Steam Hardware

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A place to discuss and support all Steam Hardware, including Steam Deck, Steam Machine, Steam Frame, and SteamOS in general.

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:
[Deck] - Steam Deck related.
[Machine] - Steam Machine related.
[Frame] - Steam Frame related.
[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.

If your post is only relevant to one hardware device (Deck/Machine/Frame/etc) please specify which one as part of the title or by using a device flair.

These are not enforced, but they are encouraged.

Rules:

Follow the rules of Sopuli
Posts must be related to Steam Hardware or Steam OS in an obvious way.
No piracy, there are other communities for that.
Discussion of emulators are allowed, but no discussion on how to illegally acquire ROMs.
This is a place of civil discussion, no trolling.
Have fun.

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[Meta] This community has been renamed to Steam Hardware to include the newly annouced Steam Machine and Steam Frame (sopuli.xyz)

submitted 2 days ago by Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz to c/steamdeck@sopuli.xyz

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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.

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[–] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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"

[–] zqps@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I think it's fine. The Steam Deck is Steam Hardware so I don't see what the confusion would be.

[–] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 days ago

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).