Just a note: DaVinci Resolve works incredibly well on the Steamdeck in desktop mode. I’ve managed to make a couple of short edits on it without any major issues!
@@wikwayer 4:3 works quite well for desktop and gaming mode. Since you can freely set resolutions on games, it's possible to run basically anything at any resolution and in gaming mode, it scales very well. I actually have jumped around with Halo MCC on an old CRT and a modern LCD panel and had basically no issues.
As a everyday Linux user, seeing this video does put a smile on my face. I also do occasional videos on a different channel, and KdenLive is my prefered Video editor of choice. Kden isn't perfect, but a lot of love and care has been poured into it and it is much better than it used to be. I'm glad to see people talking about (and using!) the Steam Deck as a PC, as most only just mention it passively. Edit: also when you mentioned your Elgato cam-link I was worried it wouldn't work, I have an Elgato HD60s (not the plus) and it does not work on Linux for me at all. Glad to see other Elgato hardware working at-least.
Same as a Linux user I'm surprised that his camera and microphone setup worked and glad it did. Cuz those types of specific hardware stuff usually only have software available on windows. It's great that people are easing into Linux in a natural way.
I went from a docked Surface Book running Windows 11 to a docked Steam Deck as my only PC so I'm all in and I love it. This is an absolute joy to use as a desktop PC.
Coming from a old HP laptop that only ever ran one game to my docked deck setup I’m loving it as a Pc. I’m totally new to Linux but having fun learning new things and seeing people doing things like this make me happy too!
Just a note: it's not a vent it's covering a bit on the back, it's the air intake that sucks air in and doesn't impair the ability at all (I've used it for months on end without problems). Additionally, you don't need desktop mode to change game resolution, it's available in Gaming Mode in the properties - you can select a forced resolution there.
Err, in non-technical speech, an air intake is a type of vent. Covering part of it won't matter if you're not doing anything that makes the machine run hot enough to really need that extra airflow, but if you Are, then having the vent partially blocked forces the fan to work harder to compensate. Which means that it draws more power, wears out quicker, and is louder. Now, the power draw would only really be important when undocked (and thus running on the battery), at which point, of course, one assumes the intake would not be obstructed. Of course, put enough demand on the thing and the hardware starts throtteling to bring its temperature back down. Obstructing the intake lowers the point at which it hits that limit. Perhaps not by much, but it does.
I have left Windows in an experiment when I first heard of the Steam Deck, and now haven't booted Windows for over 6 months and am completely fluent with Linux. It took me a month some time to get used to, but now I don't see any reason to go back. You're very good with tech Yong that you figured all these out and put up a demo so quickly!
I was glad to finally dip my toes into Linux with the Deck and love the openness of it, but sadly, Windows will still be my main desktop driver since quite a few programs don't work on Linux, even with various compatibility methods, and the same goes for games - some of them just straight-up won't start or have strange interface issues (like, no UI or text.)
Linux is in a near-perfect state right now provided you don't need to do MS Office related work and don't play competitive multiplayer shooters. If you're running an AMD setup it's not uncommon for performance to outpace Windows. There's still work to do, but the amount of progress made in just the last year has been incredible.
Good to see you're taking the sponsorships, atleast you do them seriously and genuinely unlike some other creators. You deserve all of it after the years and years of consistent videos and updates, while not budging on what you show and talk about to adhere to monetization rules.
Chill. It's a slow roll out because they had to expand their own hardware operations for this sole product. There's just too much demand. I reserved the second day and had to wait a whole year even in the USA. There's nothing to be mad about, it's just not possible for them to go international day one and meet all the demand in any reasonable time.
YongYea DID make a video using Linux. It turned out great. Also, it's not just a review of the Linux desktop on the SD, it's also a review of the hardware from a desktop user point of view. Personally, I'm hype that both Linux and the SD are picking up steam (pun intended) and can't wait to see what the future holds for both!
I was gonna wait all the way till steam deck 3.0 to finally buy a more polished version of this, but then I remembered... Its Valve... I guess steam deck 2.0 will have to do 😅
I've been using the Steam Deck in docked mode on a 4K TV as a desktop device to do coding courses with the kids on, then we switch it back to game mode to play together It works fine!
A little bit misinformed here 5:45 He says you need to run games in desktop mode to play higher than 800p but you can play games >800p in game mode outside of desktop mode. you just need to enable higher resolutions in the property settings of each game. This also gives you the option to render a higher resolution in handheld mode and downscale it to 720p. You also lose FSR1.0 when you try playing games outside of game mode unless you enter a command in the launch options in steam to turn FSR1.0 on and tell it how sharp or smooth you want it. You will 100% want to be using FSR1.0 when playing games at a lower resolution on a bigger higher resolution screen. Most monitor scaling options are not great.
2:28 Looks like the SSD might be formatted with an NTFS (Windows) file system (since it shows up as 'fuseblk'). If you plan on only using it for the Steam Deck, you may want to reformat it to a Linux file system like ext4
I wish the Steam Deck would use BTRFS instead especially since compression is supported and you can use more of your disk. This is very important with the smaller deck storage options.
You just sold me on the Steam Deck. I thought it was just a handheld streaming device, didn't know it actually had this much _Virgil's voice_ P O W E R. Edit: By the way, you should consider tech reviews. This was rather in depth for something your channel doesn't actually focus on.
I’ve been away from my set up cause I’m living with my gf, and been using my steam deck for all my work with no problems! It’s such a useful little machine.
To those that wanna use it mainly docked, just get a gaming laptop for around same price range and it'll allow you to do more. Steam Deck is primarily for portable gaming, and docked experience second. Personally, I love docked mode when playing on TV at a friends house or something. Definitely makes it easier to carry around your games than a console or a laptop.
You could get away with that for the kb/mouse but you would start to get diminishing returns for devices like the webcam and capture card like potential latency and connection issues.
There is the slight issue that the dock is connecting to the deck through the deck's USB controller... so is already acting as a USB hub, meaning you're effectively daisy chaining USB hubs at that point. You run into the issue of, no matter how many sockets you have, the USB controller in the deck itself can still only handle so much stuff at a time (not sure if it is limited more by overall data or number of distinct things connected). Which would lead to either more demanding things having reduced performance, or things in lower priority sockets just not connecting, or other such failure states. Still, until you hit those limits (and remember, anything dealing with video is Very resource intensive), it would work well enough, yes.
@@laurencefraser on my steamdeck in desktop ive got multiple drives, SD cards, disc drive, speakers, controllers joystick/throttle hooked up along with mouse monitor and keyboard via usb hubs chained, it works as long as your not trying to use more then say 2-3 high bandwidth things at once so mainly just large file movements between multiple drives is the only thing ive seen slow it down and keeping input on first possible connections to decrease latency, havent had any issues yet
Great video. I have a deck myself: this thing is a beast. I was a bit desperate with handheld gaming since I wasn't willing to compromise to a point where I would go to Nintendo and game with only Nintendo games, on a machine that seems to technologically date from the previous century. Now I play almost all my games on the deck, and I can even play current Nintendo games way better than if, God forbid, I had to play them on Nintendo hardware.
I imported the steam deck since it isnt available and its the best purchase i made. Just the versatility and price to performance makes it such a great entry to the handheld pc gaming.
Dude this was the coolest video I have seen on the Deck. I thought I knew how cool a device it was before, but this really showed me how crazy a little guy it is. What a cool experiment!
I'm rather impressed that Steam Deck has managed to get youtubers like YongYea to produce video with a full open source stack on linux desktop. The experience can be rough around edges but then again there's no strings attached to the software otherwise. And as writing this there's no other console device (portable or not) which can pull off anything like this.
There have been some Windows programs that I've copied the program folder and all sub folders/files over to the Steam Deck desktop. Then you need a program from Discovery called Wine, and another called Proton or ProtonGE or something like that. Right click on the program EXE and under properties tell it to run using the latest Proton version. If the program needs elevated permissions, you can use another Discovery program called Flatseal
The one thing that's preventing me from buying a JSAUX dock is the requirement of Windows for any firmware updates. I have no inclination to buy a Windows license just for those updates. If that changes, I might consider them. Also, the rendering time issue has more to do with Kdenlive not having hardware acceleration. It's something the developers have planned, but for now, it's just slow software rendering.
I Had Some Friend's That Hated On Me Bc I Told Them The Steam Deck Truthfully Is The Future Of PC Gaming N RUclipsrs Would Stream To It, They Laughed N Said It Will Never Happen.. And Here U Are, Providing Me Right! Bravo!
Amazing. You're a stud YongYea. I rarely disagree with your takes and I love your passion and commitment to excellence you are a special part of the video game universe and community and I love your content and your voice is wonderful. Keep up the great work!
I think if someone don't care about aesthetics and have external case for m.2 drives it's better to buy 7in1 Dock model with 3 USB A 3.1 ports. It gives more flexibility, in plugging devices via USB. Also you can plug 2 external monitors and have gigabit Ethernet. Also bought their carrying case and its good. Below Steam Deck there is small compartment that can fit JSAUX Dock or original charger + smaller USB C HUB. Also it have dedicated pockets for SD cards. Personally I have additional charger so I use JSAUX Case for travel that is always ready to go with original charger and small usb HUB. For home use I store Steam Deck in original carrying case as its faster and easier to put it in and out. Overall JSAUX accessories are genuinely good. Products are not perfect but price is worth the quality they deliver.
God, i hate that SteamDeck is not available on my country, and i don't have family on the US or elsewhere so i can buy one. Let's hope i can travel soon or Valve decides to make it available here.
When you consider whether the Steam Deck is capable of video editing, I don't think Kdenlive alone should be the software with which you base this judgement. It's never really given me the kind of performance I expect and has historically been unsatisfactory it's stability. Maybe Lightworks or DaVinci Resolve would be better for testing that viability.
I'm glad the JSAUX dock seemed to work out for you - they look and feel so good and have all I want, but I have ordered 2 (of the non-M.2 versions) and man they just stop working, charging, or responding randomly; and overall, just are way too bug-prone in my experiences. The random portable dock (j5-create I think) which is significantly dinkier and looks worse, it worked like right away. I just wanted it as my porta-dock though, but I can't find another that works bug-free
I would like to point out that the original Steam Dock has hardware and software in it that third party docks don't have. That is the reason why the Steam Dock actually has firmware updates from time to time, as the software in there needs updating as well. That is why I personally wouldn't go for any third party dock, regardless of their features, since the original one is made for the Steam Deck and has software to make it work better.
It's basically a Linux desktop PC with a differently (more?) annoying fan for everything but gaming once you dock it. Maybe closer to a laptop with the right peripherals. Undocked, it basically fills the same role as a nintendo switch.
Steamdeck does actually allow changing the resolution in gaming mode, but on a per-game basis through it's properties. It changes the rendering resolution of the game scope compositor, so if you're connected to say a 1080p display and select 1920x1080 as the game's resolution in it's properties it will render to the full display properly. By default, games run in a 1280x720 or 1280x800 container depending on if you're on a 16:9 or 16:10 display, respectively.
The NVME is neat, but with an extra usb3.0 you can just plug in an extra external SSD. Potential difference in read-write for productivity tasks is negligible, and you can still use the extra USB slot for other tasks as well, or more readily hot-swap drives.
It's not really nvme speeds anyway. It's just a USB to m.2 adapter inside a chassis. Aside from aesthetics it's no different to just plugging in your own adapter. The read speeds on it are only 900mb/s which is only about a third of an average nvme SSD's max speeds, so using any sort of high speed SSD in it is a complete waste of money. You'd be better off getting some larger and cheaper external SSD's and plugging them into the USB ports.
I love the JSAUX dock, but what you pointed out of it is exactly the reason why I went with ivoler's dock, it comes with all inputs on the back (no awkward ethernet cable sticking out of the side), no airvent block, so that's why I chose it. JSAUX has a good proposition by including a nvme slot in the dock, but it's not completely necessary for a fully portable system, but very appreciated. On another note, I don't like the design, nor Ivolers one (perhaps the material? i'm not sure)
Regarding the issue with resolutions in game mode, if you go into the game's properties on Steam, you can change the resolution from 1280x800 to "Native" or something else. That's great regarding flexibility, as I've seen some bad PC ports of games that stretch or get crushed on 16:10 or ultrawide monitors, and getting them to work on Linux or the Steam Deck (And with either integer scaling or FSR 1.0) is ridiculously easy compared to Windows. Another thing I find interesting when docked is the 120Hz output option at 1440p. While you'll still need upscaling for most games, THPS 1+2 (Via Heroic), Project DIVA MegaMix, Deep Rock Galactic, Half-Life 2, the Senran Kagura games, and Overwatch 2 (Via Lutris) all have no issues getting close to (or locking at) 120FPS from my time playing around with things, and I'd imagine framepacing is going to be way better once that VRR/FreeSync toggle that is in the testing branches gets fully implemented (As Gamescope now supports disabling VSync AND has VRR support). Really like how easy it is to set up controllers or getting bad ports of games working compared to Windows, and the UI feels really nicely integrated, Xbox Game Bar and third-party frontends like Launchbox/Playnite feel light years behind. There's also not a gazillion electron web apps running in the background and hogging RAM like on Windows. I was going to set up HoloISO on an HTPC setup that I recently built, but the 5.13 kernel version used by SteamOS has screen flickering issues with my RX 6700XT and 6900XT that didn't get resolved on other distros (Fedora and Arch primarily) until the 6.1 kernel update, and it seemingly doesn't play nice with the integrated graphics that come with the i5-13600K, so I installed Windows 11 on it for the time being.
Man ... I Bought mine in the end of october... I'm still waiting for it to arrive here in Brazil. I Had to use a service that gives me an adress in the US and bought via steam, then I sent from the deposit seller to me. I'm so excited to get my hands on the steam deck.
listening to this vid while playing quake 2 on my deck honestly, just being able to play all these old game in this new cool way is amazing, gyro controls are the only thing even remotely approaching the precision of a mouse
If I remember can be the most of the problem rec. video or kdelive mostly done on the cpu then on the gpu, and not sure if Valve added any AMD gpu driver that deal with it as Mesa driver mostly Aim for gaming. Still not bad to get away with it if space limited or travel a lot.
There's a GStreamer based encoder for OBS Studio which supposedly gives a better performance than the default FFMPEG based encoder on OBS Try that out sometime A different video editor which is worth keeping an eye out for is Olive which is being developed by the RUclipsr MattKC. Although it's on a pre alpha stage right now
I think this convinced me to get myself an Oled SD. I primarily want to use it for pixelart and browsing anyway (and gaming of course) and I do not want to spend too much money on a gaming notebook, so the SD is a great compromise in performance and flexibility.
Bought one last summer, wrote it off quick and sold it after a month, at a profit at that...fast forward, I just traded a RTX 3070 for one (256gb), because there is no use in having a RTX card if I never sit at a desk. Between the Switch and Deck, gaming has changed for the better for me. So much easier to complete games now.
You can run games on Game mode up to 4K rendered resolution even without external display. Open game page. Open wheel icon and under Properties there is a option to change max rendering resolution. This is per game setting.
This type of video is exactly what I was looking for. My PC died and I was considering getting a Deck to replace it. I think it'll cover most of my needs though I'm still a bit undecided as I want to use it mostly as a docked PC.
I noticed last night after a prolonged session of Black Mesa that my Valve dock was getting kinda warm. Not as hot as the pine64 one did before (probably not made for this much power input), but still toastier than I'd have thought. Be nice if these aluminium ones can stay cooler.
wannaa point out about the docks that the jsaux dock also has less video connectivity. The official dock has bith a hdmi and a display port. You forgot to mention this, so anyone wanting 2 monitors (without sacrificing the ability to charge the deck using the usb c port by using it with a usb c to video out adapter) should take that into consideration.
You can set games in gaming mode to a higher resolution. Befor you start a game, go to the options/settings of the game, when docked, an there shoud be an option for the coustem resolution.
If you're okay with gaming at 720p in new AAA titles, the Deck is just everything you need in a home PC right now. Definitely go 256 or 500gb if you're going to use it in that capacity, though. The 64 gigabyte version will become uncomfortably tight in a matter of days.
I didn’t know you could hook the system up to a monitor like that! I might buy a steam deck now just to play the few PC only games that I’ve missed out on. The Steam Deck really does seem like a phenomenal deal
That’s crazy you didn’t know you could plug a pc into a monitor… ha yeah cause the Deck is just a Pc. I got one to pair with a monitor and optional keyboard and mouse cause I usually play shooters with a controller I didn’t grow up on M&K so I’m trying to learn
@@michaelm1053 I know it’s a pc but I didn’t know it had the ability to hook up an hdmi. I’ve only seen very little on the steam deck and no one ever pointed out it could be hooked into a monitor. Seems like it might be a very good selling point for certain people
@@dylhas1 just horseing around the creators joked about it “just being a Pc” so it can do everything a Pc can do. Paired with the right accessories it can do a lot of other things. I really like mine 👍🏻
The biggest plus of the steam deck that still has me interested in ordering one (even though they cancelled my original reservation) - I'd be able to talk about my deck with an Australian or NZ accent.
Just a note: DaVinci Resolve works incredibly well on the Steamdeck in desktop mode. I’ve managed to make a couple of short edits on it without any major issues!
Da Vinci resolve is the most based video editor fuuuuuck Sony Vegas lmao
Shame we need to convert files, but it's a price I'm willing to pay
Good to know, I'll have to try it.
@hello not like unity is Foss, only Godot, and honestly it still not to unity or unreal level, it will probably be better than these two in the future
DaVinci Resolve is so damn good I cannot believe it's free for the most part, Linux support is amazing
Note to Yong: You do can change the game's resolution on the game's mode by hovering the game and going to properties
Ah good to know!
Doesnt support all resolutions. Some of them are available only through desktop mode. But yes the standard resolutiins are in properties
@@teriyakipuppy is 4:3 supported?
@@wikwayer 4:3 works quite well for desktop and gaming mode. Since you can freely set resolutions on games, it's possible to run basically anything at any resolution and in gaming mode, it scales very well. I actually have jumped around with Halo MCC on an old CRT and a modern LCD panel and had basically no issues.
@@WedgeStratos good to know thanks
Yong finally tapping into the masterclass craftsmanship that is the Yakuza series
He did va work for the lost judgement dlc lol
next: "I Made This Entire Review Only Using Smart Fridge"
Don't forget to include an Egg Shell that enhances visual fidelity.
the longer the deck has been released, the more I want it. It just gets better.
Go get it silly
@@chocobear8777 easy said than done, for me I just can`t, I live in latam and theres no preordering them from here
@@chocobear8777 They don't sell it in Norway because we ain't part of the EU.
@@Ozzianman that’s crazy! I never thought about that sorry, maybe you could buy one from a third party when they are not absurdly marked up
@@michaelm1053 I could order using a proxy, but that is more hassle than it's worth imo.
As a everyday Linux user, seeing this video does put a smile on my face. I also do occasional videos on a different channel, and KdenLive is my prefered Video editor of choice. Kden isn't perfect, but a lot of love and care has been poured into it and it is much better than it used to be.
I'm glad to see people talking about (and using!) the Steam Deck as a PC, as most only just mention it passively.
Edit: also when you mentioned your Elgato cam-link I was worried it wouldn't work, I have an Elgato HD60s (not the plus) and it does not work on Linux for me at all. Glad to see other Elgato hardware working at-least.
Same as a Linux user I'm surprised that his camera and microphone setup worked and glad it did. Cuz those types of specific hardware stuff usually only have software available on windows.
It's great that people are easing into Linux in a natural way.
I went from a docked Surface Book running Windows 11 to a docked Steam Deck as my only PC so I'm all in and I love it. This is an absolute joy to use as a desktop PC.
Yes. Very nice use case indeed.👍
Coming from a old HP laptop that only ever ran one game to my docked deck setup I’m loving it as a Pc. I’m totally new to Linux but having fun learning new things and seeing people doing things like this make me happy too!
As a long-time Linux enthusiast, it makes me really happy to see people outside the circle using it.
Just a note: it's not a vent it's covering a bit on the back, it's the air intake that sucks air in and doesn't impair the ability at all (I've used it for months on end without problems).
Additionally, you don't need desktop mode to change game resolution, it's available in Gaming Mode in the properties - you can select a forced resolution there.
Err, in non-technical speech, an air intake is a type of vent.
Covering part of it won't matter if you're not doing anything that makes the machine run hot enough to really need that extra airflow, but if you Are, then having the vent partially blocked forces the fan to work harder to compensate. Which means that it draws more power, wears out quicker, and is louder. Now, the power draw would only really be important when undocked (and thus running on the battery), at which point, of course, one assumes the intake would not be obstructed. Of course, put enough demand on the thing and the hardware starts throtteling to bring its temperature back down. Obstructing the intake lowers the point at which it hits that limit. Perhaps not by much, but it does.
@@laurencefraser Well yes vent covers both meanings technically, but a lot of people seem to mix it up between an in and out, so worth mentioning.
Wow, I can't believe how the Steam Deck is just soaring ahead other handheld PC competitors! I'm starting to love the Steam Deck more and more!
I have left Windows in an experiment when I first heard of the Steam Deck, and now haven't booted Windows for over 6 months and am completely fluent with Linux.
It took me a month some time to get used to, but now I don't see any reason to go back. You're very good with tech Yong that you figured all these out and put up a demo so quickly!
I was glad to finally dip my toes into Linux with the Deck and love the openness of it, but sadly, Windows will still be my main desktop driver since quite a few programs don't work on Linux, even with various compatibility methods, and the same goes for games - some of them just straight-up won't start or have strange interface issues (like, no UI or text.)
Which games and programs?
Linux is in a near-perfect state right now provided you don't need to do MS Office related work and don't play competitive multiplayer shooters. If you're running an AMD setup it's not uncommon for performance to outpace Windows.
There's still work to do, but the amount of progress made in just the last year has been incredible.
The steam deck looks like an amazing device, I'm a sucker for any handheld gaming device and I can't wait to get my hands on the deck
Good to see you're taking the sponsorships, atleast you do them seriously and genuinely unlike some other creators. You deserve all of it after the years and years of consistent videos and updates, while not budging on what you show and talk about to adhere to monetization rules.
Man, the Steam Deck looks so cool that im still mad Af that Valve had it only available in some regions
Chill. It's a slow roll out because they had to expand their own hardware operations for this sole product. There's just too much demand. I reserved the second day and had to wait a whole year even in the USA. There's nothing to be mad about, it's just not possible for them to go international day one and meet all the demand in any reasonable time.
You can hire package forwarding services in the US to ship it to you.
Hopefully I'll be able to get one when Steam Deck 2 comes out
@@TakumiJoyconBoyz i mean you still have to make reservations to this day, it's not that readily available even in the US
@@shib5267 That's not what it says when I look it up on Steam. It offers to ship it to me right now.
Can’t wait for it to come out for the rest of the world 😢
Someone in your country will resell a few. Very expensive.
Im gonna have to plan a save budget and a trip to USA to my aunt's.
AMERICA, F*ck YEAH! Comming again to save the motherf*ckin' day yeeeaaah.
@@pixytorres7117 enjoy your family reunion, vacation and shopping.
'Mmerica! To the rescue xD
@@MaphistosChosen classic
I absolutely love the almost behind the scenes look as he pans around to show his monitor. Interesting, even if not in any way important.
Valve have really raised the bar with their product. Nintendo will have to work allot harder now.
Especially as it'll run Switch games 🙂
No they won’t. Did you see the new Pokémon sales my dude the game is broken and it out sold God of war Ragnarok!
Alternate title: YongYea tried to make a video using Linux.
YongYea DID make a video using Linux. It turned out great. Also, it's not just a review of the Linux desktop on the SD, it's also a review of the hardware from a desktop user point of view. Personally, I'm hype that both Linux and the SD are picking up steam (pun intended) and can't wait to see what the future holds for both!
I was gonna wait all the way till steam deck 3.0 to finally buy a more polished version of this, but then I remembered... Its Valve... I guess steam deck 2.0 will have to do 😅
Whats a steam deck 3.0? You mean the steam deck after the steam deck 2.0 and the steam deck before steam deck 4.0?
@@Justicejuice179 valve don't know what 3 is 😂
Valve's rule of threes: "Make two and then stop".
@@akhannar9368 yes i was referencing the Gabe Dota 2 Voice Pack video
Been thinking about saving up to get a steam deck and was just looking at this dock last night.
I've been using the Steam Deck in docked mode on a 4K TV as a desktop device to do coding courses with the kids on, then we switch it back to game mode to play together
It works fine!
A little bit misinformed here 5:45
He says you need to run games in desktop mode to play higher than 800p but you can play games >800p in game mode outside of desktop mode. you just need to enable higher resolutions in the property settings of each game. This also gives you the option to render a higher resolution in handheld mode and downscale it to 720p. You also lose FSR1.0 when you try playing games outside of game mode unless you enter a command in the launch options in steam to turn FSR1.0 on and tell it how sharp or smooth you want it.
You will 100% want to be using FSR1.0 when playing games at a lower resolution on a bigger higher resolution screen. Most monitor scaling options are not great.
2:28 Looks like the SSD might be formatted with an NTFS (Windows) file system (since it shows up as 'fuseblk'). If you plan on only using it for the Steam Deck, you may want to reformat it to a Linux file system like ext4
I wish the Steam Deck would use BTRFS instead especially since compression is supported and you can use more of your disk. This is very important with the smaller deck storage options.
@@phoenixrising4995
Soon they will move to that i guess. Unlike other consoles, steam deck can evolve
@@phoenixrising4995 DJ Ware has some interesting file system benchmarks you might want to check out. Seems ext4 is the way to go.
It's as if it was any other video you made but at like 20fps or less in some areas. I'm actually really impressed.
I'd like to know if there is any reason why you didn't record Webcam and audio in OBS? Is it too demanding for the steam deck?
This guys videos are so easy to understand. And he goes into details of the device that I don’t see anywhere else. I subbed
I like how Valve is allowing third parties to participate in the Steam Deck experience, it makes me want to get one..
Do it! I did, and no regerts! Regrets!
i mean it is a PC at the end of the day, so its not like Valve needed to put in any amount of effort for the deck to support a dock
You just sold me on the Steam Deck. I thought it was just a handheld streaming device, didn't know it actually had this much _Virgil's voice_ P O W E R.
Edit: By the way, you should consider tech reviews. This was rather in depth for something your channel doesn't actually focus on.
I’ve been away from my set up cause I’m living with my gf, and been using my steam deck for all my work with no problems! It’s such a useful little machine.
To those that wanna use it mainly docked, just get a gaming laptop for around same price range and it'll allow you to do more. Steam Deck is primarily for portable gaming, and docked experience second.
Personally, I love docked mode when playing on TV at a friends house or something. Definitely makes it easier to carry around your games than a console or a laptop.
In that case, might as well get a proper desktop for your pc requirements, and a steamdeck for the portability.
As far as freeing up the USB-A ports at the back of the dock, why not just get a USB hub?
You could get away with that for the kb/mouse but you would start to get diminishing returns for devices like the webcam and capture card like potential latency and connection issues.
There is the slight issue that the dock is connecting to the deck through the deck's USB controller... so is already acting as a USB hub, meaning you're effectively daisy chaining USB hubs at that point. You run into the issue of, no matter how many sockets you have, the USB controller in the deck itself can still only handle so much stuff at a time (not sure if it is limited more by overall data or number of distinct things connected). Which would lead to either more demanding things having reduced performance, or things in lower priority sockets just not connecting, or other such failure states.
Still, until you hit those limits (and remember, anything dealing with video is Very resource intensive), it would work well enough, yes.
I guess, use a hub only for low-data peripherals like, keyboards, mouses, headphones & mics.
@@laurencefraser on my steamdeck in desktop ive got multiple drives, SD cards, disc drive, speakers, controllers joystick/throttle hooked up along with mouse monitor and keyboard via usb hubs chained, it works as long as your not trying to use more then say 2-3 high bandwidth things at once so mainly just large file movements between multiple drives is the only thing ive seen slow it down and keeping input on first possible connections to decrease latency, havent had any issues yet
Great video. I have a deck myself: this thing is a beast. I was a bit desperate with handheld gaming since I wasn't willing to compromise to a point where I would go to Nintendo and game with only Nintendo games, on a machine that seems to technologically date from the previous century. Now I play almost all my games on the deck, and I can even play current Nintendo games way better than if, God forbid, I had to play them on Nintendo hardware.
totally agreed
I'm a tiny bit disappointed this video didn't end with the Steam Deck's standby/shutdown animation.😉
I imported the steam deck since it isnt available and its the best purchase i made. Just the versatility and price to performance makes it such a great entry to the handheld pc gaming.
U recorded and made this whole video on the steam deck u say? WOW!!!! Buy that for me Yong!!!
That's pretty badass!
That’s pretty cool!
The SteamDeck can create videos, meanwhile my PS TV can’t even create a stable connection to my PC…
Steam Deck is amazing! I can't wait for the next iteration of it with maybe USB4!
Dude this was the coolest video I have seen on the Deck. I thought I knew how cool a device it was before, but this really showed me how crazy a little guy it is. What a cool experiment!
Me, casually noticing the Yuzu switch emulator icon in Yong's taskbar. Naughty naughty!
Inb4 nintendo dmca-s
I'm rather impressed that Steam Deck has managed to get youtubers like YongYea to produce video with a full open source stack on linux desktop. The experience can be rough around edges but then again there's no strings attached to the software otherwise.
And as writing this there's no other console device (portable or not) which can pull off anything like this.
You can run the games at higher resolution from gaming mode.
If you go in the properties of the game, you can select your desired resolution there.
There have been some Windows programs that I've copied the program folder and all sub folders/files over to the Steam Deck desktop. Then you need a program from Discovery called Wine, and another called Proton or ProtonGE or something like that. Right click on the program EXE and under properties tell it to run using the latest Proton version.
If the program needs elevated permissions, you can use another Discovery program called Flatseal
Next time I get a Steam deck I'll definitely get this dock!
@Vadym Gannochka.....I have no idea what I meant... maybe when the chance to order one was made available
The one thing that's preventing me from buying a JSAUX dock is the requirement of Windows for any firmware updates. I have no inclination to buy a Windows license just for those updates. If that changes, I might consider them.
Also, the rendering time issue has more to do with Kdenlive not having hardware acceleration. It's something the developers have planned, but for now, it's just slow software rendering.
This could have been a 1 hour video, but great job, YongYea!
this is exactly why i want one. a plan C for work that sips power.
I Had Some Friend's That Hated On Me Bc I Told Them The Steam Deck Truthfully Is The Future Of PC Gaming N RUclipsrs Would Stream To It, They Laughed N Said It Will Never Happen.. And Here U Are, Providing Me Right! Bravo!
I LOVE JSaux. Their case for the deck is top notch. Fits like a glove and even fits into the case.
Amazing. You're a stud YongYea. I rarely disagree with your takes and I love your passion and commitment to excellence you are a special part of the video game universe and community and I love your content and your voice is wonderful. Keep up the great work!
I think if someone don't care about aesthetics and have external case for m.2 drives it's better to buy 7in1 Dock model with 3 USB A 3.1 ports. It gives more flexibility, in plugging devices via USB. Also you can plug 2 external monitors and have gigabit Ethernet.
Also bought their carrying case and its good. Below Steam Deck there is small compartment that can fit JSAUX Dock or original charger + smaller USB C HUB. Also it have dedicated pockets for SD cards. Personally I have additional charger so I use JSAUX Case for travel that is always ready to go with original charger and small usb HUB. For home use I store Steam Deck in original carrying case as its faster and easier to put it in and out.
Overall JSAUX accessories are genuinely good. Products are not perfect but price is worth the quality they deliver.
God, i hate that SteamDeck is not available on my country, and i don't have family on the US or elsewhere so i can buy one.
Let's hope i can travel soon or Valve decides to make it available here.
>I made review entirely using a Steam Deck
>Proceeds to take out the phone and record footage minutes into the video
Me: *pikachoo face*
When you consider whether the Steam Deck is capable of video editing, I don't think Kdenlive alone should be the software with which you base this judgement. It's never really given me the kind of performance I expect and has historically been unsatisfactory it's stability. Maybe Lightworks or DaVinci Resolve would be better for testing that viability.
Definitely shotcut.
Literally can create and publish games with it too.
I'm glad the JSAUX dock seemed to work out for you - they look and feel so good and have all I want, but I have ordered 2 (of the non-M.2 versions) and man they just stop working, charging, or responding randomly; and overall, just are way too bug-prone in my experiences.
The random portable dock (j5-create I think) which is significantly dinkier and looks worse, it worked like right away. I just wanted it as my porta-dock though, but I can't find another that works bug-free
I'm so happy with my Steam Deck! Glad others are enjoying them as well. Interesting use case btw, for me it remains a portable gaming device :P
This piece of crap terrifies me. I want one.
Just got mine yesterday and I'm already loving it as a portable PC. I'm excited to grab a dock to test it out as a back up set up for krita
That's the dock I use! It's been absolutely incredible.
All in all I have to say I'm impressed. This little machine just seems to keep coming up with surprises.
Also a first Gen. We all remembers how rudimentary the first IPhone was. They sure will work out the kinks in the next generation.
Ayy, we use the same mouse! Just upgraded to the G604 from the G602 after like five years. Worth it!
Docked gaming mode does allow for higher resolutions now. This is currently how I play local multiplayer games
Love playing with my deck!
Now this is technology, something so compact and bloody powerful, now it's only a matter of perfecting this to the extreme.
Jsaux is a great value brand. Been using their USB cables in all my arcade stick builds for years.
I would like to point out that the original Steam Dock has hardware and software in it that third party docks don't have. That is the reason why the Steam Dock actually has firmware updates from time to time, as the software in there needs updating as well. That is why I personally wouldn't go for any third party dock, regardless of their features, since the original one is made for the Steam Deck and has software to make it work better.
very cool video, appreciate the effort on the production.
What would it be like for a student to use a steamdeck?
The first thing your classmates or teachers would probably ask is "What is that weird looking switch?".
@@santiagoherrera1853 the next thing they'd be saying is "wow that switch thing has a pretty annoying fan" lol
It's basically a Linux desktop PC with a differently (more?) annoying fan for everything but gaming once you dock it. Maybe closer to a laptop with the right peripherals. Undocked, it basically fills the same role as a nintendo switch.
Steamdeck does actually allow changing the resolution in gaming mode, but on a per-game basis through it's properties. It changes the rendering resolution of the game scope compositor, so if you're connected to say a 1080p display and select 1920x1080 as the game's resolution in it's properties it will render to the full display properly. By default, games run in a 1280x720 or 1280x800 container depending on if you're on a 16:9 or 16:10 display, respectively.
The NVME is neat, but with an extra usb3.0 you can just plug in an extra external SSD. Potential difference in read-write for productivity tasks is negligible, and you can still use the extra USB slot for other tasks as well, or more readily hot-swap drives.
It's not really nvme speeds anyway. It's just a USB to m.2 adapter inside a chassis. Aside from aesthetics it's no different to just plugging in your own adapter. The read speeds on it are only 900mb/s which is only about a third of an average nvme SSD's max speeds, so using any sort of high speed SSD in it is a complete waste of money. You'd be better off getting some larger and cheaper external SSD's and plugging them into the USB ports.
I love the JSAUX dock, but what you pointed out of it is exactly the reason why I went with ivoler's dock, it comes with all inputs on the back (no awkward ethernet cable sticking out of the side), no airvent block, so that's why I chose it. JSAUX has a good proposition by including a nvme slot in the dock, but it's not completely necessary for a fully portable system, but very appreciated. On another note, I don't like the design, nor Ivolers one (perhaps the material? i'm not sure)
Regarding the issue with resolutions in game mode, if you go into the game's properties on Steam, you can change the resolution from 1280x800 to "Native" or something else. That's great regarding flexibility, as I've seen some bad PC ports of games that stretch or get crushed on 16:10 or ultrawide monitors, and getting them to work on Linux or the Steam Deck (And with either integer scaling or FSR 1.0) is ridiculously easy compared to Windows.
Another thing I find interesting when docked is the 120Hz output option at 1440p. While you'll still need upscaling for most games, THPS 1+2 (Via Heroic), Project DIVA MegaMix, Deep Rock Galactic, Half-Life 2, the Senran Kagura games, and Overwatch 2 (Via Lutris) all have no issues getting close to (or locking at) 120FPS from my time playing around with things, and I'd imagine framepacing is going to be way better once that VRR/FreeSync toggle that is in the testing branches gets fully implemented (As Gamescope now supports disabling VSync AND has VRR support). Really like how easy it is to set up controllers or getting bad ports of games working compared to Windows, and the UI feels really nicely integrated, Xbox Game Bar and third-party frontends like Launchbox/Playnite feel light years behind. There's also not a gazillion electron web apps running in the background and hogging RAM like on Windows.
I was going to set up HoloISO on an HTPC setup that I recently built, but the 5.13 kernel version used by SteamOS has screen flickering issues with my RX 6700XT and 6900XT that didn't get resolved on other distros (Fedora and Arch primarily) until the 6.1 kernel update, and it seemingly doesn't play nice with the integrated graphics that come with the i5-13600K, so I installed Windows 11 on it for the time being.
Man ... I Bought mine in the end of october... I'm still waiting for it to arrive here in Brazil.
I Had to use a service that gives me an adress in the US and bought via steam, then I sent from the deposit seller to me.
I'm so excited to get my hands on the steam deck.
Foda, pegou no ebay? Pagou quanto?
@@kendarr Foi na steam mesmo! $399. Via zip4me.
You mean package forwarder
@@Ranesu Uai, achei que não rolava, ai sim porra, espero que chegue inteiro.
@@AR-rg2en pretty much yes.
I love this style of review!
Nice proof of concept. Not optimal but appears to work in a pinch!
listening to this vid while playing quake 2 on my deck
honestly, just being able to play all these old game in this new cool way is amazing, gyro controls are the only thing even remotely approaching the precision of a mouse
If I remember can be the most of the problem rec. video or kdelive mostly done on the cpu then on the gpu, and not sure if Valve added any AMD gpu driver that deal with it as Mesa driver mostly Aim for gaming. Still not bad to get away with it if space limited or travel a lot.
There's a GStreamer based encoder for OBS Studio which supposedly gives a better performance than the default FFMPEG based encoder on OBS
Try that out sometime
A different video editor which is worth keeping an eye out for is Olive which is being developed by the RUclipsr MattKC. Although it's on a pre alpha stage right now
Funny you make this video just now. Today I finally ordered my Steam Deck. 😁
I think this convinced me to get myself an Oled SD. I primarily want to use it for pixelart and browsing anyway (and gaming of course) and I do not want to spend too much money on a gaming notebook, so the SD is a great compromise in performance and flexibility.
Bought one last summer, wrote it off quick and sold it after a month, at a profit at that...fast forward, I just traded a RTX 3070 for one (256gb), because there is no use in having a RTX card if I never sit at a desk. Between the Switch and Deck, gaming has changed for the better for me. So much easier to complete games now.
Awesome video!
You can run games on Game mode up to 4K rendered resolution even without external display.
Open game page. Open wheel icon and under Properties there is a option to change max rendering resolution. This is per game setting.
Good shit, Yong.
This is one of the greatest flexes in videogame history. Damn good work Yea. And damn good work Valve.
Im 100% getting this. I need something for gaming and basic web searching on the go this is cool. Paired with a portable monitor this will be amazing.
I love seeing that old-school keyboard!
This type of video is exactly what I was looking for. My PC died and I was considering getting a Deck to replace it. I think it'll cover most of my needs though I'm still a bit undecided as I want to use it mostly as a docked PC.
I saw the title and said FUCK YEAH, I love proof of concept videos
Jsaux got a new dock where the vents aren't blocked
I noticed last night after a prolonged session of Black Mesa that my Valve dock was getting kinda warm. Not as hot as the pine64 one did before (probably not made for this much power input), but still toastier than I'd have thought. Be nice if these aluminium ones can stay cooler.
wannaa point out about the docks that the jsaux dock also has less video connectivity. The official dock has bith a hdmi and a display port. You forgot to mention this, so anyone wanting 2 monitors (without sacrificing the ability to charge the deck using the usb c port by using it with a usb c to video out adapter) should take that into consideration.
Steam: we made desktop pc into portable handheld, also we made that portable handheld pc dockable so you can use it as a desktop pc.
You can set games in gaming mode to a higher resolution. Befor you start a game, go to the options/settings of the game, when docked, an there shoud be an option for the coustem resolution.
If you're okay with gaming at 720p in new AAA titles, the Deck is just everything you need in a home PC right now. Definitely go 256 or 500gb if you're going to use it in that capacity, though. The 64 gigabyte version will become uncomfortably tight in a matter of days.
What headset do you use? Your mic is always so clear
Review and low key setup tour... nice
I didn’t know you could hook the system up to a monitor like that! I might buy a steam deck now just to play the few PC only games that I’ve missed out on. The Steam Deck really does seem like a phenomenal deal
That’s crazy you didn’t know you could plug a pc into a monitor… ha yeah cause the Deck is just a Pc. I got one to pair with a monitor and optional keyboard and mouse cause I usually play shooters with a controller I didn’t grow up on M&K so I’m trying to learn
@@michaelm1053 I know it’s a pc but I didn’t know it had the ability to hook up an hdmi. I’ve only seen very little on the steam deck and no one ever pointed out it could be hooked into a monitor. Seems like it might be a very good selling point for certain people
@@dylhas1 just horseing around the creators joked about it “just being a Pc” so it can do everything a Pc can do. Paired with the right accessories it can do a lot of other things. I really like mine 👍🏻
The biggest plus of the steam deck that still has me interested in ordering one (even though they cancelled my original reservation) - I'd be able to talk about my deck with an Australian or NZ accent.
It's funny to think that the Steam Deck outperforms my first PC