (for both users and communities). Though, I am not sure how common it is for people to use this setting like me.
With all that said, in the end, this is probably the best solution for the community. I can’t be too disappointed.
Sexy
Excited to see the real world performance of the steam cube
It may be enough to sell my almost unused ps5
Yeah I pray it has a decent experience for modern games and isnt just an indie game box.
The deck can play ghost of tsushima, while not a recent game, it is definetly the best looking game I have ever played. The steam machine can probably run modern AAA games (without any AC/DRM)
Yeah but thats on a 720p screen not on a 1080p+ TV. Steamdeck can’t even do darksouls 1 on a 1080p display without being sub 60fps.
Steam deck is limited in power and thermals much more than a standalone console. Plus newer hardware.
*Gabecube
It may be enough to sell my almost unused ps5
I was just thinking the same thing. I don’t think I’ve turned it on in a year.
I’m so hyped for the frame.
me too, i have a meta 2 rn and its a pain in my ass every time i wanna play a steam game or install and app that isnt in the app store. i believe the frame will fix this
I guarantee it will.
It may just be my first foray into VR. Stoked. :D
I had an original oculus dev kit and thought it was cool back then. Frame is gonna be an instant buy for me and I’m beyond excited.
I was so excited for Oculus right up until it was bought by Facebook. I didn’t have the funds right away and had been waiting, but I immediately wrote it off the day that news broke.
Same here. I won’t consider any of them and I was going to get an index, but it’s getting pretty old.
Same! I’m planning to get one as close to launch as I can. I’ve been waiting on VR and this 100% seems like what I’ve been looking for. Super excited.
Same! I don’t have enough room or money to justify an Index, and I didn’t want to get anything oculus/meta. Enter Steam Frame 😎
Me too. I prefer to be without VR than picking up a meta headset. So it’s nice to finally be seeing a quality non meta option.
It’s a shame that the c/steamdeck part can’t be renamed, but it’s also normal to encounter limitations from time to time…
Maybe it’s it’s the first community in need of such a change and it’ll be implemented at one point…
I just checked and the name is what comes up when searching, not the c/ designation. So it probably won’t cause much of an issue.
Yeah but it’s a problem for a guy looking for perfection like me😅
I think the comm name and display name not matching will make it a bit confusing for people to post to…
I suggest calling it “Steam Deck and Hardware discussion”
I think it’s fine. The Steam Deck is Steam Hardware so I don’t see what the confusion would be.
The community URL is still !steamdeck@sopuli.xyz (so https://sh.itjust.works/c/steamdeck@sopuli.xyz for you), which won’t be easy for people to remember if they are trying to mention the steam hardware community. At the moment community and user handles can’t be changed on Lemmy (though the display name can be set to anything).
Good stuff. The Frame is going to be pretty major in another tangential way. Right now the best mobile SoC to emulate PC games on Android is the 8 Gen 3. Comparing what ragtag teams in the open source world do with Proton/Fex/box64 in the Android world compared to Valve with the same tech but with full time employees in the primary linux world will be a great comparison for what can conceivably be done with our mobile phones
… You apparently can rename a community.
Huh!
Only the display name.
Well you could say that all hands are on the Deck
could be worse man, all hands could be on the poop deck.
This escalated quickly.
Ah!
I did not know that was how it worked, but that does make sense.
It’s cooler that way.
“Steam Stuff” might have been better. That why not limiting the subject to hardware. I have a feeling that SteamOS is going to become a big talking point soon. Would be a shame to separate the conversations.
Here’s an idea.
Just rename it to " Steam"
Half-life 3 released as a Steam OS exclusive would be another nail in the Windows coffin and steroids for gaming on Linux.
I suspect that if anything is going to become big enough to warrant its own community it would probably be steamOS rather than any of the hardware, after all in a few months the hardware will be out and there won’t be as much to talk about.
But the OS is going to be getting updates I would assume, so there’s always going to be new topics
the newly announced steam machine
Ah! I see Gabe Newell has finally perfected the combustion engine! Brilliant work from a brilliant fellow
Pip pip cheerio and so forth, do send the children into the crushing machines for their next shift my dear fellow, for I shall be too busy doing laudunum and working on my pamphlet about the evils of masturbstion.
Dam you can rename communities? Thats an awesome feature.
That 100% makes sense!
I still get numbness in my extremities when I think about Valve releasing 3 hardware products at once. But yeah splintering the communities for each hardware on such a smol platform makes no sense.
What’s that symbol between “releasing” and “hardware”?
The orgasm button
