That coaster is giving me anxiety
Steam Hardware
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.
I needed something with a lot of surface area so my drink didn't spill on my bed, and hey, it works.
Plus it's asset tagged so likely covered by a generous warranty or replaced by the business if it goes poorly enough.
How did you get discord installed? Last time I tried, it was buggy and crashed. But that was over a year ago I think.
Should be able to just install the flatpak from the desktop mode app store and then add it as a game in your steam library.
Yeah, that's what I did. Seems to be working.
Flatpak is official from discord now. Should be in the KDE discovery store in desktop mode. It shouldn't crash but discord isn't supported very well on Linux.
It isn't supported very well but I use it on my Linux laptop often and it works well. The major issues are scaling support because it uses an old version of Electron and screen sharing probably also an issue with Wayland/Electron. But the Steam Deck doesn't use Wayland so it shouldn't be an issue
But the Steam Deck doesn’t use Wayland so it shouldn’t be an issue
Desktop mode doesn't yet, game mode does.
Oh neat, I didn't realize game mode uses Wayland.
Is there an Discord overlay for Steam Deck?
Yeah, I haven't used it, but I found a third party plugin thing. That's about all I know about it.
I'll have to get that discord overlay thing working at some point.
Sadly the Discord overlay is only available on Windows and Android, not SteamOS/Linux or macOS.
There's a Seperate plugin thing I found specifically for SteamDeck. That's all I know about it.