Fubarberry
Steam Hardware...Where you gonna insert the CDs? Your mouth? 🤔
"I don't like disks being crammed into me! Unless they're Oreos... But only in the mouth!"
Now of only the Steam Frame worked with the Stream Machine or the Steam Controller...
It has since launch?
Steam machine support was an issue with review units that was fixed before launch.
Steam controller works just fine if you pair via bluetooth
It doesn't work as a VR controller, despite having the necessary hardware.
What do you mean? Does it have IR emitters to track while swinging it around?
Yes
Cool that they can make changes that fast. 👍
I mean, it's the linux kernel.
They started out by disabling all the stuff they don't need. and enabling some modules back in again is literally just a line of config
https://github.com/evlaV/deckard-linux-no-oopsies/commit/b68e4a18b07b527336e8e42db5381d84f82daab0
Yea... But at the same time, today, it's impressive theh don't put a price tag on everything... Want cd rom support? Here's a 100$ subscription
Kind of under sells how much work they've done to the Linux kernel themselves when you say it like that.
"deckard-linux-no-oopsies" is a fun name.
Absolutely no problem in theory. But when it's a major company, such minor issues often have to be decided by a board. Reports need to be written, and there are procedures that more often than not can take months, just to be sure hasty decisions aren't made, and that no single person can be held responsible if something goes wrong.
Everybody needs to have their back clear.
Lol, no. Not at any company. If the board at any major company hears the words "CDROM kernel module" something as gone horrifically wrong.
Don't get me wrong, it's super cool that valve can make changes as fast as they do. But there's no way that kind of decision makes to to the board.
-- Someone who made kernel param changes at a subsidiary of Samsung.
Until you realize that valve engineering team has a mostly flat structure. So even their time to ship can be cut down because there's not a lot of middle manager
Which only confirms my original comment. It's cool they can make it so fast, having a flat structure is the reason.
But you would be very unlikely to see something similar from Microsoft or Apple.
That's really cool but I'm trying to imagine a practical use for this lol
OOP wanted to watch some movies on the go which they had on disc. And install an old game.
Though another blocker was that the Frame's USB port didn't deliver (enough?) power for the drive. So even with the general support it doesn't solve their specific problem.
Just need a dock/hub you can plug power into.
Off topic but how is Linux on the Steam Frame currently? I remmeber hearing it wasn't working on release day
Assuming you mean streaming from Linux, I had issues with it running Steam as a Flatpak (controllers not behaving correctly, streaming not even starting, dongle not pairing, etc).
Now I switched to a standard, non-sandboxed Steam install and everything seems to work fine. You can tell there's a bit of jank under the hood -- like they made it work despite Linux rather than thanks to it -- but it does work nicely overall.
Steam Frame is a mini PC that runs SteamOS which is based on Arch (btw). You can run some light games directly on the headset itself.
If you mean streaming from a Linux PC to the headset then I have almost no issues with it. There's a few stuttering issues likely caused by my poor WiFi since placing the dongle within arm's reach will make everything butter smooth. I run Fedora so kernel is almost bleeding edge. That might have something to so with it.
When streaming from a Linux PC, does it have full desktop mode? Would it be useable for something like programming?
Not really but check out Frametop
I think it only works for programming if you've got Kavinsky's music playing at the same time.
Specifically "Testarossa Autodrive"
