{"id":10878,"date":"2022-12-31T13:08:19","date_gmt":"2022-12-31T18:08:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/games\/?p=10878"},"modified":"2022-12-31T20:12:09","modified_gmt":"2023-01-01T01:12:09","slug":"another-buyers-remorse-but-with-the-steam-deck-except-my-feelings-are-mixed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/games\/2022\/12\/31\/another-buyers-remorse-but-with-the-steam-deck-except-my-feelings-are-mixed\/","title":{"rendered":"Another &#8216;buyer&#8217;s remorse&#8217;, but with the Steam Deck. Except my feelings are mixed."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ah, the eve of New Years. A time for everyone to look back at what they&#8217;ve done this year and what they plan to do in the new one.<br \/>\nBut me? I want to punch someone. Anyone. Even myself to take out the aggression I feel against this $600 Steam Deck I got, that I thought would solve so many of our issues. But the proof is right there in black and Linus. And it&#8217;s not anyone&#8217;s fault but my own, that I didn&#8217;t do the damn research before I bought it.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m pissed at myself, knowing the ONLY FUCKING WAY I&#8217;ll be able to watch videos in LS Media is through the &#8216;forced&#8217; ways of either sitting infront of a monitor, or wear a heat-<br \/>\ntreated plastic brick (aka VR headset) over my face. One of the main reasons I wanted the deck, was so I wouldn&#8217;t have to do this! And it pisses me off THIS ONE FUCKING<br \/>\nWORLD won&#8217;t let me do what the fuck I want!! And noone has an answer as to why the videos fail to load. THAT is what infuriates me, because noone has a Steam Deck. So noone can help me.<br \/>\nThing is, if the videos worked anything like the &#8216;Yet Another Movie Theater&#8217; world (which for some reason the videos <em>do<\/em> work with the deck), the audio would be so out of sync with the video as my wifi has a much higher ping compared to my main connection.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;What do you mean, you&#8217;re stuck?! I thought you were going to dual boot your deck which would solve your issue!&#8221;<\/em> you&#8217;re likely asking me, except this has been shut down by one. single. video.<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uNt_ReLwk40\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n<em>&#8220;But their thumbnail shows Windows 11, not 10. Of course it&#8217;s going to run like shit. 10&#8217;s much better.&#8221;<\/em> That&#8217;s what I thought too, but the video clearly goes over 10 (due to the taskbar being on the left).<br \/>\nWhile the framerate isn&#8217;t what would bother me (as LS Media isn&#8217;t that demanding of a world).. the almost constant loss of control definitely world.<br \/>\nThough the video <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">is<\/span> 9 months old. Surely they&#8217;ve fixed a lot of issues since then, right? <strong>No.<\/strong> Infact I got &#8216;a sample&#8217; of these issues when I very recently discovered the deck&#8217;s built<br \/>\nin Desktop Mode. And my gosh does it suck. Discovered I could play VRChat through<br \/>\nit (which made me hope I could actually watch the damn movies through it), but I couldn&#8217;t move. All I could do was turn, and jump. Couldn&#8217;t even pull up the menu.<br \/>\nMy guess is the fact the game is already fully compatible with the deck, the controls aren&#8217;t available outside of its &#8216;Gaming Mode&#8217;.<br \/>\nAnd also my hope was pretty much flawed yet again, as the deck is <em>still<\/em> using Linux even<br \/>\nthrough Desktop Mode.<\/p>\n<p>Yet on the other hand, I also question myself of why am I so damn obsessed over getting one world to fully work that I&#8217;m willing to risk turning a $600 device into a fancy paperweight&#8230; if something goes wrong (and doing a factory reset won&#8217;t de-brick it).<br \/>\nThe Desktop Mode alone, if set up correctly, I believe can be used to help my mother out anyway with her bills and whatever else she needs, because it has a version of Firefox.<br \/>\nSo I don&#8217;t really need to do this.<br \/>\nI just.. ugh. It doesn&#8217;t feel fair. I wish there was another alternative that I can still watch these movies but without the whole dual booting thing, because I love the deck as it is. The fact it can act like a portable PC at half the cost, and at 60FPS.<br \/>\n&#8230;It just sucks the fact Valve had to use Linux. But I do understand why as it&#8217;s good for the hardware inside. Plus games on Linux just run faster. It&#8217;s a shame whatever server or servers LS Media is using, doesn&#8217;t work correctly in Linux. ..And it&#8217;s something I&#8217;m just going to have to deal with. \ud83d\ude1e<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s dumb to go through all of that hell.. just to make one single world work right. And I was really better off just getting a laptop. Then again, finding a good gaming laptop for the same price of the $300 Steam Deck is next to impossible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ah, the eve of New Years. A time for everyone to look back at what they&#8217;ve done this year and what they plan to do in the new one. But me? I want to punch someone. Anyone. Even myself to &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/games\/2022\/12\/31\/another-buyers-remorse-but-with-the-steam-deck-except-my-feelings-are-mixed\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-steam-deck"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10878"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10878\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10879,"href":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10878\/revisions\/10879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}