A place to discuss and support all things Steam Deck.
Replacement for r/steamdeck_linux.
As Lemmy doesn't have flairs yet, you can use these prefixes to indicate what type of post you have made, eg:
[Flair] My post title
The following is a list of suggested flairs:
[Discussion] - General discussion.
[Help] - A request for help or support.
[News] - News about the deck.
[PSA] - Sharing important information.
[Game] - News / info about a game on the deck.
[Update] - An update to a previous post.
[Meta] - Discussion about this community.
Some more Steam Deck specific flairs:
[Boot Screen] - Custom boot screens/videos.
[Selling] - If you are selling your deck.
These are not enforced, but they are encouraged.
Rules:
For anyone who is not aware, Waydroid is not just an emulator, it makes Android apps seamlessly integrated into the system like local applications (obviously with limitations and only to a certain degree!).
I hope so. I really want Valve to allow Android games on to their store and allow installation from it etc. I'd trust Valve way more than Google, thus I'd be way more inclined to buy Android games.
I see this as a win because if I could ever get Waydroid functioning properly, especially on a Steam Deck, I could more comfortably play the pvz2 mods I wanna play but can't because android is too locked down for me to be able to move files where they need to go.
Just recently got it working with minimal effort but only cause fedora has it packaged in the official repos
I can get it running on my laptop running a Debian based distro but for whatever reason I was having trouble with the whole thing where you have to use ADB to get the device code to register your device with go*gle services. Otherwise it works just fine.
It's a good thing, even though I don't think games on Android are great.
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Oh, I suddenly realized that maybe the Steam store will support and distribute Android games in a few years.
That’s something only Valve can definitely do successfully.
A standalone VR headset from Valve has been rumoured for a while, maybe this for getting games targeted at Facebook's Quest to run.
There are lots of high end android games that this would make available, and we could also benefit from apps like Netflix/etc.
I can’t imagine wanting to play a mobile game on Steam Deck… but having access to other native apps sure sounds like a win. Didn’t consider that.
On Bazzite I believe people use Firefox installed as Android app, so they can simply switch to it for game guides etc, while playing a game, in GameScope/Big Screen/GameMode™
I'm too lazy to test, because I just run it as my daily driver on my Desktop.
But you can do the same with a normal desktop Firefox, none of those things prevent you from switching windows to check things. There must be some other reason why it's run as an Android app.
The android app has native touch support
so does the linux version if you enable the environment variable
if you enable the environment variable
Simple to do but not very known by people
Probably because it's got a better touch interface than desktop
note: I've never tried desktop Firefox in a touchscreen device
Android games on Steam Deck.