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I was able to grab a limited edition one almost 2 hours after release time. Was clicking through carts dozens of times and purchase pages about 5 times, what a mess.
I’m dying over this. I preloaded my steam wallet, left a meeting early, and started spamming the buy button the second it released. Couldn’t get the purchase to go through for 30 minutes so I’m panicking the whole time. Turns out 5 hours later it’s still in stock rofl.
From what I could observe of the launch, it looks like they decided to not put all the stock up to grab right away, and added it little by little to spread out the load and give people more time to get a chance to get the limited edition. It actually got “out of stock” multiple times already.
Yeah looks like the case. I’m happy to see them going this route and taking steps to alleviate bots and scalpers buying them all up.
Well shoot, I saw it was out of stock and never checked back. Oh well the colorway wouldn’t really show through the protective case very well anyway
Steam deck has HDR support now, which means HDR support for AMD gpus on linux will improve at accelerated rate going forward. Nvidia users (me included) can can only look with envy I guess.
Is HDR generally unavailable on Linux right now? I primarily game on a Windows desktop but I’m considering trying to make my next build in a few years the equivalent of a “Steam Deck Console” but I’ve been trying to anticipate issues that might make it too limited or frustrating to use.
If you have an AMD GPU, the upcoming KDE Plasma 6 will have experimental HDR support. Or you can use gamescope (a compositor made by valve for steam deck) as your login session which will launch steam in big picture mode (afaik you can’t run other apps except steam in this desktop session).
And they’re gone.
They’re not? It’s still possible to buy them.
It seems like maybe they’re being updated in batches on the store. I’ve seen it show out of stock for a few minutes and then come back in stock.
The Limited Edition model is predictably out of stock, but the other OLED models seem to be available.
FYI they are available again.
i wait for steam deck 2
You’ll probably be waiting a while.
This is Steam Deck 1.5. They’ve said Steam Deck 2 won’t be for another couple years.
Yeah, but it’s not really worth spending the money to upgrade to the OLED
Probably not but this is a good buy for those of us who didn’t buy 1.0 for whatever reason
Don’t wait for the Steam Deck 3.
But what about the Steam Deck 2 version 2?
Or Steam Deck Alyx?
I grabbed a 512 hours after they went up because I totally forgot.
[e]still have limited editions too.
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Let me get this straight. Valve decides to break into a market with a niche product few people have purchased from other vendors in the past (GPD, Aya, etc), says “we want this to be affordable and just work”, releases a 1.0 to test the waters, and you think their initial device should have had OLED?
I can see why you don’t run any companies.
Who you talking to bro edit: somethings funky with my memmy app, its only showing partial comments, weird
I‘ve noticed this a few times already, they probably responded to a now deleted comment and Lemmy (or maybe just Memmy, the app I‘m using) pushes the replies to said comment up a level, making everyone‘s response look weird as the result
That‘s my guess at least
If you’re using Memmy then change your sort option and it should fix it.
Oh yeah, that‘s some weird behavior lol
Thank you!
That’s exactly what happened!
The person he replied to, obviously.
Yeah, it was displaying strangely in my mobile app, checked on the web and it’s normal.
It was led, imo more than good enough for my use, and I don’t have to worry about burn in.
The original uses LCD, not LED.
Ah thanks, I’ll try to remember this going forward.
Alas I’ve already forgotten, old man brain syndrome. Crystal display not diode.
Do you worry about burn in on your phone? Your phone probably has way more static elements that are constantly on than the Steam Deck will.
I used my last phone for 4 years and thousands of hours and could only barely tell there was some burn in if I used a white image at max brightness and looked at the status bar. Burn in isn’t really a problem with modern OLEDs.
No i don’t, because my phone doesn’t have an OLED screen. Easy fix.
It was a poor quality lcd panel and burn in hasn’t been an issue on oleds for years now ¯_(ツ)_/¯
About a dozen OLED devices in my household. Never seen burn in.
I still don’t get the fuss about OLED. As someone who prefers relatively low brightness and contrast settings on most displays that are not used in the summer sun, I’ve never felt like decent non-OLED panels were lacking for me.
