And their gamepads for Xbox were pretty good too. Past tense, because those of the Xbox Series X suck (including the “Elite”).

and adding it to Game Mode

Wait, waaaaaat? Lutris can do that? Okay, time to download it on my Steam Deck, like, right now. (Okay, not actually right now, I am at work, but today in the evening.)

Just to add this: Star Control 2 is not only free (as in free beer), it is free (as in free speech). The open source project is hosted on SourceForge (yes, that still exists), and has a website that is worth checking out: https://sc2.sf.net/

Anything 2D… Or emulators for old (2D) consoles, or DosBOX…

I already asked over at the GoL forums, but I think it’s worth repeating: Does anyone know where one might find a legal download of this game? https://www.mobygames.com/game/3132/rally-championship-international-off-road-racing/

It seems GoG does not have it, and I would really like to play it again - for nostalgia reasons.

You can also use Steam as a launcher. In Desktop Mode there is a menu entry “Add a Non-Steam game to my Steam Library”. For Windows games, you can just browse to their .exe file. After adding it to the library, you can open the Library Entry’s Properties page, and choose Proton as compatibility tool.

That way you get your non-Steam games in your Gaming Mode launcher.

To get nicer images, there’s a website named https://www.steamgriddb.com/ that also has a small Flatpak tool that you can use in Desktop Mode to set icons/banners for your Non-Steam games.

The Orange Pi Neo will ship with a custom version of Manjaro, and is imho the only Steam Deck competitor that is even worth considering.

Just take an Xbox 360 gamepad, and an Xbox Series gamepad in your hands and compare them. Press the buttons, move the sticks, try the triggers.

One feels like quality. The other feels like <beep> - especially the D-Pad.

Stay away from any Xbox Series X/S gamepads. They are cheaply made trash.

I bought the standard version of it for my Deck, expecting it to be somewhat comparable to my Xbox 360 gamepad (which I really like, but which does not have Bluetooth), but nope, it is so much worse…

A friend bought the Elite version, and he also agrees that those gamepads are utter garbage.

When I got my Steam Deck the official dock did not exist yet, so I went for a relatively cheap USB hub with power delivery and display port alt mode. I ended up buying this one, and haven’t regretted it since: https://www.dlink.com/de/de/products/dub-m420-4-in-1-usb-c-hub-with-hdmi-and-power-delivery

If you are using systemd, there’s a tool called coredumpctl.

I played without mods, and had the same issue.

I’m pretty sure it’s a bug in the native LInux version of Pathfinder: Kingmaker. The Linux build works fine, as long as you play with mouse/keyboard, but with gamepad input the kingdom management screen doesn’t work at all…

What I did in order to play it on the Deck was to tell Steam to use the Windows version via Proton instead. (Properties -> Compatibility -> Force a specific compatibility tool -> Proton (I don’t remember which version I used).

Who knew electing fascists would lead to fundamental freedoms being removed?

FIFY

Yes, it’s pretty neat. Though I must confess that I stopped playing at some point and rather continued playing Hades instead.

Ubuntu was pretty good, until 2010 or so. People who still recommend it probably haven’t used it in the last 10 years.

“PPA” is Ubuntu’s branding for third party repositories. So, of course you will have a hard time adding a Ubuntu-specific third-party repository to anything that isn’t the Ubuntu version it’s made for…

Debian of course supports third party repos, just like Ubuntu. On Debian they just aren’t called “PPA”.

For more information on how to add third party repos to Debian (or Ubuntu, if you don’t use Canonical’s weird tooling), check out the Debian Wiki page on UseThirdParty or SourcesList. There’s also an (incomplete) list of third party repositories on the wiki: Unofficial. And just like with PPAs, anyone can host a Debian repo.

Some cool SD verified games nobody mentioned yet:

• Hades
• Cult of the Lamb
• Potion Craft (really great gamepad support)
• Against the Storm (though the controls take a while to get used to)
• Griftlands
• Terraformers

There’s another thing that might be relevant: The Game Mode UI on the Steam Deck doesn’t support creation of ad-hoc wireless networks (afaik). I think (but never tried it) that it’s possible in Desktop Mode though.