You don’t get right, by just declaring other opinions as wrong. That’s not how discussions work. So if you don’t have anything valuable to add, then just don’t respond.

You think everything on planet is based on Ai and if it goes down, everything goes down? No. If the Ai bullshit bursts, then companies will have billions to spend on other stuff. Where one part of the economy falls apart, another part will rise. Money doesn’t just disappear (usually). It will be a better world for end consumers and for most companies, including Ai first companies.

The only money they make is out of speculation, not because it makes them more money in production. People will get hired again, off course not everyone at once, but there will be a need.

You forget the used market. If the bubble pops, then many users and companies will start selling RAM and graphics cards. This means the prices will go down in used market, and because less people buy new, the prices for new hardware have to go down too. So building new machines or upgrading will be cheaper than it is right now.

Which parts would get more expensive and how do you come to that conclusion that people need more money for bread that way? I don’t get the logic, what is the argumentation here?

Why would it get worse if the Ai bubble crashes? It would probably get better.

Alright then have a good day.

I wish there was a way to “update” your current config from a downloaded one, by “merging” rather than “replacing”. In example what I think of is, download a single menu configuration, then use “update” to add it to the touch pad in example. The rest of your config would stay intact. Sure if you are not careful, this could mess up things. But having this option is better than not having it. We could have modular configs.

From context your statement could be interpreted as “no there were no 3rd party products, that’s why Steam Deck remains the only one”. Just accept the fact that you can be misunderstood, because the statement was not 100% precise and has wiggle room in understanding. Judging by the downvotes, I am not the only one who did not pick up your original intend.

Again, no need to dig deeper. It is a misunderstanding. Instead complaining others not understanding you, after pointing out exactly what the issue is, you can just add that to your original reply to clarify things. Just a suggestion.

As said, there seems to be a misunderstanding of your original message, because you were not precise. And you never mentioned “3rd party product” in your initial message. I can only reiterate what I said before, we assumed you forgot other devices than the Steam Deck existed. No need to dig deeper, its all just a misunderstanding.

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• Fixed an issue which could lead to data loss when uninstalling, reinstalling, and playing a game without restarting the client in between.

Wow, this is a big deal. I wonder how long this bug was active and how many people were affected by this issue. Such issues are extremely hard to track, if you don’t don’t this particular behavior is the cause. I can imagine a use case to reinstall a game without restarting the client, when trying to solve a problem in example. Its actually common to just reinstall a game.

I guess there is some misunderstanding or confusion here then, as we thought you referred to “there’s only been one” to the Steam Deck. Because there are at least two, if you don’t count ROG Ally X.

SteamOS officially supports ROG Ally X. Installing it on it is like a first class experience, as if you would have purchased a preinstalled device. Legion Go S was sold with SteamOS preinstalled. Steam Deck is not the only device with SteamOS.

There were ROG Ally X and Lenovo Legion Go S, with official SteamOS support.

Is the nix-env packing system preinstalled on Steam Deck?

SteamOS on Steam Deck supports Nix packaging system, besides pacman. pandoc is in the Nix repositories: https://search.nixos.org/packages?channel=25.11&query=pandoc The Nix packaging does not require you to disable read only, as Valve did an exception for this. It should also persist between updates, if I understand this right.

Having said this, i did not ever use the Nix packaging system on Steam Deck (yet). So I cannot assist with advice and have no idea how easy is it to pull off. Here is a random article to set it up once: https://chrastecky.dev/gaming/persistent-packages-on-steam-deck-using-nix The good thing is, once Nix is setup, one can use it for other stuff too.

I did not say it acts as a Xbox controller, but said similar to a Xbox controller.

Just for fun fact and history, the introduction videos for the first Steam Controller and the new one on Valve’s channel (direct YouTube links and the Invidious alternative:

• Introducing the Steam Controller Published on Jun 4, 2015: YouTube or Invidious
• Steam Controller: Official Overview and Quick Start Guide Published on Apr 27, 2026: YouTube or Invidious

It’s been 10 almost 11 years. (Edit: Apparently I can’t do simple math.)

According to Jeff Grubb at his video around the 20 minutes mark We’ve Been Using the Steam Controller! | Giant Bomb Review Discussion the Steam Controller will work as a regular controller without Steam being open. Steam itself is not required to use the controller, it just adds additional non standard features when open, such as customization and gyro. Sounds like without Steam being open it acts similar to a Xbox controller. But for that case there would be no need to pay 100 Dollar / Euro.

I wish though there was a more universal driver and software to that can be installed to run in the background, without Steam. So I agree with your sentiment, but just wanted mention that the controller is still (partially) functional without Steam. My suggestion is to buy the Steam Controller only, if you want to use it with Steam (duh!).

I have to enable that mode each time I take the controller off the dock, right? Also not all games support D-input Sony mode, and controller is seen as a different gamepad depending on the mode. I do not want switch between the modes depending on what I play. I really dislike the idea of multiple modes and is something don’t want to deal with.

I have the Ulmate 2 Wireless (using 2.4ghz), which is different from 2.4ghz named variant, and the Bluetooth variant. I don’t know why they are making it this complicated. Unfortunately there is a huge problem with this, and its not the hardware but from software side. I think it works on Linux, but…

The controller has multiple modes. The Xbox mode is the default one and behaves like a Xbox controller. That means in this mode no gyro is available. To activate gyro, we have to be in Switch mode, which on the other side deactivates analog triggers (I think). And in the Switch mode off course the programs and applications do not see it as an Xbox controller and activate different options and modes (I suppose, because I do not use that mode).

In the end, I do not want to deal with the different modes and use it in Xbox only. That means I don’t use one of the main functionalities I purchased the controller for. Other than that, its basically a better version of my previous Xbox 360 / One S / Series S controllers. I didn’t want bring up this issue, because it was not really relevant to the price point I was making, as this is a software logic / development issue. Besides this one issue, I am actually happy about the controller and use it on Steam and for emulators in general on Linux. Just without gyro…

The cool thing is, that you can assign the buttons any function. I use RetroArch on my Steam Deck and the back buttons have some special functionality, such as open the RetroArch menu itself or enable / disable fast forward or slow motion. That’s good to have, so that all other regular buttons can be used as a regular joypad without changing their functionality.